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Ask HN: What fact-checking sites / sources do you use?
My feed is filling up with Plandemic videos and conspiracy theories. I tend to use Snopes and Politifact alongside various study repos - what sources / sites do you use to combat dumb?
I didn't downvote. Here are my thoughts.

> I believe the argument is that a private key encrypted with a password is not cryptographically different from a plaintext private key.

You have it backwards. On principle an encrypted anything (key in this case) is of zero value to anyone. It does’t matter if you tweet encrypted messages every 30 seconds to millions of followers or not: they're encrypted.

When you use a password to encrypt, and you (or your client/agent) selects an appropriately sophisticated suite, you end up seeding a KDF with your password and then using the resulting data as the actual “private key” (its just a symmetric key, no public/private). If your password has enough entropy, then the resulting key is perfectly secure.

In practice people are paranoid. “If the key is on Keybase’s servers, someone could get it and brute force decrypt it.” It’s almost pop culture fallacious, though, because if you believe someone can do that, then they can just as easily brute force the actual key. In practice people use shitty passwords, and crypto weakens as time moves forward, there are good and bad algorithms, and the whole point of a public key infrastructure is to keep private keys off the wire. So it’s generally seen as bad form to copy private keys around, even if they're encrypted. We’re still pretty far on the spectrum here because if your crypto breaks you have to rey key everything anyway. Not just re-encrypt unchanged private keys.

At the end of the day you're either copying a private key around or you aren't. And you should probably avoid situations where you need to do that because there are better ways to PKI. If your threat model can tolerate encrypted key backups and key sharing, then go for it. But that should be something you control.
I noticed that you didn't define reasonable comfort. However that definition is critical before we can think about how much work must be done to create it.

A king in 1100 would have a different definition from his peasants. There are people living in mud huts today, and others in slums: both would give different answers. 180 years ago you were medically better off not going to the doctor, today I'd count ability to see a doctor as part of reasonable comfort. I know people who think they can't live if their car is more than 3 years old, and people who was excited to afford a 15 year old used car.
And that's fair. But experimentally I would like to see the effects measured for a whole town, a city, or even a county.
> Rust borrow checker requires special annotations and restrictions put on the code to do its job.

This is a good thing, because it makes lifetimes and ownership explicit and visible in the code. It serves the similar purpose as type annotations in function signatures.

> Or having multiple mutable pointers/reference to the same object

Sure you can have that with `unsafe`. And this is a good thing, because multiple mutable pointers to the same object is at best bad coding practice that leads to unsafe code, and you should avoid that in any language, including the ones with GC. Working with codebases where there are multiple distant things mutating shared stuff is a terrible experience.

If a C/C++ version of "borrow checker" could mark such (anti)patterns at least as warnings, that would bring a lot of value.
We're working on making bridges better integrated in Matrix to help with this use case - it's certainly a good way to drive uptake.

On the other hand, bridges are always an impedance mismatch - you have to keep up with new features on both side of the bridge, and the system you're bridging into doesn't always want to be bridged.

So, we think bridges are a key thing for Matrix (it's where the name comes from - matrixing together different comms platforms!) - but it'd be wrong to predicate the success of the protocol on bridges. They're useful, they have their place, but they're not the sole reason to use Matrix.
I think the only complete alternative is to successfully persuade the Keybase team to release their server code under an open source license. Their client is already open source.

https://github.com/keybase

The only other alternative is a mishmash of multiple apps that each do part of what Keybase does.
If you want the newest version of software, Ubuntu does not cater to that.
Honest question: What function does a server perform in end to end encryption?

Because I see that the Keybase client is open source but not the server…
I signed up so long ago that I'm not quite sure what you mean. I remember posting a bunch of public keys (like on my profile here). I think the keybase app generated them along with a private key but it has been like three years.

I don't remember at all uploading one or where to find it if I did, can you explain the issue you have in mind a little more?
This would imply there is a political leaning to those treating it seriously and those who don't. From my personal experience, the people I know who are fans of him and the people I know who want nothing to do with him are both not treating this seriously. They are okay with visiting a friend, going shopping just to get out the house, not trying to reduce their shopping trips to once a week or less but instead going out daily. People going out daily to get food from restaurants.

Where I worked a transitioned to WFH for about 98% of the employees, but so many were still stopping by the office that the employees who couldn't work from home and felt they were at increased risk eventually contacted upper management and now every visit to the office is recorded and a manager has to provide a justification for why that employee had to be on site.

I think we have to look at little deeper into the America psyche to see what is driving this.

(As for where I live, the 2016 vote was almost a 50/50 split in the surrounding area.)
Github codespaces is a step forward to eliminate local setup and have replicable dev environments running in containers. But for true cloud-native applications, you would need a kubernetes namespace to run other services, databases or access the kubernetes API.
This blog post explains our vision of cloud-native development at www.okteto.com
What are you studying in that case? "Income"? We could look at trust fund kids to see whether getting income without doing anything makes them want to work in otherwise not attractive jobs.
Seems like on Fedora the only mirage available is Mirage the image viewer

http://mirageiv.sourceforge.net/
One of the best books I've read regarding UX. Don't sleep on it.
>The federal government never put it there,

Maybe you could debate when the federal government put it there, but they did. I think we would both agree that at all phases of a quarantine the Federal Government has supremacy over the States.

Further, Federal government deferring to the State on closures is unrelated to their deferment on opening (legally anyway, the political reasons are likely the same)...In other words just because the federal government deferred to States on closing, doesn't mean they couldn't jump in at any time. In fact with the openings they federal government implemented "Opening Up America Again" which is voluntary, but they could have just the same made it mandatory.

Otherwise, You are highlighting many other failures, which I tend to agree with...which are likely part of the desire for the federal government to distance themselves from any fallout of bad outcomes from reopenings. And rest assured when a State opening outcome is good Trump will pat himself on the back and claim they closely followed "Opening Up America Again" guidelines/phases, and States with bad outcomes failed to follow the same.
It sounds easy but not simple to me to refactor on the TodoMVC code.
It's easy to say we should just stay in lockdown until things are manageable when you have a job that allows you to work from home.

I have several friends who are directly impacted by this. Two of them work at small businesses that will shut down in a couple of months. I have one that has no income because he lost his waiter job and supply teaching job at the same time. I have some friends that are suffering from mental health issues. One person I know is living 5 people in a one bedroom apartment.

This is a very hard, almost impossible situation, so don't be so judgemental against people that want to end the lockdown. I fully understand why they want to, because realistically there's no end in sight and even 2 months is a very long time for people to do nothing and starve in their apartments for both food/money and interaction.
> If you want to detect how someone fares at a task, say loan sharking, tennis playing, or random matrix theory, make him/her do that task; we don’t need theoretical exams for a real world function by probability-challenged psychologists.

^ horrible job interviews in a nutshell
Couldn't agree more as a Torontonian. It didn't help that they conducted most of the discussions in bad faith with the whole "trust us with your data" approach when these were geniune concerns due to the amount of oversight and control they were provided.
I work for AWS, so (in the most pedantic way possible) technically yes
My feet and overall posture have thanked me relentlessly from my choice to spend $50-100 more on footwear every year or so since I have started buying Nike shoes. I mean, the difference is literally night and day from when I used to just grab a cheap or even ‘reasonably’ cheap ($50-70?) pair of shoes.

Sweatpants, screw that - I’ll quote Macklemore here, “$50 for a t-shirt, that’s just some fucking ignorant shit,” - go buy them from freaking Wal-Mart - who is going to see you in them anyways but your partner - but Nike’s core business is shoes, and my God, they do it exceptionally well.
I worked there for a short time in college, mainly so that I could get unlimited free drinks, and rocket fuel was actually brewed twice...some folks ordered it with a shot added. Oye.

The people that sat outside were always entertaining. There was a young man with a foot fetish that would constantly be asking women if he could see there feet. Unlike Oakland, Berkeley also had some of the most interesting bums.
keys.pub felt a lot like keybase when I first saw it. Now it seems like a no brainer go to replacement.
Clash needs Verilog and VHDL to Clash translators. Make the translator available online for learning purposes, for small samples. Then you can at least leverge your existing knowledge, see how it translates to the new language, and then a tutorial using this could easily show how it's an improvement, either in expressiveness or safety checking.
> IQ seems to be more predictive at the low end than the high end.

More complex tasks actually become more g-loaded, i.e. among very sophisticated tasks, IQ and performance are more strongly correlated than at unsophisticated tasks. The reason is presumably because unsophisticated tasks have a quick satiation in what general thinking can help at all.

Though, true, a person who cannot solve simple cognitive tasks at all can very confidently be classified as someone who won't achieve much in the economy.
how could the opposite be true? How could it be possible to recover from covid-19 without making antibodies?
One reason could be that GP seems to assume that spread to herd immunity is inevitable, ignoring the countries that have had great success in containing the virus.
I would bet there’s enough community interest to make it a viable open source project if they open source the server code. It’s worth advocating to Keybase team for.
Keybase was almost the perfect Slack-killer for security-minded teams, except it had a few wiggles, including their sluggish client. I believe there is an opportunity for someone to capture the users who are about to be abandoned by this transaction, if they implement a subset of the Keybase client functionality like team chat, shared files/git repos, but get rid of the crypto wallet nonsense. I, and others, would gladly pay $10/mo for this.

Matrix isn't the answer. That's like saying just use SMTP for email.

The slackification of Keybase did not lead to a viable business model, unfortunately. In fact, it's such a no brainer, I can't wait for someone to build Keybase 2.0. It might not be a VC enterprise, but could be a great lifestyle business for a small team.
Short term you are right, as most of the printing has not actually found its way back into the economy in any real way

Long term however you are very very wrong

Further the Stock market is not a good indicator of economic health, never has been. Stock market is largely irrational
Hopefully something with Activitypub can be created... splitting up lots of independent Keybases connected using federation protocols would be rad.
In MD, you can eliminate race conditions like a computer scientist would or you can listen to the underlying physics and ignore them when appropiate. In real life, we depend on weak causality, not on strong causality. A throw of dice will demonstrate the fact.
Small Businesses Counting on PPP Loan Forgiveness Could Be Stuck With Debt
"Automate and scale" means something other than what you think it means. The scraping of relevant raw images is the easy part. But you can't use scraped images as profile pictures directly, without first cropping them to be headshot-ish, because slapping random raw images with no sense of photographic composition into your profile picture is also a common signal of there not being a human in the loop.

And human labor—even the cheapest human labor—still costs way too much to have real people sitting there cropping pictures to use as profile pictures, if you need a basically-infinite stream of them for your spambot network.

So you'd need, at minimum, a face-detection algorithm that you can rely on to do auto-cropping, so that you can just throw it a whole scrape-dump of the art site, and get back that basically-infinite stream of headshots.

As I said, until this very project, there was no face-detection algorithm that worked on illustrations of, er, "demihuman" faces. (There was one for humans, that would fail horribly on this data; and then specific other ones for cats/dogs/etc in photos, that also would fail here.)
I would say that this was not the purpose of the link. A comment said "X is something studied scientifically" with X = IQ, and the reply was the same as proposing also X = eugenics. It did not look particularly constuctive.
What kind of engineering are you doing? Do the companies you work for think of software dev as one of their core competence? I work in semi conductor manufacturing and currently employed with one of the largest equipment manufacturers. The technology lock in is fairly strong in this and other companies in this field because of 2 reasons

1. Legacy code is very valuable. Mistakes are costly and thus nobody wants to change anything once its proven to work.

2. They hire people who are already proficient in matlab. In all job postings it is written explicitly as a requirement. There have been and will be initiatives to move over to other languages but they always die out because the cost is monumentally high
Getting so sick of the ads and such online. And every website has an adblocker detector now. You can't just look something up any more and end up on a website where someone wants to help you. You always end up on a website where someone is trying to make bank off of you.
In case it's helpful to anyone, to uninstall on MacOS:

# keybase uninstall

And then delete the app from Applications (recommend using AppCleaner to delete the app, as it leaves behind almost a GB of stuff).
Be as cynical as you like. But people's lives are their own. Decades ago we dreamed of the day automation took the yoke of labor from our shoulders. Now that it's approaching, all anybody can think about is "Keep the lower class working! God forbid they have a life!"
My Google-fu is failing me, but I swear I've read before a quote from some business guy (I want to say Peter Drucker) that is similar to this: You don't want those with a 4.0 GPA because they will never think for themselves, and don't get those 2.0 GPA because they will just do enough to go by.
Many consider hosting the repo (privately) on Github etc to be the backup.
I have not read up on it - I am no expert. However, this is the second technology (first being weather radar) that 5G is reported to have significant, negative effects on.

As a layman, I do wish we banned 5G entirely, assuming these assertions are correct. There is a greater public interest than even faster cell connectivity.

The wiki on 5G isn't bad - I now get that it is a tri-band negotiation, and I assume it is the "high" band that causes the issues.[1]

How does Wifi 6 use the same spectrum as 5G mid, but get such higher throughput?

And if the point of 5G is also to give higher speeds and capacity in dense urban environments, with denser antenna coverage, why couldn't they adapt the existing 2-6 GHz range instead of going up toward millimeter?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G

meta-edit: So, I put forward assertions, admitted humility and lack of expert knowledge, asked questions and linked to a wiki that I found to talk about the subject. If the person/people who downvoted me for the original content sees this, please note that the downvote button is not a disagree button. If you have substantive issue with the post, rebut it.
Thanks for sharing. Sagan's work has also had a profound impact on my life. I miss him and his wisdom terribly.
Yeah the system is not very meritocratic. Not sure to which extent one can change that though and not sure how much better society would look after enforcing those changes.

If you wanted to make it more meritocratic the populations with lowest IQ would actually be worse off, unless you also increase the minimal living standards.
Handshake [1] is a great keybase alternative that doesn’t even rely on centralization. All information is verifiable with the blockchain acting as the root of trust.

[1] https://handshake.org
I don't understand this. Is the DoD not subject to FCC regulation? Are there multiple bands that different types of GPS signals use (civilian vs military)?

My understanding of GPS was that it is used in _civilization critical_ applications like satellite synchronization and plane/ship navigation. How could any sane human approve an interference with this traffic?
My understanding is the website, the user services such as authentication, heart beat (not sure what is the proper technical term but the thing that says where I am in a particular episode). That and internal apps like project tracker not to mention dev/test.

At least in my imagination. At my work, I'm not even worth throwing an SSD at my work computer. My manager is powerless to help as the company has some kind of deal to only buy from HP? No idea what kind of glue procurement is sniffing at this company...
Right. But somebody who uses both word processors and slide programs can definitely cross-compare in terms of UI quality and polish.

To pick a more obvious dimension, if somebody said, "Word is buggier than Powerpoint", nobody would say, "You can't compare them because they don't do the same thing." Bugginess is an abstractable quality across kinds of product.

The same thing is true about UI quality. It goes well beyond intuitiveness. You can look at fit-and-finish details. You can look at number of unnecessary actions. You can look at difficulty for novices completing common tasks. You can compare utility of error messages. How much are key concepts related to a task obvious vs hidden? Et cetera, et cetera.

In my experience, Inkscape is better in that dimension. I think this even though I have used GIMP a lot more, and so normally would be biased the other way, because familiarity makes its UI issues less obvious to me.
It is available in the repos it just isn't the default
I know the average Torontonian wasn't into this, but I live nearby and was really excited about what it could have been, even though it was fraught with missteps.

This area is a concrete wasteland–just car-parks and abandoned lots–that's now going to be portioned off to more giant, glass condo buildings, and while Sidewalk's proposal had problems, it was focused on building something very different, community-oriented, without prioritizing roads.

Sidewalk really pushed the technology angle way too hard, and it was a clear overstep– most of it wasn't necessary for any sort of quality of life improvements, but many of the ideas like wooden 'skyscrapers' and de-prioritizing roads were exciting, now lost.
Out of interest, what are you using instead of Vue?
Managing Technical Debt and Feature Flags
I think most economists are pretty crap. That belief, however, doesn't mean that economic effects aren't real. It doesn't mean that epidemiologists are particularly good, or even trying, to counter balance health risks with health risks due to economic harm, because that's not really their job and its more or less an unprecedented situation.

Economic shut down kills people too. Especially poor people. Especially especially poor people in poor countries with food insecurity. So fuck off yourself. It's not that simple. Crime, authoritarianism, famine, (more) disease. You're just claiming the moral highground because you have a point source of death that is more likely to affect people in your local community.
When cloud computing started, alternative software deployment was complicated, after a decade, much has been improved. So ease of management is also one of the factor. Not all need state of the art data and AI.
Bootstrapped, 10 years old and their tech looks great (from a customer UX perspective). Cool that they’re launching a tech blog. I’ve learned a lot from business engineering blogs over the past decade
>That's really cynical.

Of course. This is Microsoft. The memory of the culture of Gates and Ballmer is not erased.

>And frankly I'd rather have a Microsoft Linux distro on my fridge than a slimmed down version of Windows

Referencing security of fridges reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnKpNVHw-TQ :)
Advertising is only one tool in creating a brand story. Design is often just as much about what you leave out than what you put in.
Plot twist, all the data was open source
But still:

>"The researchers also noted a mild positive effect on employment, particularly in certain categories, such as families with children"

at least says something.
Stup – A CLI to easily save, access, and organize daily notes
Yes, this is definitely not great.
N = 81 here also, so it's not really a full picture of what "universal" would be.
Free Ton Network Launched – Telegram Open Network Fork
You overestimate how much we know about COVID.

Also herd immunity is neither guaranteed nor is it necessarily preferable to lockdown. We don't know how long immunity lasts on average post infection.
FYI most avgas is still leaded, to this day. This is because many airplane engines are designed to operate at very high compression ratios, requiring high octane fuel. The lead additive boosts the octane rating of the fuel.
Httpflow: CLI utility to capture and dump HTTP stream
Discussion from 6 months ago with the author chiming in (Jesse Frederik, jessefrederik on HN)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465873