skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post is arguing that individuals should switch to sending traditional plain text email, and recommending mail clients that support it well.

Yes, many companies make painful HTML emails, but that's orthagonal to this discussion.
We all live in contradictions. That doesn't make you a bad person, just human.

You are yourself against slavery (I hope:)), while typing this comment on a machine with some parts made by slave children.

If you go that way, everybody is an hypocrite, and we are loosing the sense of the word.
Tha analogy is misguided:

* The law and contracts (such as the Joint Declaration) play a role.

* The residents of the territory in question have a say in the matter.

On both accounts, this is not comparable.
Matt Blaze spent yesterday discussing this on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1153708198718840832

His Twitter feed is well worth a follow if you care about these issues.
If you are sick of participating, don't, and your problem is solved.

Also, if you've been here long enough to get sick of anything you should have learned that dumb downvotes happen, they mostly get reversed over time, and nothing good comes of reacting to them at all, much less throwing a expletive-laden fit about them.
Does that seem like a reasonable license to you? Admittedly, it doesn't matter, because these authors don't have the resources to hire lawyers from abroad, but all this stuff about "illegal activity"? This is a git client. It gives us no functionality that does not already exist in git. What am I going to do, rob a convenience store with it? Why would the author care if I did? Why are the terms more onerous than those of git itself?
This is how I interpreted it. It seems like a wise, level-headed approach.
If you have a few minutes, I wonder if you can expand on that? Does "it was a mistake" stem primarily from '"move fast," without really thinking through implications'? Thanks!
Your mother isn't depressed because your father died. You should not be feeling depressed because you meet some people you'd rather not. It seems like there are some unhealthy internalizations going on that can be identified by talking to someone (for a start). I hope for the best.
I remember switching to Gusto early on in the life of my startup, and how surprised I was to realize that I was excited about payroll software. The UI and UX were 100x better than the stuck-in-the-90s software we were using previously. It made me really optimistic that starting a startup would only become easier as services like Gusto popped up to meet their needs.

My only gripe is that I liked the old name (ZenPayroll) better :P
> you wouldn't feel confident driving 400 miles in a 2019 German car because of software?

Because of software and electronics combined, yes.

> What do you envision going wrong?

One of my closest friends purchased a VW Tiguan last year and not two weeks into his ownership the car left him stranded at the side of the read because of a coolant hose or something similar. If VW cannot make a simple hose not break after only two weeks in a 30,000 euros car I cannot trust their software verification processes and I'm not willing to spend that much money in order to find out. In other words, if they cannot properly verify a simple hose I cannot trust them with properly verifying software.
Former Chief Security Officer of Facebook on how the FTC judgment is fantastic for Facebook and terrible for users (as @zooko summarized it): https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1154025820890865664
I might be missing some subtleties here, because it does read surprisingly reasonable. A "crisis" "galvanizing public opinion" is always a recipe for disaster. See e.g. US overreaction to 9/11, from which the whole world still suffers.
> SquirrelMail

I really REALLY wish they'd make a new release (there is work on still going on but the latest release is from 2013). SquirrelMail is my favorite webmail since it was first available on a shared host i used early 2000s or so. So simple and lightweight. But the lack of releases apparently made Debian to remove it, then followed by several other hosts. I could set up a VPS to have it myself but i do not really want to bother with mail administration (if anything, not wanting to bother with mail was one of the main reasons i switched to shared hosting - which initially had SquirrelMail, to my delight, but sadly got rid of it some months later).
R+D is just standard accounting terminology. Someone has to develop the software that goes under R+D.
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I don't agree that encryption should be illegal, but also I don't think it's feasible to try and make it illegal without going all the way with our own version of the great firewall
Loading asynchronously != not loading at all.

Asking for permission before rendering external images != not loading at all, even though we could live without external images and just include everything inline.
Well they could start at making their website better... changing the website title to flash "(1)" (indicating a fictional unread message) is incredibly annoying.
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Lifehacker (which is part of the same blog network) posted "Wait Before Uninstalling VLC from Your Computer." They're trying to get all the clicks from every angle.
The claims against Protonmail and Tutanota (possibly others, but the are the two I saw) are from a place of ignorance. Both are the way the re because they are decrypted clientside.

IMAP/SMTP needs a bridge or is inaccessible because of the needed decryption step.
How do you fix it, except dismantling democracy, simply sending unhappy locals NIMBYsts to gulags, or dismantling the capitalism, making the Valley just as unattractive as any other place? We had both of these in the Soviet Union and it didn't look nice.
Such great advice, had never thought of that. Thanks!
Probably something like this:
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/04/26/a-few-th...

I believe this is how Australia is going to have their backdoors.
I suppose the equivalent is (what I now know is called) finger spelling: an unnatural 'sounding' word that breaks the flow, but it's [spelling is] taken from a language where it already exists.
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That still involves more friction than just casting to a Chromecast or Fire stick
That's pretty cool. Definitely going to use this on my projects.
>And I'm having trouble finding a contemporary example of someone making this claim.

Maybe you were looking for someone notable, but I'll make it for you right now.
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I rant every time this comes up. I've cancelled solely because of this annoying feature. The Amazon Video app on my Roku may not be as slick, but at least it doesn't force me to mute my TV when I'm browsing through the selections.
As if they don't have to worry about... this is a Chrome extension you have to download in the Google Chrome Store.

So if Google doesn't like it, they don't have to obfuscate the Gmail HTML/design, or send them a cease or desist... they simply can remove it from the Chrome Store.
That's a nice analogy, but it's still an analogy. It's easy for someone to come along and modify the analogy to fit their purpose e.g. "we'll have someone watch the wall of bricks so no one can knock on them!"

We simply can't let people legislate on issues they fundamentally don't understand. And understanding a backdoor is actually not that difficult - a smart, motivated person could literally learn the theory of this with some practical examples in a few hours of study.
> especially when one does not wish to grasp it.

This is the key point. Borrowing from Upton Sinclair,

It is difficult to get an authoritarian government functionary to understand something, when his pursuit of power depends on his not understanding it.
>That means they'll use it to stalk and harass people, e.g. ex-girlfriends

This is such a common trope, and it should be fairly well-known by now how so many American cops are basically bullies with guns, that I really have to wonder why any sane woman would ever date one. Horror stories about the things the ex-girlfriends and ex-wives of cops have gone through have been around for many decades, it's not something new. I have seen a non-negligible number of women on online dating sites who have specifically said they would not date anyone in law enforcement.
> they’ve recently caught juicers breaking into a ScootScoop impound storage unit, going after the Lime scooters specifically. The juicers allegedly became violent when confronted

> they [juicers] had broken into his storage unit and were holding scooters, he says. Heinkel confronted them, trying to grab the scooters back. He says that one of the workers, a man who towered over Heinkel, punched him a few times. Then he got on the scooter and started riding it toward Heinkel

That read like some kind of a Mad Max scene. It's just so bizarre.
How would that law be written? If it mentioned GPL by name (which I don't think would be Constitutional?), we'd just use a different name for it. If it zeroed in on particular legal idioms used by GPL (which probably are also used by thousands of other licenses), GPL could be modified to use different idioms. If the law were general enough to take out GPL for good, it would be general enough to take out all software licenses for (very) good.
I'm not the original poster however I do believe that the guidelines say to assume good faith.

>Clients load images asynchronously

Many clients actually don't load images by default for privacy reasons requiring another click.

Even if not one reasonably assumes that the image may be relevant and waits for it to load. Half the planet also has a pretty slow connection.

>To take the hn example again, the text portion of your comment is broken on mobile

You see the whole thing either turn your phone sideways or scroll sideways.
We can either pay for the risk via subsidized premiums (40%) or through increased food costs (100%). Subsidizing the premiums is arguably less efficient (bureaucratic overhead on taxation) but is progressive in a progressive tax system.
Meanwhile, in Europe, they have employee protection laws that outright prevent these practices. If you need someone to be available outside of work hours, you need to pay them extra for it, similar to how overtime is mandated in the US for hourly workers.

Wish we had those laws here. Fortunately I work at a company where I am compensated extra for my oncall shifts that take place outside of normal work hours -- it ends up being a few extra tens of thousands of dollars per year. That should be the mandated standard though, not just for those who are lucky.
An easy enough mantra: sign bytes, not semantics. I've trudged through the bowels of SAML long enough to know that canonicalization is thoroughly tricky and annoying to deal with.

I don't care what you throw in the bytes; I can figure that out easily enough. I want to know who generated those bytes and that they haven't changed.

For this reason also, I think the "reach for symmetric first" is bad advice. The primary benefit I can think of for HMAC is if you want to store client-side state for more stateless browser-targeted services. It makes it easy to throw an obscure cookie to your client and then validate it on the way back. It seriously complicates things if you want to allow other people to validate provenance of those bytes. With symmetric crypto, as soon as you can validate you can also generate. That's not the system we want.
You are correct that I seldom drive 3 hours without stopping.

However, as a real example, I'll drive from San Jose to Healdsburg on a day trip. That is 114 miles each way and I can make the round trip without charging at all. I pay 12 cents/KWh at home. 26 cents at a super charger. With 325 mile range, I get the savings and no anxiety about finding a charger and then finding something to do for 30 minutes. I could likely optimize it by trying to find a charger near an eatery or place of interest, but it's nice to not have that additional thought and research process. Just determine it's within easy round trip range and forget about it.
As a cyclist, I can't wait for self-driving cars.

I'll take a small chance of being accidentally killed as a systemic, correctable mistake over the small chance of being killed by the 5% of people who are consistently impatient, inconsiderate dangerous jerks.
Disabling unsafe and unnecessary sys calls in containers (not Docker) and forcing apps to communicate via API with capabilities management would let you do this now, I think. In fact, sandstorm.io is said to do all this. And it's open-source. I never used it, except the demo. And I'm not sure if its PowerBox (manages capabilities) is fully implemented.
> It is not an easy industry to be in. Lots of stress, uncertainty, and failure for indie developers.

Yes, probably because it's a very competitive market (why many smaller studios have such a hard time surviving) and there are lots of people out there who are passionate about making games (why so many individuals choose to tolerate crappy work environments). Given that, I have no idea what a "solution" would even look like.
Why can't they build the eBPF bytecode offline using the correct kernel API and ship the bytecode to the Android device?
I'm honestly more concerned about the free speech protections being stripped from writers of computer programs.
Look, same applies for example to 2nd amendment. But people find it plausible and vote for more gun control.
>What R&D does a payroll provider do? (Genuine question)

Halfway down the Techcrunch article, Joshua Reeves mentions what "R&D" in NYC intends to work on:

- While Gusto’s central product is payroll, Reeves sees two other product arcs he intends to develop more in the coming years as the company scales. One arc, which we talked about last year, is fintech features like Flexible Pay, a product that allows employees to receive their unpaid wages in advance, with the goal of reducing reliance on usurious payday lenders. The other product arc is health care and helping SMBs offer insurance benefits to their employees. “We want to be a force for universal health care,” Reeves said.

- As Gusto explores additional products built around its payroll service, it has sought to expand its engineering R&D team. The company announced recently that it will open an R&D office in New York City in September, which it hopes will be able to both execute on these two products as well as others not yet planned.

So, another way to state "R&D" is "new product development". Gusto wants to offer more SaaS capability than just plain payroll processing such as short-term loans, health insurance management, and other yet-to-be-disclosed new products. Presumably, in Gusto's slide deck to raise the $200 million, they convinced new investors that the money would be used to build new products.

(side note: I didn't downvote your comment.)
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Poland, Belarussia. The same circulation that is sucking hot air to Western Europe is bringing back cool air to Eastern Europe.

We have cool July - evenings are so chilly that I have taken out electric blanket and dove vest. 5-8 deg C at night.
Yeah, I like the idea of stolen cars being found very quickly, but there's a huge potential for this to be abused and used for robo-fining, which would truly be awful, and reminds me a lot of that 90s movie "Demolition Man".
The way I see it, the general population didn't pay attention[0], and the legislators see this as a problem of colour. What they want is a back door that opens only to people bearing keys of the right colour, and you can't get them to understand that the concept of colour doesn't make sense in the world of bits, for the reasons outlined in [1].

--

[0] - They never do - they don't care, and it's hard to argue why should they care especially about this, over a million other urgent things. Media being saturated with outrage-inducing crap doesn't help push through the noise either.

[1] - https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
once. they still crash less often than human drivers crash their cars on the highway. I don't want to say Autopilot is good, but everything else is also terrible.
Meh.

I would use sourcegraph.com/${GITHUB_REPO_URL} for navigating code. Much nicer than Github's and supports more languages.
It is the worst. I don't understand why most TVs seem to enable it be default or why most TV owners don't disable it immediately.
Wow. Yet another Netflix update that antagonizes users.

Though I suppose this one isn’t a deal breaker. Don’t all airplay capable devices (Apple TV, newer smart TVs, etc) have their own Netflix client?
> Single player games are often protected by Denuvo, which sometimes takes weeks or months to crack.

The first Denuvo game was in 2014, more than a decade after the trend towards multiplayer games got rolling.

> Except that the duration during which the game stay protected doesn't seem to have any impact on the sales.

The game publishers who continue to pay to use Denuvo indicate otherwise. In a hit-or-miss industry like video games, publishers are not in the habit of being stupid with their money.
For more publicity.
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The challenge is troubleshooting at the roadside. Older vehicles have comprehensible shop manuals and systems, but most cars in the last 10 years have little guidance on owner repair, which is often formally discouraged. A 2019 car is unlikely to have systems wear and tear or short circuit issues but they are so complex if something does fail you are unlikely to be able to do anything about it
This is an actual problem. You're calling something that isn't pork pork.

"Burger" isn't as specific. Culturally, people accept that the term "burger" can be modified by other words like "Pork" or "Black Bean" to imply "a patty of <product> meant to be used in the ways you would use a patty".

This isn't about protecting consumers from being tricked. It's about making it harder to communicate what a product is for producers.
> then only outlaws will use encryption

Which makes them easy to find in a dragnet unless they're also using stenography.
Just as awful as your comprehension?
In this scenario, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft will immediately fold as they can no longer securely sell products to customers. If e2e crypto is banned, the entire ecommerce market is fucked.
Meanwhile Waymo doesn't ask anything to anyone and just do their thing, repeatedly seeing competitors move ahead through PR move before dropping back through reality. If there is one company I would bet money on actually getting there, it's them.
Perfect, thank you very much
> Linux desktop remains an unpopular choice among mainstream desktop users ..

Because it's virtually to buy a computer in the shops with a Linux Desktop pre-installed. Even online Dell manages to keep a Linux Desktop computer well hidden on their website.

> .. in the beginning of July, we discovered a new, fully undetected Linux backdoor implant ..

How does this “fully undetected Linux backdoor” get onto the Desktop in the first place, without the end-user explicitly downloading and installing this Linux “implant”.

> .. We have named the implant EvilGnome, for its disguise as a Gnome extension ..

Thanking you, so the “implant” disguises itself as a Gnome extension and resides on some third-party website.

> .. The malware is currently fully undetected across all major security solutions ..

So, the defect resides in the security solutions :]
The fine is 5 billion dollars because Facebook flagrantly violated the 2011 agreement with the FTC, as bad as Equifax is they haven't essentially gone "so what are you gonna do about it" to the regulators.
Do any of those actually have a competitive scene? I think the thing I have missed most in the recent RTS was the lack of place to bump into people like you used to be able to. It's the same criticism I give to most of the modern FPS which have replaced the tools to allow a community to be born (lobby mostly) with matchmaking. While I follow SCR/SC2 fairly closely I haven't heard of any ladder/informal competitive arrangements for any of those other games.

The problem with many RTS games from a longevity standpoint is that most RTS fans do find them at some point, they play through the single player campaign, and multiplayer is either stagnant/busted/a mere shadow of the actual singleplayer campaign/has lousy game cycle/no useful replay system. I feel like too many of the recent generation of RTS games have fallen down these paths. People always need to keep in mind when thinking about SCR/BW one of the tricks to making it competitive was running the game on the fastest speed to make it interesting and fix the game cycle. Most of the newer RTS's often do not expose such interesting knobs to help find the competitive mode in the stock game, or are missing map editors and other tools to help create new content for a game and fix perceived problems for multiplayer within the confines of the shipped game.
I thought it was fascinating as I read the thesis statement that over two hundred years later we still haven't left Immanuel Kant's orbit. The author ended the article citing Kant's proposition that space and time belong to the mind rather than as properties of external reality however Kant directly answers her question, paraphrasing, "What is it that lends perception the power of perceiving", to which Kant answers with a technical term, original apperception, which more concretely means that the structure of consciousness, no matter its belonging to subjectivity (so-called empirical apperception, your spontaneous sense of selfhood), is itself objective (those terms are actually one in Kant, universal === necessary). There are readings of Kant to go further and suggest that math, by extension, must be the descriptor of anything that can exist therefore.

Interesting enough, the grandfather of the modern Left, Michel Foucault, spent a considerable amount of his career trying to dislodge Kant's claim before coming upon the realization that power informs our perceptions.
It's ironic to me that useplaintext.email uses formatting and design to communicate intention that would be impossible in a plaintext email
It’s a simple and practical solution. It irks me for some reason but I can’t think of something better.
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Okay, to be pedantic, I mean a subset of Markdown that doesn't allow arbitrary HTML, and may have additional restrictions of the types I mentioned.
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That's a pretty sweeping claim. I have accidentally bought "Chik'n nuggets" before so it's not much of a stretch to believe some people might make mistakes.
There’s activity, but no new releases in a year and a pull request that’s been sitting for a year.
An appropriate excerpt from Matt Levine's column (the gist is that relying on the FTC, rather than Congress, is backwards):

"Americans are biased toward thinking of bad things as being already illegal, always illegal, illegal by definition and by nature and in themselves. If the thing that Facebook did was so bad, then it must have been illegal, so there is no need for a new law against it. At most we need a settlement with Facebook clarifying exactly which things it did were illegal and specifying that it won’t do them again."

Before Mark Zuckerberg (and possibly now Google), we didn't really have anyone abusing personal data to such an extent that what they are doing is clearly, to the average person, wrong. Dumping toxic waste into waterways/letting it reach the groundwater is probably a similar example.

Every now and again an individual, company or industry comes along who is callous enough to make money off the things that surely must be illegal before and until they actually are.