skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we think it will help meaningfully help detect and reduce abuse - mainly because it's shamelessly mimicking the way society works in real life. Many (most?) abusive communities are at least adjacent if not overlapping with publicly visible communities. Simply put, they need a way to advertise and recruit.

So, just as in person you might stay away from a given political party / religious institute / youth club because your social graph has warned you that it might actually be a front for whatever obnoxiousness, the same approach can work online (or, conversely, could also be used to help hunt down abuse in the first place). It's then up to the authorities to investigate what's going on - which is quite possible through infiltration etc without having to go and blanket break encryption for the whole of society.

To be clear: this is still largely sci-fi, and we don't think this is a perfect solution, especially given this is a fundamental problem of the human species which nobody has yet solved. Our proposal doesn't solve lone wolf situations, for instance. So perhaps for that you need the ability to gather evidence from endpoints post hoc.

Unrelated: one particularly dark dystopian outcome we've been wargaming is: what if someone (not us!) used decentralised rep to seed a GPT-3 style bot to locate abusive communities, and then automated the process of infiltrating & investigating them... only to then end up ascending the ranks while preserving its cover and accidentally triggered some atrocity. So, um, let's not do that.)
So is the following paragraph (that shows up after the first couple of paragraphs) there for future-proofing the guide, or a sign that updated guide hasn't actually been released yet? Because both interpretations sound reasonable to me

> This guide assumes you’re using a master build of Zig as opposed to the latest major release, which means downloading a binary from the site or compiling from source; the version of Zig in your package manager is likely outdated. This guide does not support the 0.7 build of Zig.
I would argue that “status” related to “stuff” is one of the strongest cultural exports the west has had on the rest of the world.

Yes, status (which is often a stand-in for class, if we’re honest) existed before the west, but the value (and by extension, class stand-in) to consumer brands is something the west has very successfully exported to the rest of the world. It’s why nearly every major brand with “status” is a western brand. This has changed in some sectors (automobiles, though real “status” is still largely given to German or Italian or high-end British variants — there is some status around Asian car brands, significantly less around almost all American brands — and in some areas of electronics, Japanese brands became the status symbols in the 1980s and beyond, Sony is a prime example here), but by and large, the brands that exhibit “status” in non-western countries (and I’ll expand this to parts of Europe that came of age in the post Soviet era), in my experience, it’s the western brands that gain the most attention.

Dubai, as an example, has a tremendous amount of wealth on display. It’s the height of nouveau riche, even though the money itself is very old, and as a westerner, I was floored by the near religious dedication to western culture and brands. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Cara de Lavigne or Kendall Jenner’s face on as many billboards in my life. Seeing a Red Lobster in Dubai with a line even longer than the one in Times Square, largely by non-tourists from what I could tell, in a place where many of the people there have far more money than the average Red Lobster patron in the US, was incredibly fascinating.
frsnkly i think economic populism that doesn't generate wealth for urban corporatists by desiccating the entire center of the country, combined with a cultural outlook that is not openly adversarial to people who don't listen to npr would be pretty unifying.

but instead we keep running referendums on failed obama policies combined with the sociocultural neurosis of overmedicated grad students while trying to pretend all of that is not the whitest shit imaginable.
In this analogy though, browsers really feel more analogous to roads and sites to cars to me, rather than the other way around, being the common infrastructure on which the other operates.
It’s in HKEY_CURRENT_USER as per the dzone article, so no.
I understand what you're trying to say but "core components" and "corner cases" are part of the same concept. You can't say "I have concept <x> which is made of core components <y> and corner cases <z>" in one breath and then in the next say "<x> is unambiguous without looking at <z>" and unless you have a concept that depends on nothing else for it's construction this applies recursively as well.

E.g. "murder is always illegal" is not true and a bad law/take on the concept. Expanding the law to include "murder is always illegal except when... <other laws>" is only unambiguous if <other laws> are unambiguous. I don't think I need to take it further to explain justifiable homicide isn't unambiguously black and white or always possible to rule on without looking at intent of the various laws and what happened.

Bringing that back to the original thing this is true of any concept or law, including reviewing some remote apps and not others based on what they are for not that they are remote. I'm not saying I agree the way Apple regulates these is good I'm just saying I agree the fact some remote apps are regulated and others aren't isn't proof alone the regulation is contradictory.
Ali G on pink flamingos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JegJVyK9zsM
Partly because we try to prune the heaviest subthreads by detaching their heaviest sub-subthreads, and partly because it was a step into partisan argument, which is a step away from curiosity. That doesn't make your comment wrong—I hope that's clear. It's just that curiosity is what we're trying to optimize for.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I find this incredibly disturbing. I don’t mean that negatively or personally in any way. But I routinely meet people who are completely unaware of this and who actually think he called Nazis very fine people. Because the media and the campaign ads and people on social media keep repeating this lie and never show the dozens of times that he has already addressed this, including in the second half of the sentence that quote comes from, but was edited out. The fact that such a significant hoax that is trivially debunked continues to live on for years is a bad sign. Obviously, this is why he attacks the media so much. And who can blame him?

Sibling comment has a compilation of him doing it 38 times. I recommend this video as well:

https://youtu.be/6R6hxPYWD50
TLDR, narcissists are not good to be around and are quite bad leaders.

The hardest aspect of leadership is learning the appropriate techniques and behaviours. It's so often not the focus of your attention when working as an individual contributor then when you take up a leadership role you have to learn fast before you do any serious damage.

My best general advice is honesty with your team, realise when you've screwed up and apologise. Also if you can't honestly develop empathy for your team you should probably get out of leadership roles.
I’ve heard the contrast described as the difference between amazement at how someone knows something versus how they don’t know something.
I don't see any good middle ground between "authorities can never eavesdrop on inviduals' comms even with a warrant" and "authorities can do mass surveillance". It's a very difficult dilemma. I (as you do) prefer the former if I have to choose.
I understand why it's not a very wasy pill to swallow though. Hopefully techniques for targeted eavesdropping (like those you mention) will improve as e2e gets more widespread. The easy of eavesdropping on mobile comms has probably been too comfortable for too long.
EVs could help because they give each home a huge battery. Ability to store energy on a large scale could be the answer to making solar and wind viable as primary energy sources.

Many homes use gas-powered heating and hot water because it used to be cheaper. It's inefficient for power plants to burn gas, turn it into electricity + waste heat vs. homes just turning the gas directly into heat. That likely won't be the case for long since renewable electricity sources should drive down the cost of electricity.
al gore is the worst thing that ever happened to environmentalism.
For future proofing, I just don't want to exactly support tagged releases as of now. Zig could release breaking changes next week and I would update the guide to fit that; master is followed.
Nice, reminds me of the whale skeleton at the Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, which was moved when the Arup Building was refurbished to become the Attenborough Building https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-3745133...
I'm disturbed by the expansion of presidential power in recent decades. While I do think in this case Biden should use it to reverse what Trump did with it, I'd feel better if most of this extra-congressional stuff wasn't possible at all. Beyond obviously just giving one person too much power - which can be abused for personal gain (as we've seen) - it really amplifies the policy-churn you get each time the administration changes. And both parties share responsibility for the steady escalation we've seen.
It references a 2017 DZone article. Is this vulnerability still present?
2 things:

1. creating a backdoor defeats the purpose of having encryption in the first place. it makes the creation of encryption irrelevant and pointless. a chicken and egg scenario. so it's an all or nothing kind of argument.

2. don't quantum computers make all encryption obsolete anyways? and with quantum encryption, whether or not your data gets compromised, it tells you that someone tried to, or got access to, your encrypted data.

it seems like the government already has a backdoor for all encryptions since they already have a quantum computer. so i think that this whole argument is more about setting the precedent of control over a population. gaining consensus and solidifying power. something you do when you're trying to increase your influence [which someone says the gov is always trying to do]. applying the use of force to encryption.

i think the thing for humanity to realize is that absolutes exist only in oblivion
The big difference is that so called green cards convey permanent residency in addition to job mobility. I would certainly support the idea that H-1B holders should be allowed job mobility. My guess is that Employers not the government stand in the way of that kind of change though.
This spells good news for electric cars, which seem to have far less sound-deadening material, and indeed far less of any material in the cockpit in order to keep a low weight. I’ve been in two Teslas and the noise is awful compared to my 14-year old Audi, which is a delight over long distances. This could really be a game-changer for those of us who covet comfort. That said, cars are probably not the future here in the EU, but still. If I want to enjoy engine noise, there’s motorbikes.
This is at the level of people who claim they saw Sarah Palin say "I can see Russia from my house". If it really happened, and "we all saw it", it should be trivial for you to produce a video of Trump asking Russia to hack the Democrats.
We seem to be slowly moving from an ownership model to a subscription model where you pay "rent" with money or data. Not just software but hardware as well. How long before smartphones are simply fused shut preventing you from opening it and you have to return the smartphone before upgrading to another.
Just because token developers are succeeding does not mean that the app store serves any general purpose unless that general purpose is "make the proprietor of the app store rich".
Ok, I'll change it back. I don't know which article is better but the phoronix.com one is quite a bit more recent. Everyone who's curious should probably just read both.
This script seems to include the magic encryption string[0]. I'm surprised that it hasn't been DMCA'd yet.

[0]: https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox/blob/master/...
A big nation doesn't give a shit about a small nation unless there's something in it for them. I.e. if they're a part of some pre-existing union, or if they host their military bases, or something else. And there's zero chance a big nation will risk going to war to protect a small nation's fishing rights, unless a war was already in the cards (in which case it might be used as a rather desperate "casus belli").
I assume you are being sarcastic and actually think that the UK's "analogue" system of voting is worse because it is slower. Let me assure you that making Westminster votes quicker is not the metric we should be optimising for.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/26/jfc-fml-jfc.html

> But actually, a group of Swedish MEPs have revealed that they pressed the wrong button, and have asked to have the record corrected. They have issued a statement saying they'd intended to open a debate on amendments to the Directive so they could help vote down Articles 11 and 13.

> We lost on a technicality, and there is no recourse.
I’m as skeptical as you are but your hypothesis makes no sense. You’d have to take an exceptional amount of potent hallucinogens to have an experience like the one described in the article, let alone share such an experience with others in such vivid recalled detail.
Self-Watering Soil Could Transform Farming
Gödel Number in Clojure
This is not a good way to explain encryption to people. Explaining the concept of a "key" is essential to explain why this doesn't work.

- In your example, the contents can be deduced from the "encrypted" data, without the key. Indeed, there is no key, but rather a complex dictionary transformation.

- A "backdoor" is merely teaching GCHQ to speak English. Sounds perfectly reasonable in your example.

I'd argue the exact problem is that politicians have the particular understanding of encryption that you just gave.

You need to communicate two things:

1) Why backdooring safe encryption irreversibly breaks it for everybody

2) Why that's a bad thing
I went to a taping about 4 years ago (so Trebek was 76ish). For those who've never been, the show is basically filmed in real-time, and the first thing they do during the commercial breaks is Alex re-records any cards that he might have flubbed so they can punch it in later during editing.

They film 5 episodes in a day, and maybe he had to re-record 1 or 2 per episode? I remember thinking that was incredible, and I still do. Even some of the things they re-recorded I wasn't sure why (possibly he mis-pronounced a foreign word I wasn't familiar with).

I guess taking 2 of my favorite musicians wasn't enough, 2020 had to come for the host of my favorite game show.
They do, but they don't get elected.
The big difference is that you generally see more people who would find it useful to run arbitrary software on their phone than on their TV or smart fridge, especially considering that recent phones have single core performance approaching (or exceeding older) laptops.

There are plenty of people in this world for whom their smartphone is their primary or only computer (by necessity or choice), and it sucks that they cannot actually take full control of their computer.

(For what it's worth, I also think that if you are in the minority who want to run custom software on your TV, the manufacturer should absolutely not be able to prevent you from doing so, because it's your TV - void your warranty while you are using unsupported software? Maybe. Prevent install outright? Hell no.)
The German article is more on point and it goes into more details about the background and also the probable solution with "Exceptional Access" architecture.
The official EU draft documents always use a very careful language to not create too much suspicion. Only one or two sentences actually tell the truth: "Possible solutions may need the support of service providers in a transparent and lawful manner, as well as improving the technical and tactical skills which the law enforcement and judicial authorities need to face the challenges of digitisation at a global scale."
I hope some English articles will appear soon.

Exceptional Access document: https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SKM_C4582...

Rev. 1 of the original document, dated November 6:
https://files.orf.at/vietnam2/files/fm4/202045/783284_fh_st1...
I think any timebox-based batching strategy would effectively just trade frontend performance for backend performance. Your backend would have to deal with fewer requests, and there's always a number of "things" the backend needs to do with every request regardless of the content (e.g. check a token against a database), so fewer requests is nice. But, some components would have to wait up-to X milliseconds to get their data, and if we're talking about a network request that takes 100ms, balancing the value of X to be big enough to actually have an impact, while being small enough to not double the time it takes for some components to get data, would prove very difficult.

The backend performance you could gain is kinda spurious anyway. We're talking about N requests being coalesced into 1 mega-request; I would rather clients send me N small requests, not 1 mega-request. Horizontal scaling is easy to set up and quick to do in real-time; vertical scaling is harder.

And I think, while a solution like this is interesting in the domain of "you've got two sibling components rendered at the same time who's queries could be combined", that's not exactly the issue I described a few comments up. Caching really doesn't enter into play here; it would not be measurably faster to just issue one mega-request for one component and let the other wait for the cache (which is, in the end, what we're talking about). I mean, it saves one network request, but 90% of a network request is just waiting on IO, and if there's one thing Javascript is really good at, its sitting around and waiting. It can wait for dozens of things at a time.

The issue is more specifically surrounding two components being rendered at different times. Imagine a User Preview card which displays a user's first name; the user clicks on that card, which takes them to a new page, the User Profile, which displays both their first and last name. Short of using a God Query for the Preview which covers a broad set of common user fields, like firing a shotgun and hoping you've got the cache saturated for unknown upcoming components, this situation will take two requests. The shotgun approach is what we do, and what many companies do; it works, but its imprecise. It can hurt the performance of the leading components which pulled the short stick, if that God Query gets too big, and as an application evolves you're gonna forget to keep that God Query updated with new things you may need.

This problem is enticing because it feels like there should be a solution, and we just haven't, as a community, found it. I think GraphQL, at its core, has the capability to solve this; its not like REST which is so undefined and hazy that any solution to something super-complex like this would only work in the domain of one company's "way of doing things". I hope one day we can figure it out, because I suspect that a general, easy to use way of preemptively saturating a cache like this would be a MASSIVE performance boost to every GraphQL client that's ever been written.
Interesting! Just curious, what model jeep has this as an option?
Would be interesting to see how retrofit-able this is into older, very noisy Jeeps.
If WhatsApp breaks E2E in Europe every other country will jump on the bandwagon.
Being alive allows you to safely coordinate an attack.
WhatsApp is closed source, isn't it? What kind of assurance do we have that these messages still aren't regularly sent to Facebook, unencrypted ?
Your daughter is more likely to die from obesity than terrorism or primary cause of someone using encryption.

Can you provide me one reason why we shouldn't ban sugar including all the candies?
Hunter Thompson’s Letter on Finding Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life (2014)
You're not sure a team full of scientists who are experts in infectious diseases could've come up with a better plan than doing absolutely nothing? Or lying to the public about the severity of the disease? Or refusing to issue a national mask mandate? Or shutting down travel... only to China, not Europe who was also having a massive outbreak? Or flying people home on a commercial flight without any sort of precautions taken to separate them from the rest of the passengers?

You really think that would've all played out the same? I assume you didn't vote for Trump, and your opinion is based in facts and logic, and not a misguided attempt at defending his laughably embarrassing attempts at downplaying a pandemic ravaging our nation.

PS: Where's that vaccine he promised? Or were you one of the ones that thought the virus was just going to "magically disappear" after the election?
While FANGS do employ a lot of H-1B workers, they pay them relatively well compared to what they are paid by consulting companies who exploit them.

The Average FANG H-1B salary is $143,373. While the average at Tata or Cognizant for an H1-B employee, is $86,453.
Yes, isn't it strange how governments keep asking us to sacrifice essential liberties for temporary safety, but never turn around after an attack and say "I guess we were wrong, we shouldn't have sacrificed those liberties". Instead the refrain is always "Well, we obviously didn't take enough liberties".
Many people, although certainly not everyone, are perfectly ok with this. I, for one, don’t have the expectation that my iOS devices are general purpose computers. I have the expectation that the device works with zero configuration for a set of fixed purposes in a design language that I’m accustomed to. That’s it.
Interesting read, though it sounds more like decentralized censorship. It's a little unclear where you're talking about reputation of individuals vs. reputation of content.
> Google says they launched this app in collaboration with a Kenyan carrier called Safaricom.
Why did he say hackers then? These ex-FB people aren't hacking anything. I don't agree with your interpretation one bit.

Not only are they not comparable in terms of hacking/espionage, there's a huge difference between a group of americans spending money to influence american elections compared to russian military and intelligences ops doing it.

And that's still true even if the russians weren't pushing both false/misleading propaganda and weaponizing the products of their targeted espionage.
The magic "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" haiku-string is already kind of a meme by now.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9589961
I’m reminded of an old philosophical thought exercise I heard once: “This is George Washington’s axe. The head has been replaced twice and the handle has been replaced three times, but it’s George Washington’s axe.”
Just cancel one of their expansion gigafactories and they're back in the green.
Jerry Springer trivia: he's one of three people born in the London Underground.

To make it fair, Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson was born in NYC.
Republicans pretend to hate it.(Although there's usually always a very small fraction that do hate the power and size of the federal government. Same for fiscal conservatives.)

Democrats pretend to hate it only when Republicans are at the levers. They know they'll get the power back and wouldn't want to take away any future powers.
If they do they're waving a big red flag that says "ANTITRUST VIOLATOR" at a time when they really don't need that kind of attention.

So, it will be interesting to see if they do.