skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
..... so? That means in 2016, the DKIM was already deniable. And it made no difference whatsoever.

The DKIM signature is proof only that whoever signed the email possessed the key, nothing more, nothing less. This, in turn, is a suggestion about the identity of the signer and possibly the author - but not proof.

Did DKIM change anything about the podesta emails? Or were they basically acknowledged as authentic regardless, and had a lot of other verifyable info in them?
> There's no actual prevalent narrative that no one escapes Covid unscathed that needs to be countered.

Maybe not on HN, but if you talk to regular people that get their news from newspaper or cable news, they tend to be very misinformed about Covid-19’s severity and prevalence.

A poll done in the UK found that people, on average, thought Covid-19 deaths were 100 times more numerous than they actually are.

https://www.kekstcnc.com/insights/covid-19-opinion-tracker-e...
While there are definitely anecdotes about this kind of behavior, I have yet to see evidence of systemic or corporate-sponsored effort to do this. I believe this is more a question of possibly poorly-incentivized sales people rather than an intentional strategy on behalf of Yelp. I think this is backed up by a number of lawsuits that haven't gone anywhere. I might be mistaken; if there is a source showing this is really systemic, I'd be very interested.

Either way, Google now does many of the same things that Yelp does (reviews, photos, metadata management) - but it doesn't really care about the space, apart from being good enough to beat its competition. While today maybe they're motivated to build better products to compete with Yelp for eyeballs, overtime I think this means the reviews space will stagnate. That's unfortunate.

I think this is the core Google problem: They have so much top-of-funnel traffic that they just have to do things "good enough" to crush entire industries of competition. The bar to be sufficiently better enough than "good enough" to build a meaningful competitor to G in any vertical is so high it stops many potential competitors from even trying. The only companies that manage it are ones that have entirely different & massive profitable business models like Apple.

Everywhere Google is, the sector stagnates: Search! RSS readers (with a bit of a renaissance since Google Reader died). Email. Calendars. News lists. Increasingly, reviews. Fortunately MSFT pushes them in docs and hopefully Apple continues to do so in Maps and browsers.
> His point was that you pointed out a use case for some sort of cryptographic signing, not for (ab-) using DKIM for this purpose rather than what it was designed for.

First, thank you for the clarification.

Second, to answer tptacek's point, I understand that authenticating emails as a third party is an unintended side effect of the DKIM protocol. I understand that cryptographers would like people to move onto using other protocols for purposes like this. However, the suggestion that Google should periodically publish and rotate their secret keys, does not achieve this goal in any way. If Google were to do this, the webstore that you purchase items from, would not suddenly start using different protocols to authenticate purchase receipts, they would continue to send regular email... but those emails could no longer be authenticated. Or if we go back to the example in OP, the politician that's admitting to crimes over email, they're certainly not going to switch over to another method of documenting their crimes.

Edit: I was incorrectly using GPG as an example. I removed the incorrect example and let the point stand without it.
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I believe we are all fundamentally malleable, and that you can “escape” your past. Certainly, maladaptions can often be reverted and reformed. Still, regardless of where you end up, your childhood environment affects your trajectory as a whole.

Optimistically, perhaps by overcoming the things that currently hold you back, you will later have greater insights and advantages from having to have had to rework that part of yourself.
Sorry to nitpick, but some of your examples illustrate that they certainly had an MVP and THEN did the distribution. How could hotmail perform distribution without first having an MVP?

I agree with the premise of validation, then building. While this is a good rule of thumb, it's not always possible. I like the focus and thinking behind getting users. It can't be "built it and they will come". Having a good, sound plan and sticking with it is the key.
A pattern like _List matches lists, but the match isn't associated to a variable.
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Ok, since you don't want to use HN as intended, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
> If that were the case, courts wouldn't be able to enforce contracts with wet signatures (which are straightforward to forge)

I'm pretty confident that I could sign an email with a DKIM key if that were published, however, there's nothing that would give me the confidence that I could forge a pen signature in such a way that not even an expert could detect the forgery.

> or verbal contracts (which are valid contracts and regularly enforced).

I'm not a a lawyer, but according to the first google result "the Uniform Commercial Code [...] requires that contracts for the sale of goods over $500 to be in writing".[1]

> Disputes over whether the text of the executed contract is authentic are rare in real life.

Maybe they are rare precisely because it's hard and risky to forge signatures.

[1] https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/are-verbal-agreements-bind...
Great post mate.

I followed a similar pattern and created https://sayoname.com, an app for remotely located workers so they can record names and call each other directly from the browser. A tool so people can easily find how to say someone's name, sneak on what someone does in the company etc.

I almost got a big school hooked up to start paying subscription (it is an international school) but they decided on creating their own solution due to privacy concerns. Extremely disappointing and lowers morale straight away.

I have few hundred profiles but the growth is stale atm. I don't really have time to actively look for new users and would love a co-founder as what they say on y-combinator it is REALLY a lot easier if you have someone you can share thought and can both motivate each other. So my advice is add a step and get a co-founder.
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In the court of public opinion, the standard is not "100% proven beyond any reasonable doubt". Hence, blackmail can still be very effective if an accusation is highly plausible.
I think it could have been worded more clearly, but I don't think it's irresponsible. The study looked for both. Part of the result is that the study looked for and did not find safety issues. The other part of the result is that it did find minor side effects.
It still is tbh.
1700 people under the age of 35 have died in the USA. Let that sink in. Out of EVERYONE in this country, only 1700 have died under 35
Has this kind of repudiation ever been tested in the real world? It's hard to imagine a court throwing out email evidence because it lacked a DKIM signature. And on a personal level seeing a chat transcript that had cryptographic non-repudiation would make me likely to believe it, but seeing one that lacked it would probably not weigh heavily in how I came to that determination.
> GitHub will establish and donate $1M

What is really needed is a "counter-DCMA troll." So far as I understand DCMA, legal fees can be collected for a successful counter-claim.

With the rife DCMA fraud these days, someone could make a pretty penny. DCMA has provisions for claim fraud, it simply requires attorneys to creatively weaponize it (which unfortunately doesn't apply to YouTube, because their process is not DCMA/legal).
ding ding ding

Value propositions without a moat (durable competitive advantage) will be swallowed by vertical integration of their feature set.
Literally right now there's a bunch of island nations that will probably not exist in 30 years. Many coastal cities are getting worse floods every year, having to invest billions in measures to protect themselves.

Every drought means conflict, they mean war, refugees and instability. Sure, the first world will be shielded from the worst for some time, but this isn't a Hollywood movie, the pressure will keep increasing every year exposing every flaw in the system.

Corona has shown that our world does not deal well with pressure and you can't make a vaccine for food insecurity.
You made a conclusion statement on an experiment, then denied a request for information on your methods.
A lot of stuff like this is technically infringement but will never be worth anyone's time suing over, except maliciously.
Ask HN: What's Happening with MIT's Covid Cough Detection App?
A few weeks ago there was much discussion about a model that had powerful accuracy at detecting both symptomatics and asymptomatics by forcing a cough. Does anyone know what the latest is? And if/when it'll be released? If they need help, etc?

Strikes me this is at least as important as a vaccine, assuming the numbers hold up with a balanced dataset.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9208795/authors
Much better to read the original article this quotes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-obama-...
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If you have a specific use case where you need non-repudiation then there are numerous other tools you can accomplish that with. I think the author is arguing that it shouldn't be on by default.
You tell them that it's in the noise w.r.t. the danger of being alive - because it is. But instead we have news and social media shouting from the rooftops that everyone is going to die or have some nightmarish long-term effects. All of which are no more significant than the risks people take every day on _purpose_. Driving, hiking, swimming, socializing, getting drunk, etc. Sure it's communicable - we've been happily spreading communicable diseases for millennia that kill people. Nature is cruel. But don't expect society to stop "living" to avoid dying.
> I agree with you here. However, EMail was never designed to do this. Eg if you order products over the internet, how do you know that your opposing party keeps their DKIM key safe?

I get that email and DKIM was never designed for this, it's a side effect. Fingers were not designed for finger print evidence, but it's still nice to have evidence from finger prints, as a side effect from touching things. And the problem of key storage / keys leaking will not disappear even if you change to some different protocol.
Well,his method is not that different of what I have seen other parents have done with their talented kids. Tiger Woods, Ichiro Suzuki, Son Heung-min, Andre Agassi, the Williams sisters, among others, were coached relentlessly since they were almost babies. You can discuss how healthy it is, but the results are there. Judit is by a ridiculous margin the strongest female player in the history.
People change over time, and normal human communications have a natural sunset as most people don't remember every conversation in exacting detail. It is worth at least considering the fact that we've signed up to have basically all our communications preserved and cryptographically signed in perpetuity. Most people using these services didn't fully weigh the options.
How can you run redpanda any other way? :)
There's truth, and there's emotionally comforting. Which do you want? I agree with raptoraver, that truth is what you should seek.

I suggest reading "He Is There And He Is Not Silent" by Francis Schaeffer. He argues that what is really there is also what we really need as humans - a God who actually exists, not just as an idea or a philosophical construct, but one who is really there. And this God is Someone, not just Something, so our human aspirations for being persons, not just machines, have a basis in what actually exists.

But don't stop there. Don't stop with knowing the truth as an intellectual construct. That's not what you really need. You need faith, not just knowledge. You need truth rather than lies or wishful thinking, but then you need faith in that truth.

("You" in this post is addressed to jelliclesfarm, even though I'm directly replying to raptoraver.)
>All of which will have performance loss due to x86 emulation.

Not necessarily.

https://www.redmondpie.com/single-core-geekbench-score-shows...
> In general, restaurant websites appear higher than their online ordered alternatives

They do, in the case where people are looking for a specific restaurant.

What about the now-increasingly-common case where people are looking to see what's open and doing delivery nearby? Looking through a dozen restaurant's websites to hunt down all that info (and hoping it's current) is a pretty miserable experience. Yelp makes it trivial to filter on a map.

Restaurants have two SEO problems: their particular restaurant and the generically hungry searcher. Yelp and co only have the latter. They are, as you say, outclassed.
> as part of the US Government arguably the first amendment applies directly to [the Post Office]

Quite fair.

As to the rest of it: I agree with your description of how things work, but I don't think it really addresses the point I was trying to make which (made more explicit and construed narrowly) is that we need to be more precise about the situation before we say "compelling carriage of speech is tyranny".
I do believe that nuclear energy is a good option for our future.

I have a question about this article. It says that inequality is the highest it has been in 50 years, yet the graph it uses to show this doesn't support that claim. It shows that the top 1% of families held more wealth in prior years until approximately the 1940s. Now I'm not arguing that inequality is not a problem, nor am I saying that it isn't higher now than in the past, but what I am wondering is why they would use a graph that seemingly contradicts their claim? It might be that the top 10% have gained a larger share over time, but if that were the case, then why not use a graphic that illustrates that?
Yes, you should absolutely think about everything that you commit to public record.

Yes, you might be totally fine now. You might be hanging out and get photographed with this creepy billionaire named Jeffrey Epstein who is just
another creepy billionaire at your creepy billionaire parties. Then 20 years from now we find out he's running pedophile island and people start looking into your associations.

We are not teaching people to be cautious about their public data and in fact there's an entire industry out there encouraging everyone to detail their whole lives in public record.

Get off of social media _today_. Yes, it's probably too late.
The other option is to be such a big celebrity that your entire life is public and you have the defense of scrutiny.

Side note: Somebody from my high school class is a famous criminal. I regularly receive requests for interviews on the basis of that association alone despite having nothing to do with the person for decades.
Same. I've been trying to use Ubuntu full time since 2010. These days I run a (toy) deep learning rig in my cool basement that has Ubuntu. I've gone through 4 (FOUR!) different hardware attempts at wifi trying to get higher than 1Mbps to the router: 2 different internal cards, and 2 different external sticks. I spent a good 2 to 3 hours of incantations for each of those 4 options. I finally gave up and bought a $50 wifi extender that has ethernet out, which finally worked and am now getting 5g speeds to the router.

Before that it was an issue with different GPU/CUDA binaries causing conflicts and forcing a full reinstall of the system at random times when I was swapping conda envs for different python stacks.

I really really really want to be able to use Linux full time, but I haven't even got to the point of wanting to use something like video conference from a linux install, which I've heard is a nightmare.
I think it's great to lose weight. I'm down 43 since the start of lockdown, and I'd like to lose a few more. So I know what a pain in the ass it is. I'm also not under any illusion that my own choices aren't huge factors in the weight gain to begin with. But man, the way food is constructed today is practically criminal. You can get fat off apples now. The amount of sugar in everything is absurd.

Yes, people still put that in their mouth and therefore bear some responsibility, but I think it's fair to say that the industry tries to obfuscate it so people can't really understand what they're eating. How many different ingredient names are there for sugar? A dozen?

I do firmly believe relying on willpower is a unlikely strategy to win. Something like 95% of all people who try it that way gain it all back in less than 5 years. Habit is my best weapon. But finding foods that aren't constructed from terrible ingredients is super important, because I don't make all my meals from scratch.

Good luck, in any case.
> Being gay is not a crime, and yet people can be blackmailed with it. It is very easy to open yourself up to blackmail by perfectly legitimate activities.

Option 1: DKIM keys stay private... "That email was just a joke, I'm not really gay"
Option 2: DKIM keys go public... "That email was just someone else's joke, I'm not really gay"

Not really a difference, and with option 2 you can't prove you didn't send it (as far as you can prove someone didn't crack 2048 bit RSA and use that power to concern themselves with your sex life).

Being able to prove a fascist dictator who was killing people for being gay, was secretly engaging in gay acts themselves, might help your cause of protecting gay people.
Completely disagree. Reviews generated by "give a good review and we'll give you a prize" and "I'd hate to see you hit with a bunch of bad reviews because you didn't pay us more money" are completely worthless and are the core of Yelps business model. It's the definition of easy-to-game and untrustworthy.
The majority of people in South America are partially or mostly of American Indian descent. It's been generally known for a long time that American Indians are hit harder by the flu. Some research papers on covid seem to indicate a similar trend. As such, it may not be so surprising to see worse numbers in a continent of people genetically susceptible to the disease.

Africa is also pretty easy. Median age in Africa is 19.7. Median age in Europe is 42.5. Median age in the US is 37.9.
We know that young people are very unlikely to die from covid, so a place that skews so young would have fewer deaths.

Likewise, given the large number of much more lethal diseases in Africa combined with young age and poor medical facilities, people with preexisting conditions are much less common and are much more likely to be killed by other, more lethal diseases.
Two things:

Hardest to game is like lesser evils. Lesser evils remain evil, as hard games remain played.

I personally value direct interactions with people I do business with more than ever in my life. Too many middle companies all working some angle to make more than the value they may actually deliver.

Well, a few things:

Trust in all this kind of service is reaching a low ebb. We keep finding incidents where the behavior is not as represented.

Frankly, the money might be too good.

And that's fine. Is what it is, people do what they do

I am stepping back, reevaluating these kinds of value propositions, and recommending peers do the same.
I never got to use a slider ruler but I got a couple of gems from my older coworkers that were catalogue slide ruler (not sure what its called). There was one that you pulled a couple sleeves and it gave you the clearance hole for the corresponding screw. It's kinda crazy how functional these manual lookup tables were and designing it must of been a form of art.
1) multi language support. Ppl love go and rust. So some way to open it up to that community.

2) I like Lua a lot. Such a good tool. It just didn't have the target compatibilities of wasm + the security guarantees of wasm

Afaik, there are just a couple vms with superb performance. V8 and anotherone targeting x86 only. We want to support the AWS graviton instances, so only one choice
I definitely agree with this. A red flag for me is that this is too many ideas to iterate through in 1 year. During the write-up, I was hoping he'd say that he iterated through different landing page and sales pitches for his product instead of switching to different products.
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Oh no, 8 hours to late, but thanx for the reminder. ;)
> If youtube-dl (or any OSS project) continues to use GitHub, I hope they have a backup plan ready at all times.

I mean, I guess I understand the sentiment here, but really, most projects don't run this risk. Youtube-dl, on the other hand, is used by people to download copyrighted material. It's a natural target, and as a project maintainer/contributor you have to be aware of the legal setting in which your project exists.
Looking at your individual risk profile is a good way to decide who ought to get vaccinated first its a poor way to decide who gets vaccinated at all. There are some parties including those who are too young to vaccinate or who have poor immune systems whom are only protected by the surrounding population not passing around virii like baseball cards.

Having a large enough host population to sustain an outbreak means those vulnerable parties are fucked and the rest of the population even those for whom the vaccine is 90% effective are at still at some risk. Worse the selection pressure among millions of vectors to develop a strain that can infect the previously safe population is high and the possibility is real.

This is to say that the proper assessment of safety is the likely net effect on the entire population of an increasingly large portion of society not vaccinating.

Existing precedent would seem to suggest that its impossible to force you to vaccinate but possible to prevent you from participating in society if you do not. For example the state can put you in jail for not putting your kid in school but not let you do so unless you vaccinate your kid.

I would not be terribly surprised if people, especially vulnerable people argued that a work allowing anti vaxxers to work alongside them violated their right to a safe workplace.

Imagine one lawsuit from someones family that lost a baby or a family member resulting in an 7-8 figure settlement. There wont have to be a law. The lawsuits will be from anti vaxxers alleging that this violates their rights and will take place over the following 2 years after every major workplace in America adopts such rules giving American workers the choice between employment and remaining an antivaxxer.
Not sure how curved sensor would prevent zooming? (In any sense/implementation of that word)
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