skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
E2E chat is an interesting topic. Say I'm using XMPP, my own server, talking to a federated one, all over TLS, including S2S.

E2E on top of that, in my personal opinion, is a massive overkill for most cases and people.

Related read: https://homebrewserver.club/have-you-considered-the-alternat...

It is, however, different, when it comes to a server that I don't control in any form. In that scenario, it is rather useful, but I'm still a lot more worried about the unencrypted meta surrounding it. See email and PGP in this topic, which has always been a pain point for many.

Thoughts?
Just in case, the irony, for me, is that if I were in favor of censorship, I would be the first person I censor, instead of using an online forum to speak in favor of censorship. I feel that there's irony in using a widely accessed medium just to talk about how censorship is better.

And here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715809

(It bears noticing how the post whose thread that comment belongs to is certainly not about the banning of Trump or parler).
And the fellows that organise this and boast about it on Twitter will never, ever get banned.
It is the responsibility of the government to determine what's legal and not, there's an entire court system that does just that. And Parler is using that system by filing a suit against AWS.

But that doesn't mean that I can help someone load a body into his car, then tell police later "Well, I wasn't sure if he was legally killed or not, so I was just trying to help out, it's not my job to determine legality, I was going to come in later today and ask you guys about that. You can probably still catch him if you want to, I got his contact info: he said his name was John and his car said he lives in the Ukraine"
Leaders are realizing their national discourse can be controlled by some "Trust and Safety Team" from the Bay Area.
Do you take any precautions to avoid becoming interesting to intelligence agencies when doing this kind of research?
It's impossible to secure yourself against a devoted persistent threat group over the long term. The asymmetry of effort is not tractable to overcome.

So they can take your security seriously, but they will be hacked, or they have already.
Funnily enough I see remarkably few people using the comments on my Strava feed to organize an insurrection.
I don't think BAT is a very serious idea if it's only applicable to one browser.
Why would the bar be lower in the future? This action is really not something any company wants to do. I expect the bar to remain nearly the same.
Its fashionable right now to pile up hate on CDPR. Probably generates a lot of clicks.
The Signal Foundation received a zero-interest loan of $100,000,000 by WhatsApp founder Brian Acton which doesn't need to be paid back until the year 2068 or something.
You mean, why has nobody found WhatsApp is actually not E2E encrypted? Could it be it's because it's actually E2E encrypted? Your evidence to the contrary is no evidence at all and now you're asking why p0 hasn't found evidence of your position either. It's a very odd line of argument.
> Businesses that are not terror cells have nothing to worry about.

What is your definition of a terror cell? Do Amazon, Microsoft, and Google qualify as terror cells for competing for billion dollar contracts with the DoD? This is an absurd benchmark with no basis in reality.

https://cnbc.com/2019/10/25/microsoft-wins-major-defense-clo...
As a country that has suffered the turmoil of both Nazism and Communism, it would be wise to heed their direction. They know the smell of tyranny all too well. The proverbial canary.
> do you really want a social network filled with child pornography, violence and other shady stuff?

You have just described the world wide web. I may not want that stuff to exist, but I also certainly don't want the world wide web to not exist.
> For now, don't attempt to overturn a fair democratic election and install an illegitimate government. Seems like a pretty easy thing to stay clear of.

Ohhhh. You hear that? Overturning a fair democratic election. Where was the same argument when the whole Russia narrative played out - including intelligence agencies trying to "wire" the sitting president and sending agents to his national security advisor's residence to frame him? And trying to plot 25th amendment. And the whole 3years subsequent to that trying to find "collusion".

Also there is no evidence the founders of Parler were actively trying to sabotage the election and install illegitimate president. Some rouge users decided to co-ordinate through apps like Parler and FB. Same applies for FB.
It's not that he "didn't support the narrative".

He believed a story with little evidence and his journalistic integrity became questionable.
No service that Facebook depends on decided to stop doing business with Facebook the way AWS decided to stop doing business with Parler.

Parler built thier infrastructure in one place, with critical dependency on that provider. So when the provider booted them, they ended up having to shut the service down.
The best mitigation is negotiating strong contracts with significant penalties if the provider does not provide the services promised.

Its not like getting screwed over because a vendor changes its mine about fulfilling its obligations half way through is a new issue, this is just a bit of an exceptional case of that.
IMO the real issue is less that it’s unfinished and more that the product at its best doesn’t seem to live up to its lofty expectations (disclaimer: have not played it and don’t intend to until it goes on sale, just watched others and read a good number of reviews).

From what I understand it’s a fairly anodyne action-RPG, with routine quests, an underwhelming plot, and not too many interesting choices for character development - nothing bad, but nothing great. It doesn’t have the script of The Witcher III, the humor and satire isn’t as clever as Watch Dogs, it doesn’t break new action-RPG gameplay ground like Fallout 4, and as an open world city it’s a shallow clone of a GTA game. And it doesn’t contribute anything particularly unique itself - outside of all the hype, the consensus seems to be that it’s a fine choice if you’re looking for a solid action-RPG, but not essential. Which would be fine if the game were finished and appropriately hyped! But neither were the case.

People would be more forgiving of the bugs and even the unscrupulous marketing if the game was legitimately extraordinary and unlike anything else out there - the viral buggy footage would be offset by viral stories and videos of cool things in the game itself. But those cool things just aren’t there in Cyberpunk - it’s a B+ game, and doesn’t seem to have much to offer compared to its competitors.
Or another way of putting it, and always one of the weaknesses of over-powerful government and an impotent judiciary -- political skill trumps business skill.

Play that out long enough, and you have all the "China {X} Industries" being owned by someone whose chief qualification was working their way up the CCP hierarchy. To the detriment of the company's functioning, and the alternate candidates who could perform better in the position.

And that, ultimately, hurts China more than anyone else.

Anti-corruption drives are no substitute for constant, actual market pressures, because weasels will always corrupt the very vehicles you use to implement anti-corruption campaigns. Or equally inevitably, end up in charge of the entire apparatus.
My PC experience was good too. I saw the "T-pose on a motorcycle" bug a couple times and I sequence-broke a mission once, but that's it. If 2077 had been enterprise software, it would be the smoothest and least-buggy enterprise software I had ever used by a mile.

It sounds like last-gen consoles leaned very heavily on the LOD system, it caused more bugs than expected, and they didn't allocate enough time to fix them.
Mega Thread on Walter Benjamin: Failed Academic, Great Thinker
Well, it's illegal in the US for one: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/871

There's also the fact that an angry mob overran the US Capitol while chanting "Hang Mike Pence" as a direct result of Lin and Trump's posts/comments
I was reminded of A Game Designers Analysis of QAnon [0]. It really is fun to be part of a group finding clues likes this. I was getting some definite ARG vibes.

[0]: https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analy...
Another pretty underhanded move. They definitely knew the console versions had major issues and didn't want reviewers to see it.
It also logs you out as soon as you enable a VPN connection (to a different cpuntey/IP?) while running.
Musk approved to provide space-based broadband to UK
That would be a non-deterministic failure case scaling to O(n) in both space and time. But it's not just UUIDs, it's also required for seeding systemd's internal hash tables, which would degrade from O(1) lookups to O(n) should an attacker exploit known RNG flaws.

So, a PRNG with a semi-decent (not perfect) entropy pool is required at boot time, and systemd needs to run in environments where seeding that pool in software could take on the order of minutes. This is why RDRAND is used to seed the pool during boot.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/61bd7d1ed595a98e5fbf...
> I honestly believe that even the CCP highest party members want to see the improvement of the Chinese people's lives, it would be completely irrational to believe otherwise...

It's completely rational to, especially now, when Chinese analogue of bolsheviks are now in power in the party.

USSR's elites lived in the most obscene luxuries, and the CPC has beaten that few times over.

Their raison d'etre was to get more of that.
a decentralized social network already exists - it's called meeting face to face in your local community.
> e writing is just really cringeworthy

Which games writing is not cringeworthy please?
Ubiquiti had a steady exodus of engineers in the past few years. It's a very different company now compared to the glory days of UniFi.
I know it's painful but let it be.
I didn't see the part including and following "Obviously they aren't getting more Chinese business..." when I made my comment. I don't think we disagree, then.
To a certain extent he owns that at the end; even saying that substack cannot solve this problem.
Youtube has paid staff whose sole duty is to remove videos that violate their TOS. Parler does not. That is the distinction AWS used in there reasonings to terminate service.
I think it is possible to secure yourself against a devoted, persistent threat group.

I think it's expensive, but possible.

Do you have data to back up your claim that no one, ever has ever successfully remained secure?
I’m running pfsense as my router and TP-Link access points. I run their controller in a container locally and everything works great together. Super happy.

I think for some use cases this setup could be a nice alternative (and cheaper) to ubiquiti.
I've held a position of cautious moral relativism since my early teens because I think carefully and try not to be reactive.
I'm not sure I'm buying it but the fact that Telegram is not an american company is a big plus over Signal
If messaging clients like WhatsApp permitted a Keybase styled authentication of additional devices, then migration (so long as the original were available) wouldn't be difficult at all. And if they permitted backup to a user selected service (for instance, Google's for Android versus Apple's for iOS) then migration across OSes would become simplified for users.

But the WhatsApp iOS client backs up to iCloud, and the Android client backs up to Google, and this creates a blocking issue unless the user is willing to jump through hoops and use 3rd party tools.
> which we all agree with

We might, but the users of Parler et al quite specifically do not.

You’re being deliberately disingenuous. The racism on display in any unmoderated space is foul and horrendous.
I believe the 'graying of GNOME' discussed here a few weeks ago is evidence that fewer and fewer people like GNOME each year. New developers would naturally be drawn from the ranks of enthusiastic users. (Why would a developer volunteer their labor for software they don't use and care about?) The graying of GNOME shows that the pool of enthusiastic users has been shrinking since GNOME 3. That's about when GNOME tipped over the edge and started losing developers faster than it gained new ones. The missing new developers would be new developers, not old timers. If it were only old timers who feel alienated, I wouldn't expect GNOME to have trouble recruiting new developers.
Someone please explain why someone would use the hardware random generator directly. Everyone else uses /dev/{u,}random because somehow HRNGs always manage to be buggy, and then there's the concern about NSA involvement. Using OS-provided interface mitigates either concern.
I mean, should they say that they don’t care about your security?
> 3. Telegram : Trust it's privacy

How come you trust its privacy? Its privacy guarantees are by far worse than those of WhatsApp as Telegram messages aren't even end-to-end encrypted by default.
I let an iPad sit on a shelf for a few years. In that time, Apple removed the account it was registered under, so I can't log in to it at all.
Maybe I'm missing something, seems like any of these apps that might want local storage for some reason could store data in an encrypted format. A cloud backup would then be backing up and restoring encrypted data. Where the user holds the key in some form to unlock the data at the right time.

They bring up a good point that anyone with access to the message can leak it, no matter how tight you lock down your side. Something ephemeral seems best if you really want security.
While I would choose a less abrasive way of stating it, I agree with your underlying assessment. At the recommendation of basically every networking forum and subreddit, I bought some Ubiquiti stuff to power networking and wifi for a new place I recently moved into. It cost 3x what a mid to high-end Linksys would have cost, and as far as I can tell provides literally negative benefit for my purpose:

Specifically, rather than a single box and an easy interface, I now have 3 devices that all require their own power bricks, connected via Ethernet cables, and a UI that required reading all sorts of documents and tutorials just to mimic the functionality of my last consumer-grade router. Not to mention the wifi coverage isn't even as good as my old router, even when adjusting a bunch of settings from default based on said tutorials.

I'm not saying that this hardware isn't worth it for some people, but for anyone who uses it for regular streaming and remote working, it's completely not worth the expense, hassle, and inconvenient form factor.
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They describe how they come to their ratings at https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-rating-method.... They also describe what it means to be "left" vs "lean left" vs "right" vs "lean right", etc. See https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/left and https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/right (there are also ones for lean l/r, and center).

Now I'm sure these ratings aren't perfect, but I believe they're more accurate than most people's hunches.
On the other side, my last job had no work for me and never merged the stuff i did that they asked for, and that was pretty annoying also; sounds like you got out though, so hopefully you found something better!
You mean the investigation that the Trump administration actively obstructed?
Every time someone says cool in Community
I fully expect 2077 to be a fantastic game sometime around winter or spring 2022 which is when I'm planning to get it. I get the desire to play something new but I'm only now finishing Witcher 3 and I really enjoy the polished experience.
> I'd be totally for splitting society into those who respect science and experts, and those who don't

Science not as a search for knowledge, but as a search for daddy figures to respect and obey. Nothing is as harmful to progress as this blind devotion to expertise.
> just to save a few miliseconds?

RDRAND is rather slow, especially with the SRBDS microcode update. One instruction takes 1,200 ns on my system, that's 6.6 MB/s. A software implementation of a CSPRNG will do hundreds of MB/s, the general purpose PRNGs do several GB/s.
That ship sailed about 15 years ago when browsers started blocking popup ads by default.
first time i have seen it was in slack app , i liked it and i am using it with SMS /twillio whats app in mobile apps with mobile deeeplinking from appgain.io
Ubiquiti is in a weird market, where they are better than Linksys/Netgear etc, but they are crap compared to something like Meraki.

Their support isn't very good (they point you to a forum), their hardware replacement is spotty (sorry, out of stock, you'll have to wait!), and their hardware/software is buggy. We had 48 port switches that would randomly reboot, for example.

They can be a decent solution for SMB wifi, but that's as far as I would go. Nothing mission-critical unless you are willing to make compromises you wouldn't have to with a bigger vendor.
This sucks, since it will probably mean that I can't buy the new all in one apple laptops. Yeah they can't be upgraded (a bit of a bummer), but when was the last time you upgraded any laptop that you owned other than with more RAM, adding an SSD or a new battery? When was the last time you wanted to?

My grandparents old laptop finally died, and they offered me it for parts but I had to straight out tell them that there was nothing on it that was worth anything.
It literally says "the biggest attack on the US since 9/11" in your quote. And it was. That's the part you had a problem with.
An Employee Changed the State Department’s Site Saying Trump’s Term Ends Today
I don't think marketing it as "fastest" without any benchmarks is the best idea, I'm betting benchmarks would not verify the claim given this is written in Ruby.

"Easy to use" might be a better description.
No. Had a desktop client linked to my phone. Migrated to a new phone, relinked the desktop client, and lost nothing.
Laarc
I'm wondering if there is any way for a "trusted to be mostly neutral" news organization to come about. Let's pretend we have a nascent neutral organization X:

Action: X publishes something properly critical of the right/left.

Reaction: The extreme right/left media throws all sorts of criticisms of X's reporting and sees what sticks.

Result: Some fraction of the right/left constituency starts to believe (and voice) that X is biased.

Action: X publishes something wrongly (or at least with more bias than expected) of the right/left

Reaction: All right/left media publishes articles lambasting X's coverage of the item in question.

Result: A fraction of the more moderate right/left constituency starts to think "maybe my extreme friend was right about X"

Cycle through the above a few times, and even though the majority of the country may trust X, most of that majority will be among the least politically engaged (because partisanship and political engagement are correlated), so you are left without much of an audience that cares about what you are reporting.
It’s just plain easier & cheaper to run FFs than solar. About the only serious disadvantage is noise.
Oh that’s stupid. Companies will end up with some creative solutions - if it can not be removed it can be made hard to access. Honestly it looks like stupid people in power are sad that their antiLGBT posts are removed.
Like how Apple has crashed and burnt since Steve Jobs' death? Oh... wait, their stock is up 11x and their revenue is up 2.5x. Seems like things are actually going fine. Maybe we attribute the success of companies almost entirely to the one man at the top, instead of to the thousands of workers who make up the company.
I am wondering how will this version of the e-court function in practice.

The existing e-court is an amazing tool for removing the most obvious cases from the system, and the way it works is that any party can at any time raise objection, which can literally be two words - "I object" signed mr. X and the case falls back to regular proceedings. Then of course most cases finish without such an objection and voila - the system gets extra magical throughput. The power of defaults.

Looks like they want to not have the fallback here? Otherwise it is certainly impossible to resolve a case in 7 days.

Might not matter in the end as corpos will likely just comply.
YouTube and TikTok Put Human Rights in Jeopardy in Turkey
/r/libertarian was famously unmoderated for years until the drama a couple of years when the head moderator finally resurfaced and decided to step in after alt-right mods took over the sub:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/ajg8ng/rlib...

Slashdot is the only major site that was unmoderated in this sense - during the 10+ years I read it the only post ever removed was one with links to Scientology materials that they'd been threatened with litigation over. They replaced it with an explanation of why they'd removed the comment followed by a bunch of links to anti-Scientology sites :)

It had a lot of crap posted there but mostly coped with it, simpler times I think. Their system allowing you to choose the vote threshold for visible posts helped a lot with that.
> Under its provisions, social media services will not be allowed to remove content or block accounts if the content on them does not break Polish law.

This is kind of insane.

So if I offer a free website- a private company operating as I like- I would be forbidden from removing content from my own website that I don't like because the person who wrote it- again, not a paying customer- wants it to be there. Not only does that person have free speech, but I have to foot the bill for them to promote their free speech.

> does not break Polish law

This is the real key piece. Poland's government can just ban saying anything that goes against their own viewpoints. Now their supporters can't have their comments removed, and their detractors will.
it's a sensational title

they are doing bulk scrapping of Parler and they do many other sites like Reddit too, and particularly stuff that is being taken down for archival purposes

also there is nothing - and I mean nothing, but particularly threats of violence - in Parler you don't see in Twitter in more abundance, only it's more typically leftists on Twitter and rightists on Parler
Why isn't it? Teenagers in India can have authority on a subject and more experience in certain areas than I do.

I'm not taking their post completely on faith. It matches up with my previous experiences, including the article we're currently talking about and related articles I've read.

Is there a specific issue you have with their point, or did you just want to point out that they're not special for making apps?
Was it okay to place Japanese in internment camps? Not going to wait for an answer, because the answer should clearly be no. Curtailing domestic liberties is not okay regardless the circumstances.
> disclaimer: have not played it

> routine quests, an underwhelming plot, and not too many interesting choices for character development

Come on, man.
You might want to look at what happened to Takata. Their defective airbags killed several people, and the end result was that they were forced to pay about 250% of their annual EBIT. It was so much that the company went under.

More companies should be punished this way.
There is only one time zone :)
Because I don't know much else about him apart from that story and I don't trust the media when they call people white supremacists. I intend the quotes to indicate that people call him a white supremacist, not that I don't.
I hope this will be taken up by the EU. Poland on its own is too small fry for the social Media conglomerate.
What works for Al Qaeda could work for Y'all Qaeda, who knows.
> And, heaven forbid, the government telling you who you must do business with.

You mean like that whole Colorado cake baker fiasco?