skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people in the right don't disbelieve the coronavirus exists, they just think it's not going to kill them, its going to kill someone else.

FTFY
I'm actually a cryptography engineer. RSA encryption standards are hard to implement correctly. Frequently they contain padding oracles. There are safe ways to do RSA people don't do in standards.

ECC eschews all that complexity. Writing a safe ECC implementation especially for Edwards or Montgomery curves is pretty simple.

PGP is mortebund and has a lot of cruft.

RSA does some things that are really cool like accumulators, Pallier, etc. But if you are doing them you are doing black magic.
> This is only over when the electors travel to DC

The electors do not, in fact, travel to DC, at all. [0]

> and 270+ vote for one person.

If you are going to be excessively legalistic, it's not over until the electoral votes are reviewed, judged, tallied, and reported by Congress. On the other hand, by design, by law, and by established practice, in various combinations for the various components, pretty much all of that process after the public vote and tallying is ministerial rather than discretionary; and the established practices for transition of power in an open seat or incumbent defeat situation very much rely on proceeding based on the known outcome before all the various ministerial acts are completed.

[0] https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/roles#meeting “On the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, the electors meet in their respective States to cast their votes for President and Vice President of the United States.” [emphasis added]
I feel we should be mourning. Even if you wanted Biden to win, the election irregularities .. my god, they were so blatant. I stayed up until 2am Friday writing this:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/the-return-of-american-co...

I have no problem returning to the status quo, but we need to acknowledge what happened. It's happened before in 2000 and with JFK, but never to this scale. The media manipulated the people into a 24/7 hate machine and have caused major psychological damage to the entire American population.

We are literally seeing the world through two different screens. We are being told what to think and what is true. This should terrify all of us.

This is not a time of honor.
I hadn't thought of the word and company Broderbund for so long! What a wonderful C64 part of my mind opened up.

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Spelunker

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Raid_on_Bungeling_Bay

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Print_Shop
A bit of an aside, but SharedArrayBuffer is likely not the best example It was disabled by default in Chrome and Firefox until recently due to Spectre. Chrome is still working on improving their security around this feature, and does not yet enable the feature for Chrome on Android.
A lot of the implementation challenges with RSA tend to stem from trying to he clever and prematurely optimize.

Whether its trying to save space by using smaller keys which is silly because the key size is rarely the bottleneck. Or trying to save time with clever prime genetation algorithms. The safest way to generate primes is also the easiest, just generate random numbers of appropriate size until you get one that is prime. Its not blazing fast but it's plenty usable.

Lots of security problems seem to stem from trying to be clever or optimize something that really doesn't need optimization.
Though the obvious answer is your family is Jewish and the right empowered Nazis, the ambiguity of your statement means your family could have been Nazis and the right empowered Americans. There are like thirty correct choices in this macabre madlib.
I agree with you on social media. I think Facebook targeting engagement has led to an extremely damaging level of polarization.

America has a ton of issues, but I think some democratic reforms are critically important. Voting rights are being attacked, and I don't think most people are represented well by the two party system.
Honestly, just use JQuery. If you need a resume item, then just go React. A lot of what React offers on teams is that it makes it dead simple to make a reusable component. I’ll throw a rock at someone at work if they didn’t make the component sensibly reusable (takes obvious props, does one predictable thing, doesn’t take 50 props, etc - you know, the same kind of shit you’d expect of a good function, sane defaults, sane arity, sane output).

It’s hard to expect people to make a sane function, let alone a sane front end component. Before React, our expectations were zero in this space. If you care about these things, invest the time and learn React. If not, jquery is more than enough to build the most robust modern ui that will be performant. In other words, show me the most advanced/performant user interface you see on the internet today and I’ll show you how to do it with jquery (you have my word on this).
ECDSA has some bad footguns as well. I don't see why you'd consider ECDSA to be any more robust than RSA if we're talking about certificates keys for TLS.

EdDSA is better, but is in general not yet supported in the WebPKI (browsers, BRs). I did manage to successfully use it for an internal mTLS setup though, so I think it's only going to be a matter of time.
The Obama administration used its office to take down a political opponent, on the basis of improbable claims of collusion with Russia, backed by an opposition research report funded by the Clinton campaign.

Is any of this good? Of course not. Both sides have been abusing their office in a similar way. I am struggling how people can get comfortable with “when my team does it it’s justified, but how does the other team dare to do it!”.
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They probably still hate those conservatives though. Even now you can see the hate being directed to Blacks or Hispanics that may have voted for Trump.
This. Closing all playgrounds in my state for many months was just pushing it a little too far, for example.
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Job for life will never come back, just like wife/husband for life.

Tinder makes it too easy to switch partners when the sexual marketplace values change, and it's the same for job hunting: it's just too easy to do for both parties.
Also, in 2016, Trump's margins:

- MI: 10,704 votes.

- PA: 44,292 votes.

- WI: 22,748 votes.

He lost the popular vote by nearly 3M votes. That's with an assist from Russia and Comey.

Despite all that, Clinton conceded the next day. She called Trump and congratulated him. She gave a gracious concession speech saying things like "We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. But I still believe in America and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power and we don't just respect that, we cherish it. It also enshrines other things; the rule of law, the principle that we are all equal in rights and dignity, freedom of worship and expression. We respect and cherish these values too and we must defend them."

No one accused Trump of fraud at the ballot box. She didn't seek to undermine the democratic process. She graciously accepted defeat to a man who had been threatening to lock her up.

Lastly, he was the incumbent this year. That's such an advantage that the incumbent has lost only five times in a hundred years.

The field was definitely tilted this election as in the last, but it was in Trump's favor both times.
If Trump had governed like say Gov Chris Christie he'd likely have won this election.
For the benefit of readers less willing to selectively ignore statistics: non-Hispanic whites are 2.4x more likely than blacks to be killed by police (2.7x more if counting only unarmed deaths), per committed homicide. Sources:

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
The fact that one has the wealth for it to redistributed to begin with is because of aggressive force or the threat thereof.
The solution to this, I believe, is making template a function: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25023551
There's also the issue of having your music collection tied to a cloud provider. I've been using Play Music for years, happily, but I don't much like the replacement (YouTube/YouTube Music/whatever). And I don't trust Google to have a stable product lineup either.
If you truly want learn something, first try learning why something that looks so obviously bad might be nuanced. Search for yourself to find out why the Obama-era policy of separating the children was put into place.
lol i no longer have energy for gotta hear both sides argument, whether its naive because of a myopic and narrow world view or just bad faith. like you said - how tf is mask wearing a political issue jfc
I was. I knew none of the other issues mattered. The only thing I cared about was war, and Trump was the first anti-war president. Even then, he didn't reduce drone strikes, but he greatly lowered America's war footprint. I wrote about it here:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/who-will-lead-us-from-war...
Just like regular flu. It kills lots of people every year. So do car accidents - lets just ban driving?
>Biden is going to raise taxes

Biden campaigned on raising the corporate income tax rate from 21% back to 28%. If you have a stock market portfolio (including an IRA or 401(k)) and this proposal is enacted, it will adversely affect the value of your investments. It's also been tied to student loan forgiveness, so people without college degrees who are investing for retirement (and those who've paid off their degrees) will in effect be subsidizing those with student loan debt, which is a demographic that skews affluent:

>https://www.educationnext.org/mass-debt-forgiveness-not-prog...

>Households in the upper half of the income distribution hold more student debt than those in the lower half. The highest-income quartile of households owes about one-third of that debt; the lowest-income quartile owes about 12 percent. People who don’t go to college don’t have student debt. They have lower incomes and more constrained job opportunities than others.
The left is abandoning enlightenment principles of individualism in favor of skin color. They define people based on external features rather than their actions or thoughts. That doesn't smell like freedom to me.

Ala, I am racist because I am a white person who is not racist.
That's not true. He restored stock market levels which is a success, and he didn't lie or cheat to do that.
The enforcement of property rights is literally the reason why the state was implemented. All property that one owns is theirs and not someone else's (or no one's) ultimately because of unjustifiable violence.

On this basis, property rights are not much more than a social construct and redistribution is not a problem if society deems that it is favorable to do so.
> Why should they cooperate with a party that spent the majority of the past four years trying to impeach a legitimately elected President?

Because effective government of the country depends on that, or them not having the votes to matter.

Also, the impeachment power presupposes that anyone subjected to it will hold office legitimately but be abusing that office; someone who does not legally hold office doesn't need to be impeached, as their pretense of exercising the authority of the office is a legal nullity.
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Oh, sorry. I meant ran a startup. You're right, it's not relevant.
> So, your answer to someone feeling distaste for fascists and racists

There is a lot to unpack there. You already have a prejudiced and a bias going into your thought of them based on their choice of only two real options. Think about that.

You are looking at the world through a straw, almost with an ideological lens of religion. Politics are the new religion in ways, and yours is terrifying.
3551 comments in this discussion as of now. I wonder if this will be the most commented thing in HN ever.
Every password I need to remember has a dictionary word in it, because it's easy _additional_ entropy. Once I've got a password that's borderline too long to remember, I can't really add more random characters to it without risking forgetting it. Concatenating it with a dictionary word ("password-dictword") is much easier to remember, but (I believe) still adds a meaningful amount of security.
Why should he/she? That has nothing to do with the generality of “talking to the other side”.

If you just want extremism, just pick some random Antifa post supporting “the killing of fascist police”.
Yeah. I don't think there's been any authority that Netflix has submitted all their films to, to be on Apple's devices. Why should Microsoft's Game Pass be any different.
I don’t think more direct democracy is actually a solution. Most people are uninformed on the issues and frankly many civil liberties would evaporate if left up to the mob.

Instead we need a better way to get expertise and accountability from our representatives. A TV show host billionaire shouldn’t be the president in the first place, but that’s the current reality of a news-media driven voting system.
> This title is actually wrong because networks don't decide who wins.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/El74_VZWMAYZtnZ?format=jpg&name=...
It's disingenuous to claim that this is purely because of animosity. It is a calculated decision that some people decided that the status quo is better for them that what could be, and in various ways decide to enforce it.

Otherwise, how could you explain Obama (for all the ills he committed) taking Romney's healthcare plan, and then the entirety of the Republican magically turning against the plan that they themselves generated? It's not animosity, it is certainly calculated.
Totally agree, and I've also voted both ways before. But I also would caution against going too far on the "both sides" thinking. There are some obvious examples of regimes in the past in certain countries where one side was just bad and it was not just a matter of different opinions: Germany, Serbia, Rwanda, etc.

I think Trump and his administration lie somewhere between just being misunderstood by "the other side" and 100% depraved. I tend to think they're actually quite far to the depraved side of that spectrum, but that doesn't mean we can't still pay attention to making sure we see things from other perspectives (within reason).
Seriously one of the worst playlist and downloads UX ever
> the ACA was passed during a supermajority.

Nope. Lieberman was an independent and broke with the democrats on many issues, including the ACA: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/joe-lieberman-... . Funnily enough, this kind of makes my point for me. Even during a near-supermajority, the Dems could barely pass some conservative healthcare reform, because the republicans threatened to filibuster almost everything. Historical report here: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35643530 . The filibuster has since been watered down to reduce that kind of abuse - and honestly I think the Democrats have learned that they need to play hardball, because Republicans sure as hell aren't interested in compromise.

In fairness to you, I did under-consider the effects of the use of the filibuster during Trump's term - appears that while the power of the filibuster has in general been watered down, the Democrats have been using it aggressively to block Trump's nominations. I wonder if the republicans regret kicking off this trend.

> Not a single republican voted for the bill

Sadly, we've reached a world where politicians largely vote as a block, not on their personal beliefs. I'd take this as indications of precisely nothing other than strategy. If you look at the bill itself, it's conservative, and a clear compromise from what the majority of Democrats want.

> It was Pelosi. Her position was my bill or nothing.

Patently untrue - she's already come down from an initial position of 3T.

So unless Pelosi caves to the Republicans' exact demands it's all on her? Let's imagine McConnell says that he'll approve a relief bill containing a trillion for the rich and a buck or two for the poor, is Pelosi solely responsible for delaying relief?

Pelosi is trying to get a level of relief that she views as appropriate. Of course the threat of walking away has to be there - otherwise the other side is free to offer something completely inadequate. If Pelosi and Trump of all people can get close to agreeing, it's worth considering pointing the blame at McConnell.
Libsodium. Djb or his equivalent did that already and if there is a timing attack, it will get found and fixed faster.
Yes you will, but only because GitHub already recognised this class of problems and came up with their own solution [1]. Bear in mind that it works only for vendors that integrated, so while it's true for AWS it might not be for your FOO API.

I giggled at meme.

[1] https://developer.github.com/partnerships/secret-scanning/
Last time I tried it, and I heard that's still the case, offlineimap had some sporadic instabilities that have not been fixed for years. I don't remember the exact details, but it just stops working in some situations and you have to restart it.

isync/mbsync are rock-solid on the other hand and were really easy to set up.
>In many countries, politics is just politics, it happens in the background and is about as heart felt as the weather report.

Which countries are those? Because the US are insane, but politics is heartfelt in all countries I'm familiar with.

Which doesn't mean we have to reach such levels of infighting of course.
> "using any consistent definition"

Those definitions aren't consistent, they're just different because the context is different. It's like general relativity, left vs right only exist in relation to something else.

> "forces people to recognize the extreme rightward shift in politics"

This is just strange. Politics change all the time in every dimension, just like people's values and opinions. Clinton was a Democrat who wanted strong borders and now the modern left wants open borders. Isn't that a shift to the left?

Everyone is aware that politics change over time. Nobody needs to recognize anything other than the policies and parties they identify with and want to have. If you can't discuss the policies and must use a party definition from decades ago then I don't see how this is anything but "painting [yourselves] as victims".
Landed within the confidence interval? Are you kidding? CI is generally 2-4 points in these election polls.

- Texas: 538 said Trump +1.0, actually won by 6

- Ohio: Trump +0.4, won by 8

- Iowa: Trump +1.4, won by 8

- Florida: Trump -2.5, won by 3

- Penn.: Trump -4.6, lost by 0.5

- Nevada: Trump -4.9, lost by 2

- Wisconsin: Trump -7.9, lost by 0.6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statewide_opinion_polling_for_...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/...
We will never know whether any of Trump's wrongdoing rises to the level necessary to convict, because the Senate decided not to call any witnesses or subpoena any documents.
> So do car accidents - lets just ban driving?

Yes.

Or, to be less hyperbolic about it: do a lot more things that change us towards being a society where travel via single-occupant vehicle is not the default, or the highest-prioritized use of a space when many other options are cleaner, safer, more efficient space uses, encourage better health, and are not as environmentally and socially damaging.

So, to link it back to coronavirus: taking steps to mitigate a harm that we know exists, that we can predict coming, and that absolutely involves making changes to how we conduct our daily lives but if a lot of us make a little change, we make a dramatic effect.
There are tapes of Trump sounding like a two-bit mobster. The GOP did not dispute the evidence, they just refused to convict because it wasn't "serious" enough.

If Trump had backed down that might have made sense, but instead it emboldened his lawlessness. We're now at the point where his undermining of the voting process is entirely expected and hardly even noteworthy.
What's the best possible interpretation of Nazism, white supremacy, and racism?
Nothing demonstrates more the acceptance of basic facts than pretending, when launching a campaign, that it is motivated by Trump calling white supremacists “fine people” when anyone can look at the transcript of that speech and see that a few lines below Trump explicitly condemns white supremacists.

It is unfortunate but lying openly about facts has become the only common ground in US politics, and so many people seem to be completely blind to the lies of their own camp.
Domain Name Soup is what I've used https://www.domainnamesoup.com/3letterdomainnames.php
Not a bad idea. I once had a nightmare (a real one while sleeping) where I didn't have access to my phone or computer and thus had no access to my password manager, and was unable to log into a crucial account in the dream. It hasn't happened to me in real life but it was quite a wakeup call
Yup. Food has vitamins, BCAAs, MCT oil, or whatever people are buying these days. The body makes creatine, melatonin, etc.
Ok legit question, is Biden’s mental health an issue? (i.e. Dementia, Alzheimer’s). Surprised my family brings this up, and I’m not sure how to reply back to them..
Impeachment was intended to be used in the context of an elected president. It's kind of the point.
She is not alone.
“You also embedded with a long-haul trucker”...you mean he rode with a trucker. Was he wearing a flak jacket at the time?

“I was surprised to learn that food quality and taste are not the leading criteria that supermarket employees consider when stocking their shelves.” Surprised, you say? Precisely how old is the target audience for your content?

“As part of your research, you worked as a 'team member' at the Bowery Whole Foods in New York City...”. “Research”? “Team member” in quotes? And could there be a more representative supermarket employment experience? Well, yes, there would be. In fact it would be hard to find a less representative experience of working in an average US supermarket.

There seems to be an anthropological tone that certain media take when talking about non-office employment. It speaks more to the attitude of the journalist and editor than to the actual content. Much more problematic when coming from “National” Public Radio.

“Shots interviewed Lorr from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y.” Explains a lot...