skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are no jurisdictions where all possible information can be shared safely without hiding it.

This is not what I am saying. What I am saying is that there are plenty of people in countries doing illegal-on-paper things but are largely ignored by their Governments. No one in Brazil is worried about torrenting, even though it is not legal. No one connecting to a Swedish VPN provider worries much about getting copyright infringement letters, and so on. No one in Russia is worried about downloading music via VK, a social network with more ties to its Government than Facebook with the CIA.

> software should maintain privacy by default (...) you should treat this like reporting your downloads to your Government voluntarily.

I don't see any contradiction between what you are saying and what I am saying.

Yes, it should be secure by default. Yes, people should be aware that anything that is not sent encrypted and securely should be considered public knowledge.

So what?

Nothing of what you said negates the fact that there is a huge number of use cases where people want things to be public (Youtube? Instagram? Basically every social network?) and that they will benefit from having it that way.

You might not care about these use cases because you are too risk-averse to use them. Fine. There are plenty of other people who are totally okay with these risks. As long as they aware of the risks, why stop them?

Worse still, between a system that does only one thing "super-privately" vs something that gives them privacy when they want it and also gives them "things where I don't care if is public or not", which one do you think people will use? Look at another post on the same thread, you have people sharing multi-GB Anime over IRC, ffs.
Wouldn't it make sense that they're better for being bad at the non-critical stuff? Assuming the market will pay X for their goods, mostly dependent on the goods' quality Q and very little on W. Assume that it costs Y to build the product (and that higher Y leads to higher Q) and Z to build the webpage (and that higher Z leads to higher W). Assume that they want the profit to be as high as possible. Then they'll want Y+Z to be as small as possible, and you would hope that most of that cost-cutting is in Z so that Y+Z is as close to Y as possible.
That's because DMCA abuse is broadly a myth.
This, it's partly a flywheel to generate more maneuverability therefor innovation and business creating risk taking. Adding to the economy, not detracting.
I thought the recent revelation was that Chrome tracks you with a unique ID except in incognito mode.
yes, but how would you link notes, then?
Ask HN: Product Needed – Willing to Pay
I'm willing to pay for a product.

Product: Internet search engine

Features: Give me check boxes so I can select: No ads, No Javascript, no autoload vids, forum only, wiki only, .gov only, .edu only, .org only, etc. (ie quick, easy, granular control over my searches).

Code used: As lite as possible. No cutesy jiggly stuff. You can make modern design without all the JS and other crap. No tracking or other BS that you are going to sell to advertisers.

Revenue: I'll pay right now. Use the WhatsApp model (before it got facephuqed) of a buck a year. Heck, I'd pay a buck a month easily.
And yet cops in the bay area always pull over everyone with two to three police cars and don't leave their car until the backup arrives.

This happens every single traffic stop.

Clearly getting their head blown off is on their mind.
The irony that you’re missing is that many conservatives hold the flag to a very high standard. Standing on it, not pledging allegiance, etc. are wrong in their eyes. Look no further that Collin Kaepernick when he took a knee at the NFL. Then you have those same people (the “rule of law” people) turn around and ignore the Flag Code (never mind it not being enforceable) is quite ironic.
I’ve never been a FB user and only have a throwaway account to login quickly into certain services (I use it pretty much like Apple Sign In works).

Calling a platform evil may be a bit out there, however, in the case of FB, the word toxic is the best way to describe it. HN users, I assume, can handle the toxic FB feed. But I’ve heard numerous times from people (usually older generation) claiming that a certain (fake)news article was real.. because it was on FB. People who can’t distinguish between real or fake news, real or misleading ads, are becoming victims of fraud, misinformation and all sorts of bad stuff.

Is FB to blame for all of that? Maybe not. But serving the world brings about a certain responsibility that they clearly don’t seem to take serious enough.

Leaving FB so your friends and family members will leave may be the least you can do to help.
It's true. Same applies with Tails. If your employer is one of the few with intelligence community shadow relationships,they will likely be alerted as well.

You will also be targeted for browser exploitation without a warrant. Tails in an isolated environment is probably the best way of using Tor.
The point of the numbers is to prove that you heated space. Seriously. It proves that you burned value that you know you are not getting back if you are caught falsifying records for the system. And, everyone knows its extremely hard to not get caught if you try. Therefore you can be trusted to sign records for the system because you are risk:reward tremendously more financially motivated to be a good actor than a bad one --including whatever nefarious scenarios you might imagine.
> Time enough, at last!!!

Apparently yes, Mr Perfect.
> And the solution to broken copyright law is to ignore it

Civil disobedience is a form of peaceful protest.

> You realize this undermines the ability of our society to produce the actual written works

Creators aren't going to stop. They'll find a way. The solution is to somehow get paid for the act of creating rather than the finished work. Patronage and crowdfunding could be the answer.
Thats what the title obliquely insinuates but it's specifically not what it is. It's a travel visa with no work permit.
Last I checked, Google was a website.
That's an interesting article but buried near the end it looks like an actual study found that it wasn't all that effective in the end:

> An early study even suggested that altercations between citizens and police had declined because of the new uniform. The study’s findings were eventually challenged...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1559-1816....

> Effects of such an alteration were examined in the laboratory and in the field. No positive effects of the uniform change were found.

That said I'm all for police not looking like an occupying military force armed to the teeth.
Facebook and most other social media make money by capturing peoples' attention for very long periods of time. One way to push back, in a weaker form, is to set a maximum amount of time per month that you will be on Facebook. I set a 20 minute a month limit on myself. I get to occasionally look at my feed and also use the platform to announce my new book releases. I also use a single container for Facebook (and others for single use on specific web properties).

I suspect that Facebook makes very little money off of me. On the other hand, I have relatives who love Facebook, and as long as they don't try to use it as a way to contact me I am fine with whatever they want for themselves.
Even better, replace the face with Kim-Jong Un and then blur it. When they apply those forensic techniques they'll discover that it was him all along!
To not have demilitarization of the police as a prominent item on any list of required changes would be insane. But obviously it is only one of many changes needed.

"This is an extremely common tactic... "

So what? Trolls don't get to win just because they are clever. Required changes are required whether or not this or that group wants to use a given change as a talking point or to manipulate the greater goals.
>Facebook is merely the conduit of human behavior that happens when lack of regulation / social norms

some time ago I would have agreed on some level but there is too much manual and/or algorithmic manipulation to encourage "retention", "stickiness", "addictiveness" (whatever the current marketing-speak du jour for dependence is) to be a true reflection of behavior.

thats the irony of the current state of social networks - its not just merely allowing conversation/connection; its about encouraging rage, confrontation, polarity. in the pursuit of metrics, ergo dollars.

and even worse, we then look at the distorted reflection we see in the digital mirror and our view of society/discourse is negatively reinforced. what a loop.
I'd suggest currently society is very partisan so to make a difference try not to be, it would make you left handed batter .

A lot of police are black, are mother's, live in small communities so to many of us your view their structure can't be changed is very strange so you need to state it.

Theres a good theory de-militarization of the police short and long term would de-escalate the protests.

You could collate what's on the streets perhaps and look at local laws and procurements.

But I don't know if you even want that? Do you want the protests to slow down?
So it's true that P2P Matrix is currently full mesh (which is why it's staggering a bit as everyone trying it from HN piles on). However, you can absolutely do better than full mesh without going straight back to hub-and-spoke: you can use spanning trees (like Yggdrasil), or gossiped segmentation as libp2p's Gossipsub does (https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-05-20-gossipsub-v1.1).

Also, you don't need to scale larger than the number of nodes in a single room (or worst case, the number of nodes visible to your account). For context, the largest rooms in today's non-P2P Matrix have about 100K users in them, and a typical poweruser account sees about 400K other users at any given point. Obviously as Matrix grows this will increase, but I strongly suspect rooms will then move into "celebrity" or "auditorium" modes - much as Facebook & Twitter etc have a separate class of routing algorithms for handling traffic for accounts with millions of followers.
Where do Debian maintainers collect their institutional knowledge, these days?

In the past it felt like DSCs uploaded to the FTP queues were the equivalent of committing code on a software project. Are they all in one git repository now, that can be tracked outside the project?

Nothing beats being able to read the code for learning how a system actually works.
So, I not the only one feeling that the situation feels ominously similar to the august putsch, and 1993
I get this same thing with being invited to an Azure instance. years later I still have full access
Firefox's private browsing feature blocks tracking scripts. Edge's doesn't as far as I can tell, and I haven't looked into the behavior of smaller Chromium-based browsers.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
It's also worth mentioning that the whatsapp team still is filled with dedicated anti-surveillance types, leftovers from the original company (note that the founder publicly came out against facebook after the sale). I don't know how much longer that'll be the case, now that they're all vesting, but they're in there.
"Labs" in this context means supplemental classes of ~20 people associated with a lecture, especially when lectures are often ~200+ people. If I'm taking a CS class, I might go to lab two times a week to reinforce and cover topics learned in lecture. (See [1] for an example of the colloquial usage of "lab.")

So when I say "classes will be closed," I mean that labs will not be open.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/c3r8f0/what_happe...
The question whether I’m being sarcastic is unfortunate. Please assume good faith.

I’ll give you the green. That is unusual. It might be fair to add green to the list for some state trooper uniforms and park police uniforms.

I apologize if you’ve spent significant time in the US. I’m assuming you haven’t if significant variation in police uniform seems like it would commonly come up. The colors I mentioned are typical for city, county and state police. There are some variations, e.g., I said dark which could be black or a dark blue. To most people, the difference does not cause them to read the situation differently. When I review the uniforms of the 40-50 policing bodies with which I’m most familiar, I don’t see much deviation.

Security guards do try to mimic police uniforms as much as they can get away with, and I think that is dangerous. At minimum they should be forbidden from wearing a badge that looks like a police badge, and they should not be allowed to wear a hat that looks like a police hat. A security guard with a baseball hat, no badge, and their firm printed on their uniform is not easily mistaken for police.
How does Matrix achieve linearizability in group chat / federation?

I'm curious about what eng tradeoffs and so on have been made and so on. Imo zookeeper type system with an eventual transition to async bft consensus is the best practical approach today. Node join / leave etc is too hard a problem right now in non centrally managed p2p topologies.
The DejaVu Serif fonts bundled with Ubuntu are a really nice alternative to Times New Roman (and much nicer licensing!)

I have a hard time quantifying why, but they’re much easier on the eyes.

Not a shameless plug I swear but we converted DejaVu Serif to a web font and used it here, if you want to see it “in action:” https://www.obsessivefacts.com/memespeech
We're not aware of any performance problems on the matrix.org server right now (we had a breakthrough in performance last week), so I think something else is going wrong. What clients were you using?
Most monitors are definitely still not high enough resolution to render serif fonts more clearly than sans serif ones. (By resolution, I mean the original meaning of pixel density per unit area, not the modern usage of total pixel count.)

Mobile screens are obviously higher resolution so it's less clear cut, but sans serif are still a bit clearer in my view. I think the problem here is that the text is much smaller in physical size, so now the resolution of the human eye has come into play.
Decentralization is usually pitched as a solution to "censorship". In this case, the complaint seems to be the reverse, that there was insufficient intervention against misinformation. So I'm not sure how decentralization applies here.
The current presence on Twitch of young, funny chess masters like the Chess Brahs and the Botez sisters with top level talents like Nakamura crossing over with famous xQc-types is maybe the best thing to happen to chess in recent years to showcase it as something fun loving young people can enjoy, not just the dusty old men and social incompetents of caricature.

It would be great if it encourages new people to come in from esports and elsewhere, and bust through the gatekeepers and play this brilliant game.
Define rich?

By most metrics I am rich, just not private jet 0.1% rich.

I work at a big tech company and make >200k/yr. I have few financial worries.

At this point I’m not primarily motivated by more money. Sure I’ll take it, but at this point I’d sooner spend my time and energy on other more important things. Family, friends, hobbies, etc. The financial security to focus on those things makes me feel pretty rich.

Am I not smart for being satisfied working for someone else and rarely working more than 40hrs/wk?
I see we’ve already downgraded to “several parts” of the statement. But you’re right, if you refuse to actually articulate your objection then no, we cannot have a productive discussion.
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This is super disingenuous and very unfair to cops.

Cashiers do not have to approach dangerous people who do not want to be approached. If they get held up they give the cash and they're good.

In cities cops are often targeted to be killed since it could be the difference between life in jail and going free.
Except for the "Open States Up" protests that occurred that had hospital personal begging the protestors to let the emergency vehicles through. But that's a different type of crowd.
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Sorry, you’re saying Israelis are violent as a people? Or the IDF is, or some other organization?
> Don't mess with the Postal Inspector.
I trust Firefox as well. It was my second choice. I had two reasons for not switching to Firefox.

1. Firefox used a lot more memory & CPU on my MBP. Maybe that is fixed now. I remember reading that they worked on the footprint.

2. The large majority of Firefox's revenue is (indirectly) driven by ads from Google. I just wanted to get out of the ad swamp once and for all.
You might be misreading that guideline. It's not trying to exclude political discussion—only one form of it.

Technological and political topics overlap (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). That's why politics has never been excluded from HN (other than an experiment we once briefly tried and quickly rolled back). Maybe your formulation of that overlap is the right one, maybe others are better, but they all point to the same fundamental, which we agree on. HN has always, or nearly always, hosted a certain amount of political discussion (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 for some history).

The distinction that guideline attempts to draw is not "political vs. apolitical", but rather between two different forms of discussion: discussion whose purpose is communication and discussion whose purpose is battle. These are remarkably different in practice: one seeks to hear and learn from the other, one seeks to defeat and destroy the other. People are generally in very different states when they're doing those two things. It's not primarily a distinction of views; whatever your views are, you can either do battle or do communication about them, depending on what state you're in and what your intention is.

This distinction is existential for a site like HN, where the intention is to survive as a place for curious conversation and somehow escape the default fate of internet forums, which is to destroy themselves—or at least stave it off for as long as we can (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

By now, we have a lot of experience with moderating the site according to this distinction, and if there's a better way to do it, I'd love to know what it is. If you want to take a look at past explanations, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... are good entrypoints. If after reading that material, you or anyone still have a question that hasn't been answered yet, I'd like to know what it is. And if you know a better way for HN moderation to relate to political topics, I'd really like to know what it is. Just make sure you've familiarized yourself with the material first, because if it's something simple like "just ban politics" or "just allow everything", I've answered many times already why it won't work.
I wound up writing a hybrid bash script with embedded Makefile to re-encode my FLAC collection to Opus. It was nice to be able to use -j16 on that task.

Switching to Opus saved a great deal of space on my phone's SD card.
Why the SpaceX Falcon landing livestream cut out
I agree and this is what I meant to write but alas, brain fart. Thanks for the correction!
At the bottom of the article it seems to indicate they have upheld their promise

> In July 2015, when AT&T bought DirecTV, the Wheeler FCC imposed a merger condition that barred AT&T from exempting its own online video services from home-Internet data caps. But the condition had a four-year time limit and expired in 2019, and the condition never applied to AT&T's mobile network.
I got rid of the app and I'm only browsing the mobile site in a incognito window, so I have to login every time. This added enough friction to stop the completely mindless browsing and scrolling plus it gave me back some of my battery life.

The next step for me is to remove Facebook from my password manager. Having to type a 20+ character password on a phone is definitely going to add significant friction.
Agreed. Honestly, I couldn't find the Craigslist listing when I wrote my previous message, I would LOVE to show it to you.

Police needs a reform. It's not questionable. But there are many other problems and angles to this whole situation. There is no single truth and it's important to consider all of these issues wearing each group's shoes, including the police.
mkDerivation is a nice hammer to try
>We cannot justify most of the things we're currently doing on that basis.

Exactly my point. Why do you think we need to have a higher justification for good ideas (engaging in sustainable behavior) than for bad ideas (engaging in unsustainable behavior)?

>We apparently don't agree on what "reality" actually is, at least with respect to how much of an emergency CO2 emissions are. You think they're a dire emergency.

>Which is one of the key points the article we are discussing in this thread is making.

And the point you're still missing is that not doing anything to stop risky behavior is making an assumption that it is safe to continue the risky behavior. That assumption is not grounded in anything.
Don't know but it seems to be centralisation
Hmm you control your network on both FB and TW. People forget that is is then ck trailing this network. Why do you need someone else controlling your network? If you don't like someone you simply unfollow him. Doing twitter style fact checking or blocking content is censorship is this should be the reason to stop using platform not opposite allowing everyone for a free speech.
> It's unfortunate that it's gotten to this point for people to take police brutality at least somewhat seriously.

They still aren't taking it seriously. People are still bending over backwards to justify violence and police incompetence against even peaceful protestors and press members. They're cheering for people to be run down in the street, etc. Nothing is getting better and things I fear things will only get worse from here.
Are you aware of a foundation I can donate to that will explicitly use the money in these types of lawsuits against the government?
The US has a doctrine of first sale which says there is no right to control distribution. There's a right to control copying, that's it.
Empirically service workers don't seem to work in private browsing mode, and the demo relies on running Dendrite as a service worker.

> In Firefox, Service Worker APIs are also hidden and cannot be used when the user is in private browsing mode.

Says https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...
Shouldn't the guy have been banned from the service for violating the terms of service a long time ago? If you or me had said similar things we would have been deplatformed a while back.
I think this is just a half assed way of making amends for allowing so much prominent lies on the network.

Plus it's their network, they likely have TOS allowing them to do anything on it. Probaly except altering the posts (... but they replace links with their shortener i think).
Google is a company. Their tracking code isn't a website. It doesn't mention to users that that their private browsing mode doesn't actually protect users from their other products.
Why leave? There's tons of options that "serve the cause" better imo, all while getting paid to boot:

You could become a "stuck cog," deliberately working shittily to slow down development. You could cause a disaster hid behind plausible deniability - fuck up a deploy, accidentally forward an email, that kind of thing. You just gotta try to avoid committing a crime.

Or you could bombard senior management with emails demanding they take action until they just fire you.

You could spend all day improving your vimgolf skills.