skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reminded of this story about hidden network card bugs. Working in a bunch of tests doesn't mean something is correct, especially when it's complex.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050512-48/?p=35...
> If you have a foreign commercial presence in China, expect...

In how many months do you expect your predictions will come true, in a way that will cause the majority of Fortune 500 firms to leave China? Three? Six? Sixty? Six hundred?

I, for one, have strong doubts that the majority of those firms will ever leave China.

I will also note that all of your criticisms can be applied even more-so to democracies. Internal turmoil, political infighting, negative world sentiment (for some of them), exploding debt, aging demographics, ossification of political structures and poor ability to self-correct, check, check, check. It's true that, say, the United States is not encircled, but it has a separate problem of having to over-reach to maintain an incredibly ambitious, and unsustainable overseas military presence.

If those criteria were sufficient for a social collapse, then we're all living on borrowed time, and I don't see why you're singling China out as a likely point of failure.
What to know about Signal, the secure messaging app that's surging in popularity
If they incite violence yeah. Is that confusing?
If you're referring to Facebook and Twitter banning Trump-related things, I think that was voluntary for them to avoid PR troubles.
A public person needs to prove it was malicious and caused damages, but the rule is likely to prevent harassment of private people on the platform.
Then why has nobody done it? F.ex. Google's Project Zero?
Just a nitpick, but fascism inherently has a component about a faux nostalgia for a vague better times, ultranationalism, and so on, and simply by suppressing speech one does not became a fastics, you probably mean totalitarian.
Do you mean the UX of the encryption or the privacy guarantees?
The distinction between private and public sphere is not completely clear.

Let us say that a politician calls Mark Zuckerberg and asks him nicely to squish certain people, and MZ complies. Is that a First Amendment issue or not?

Or, let us say that a politician calls Mark Zuckerberg and offers him some concrete support (in an anti-trust case or taxation matters) for squishing certain people, and MZ takes up the offer. Is that a First Amendment issue or not?

The trouble with both scenarios is that they are certainly possible and hard to prove or disprove. That is one of the reasons why concentration of power in a few hands (even private ones) may translate into bad politics.
I've been kicking around how to do something like that because you need to consider all the layers.

On the app side, you need neutral phones/devices and the app distribution to get apps out there.

On the hosting side, you need the hosting itself (cloud or colo), the DNS and registrars, the SSL to secure it, SMS or emails for verification & resets, and probably a few others.

On the financial side, you need payment processing and the banking system behind it. That's one of the hardest because even if you can handle it, your customers have to be able to send you money from their bank.

All of those (and other components) have been cut off/disrupted for various organizations in the last year or two.
RFE/RFA's reporting will never, ever, ever undercut US geopolitical interests.
These companies are sucking up to their new democratic overloads so make sure you do not anger them.

Taliban have a twitter account, Ex PM of Malasia have openly justified Paris beheading, Iran's supremo calls for Jew genocide, and last but not the least China calls their Uighur detention camps as "reeducation" with zero consequences.

So yes plan if you want but cost of executing the plan might be high enough to put you out of business.
> At some point you want to "listen" to a group/forum where you don't have personal control over every member and as soon as a spammer joins you'd get their spam.. how does this work in scuttlebutt

Scuttlebutt clients typically request the feeds of anyone you follow, plus anyone _they_ follow. (This is called “2 hops”.) If you only follow Alice, and Alice follows Bob, you'll also see Bob's messages. Then if you choose to follow Bob, you may also see Charlie's messages; and so on.

It builds a social network in the original sense — neither a bubble with sharply-defined edges, nor a global free-for-all.

I see messages from people I don't really agree with (because I follow someone who follows them), but they're not strangers with wholly-incompatible worldviews.

And because they're not strangers, and because messages tend to be slow and considered, I'm more likely to engage constructively with their different opinion (even if that's just by listening). It's anti-divisive.
It's notable that this is on the front page of https://www.foxnews.com/
Well trick is, once your phone is lost, will you remember a nice secure key?

How do you protect from various evil entities from stealing your cloud backups?
Nothing. They work fine.
>> The majority of people arrested had Parler accounts -- it's everywhere.

Do you want to bet on what percentage of them own Smart Phones? I would wager 100%.
> However, equally surprising to me, is the number of pro-big tech company HN people who are suddenly deeply concerned about unchecked corporate power.

I think its because the ideal vision of people who like minimal regulation is that they don't really think of mega-rich monoliths that have a direct impact on how an entire country chooses to consume its information. At least for me, I was one one of the annoying "but they're a private business" people until my optics shifted from viewing the issue as someone with an entrepreneurial mindset to someone who sees power concentrating and now being flexed by a small collection of mega-rich monolithic advertising companies that also happen to be collected in the same geopolitical region and possibly have an ideological bias.

In other words I reconsidered my principles in light of new information--my posting history here even shows this evolution. FAATG's decisions about how to handle what happened at the Capitol have actually scared the hell out of me, even more so than if the protesters/rioters/insurrectionists had actually succeeded in doing any of the wild shit people keep saying they intended to do. Those companies collectively own the most effective ways to communicate with others as well as almost complete control on the supply chain to create new competitors. I don't want to live in a world where that power exists in the hands of anyone, especially one that is willing to take political action and whose executives and employees vote and donate for one party.

> Right-wingers (conservatives haven't existed for decades now) aren't political because they don't have a value system at all. It's just confused rage at a world they don't understand and they feel is crushing them.

In the same post you lament people not knowing what the "left" is, you dismiss the right entirely as being comprised of nothing but valueless curmudgeons. This isn't meant to be a personal attack, I just want to point out the bias here in a fairly lazy jab at at least half the US since I've seen it a lot here the last few days. The right (and conservatives) do actually have a more coherent ideological standpoints than you assert, and I suggest digging into what they're saying. It'll be important now more than ever as we in Big Tech figure out how to deal with the massive class of people we've just alienated.
So the slave holders who were all adamant that owning slaves was cool, they were totally right to not question their own views? They believed they were right. You believe you are right. Create a logical argument for me describing how you just know you are right.
I'd just like to mention that Matrix (and its most prominent client "Element") sounds similar:

> Even better is Wire: no phone number required, doesn't access your contacts, free personal accounts available, you can use it on a desktop machine with nothing more than a web browser

Same

> when using an installed app you can be logged into three Wire accounts at the same time

Don't know if that's possible with one of the currently existing Matrix-clients. I guess that maybe in the future that would be possible, respectively, doesn't sound too difficult to implement.

> is open source and has been audited for security, you can set up your own locally hosted (or in your own cloud)

Same for Matrix. Not sure about the official audit, but at least France decided to use it as a base for its own governmental chat ( https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed... ) so I guess/hope that they audited the original software.
Ask HN: What's the job market like for software engineers during COVID?
I just finished my Master's and recently started looking for work again for senior roles. The last time I looked for a job was before the pandemic, so would be interested to hear folks' stories to get a sense of where the market is at. Have things in the tech industry more or less recovered? Or are most companies still under a hiring freeze?
They mention the huge bump in traffic from Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit". However, it is worth seeing the Google Trend for searches for both the show and chess since they wrote the blog post. Initially there was correlation between interest in the show and the game, however, as interest in the show wained, interest in the game remains steadily high.
People would use that to install compromised versions of iOS with all the problems that entails.
Some months ago Delta Chat [0] trended on HN. I think in a perfect world email based chat would solve a lot of the problems with current apps like Whatsapp or even Signal. But based on Gmail popularity I assume it would just mean that Google would get the data in most cases.

[0] https://delta.chat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhRBsJYWR8Q (The Problem With Human Rights by Jonas Čeika aka. Cuck Philosophy)
There is a subreddit for this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/ (SFW)
That doesn't seem to answer the question of why use it
That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking people to stick to the site guidelines. The rules don't stop applying when a topic is political—on the contrary, they apply more.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

We ban accounts that consistently disrespect those rules and ignore our requests to correct this. What else would we do? The alternative is to allow a minority of flamewarring users to destroy the entire commons for everybody.

As for 'sweeping dissent under the rug', that's not what we're doing at all. People with contrarian views and people with non-contrarian views both need to follow the rules here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really hate Shopify checkout experience. It’s such a dumpster fire under load. Once a hot product drops the only people that can checkout are people that are using sophisticated scripts and bots.
And "revealed preferences" are mostly bunk, because of what GP alludes to. It's evaluating people's choices out of options available on the market, not what they would buy if they could freely optimize the feature/price matrix. Another way to put it: "revealed preference" is just what one considers the least bad of the bad choices available.
Is Trump resigning or is this an error?
And it is being decided. This is how that looks. Parler has sued Amazon, and Amazon will presumably respond. Expecting Amazon to sue Parler to show that it has the right to drop it just isn't realistic. IANAL, but I can't imagine how Amazon could show that it had standing in that situation.
Ben Tilly (@btilly here) and Andrew Odlyzko's "A refutation of Metcalfe's Law and a better estimate for the value of networks and network interconnections" gives a better estimator, n * log(n). But otherwise yes.

http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf

My view is that there is also a costant-across-n (thouggh variable with t) cost function, so:

v = n * log(n) - k[t](n)

Where cost exceeds value, growth stops.

Networks grow until log(n) = k[t](n)

n == members

t == time
The UX. I assume it functions well technically, as they don't seem to have made any compromises to make it easy to use.
I tried to make some for onemodel.org (in github, there is the file LICENSE, and CONTRIBUTING). But I did not have them reviewed by an attorney yet. But my offering is not an online service (yet); I have other thoughts stored away on that. But I've also read that attorneys can always find holes in things written by non-attorneys, so there's that.
They have an official thread/announcement on their community forum: https://community.ui.com/questions/Account-Notification/9646...
A 24 hour notice off AWS is more than just "not make it easy". It is a loud and clear political message.
Having not played in years and like everyone else I guess I went to chess.com after watching the Queen's Gambit, which they mention was an even bigger peak than lockdown, and I was impressed by the site: you can play immediately without registering and the user interface is nice and intuitive.

It's very refreshing.
> From my understanding Parler has been taking down explicit calls for violence but the bar is just high.

Amazon pulled the plug specifically because they were not doing so.

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/read-amazons-letter-to-...
Right now the winds are prevailing from that direction, yes. Were the opposition to have a single party government I suspect things would be different. Currently anti-trust legislation looms over them and they are gravitating towards the graces of those in power as well as removing accounts that legitimately do advocate violence (albeit not as evenhandedly as they should).
In fact, the end result is something very similar to Twitter Cards.
Telegram has been for a while, its a good option.
About any fridge you buy now would last a decade easily. Several decades even, if you bother to invest into its maintenance and repair like people did 40 years ago.
The "Truth" (or facts presented in a very specific way) is a incredibly effective form of propaganda. You think foreign governments like Chin haven't been using the storming of the United States Capitol as a means to demonstrate the US's weakness or incompetence?
I mean, it's hardly a phish. It doesn't try to directly link to an action page, and the requested actions are somewhere between "FYI" and "Hey, change your password and strengthen your security".
I want to make my Signal (i.e. my personal cell phone number) public, but I don't want to put my cell phone number up to the internet to open up spam and MITM 2FA SMS attacks. What's the best way to do this?

Burner SIM?
Google Voice number?
Landline service?
Go find a payphone?
This is unfortunately not true at all -- the second amendment being the most obvious case in point.

I am a big ACLU donor despite this. I have an assigned "individual giving officer," and I plan to continue to make significant contributions to their cause.

I wish they would be more willing to set aside personal political views.
>Does Parler

That's not the point, i'm ~sure that illegal stuff is removed from parler too, and if not that's the Justice who should make the rules and NOT Amazon...like you know Facebook just made those moderation's after a justice ruling.
At the time of writing, absolutely no-one.
Bit more from reddit ubiquiti forum. https://reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/kv9fc8/ubiquiti_email...
I find it hard to ridicule conservatives for the members that do them significant disservice through all the rather unhealthy obsessive conspiracy stuff because no conspiracy nonsense has been likely more amplified over about 4 years total at a nonstop pace, day in and day out by the propaganda organs of state than the Russian collusion conspiracy used to try to cap Trump at his knees.

But let's also not forget that the government clearly does engage in rather evil conspiracies … Iraq WMD, anyone? And there are hundreds more proven conspiracies.

What we are ally seeing here is the onset of a dissolution and dissolving of our social and national cohesion. It was a clear and provable risk from immigration and diversity as shown for decades in research after research from evidence all over the globe and history, but her we are. Social cohesion has been replaced by not only disintegration, but also by a destruction of the methods and ideals that unified the USA before. All that I have read and studied on the topic over years, essentially condemns the USA to breaking up absent of increasing levels of control and repression and imposition of a fake kind of unification around hollow ideals and values not shared among the actual people and cultures that now inhabit the the territory of the former USA (a bit of foreshadowing there).

I would love to hear theories on how you keep what are essentially distinct colonies of foreign nationals (by ethnicity) across the country in a cohesive jurisdiction like the USA, especially when you have an increasingly and justifiably angered native population that is noticing that the promise of utopia through immigration was a con job to disenfranchise them of what all people of the world would perceive as their birth right, the right to keep what those before us created for those after them. I just don't see it happening without extreme repression, which of course will see escalating reaction that will either end in victory or vanquish, for one side or another.
The former Malaysian prime minister was in fact permanently suspended by Twitter for that post, and that tweet deleted and made unavailable. (https://twitter.com/chedetofficial/status/132176558753033830...)

So, no hypocrisy at all.
Apple A14 onwards reintroduce support for 4KB pages, with 128KB L1D/192KB L1I.
Only as a cautionary tale. A government that can silence a billionaire or take away his company for something short of a clear cut crime is too powerful.
The president is not the government; he's one part of it. The insurrectionists were attacking the rest of it.

Very wrong, in my opinion. But I'm not sure that I want to completely remove the possibility of anyone organizing to do so in the future.

To be clear, I think insurrection is nearly always bad, but keeping some faint possibility around is not bad.
https://community.ui.com/questions/Account-Notification/9646... isn't much.
They didn't do a press release yet for it.

This is the email users directly received.
For what it's worth i can attest to receiving such an email from ubiquiti about 40 minutes ago.
Because I trust the reporters at RFA and RFA's long-earned reputation not to select Sally the receptionist as a credible source. That's the difference between bloggers and journalists.

That's why I want to know who this person is, and why I asked the critic for more information about him. I trust RFA more than I trust some rando commenter on HN.
most of it is already happening, check chinalawblog (including tales/warnings of kidnapping). the only thing that hasn't happened full scale is nationalization of tangible assets, such as molds, machines or factories. But if you owe some (made up) bills to the local government when you close your factories, the local government will prevent you from grabbing your stuff.
This is the issue with placebo controlled trials: the placebo effect is actually pretty damn useful. I don't mean to invalidate your experiences, and I don't doubt that without a placebo group the positive effect would be significant.

It's a sticky situation for sure. Maybe it's unethical to tell people this, knowing it will worsen their clinical outcomes? I think HN can handle it, but I probably wouldn't tell this to somebody irl who is struggling with mental health issues and considering antidepressants.
Right I am not disagreeing with this at all. I am just trying to say that "infective moderation combined with apparent indifference" seems less extreme than DailyStormer-style intentional promotion of violent content.

There is still a long ways to go from "infective moderation combined with apparent indifference" to "effective moderation" or even to "infective moderation that we are attempting to fix". But somewhere between "apparent indifference" and "attempting to fix" is a nasty grey area that you don't want to be caught in.
Linux entropy pool is designed to accept and mix different low-quality entropy sources and has explicit workarounds for problems like these.

Systemd is literally the only software, that has this problem. I am not aware of any other software, that uses rdrand and expects high-quality cryptography-grade randomness. Precisely, because is does not work. Intel CPUs used to have very similar issues with rdrand and so did AMD. Furthermore, CPU implementation of rdrand is a very attractive targets for state backdoors, so most sensible developers either follow the "GNUPG way" (ask for randomness from user) or simply read from /dev/random.

The rdrand instruction is great for games, because it allows to make white noise without complex algorithms and system call overhead. It is also handy for few situations, like interrupt handlers, when you needs to create some semi-random value without using stack space or calling into outside code. Unfortunately, when it was introduced, rdrand was documented to generate "cryptographically strong random numbers" (did Intel developers ever knew, what that means?) Of course, most actual cryptography experts didn't buy into that. As a consequence, and because multi-platform software needed to have it's own RNG anyway, the instruction remained largely unused for actual cryptography. Unused = untested and sometimes broken. If I were in systemd developer's place, I would not hinge bootability of my systems on something like that.
One of the few times I could follow an exploit write up completely! Smartly done and well written!
> if what Trump was saying about the election were true, we would want this kind of reaction.

This is an counterfactual to consider. Indeed, we should defend the integrity of the democratic system at almost any cost. However, facts matter.

Trump's statements about the election were not, in fact, true. They are lies. The votes have been counted, recounted and certified. The courts have been consulted. The media has investigated. Election observers from both campaigns watched the whole thing.

Some of the insurrectionists may have thought they were defending democracy, but that doesn't change the fact that they were actually attacking the very democracy they claimed to defend.

> how have we let misinformation get so bad that it ultimately forms insurrection?

Catastrophically bad leadership. While the individual insurrectionists must fact justice, the leaders who intentionally deluded and incited them must also be held accountable. Just as a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance, a lawful democracy cannot tolerate democratically-elected leaders who use their authority to attack the core mechanisms of democracy.
The "tied to your phone number" thing is weird for me, both Telegram and Signal.

If you want to change your phone number, how do these platforms handle it? Do your contacts get updated or what? What happens to people with your old number?

If your phone breaks, and you get a new one, how do they handle backups? (My iPhone's WhatsApp backups somehow disappeared when I got a droid.)

These questions are particularly infuriating for digital nomads and people living abroad. I want an inexpensive cheap way to keep my US number I've had for 10 years. I've also heard horror stories that Google Voice (or Fi? Can't figure it out) will shut down your account if you live internationally.