skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt most tech literate criminals won't use something like Telegram or Matrix over a tor relay.

Whenever I and my girlfriend talk about anything too personal, I always joke about the government's ability to hear our conversation.

WhatsApp and Viber provide cryptographic communication but, if I'm not mistaken, it needs to be explicitly enabled and I've also read there's a bunch of metadata exposed.
> In most of these kinds of situations, the unpopular proposal is actually addressing some real problem that probably should be addressed.

I agree that this happens. But I think the claim is overbroad, and the followup "[the public] know that there still is an underlying problem to be solved" is fundamentally inaccurate.

Sometimes, there's a problem affecting the public, but the laws proposed to fix it are bad. This can come from incompetent drafting, where we'd expect successive bills to improve, but it can also come from conflicting interests, meaning anything from a powerful stakeholder undermining good laws to a party split rendering coherent laws unpassable. Quite a few people have observed that American private-actor, public-mandate laws like the ACA might perform worse than private or public solutions, but are legislatively easier. This is definitely a category worth discussing. Even here, though, I think calling on a law's opponents to give an alternative solution is too restrictive. Sometimes the reason a law is bad is that we don't know how to solve the problem, or the problem is fundamentally not amenable to a legislative remedy.

But sometimes, there simply isn't public benefit available. Talking about what's a "real problem" is of course question-begging, since very few laws have literally no beneficiaries. But there are no shortage of proposed laws which benefit no one but the authors, or a few influential companies, or some unnatural constituency like "retired factory workers in two swing states".

A lot of the Article 13 provisions, like many SOPA/PIPA/CISPA/ACTA/TPP provisions, fall in that second category. They're fundamentally bad law, written only for the protectionist benefit of a few already-monopolistic businesses, or to expand government authority without better serving the public. The public becomes exhausted of these fights, too, and it's not at all a matter of wanting an underlying problem solved. They pit protracted industry lobbying against highly-visible mass action, and the use of money and access as force multipliers for lobbying enormously increases its staying power. Even that might be alright, just as corporate campaign donations sometime lose out to small-donor funding. But the legislative ratchet effect means that unlike with elections, bad laws can be pursued repeatedly with virtually no downside.

I do think your point is worth addressing for activists, though. When campaigning against a law, it's worth talking publicly not just about the law's problems but why those problems exist. Is it simply a botched bill? Is it a problem needing more study (or less gridlock) before a good law can be attempted? Or is it a fundamentally worthless law, of the sort where action is needed to prevent it from coming back like a weed? This stuff isn't easy to convey to a mass audience, but it's an important part of building for a good outcome instead of averting one bad one.
Seconded. This is the only book I’ve read that truly “changed” the way I think (excluding school textbooks) in a fundamental way. It was like discovering a new spacial dimension orthogonal to the existing 3. Like, how did I even live before this book?
I completely agree with this, starting a new position and coming into infra running 5 year old software is not fun, generally neglected, and full of deprecated features/code that is improved in later versions.
Not to mention the security risk running old software can often create.
Apple to pay hundreds of millions of euros in French back-taxes
The frame and insulation adds up, as do clothing and personal items.
I use https://old.reddit.com since I can't grasp the new UI
Sure, thank you :)
At least with RAID it's enumeration that'd solve that. With UUID, I'm not sure. I wonder where IPv4 vs IPv6 falls under in this mess too.
It's crucial to mostly ignore and unsubscribe from the default subreddits. If there's a topic you're interested in, try to find a small subreddit dedicated just to it. My personal reddit homepage looks virtually nothing like the default, and indeed whenever I accidentally view the "popular" feed I'm shocked at what the site devolves into if you don't manually curate your subscriptions.
Google Chrome extension to detect unsafe passwords
> This wasn't real world behavior, and FreeBSD using the GPL wouldn't have forced Apple to give them their DE. A program, say a DE, on a GPL operating system does not need to be distributed under an open source license.

Depends on how the DE integrates with the other components.

Real-world behaviour: the ecosystem that has a GPL-licensed kernel has much wider adoption that the ecosystem which uses primarily BSD licences. I know this isn't fully attributable to licensing, since the BSDs were afflicted with legal issues during the time when Linux was taking off, which surely contributed to the situation, but still the BSD licences encourage certain types of entities to take without contributing back the ecosystem. Though I admire the idealism of BSD-type licences.
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I read Freakonomics and Guns, Germs and Steel in college and was initially 'amazed' by it. Now, I see it as mass market rubbish used to influence a particular demographic.

But that goes for pretty much everything really. Catcher in the Rye in high school. Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People".

I think books can "change the way you think about almost everything" when you are younger, naive and idealistic. As you grow older, wiser and understand the world more, you leave those childish things behind.

Also, as einstein said : "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

I'm sure I'm not the only one that used reading as a crutch and a form of escapism and to waste time.

But if you want a book that left an impression on me, K&R's C Programming Language is one. It showed me that a technical book can be concise, well written and enjoyable to read.
I've seen this dialog (the misleading "[OPEN] [CONTINUE]" one) on mobile Firefox as well. Besides that you have the pulsating "open in the app" at the top of every page.

Fortunately I have u-block origin so I could just add a few filters to get rid of that nonsense. It doesn't solve the terrible performance however (because apparently you need a top-of-the-line smartphone to load and display a few kB of plaintext comments).
Cookies are a hack to implement sessions. If http/2 and now http/3 would go for real innovation, we would replace cookies with proper sessions, like PHK suggested: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JulSep...
You can probably grab the IDFA or the ADID with an app directly, and having a stronger linkage between an online identity/cookie probably makes the data more valuable for advertising purposes.
I think he meant an assembly-line manufactured small house with strong personality & branding that people can fall in love with. Just like they fell in love with the Volkswagen Beetle.
Sorry it wasn't clear -- Would you continue to show up to work/serving your broader life goal if your paycheck stopped coming?
Are you arguing in good faith? The proposal is to buy ketamine online and snort it IF you cannot afford to do it in a clinic because (1) ketamine as a pure drug is pretty safe if you don't use it routinely (2) snorting is safer than IV. The topic is still to use ketamine against suicidal ideation. This has been repeated to you twice, please try reading better before arguing with people.
Is Cory Booker for Real?
Mastodon is an alternative to Twitter.
The Join Mastodon website [https://joinmastodon.org/] has a good introduction.

Mastodon is not currently an alternative to Reddit though, but I think it could be, if it got significant contributions towards forum functionality. Perhaps by treating each tag, or each of a certain type of tag, as an individual forum. A 'Trunk'?

On the other hand, Discourse [https://www.discourse.org/about] might be a better candidate for an alternative, in some ways. With Discourse though each "Reddit" would be a Discourse board on a specific server. To do a true Reddit alternative you'd need to plug individual Discourse servers into a P2P mesh.

Ideally I'd like to see a Discourse-like or Reddit-like UI on top of a Mastodon back-end (which would be using ActivityPub).

If you want to work on this as well please let me know and maybe we can work together on it (@BillBarnhill on Mastodon.technology or Twitter).
“Luftwaffe” is also the name of the modern German Air Force created in 1956. If in fact that term conveys the correct time period to the reader, it is only by luck and ignorance.
The irony of that comic is that reddit had more traffic than Digg when Digg died. The "mass influx" from Digg to reddit wasn't all that massive, because most of those people were already reddit users too.
It seems crazy to me that Reddit can't figure out a way to become profitable. Facebook is hilariously profitable on a fairly similar business model for example. It's not like Reddit is without ads, nor are they lacking in data they could sell (albeit not as high of quality as Facebook or Google). They even sell "Reddit gold" for real money.

Maybe they have exceptionally high operating costs? Or are they just really bad at selling ad space? I get that there are some advertisers that don't want to go on there because they are afraid their ad will show up next to a picture of a naked lady (which is something Reddit could control pretty easily), but Reddit is so big that it seems pretty hard to ignore.
But we already have a term for that: the cloud.
1) Carlos Castaneda's first three "Don Juan" books: read them while I was in med school in the early 1970s and they ALMOST made me drop out, they were so powerful (then). I looked at one recently and thought "meh." People change.
Would really like a second edition for that book. The replication crisis has, unfortunately not been kind to some of the things in the book.
It's an interesting question. "Reddit as a business" would seem to have an incentive to keep their esoteric and weird communities going, otherwise it's hard to see their appeal over other social-media sites. The notable thing about the dark patterns you correctly point out is that they hit the casual users really hard, but most dedicated users (the folks who plausibly provide the content and indeed community that ultimately gives Reddit its value) can easily get around them. It will be interesting to see if this pattern can prove sustainable.
Apple to pay 10 years of back taxes to France
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan

Walden by Emerson

Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter
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"The very hungry caterpillar" Changed the way I set goals and how I evaluate process.
Centrism has fallen out of favor in our political discourse, largely because of the polarization of the current administration and culture.

Maintaining a centrist position can't work when both parties see the other as actively undermining/destroying the fabric of our system (i.e. Trump packing the courts with activist judges, dems raising taxes to Vietnam era levels.)

Identity politics largely doesn't permit nuanced political opinion because you're cast out if you don't subscribe to all of the major tenants of the party you're trying to loosely align with.
You didn't need to be religious to find /r/atheism obnoxious. Anybody remember that "faces of atheism" meme years back? Possibly the most obnoxious, pretentious and self-congradulatory thing I've ever seen become popular on reddit. At first it was funny, but reddit is pretty good at pushing jokes long after they've become stale.
Paper on Computational Humor Accepted Despite Making Serious Advances
I'm totally convinced that any leader seduced by Marx would be someone I would not care to live under.

Marx's ideas, aside from being wholly unrealistic, inevitably result in tyranny and misery because man cannot be perfected. If your worldview cannot survive the fact that a lot of people are assholes, it will always fail when you try to put it in practice.

If you look at the Acts of the Apostles, how they are describing the early Christian community sounds an awful lot like what communists are trying to achieve. And it worked, for a time, but this was a small group of zealous believers banding together because of both their beliefs and persecution from without. While this may be the ideal of Christian life, you have not seen any large-scale Christian societies working this way, outside of places like monasteries, where life is very strongly regulated, or other similar small groups (and those often go poorly as well), because it simply doesn't scale.

So we have to create a society that accounts for the fact that a lot of people are greedy and won't work for the common good. We counter that by first teaching that they should, but also allowing for something like capitalism where people's energies can be focused on something that at least has the potential to make others' lives better along with their own (the mythical "enlightened self-interest", which is possible).

The only other alternative is absolute totalitarianism, which is the worst condition humans can inflict on each other.
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The only problem I have with Reddit from a valuation perspective is that it doesn't really offer much 'secret sauce.' The tech itself is not great, and I don't really know of anyone who likes the redesign. Point being, the value is all in the users and content. Users are fickle, and as we saw from Digg (and lesser extent, StumbleUpon), can flee en masse at any moment. That's a tough pill for me to swallow as a potential investor.
Halfway through the talk he switches to discussing quantum information theory.

Here is an excellent book on this subject "From Classical to Quantum Shannon Theory" https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1445
The Bible and The Book of Mormon
- How to Win Friends and Influence People

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
I hope you didn't delete all your useful comments over the years. That would be a shame.
If you're interested in japanese cuisine and techniques, there is an excellent series of books from the japanese culinary academy. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/JCA/the-japanese-c...

The third book is about cutting fish and includes ike jima steps for different kinds of fish
I prefer to work in research/ university environment. It is Flexible hours are good to work and I do not work after office hours.
>I've shot 6x6 Provia on a Mamiya 6 and had it scanned at 40MP and 80MP final output sizes; the latter was clearly better.

The real test is whether you can find any details visible in the 80MP scan that are lost if it's downsampled to 40MP.
My personal belief is that they dont. Best they could achieve is trapping the ISP's sending mail server in Norway before the mail is encrypted but there is no capability to decrypt SSL without obtaining the keys.

They could still store metadata like sending IP address, timestamp etc.

Using foreign webmail via HTTPS would not be intercepted in any possible way. Unless they get support from the service provider in question. I think the service providers you mention will comply with law enforcement and give out your data. But those are isolated cases and mass data required by intelligence services is a different thing. National security letters are only for US Govt use and other governments have no access.

I also think legislation like this is years late now that about every protocol has encrypted variants and they don't get any meaningful results compared to the money spent.
from the article:
"French authorities have ordered Apple to pay additional taxes believed to run into hundreds of millions of euros, following an examination of the US tech group’s operations in the country over the past decade."
Remember when reddit said they'd use the money to pay their users and then stopped talking about it completely? https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/reddit-notes-plan-payi...
That's good news. I hope it makes them rethink their relationship to their users.

Well, otherwise, tildes is looking great.
==Whereas in the US, the people in northern Maine live in a completely different world than the people in Southern Florida.==

And your contention is that Stockholm, Malmo, Kiruna, Haparanda and Skalstugan are all the same?
Yes, I know that battle is lost. I equally cringe at the new use of the term "crypto".

All of these abuses of established terms is causing increased confusion and increased difficulty in engaging in clear communications.
I use Mandrill and haven't received any status email from them.
It's easy to get such connections with half a billion active users.
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

June 29, 1989

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
That wouldn't fit the business model of "push them to the native app as hard as possible"
"The Power of Positive Thinking" — I read this when I was in junior high and a real jerk. It instantly ended my jerkitude and put me on a much better path.
Forcing people to use a native app means they can inject ads without having to worry about being blocked by a browser extension.
I wonder if reddit would consider giving some sizable donations to the many open source projects (two of which I am the creator of) that have powered their software platform for many years which has brought them such prosperity.
Exactly! That's what I've been saying all along.

The "Tiny Home" trend is "I make way too much but want to show my opulence with virtue signalling of "I'm rich enough to build dinky"

Versus a trailer. I live in a trailer with my wife in Indiana. It is portable. Its a bit smaller than what we want, but we own the trailer out right. Our total utilities (land rental, electricity, internet, water, sewer, trash) is $500/mo. I make $69k as a sysad, and my wife is currently attending Harvard online. No loans, and paid up front.

I've talked with quite a few people who were in between apartments and such, and recommended a trailer. We've either got laughed at, told it was beneath them (knowing we live in one), or gave otherwise derisive comments or gestures showing that 'its just a trailer'.

So yeah, I (clearance'd system admin) and my wife (getting Masters at Harvard Online)... Yep. Trailer trash.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19079410 - this threatens the food supply of 3 billion people. It is an enormous, near term threat to the stability of civilization. This is by 2100. The impact will be sooner. People will not stay in one place to starve to death, and food supplies from other locations will be affected.
It gives users easier access and a better experience, so they're more likely to return and to spend longer. The ultimate goal is to become a "default time waster" for as many people as possible, who open the app whenever they're bored.
notabug.io isn't owned by Reddit.
Can you apply this same approach (i.e. full refund to an unsatisfied customer) and still be successful as a consultant/freelance? I feel like the stakes are higher because the client could rack up a huge bill then play the “unsatisfied” card leaving you high and dry for your time.
"Free Will" by Sam Harris. A buddy told me to read this after we got in a long debate about free will at a bar. Basically, he told me I wasn't even grasping what free will is, and that the hour to read the book would totally change everything for me. Lo and behold, he was right and the next conversation we had about free will was much deeper and largely framed by the insights in this book. It convinced me that the real question isn't "Do we have free will?" but rather "What is free will?"

"The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch. It's difficult to pinpoint this book as being about a thing or a set of things, but my best attempt is to say it's about attaining knowledge and the non-existent limits to human knowledge. I've never felt more inspired than when I finished reading this book and reflected on the infinite lengths humankind has to go on technological progress. Overall, it's an incredible argument for optimism about what is possible.
Modern reddit isn't open source.
Problem with your approach is in order to make sure your made up problem isn't banned you have to go through all the banned question everytime you ask your question. That's a lot of unnecessary toil.
I enjoyed that and some of his other books, but it was The God Delusion that did it for me. Having been born in a religious society makes it hard to break out of needing to assume there is a god, but that book could give people enough explanation to drop that assumption.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps more and more people want to get into higher education, because the manual jobs don't pay what they used to?, (wages have not generally kept up with inflation and productivity rises). You know when the higher education option was also free to boot?

I know right?
Getting to grips with the German language
Programming the Commodore 64 in 1986.
There's a decent amount in the middle, but it's not as well known and will never hit the front page - 3 second memes are easier to process and upvote.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/

CMV and ELI5 also have decent political discussion at times I think; askHistorians often seems to provide insight into current political issues; there's probably more I don't know.
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r/atheism was made no longer a default because it became notoriously toxic
The upscale trailer homes are branded as "manufactured homes" and come in modules that piece together in more appealing ways than a double-wide.