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Huge for matrix, yes. For signal to jump on the matrix train, matrix first needs to get their act together with respect to encryption.

Try getting non-techsavy folk to set up multiple devices, the process is nowhere near viable right now
I'm not disagreeing with anything related to Georgia's results.

I'm disagreeing with your analysis that our elections are sufficiently distributed to make them inherently secure. Like I said, the way our elections are structured it always comes down to 10-ish counties in 5-ish states, tops. Heck you could probably flip most battleground states red by paying off the public transit union to go on strike if you wanted. The margins are that thin.
No, basically to get a sense for the possible inflation of the dollar.
There are groups with identifiable leaders. You could even see groups in uniforms, trained and organized. Basically the same thing as with Islamic terrorist groups.
...except for the gays eh... and a few others...
Note that the default regex engine does not. But ripgrep (including the version of ripgrep bundled with VS Code) does permit being built with PCRE2, which allows one to use the -P/--pcre2 flag to switch regex engines. You can even use '--engine auto' to have ripgrep automatically select the regex engine.

With that said, I of course agree with your broader point. To say that regexes are "useless" without look-around/backreferences is absolutely ridiculous.
What's the point of having a good income (Germany) if you can't afford to buy a home or accumulate enough wealth to start a business?

If you can't afford a home, it means your income is not as high as you thought.
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1. The "steal" claims have been thoroughly debunked in many dozens of court cases. No evidence has been presented.

2. Many of the alleged "steals" were in Republican-controlled areas. So, Republicans stealing the election for... Democrats?

3. The results of the election closely matched much pre-election polling done by multiple private parties. Polls are an inexact science of course. The absence of major discrepancies proves nothing, but if there was major fraud we would expect to see discrepancies.

4. The debate is over. Weeks ago, "stop the steal" may have referred to the need for legal challenges. Today, that is not true. The window for legal challenge is closed. Today it is a direct reference to violent and armed insurrection.

5. Constitutional free speech in America is defined fairly clearly (you guessed it) the Constitution. The key thing to understand is the "Congress shall make no law" part. The government is not suppressing anybody's right to speech here. Facebook is not obligated to publish "stop the steal" nonsense any more than your local newspaper is obligated to publish letters from any random crazy person.

5a. In any reasonable society, even the right to free speech has limits. It does not trump (no pun intended) others' rights. Yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater is not protected free speech because your right to yell things does not trump others' right to safety. Similarly, inciting violent sedition/insurrection is not protected free speech even at the government level.

Instead of arguing about what FB should publish and not publish one should hope for (or create) a healthier and more diverse selection of social media platforms. While I agree with FB in this case, I think they are a drain on society in general and we would be better if there was more competition.
I always wondered what would HN say in this case. Clearly, steam is rolling its own crypto here, against established practice.
Discord has killed the Teamspeak.
I like Threema because it has a business model that sounds viable and doesn't rely on donations or advertisement.

- Paid app for general public (one-time fee)

- Separate "Enterprise" solution (Threema "Work") with paid subscriptions
We find ourselves in a science fiction US where we need to divine the opaque reasons of an all-powerful technological entity that can decide at whim who can or can't speak in this country.

And they do it while enjoying strong protections (Section 230) that most other private businesses don't receive - have this in mind when making the "private web property" argument.
> Employed people with disposable income rarely want to upend the system.

The people who attacked Capitol were employed with disposable income.
I love the idea of using Rust for this kind of thing.

Is there any chance that specific drivers for modules for the Linux kernel be written in Rust? Has there been any interesting research or discussion on the topic?
But they are not mutually compatible, so they certainly cannot lead to the same thing.
the data is already up there, everywhere... instead of deleting facebook account just be a regular joe; never post personal stuff, just memes or scientific things, news

this way wherever they data mine your data it will only return crap
You might try emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
Demand for internet service in return for vaccinating their children
OpenSnitch (Linux) works great, but you can also browse through: https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/firewall
Good news! There are two:

- Angus King (Maine),

- Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

Between them, Joe Manchin, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitt Romney, they definitely do hold all the power right now.
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I have an alternative explanation for you which is much simpler and in their interests.

Cash is more liquid than assets and since in the short term inflation is a mild penalty and there is negligible return for risk free assets any more (nor are they as risk free as before), they keep large proportions in cash for the short term while waiting for assets that present a good return.

It is entirely rational to hold some proportion of wealth cash for the short term.
Leaked memos Amazon warn 'be vigilant' due to threats to blow up data centers
One should set both ServerAliveInterval and ClientAliveInterval settings on ssh to a reasonably small time (e.g. 1 min or 5 min). Note that there's another setting {Server,Client}AliveCountMax which multiplies this to find the actual "connection is dead" determination time.

The tradeoff is between a network disconnect-reconnect killing your connection when it shouldn't (because you've noticed the disconnect but you wouldn't if you didn't send heartbeats), and discovering the network disconnect or dead peer (which you wouldn't if you didn't send anything, thinking it's still there).

Personally, I prefer to know the connection is dead sooner than later even if it comes back on its own.
YES! - stop gaslighting.
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2a. Quite a few of the people alleging "steals" were themselves reelected in those same "stolen" elections. Oddly, they're not contesting their own seats as similarly fraudulent.
Some vaccines are also cures.

In the case of HIV, the problem is not that the body is unable to properly respond to the disease, the initial infection is usually benign and the immune system produce the antibodies necessary to fight it, that's what being HIV+ means.

Problem is, HIV mutates so quickly that the immune system is essentially playing whack-a-mole and cannot eradicate the virus completely.

A vaccine that imitates a real infection perfectly is mostly useless, because it will train the immune system on the wrong mutation.

The trick here is to focus the immune response on parts of the virus that don't change, by using mRNA that only produce these parts.

It is like telling the body what the weak point of the virus is. It is useful both before and during the attack.
Happy to see a football reference on Hacker News :)
Am I the only one who wonders how we will create a super intelligence, when we cannot even really define (let alone measure) intelligence?

To me, this is a fun thought experiment. But it's not a real threat because it assumes a whole bunch of things that are not evident:

* that intelligence will spontaneously occur somewhere

* that it will be malevolent

* that it will become super smart

* that that super smartness will allow it to escape because super smartness trumps all other security

Any one of these assumptions seems pretty flawed to me. Let alone the combination of them all...
You can export your message history for every chat, I believe including photos and videos. Just need to go to the Group Info screen and then scroll all the way to the bottom.
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Ok I will change it to more accurate term: white nationalist militias. Thanks for point out my error.
Some people are proud of what they do, and happy to do it.

I know two engineers from Lockheed-Martin's Skunkworks with whom I had served in the Navy, and they proudly wear LM polo shirts. They're doing interesting work, work that might benefit the entirety of humanity. I would be proud to work there too.
Biggest difference now is that the "commander in chief" is behind all this, so the army won't interfere.

This whole thing is getting out of hand.
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> DWP(Department of Work and Pensions) and they are forbidden from wearing badges or any identifying work insignia outside

CIVIL SERVICE REPRESENT.

I have worked at some trendy and well thought of companies, I was proud to wear their logo. especially at trade shows.

However I don't really wear facebook stuff out, partly because they bought out the company I loved, and mostly because I really don't agree with half the stuff they do. I was really surprised with the sheer quantity of branded stuff they dish out. I don't think I'd even actively recruit for them

It doesn't help that they really can't fucking PR even if the company depends on it. Its hilarious that for a company so driven by data they can't commission a single fucking user survey to test PR and policy changes.
At tech giant's scale, I'd say yes. YouTube gets the level of promotion and integration with Google services that money can't buy.

Google and Microsoft use their successful products to promote and keep competition out for other products.

Microsoft got slapped for Internet Explorer, but somehow Google gets away with shoving Chrome and the Android certification program which is basically "you either bundle all our other products, or we'll make you incompatible with Play Services".
> Also, I don't think you should not keep currency but instead you should "invest" at least you could do this when you had gold.

This doesn't make sense. Just buy gold, today. What's stopping you? Backing a currency with anything forces everyone into that asset class. Backing it with nothing and keeping it tightly controlled allows you to back your net worth with whatever you want. Fire up RobinHood and buy you some GLD.
This misses that many many people get Lyme disease without knowing it (asymptomatic), particularly children, and if treatment it not given early in infection, permanent neurological damage occurs.

This is common in north eastern state rural areas and has been getting steadily worse.

We are constantly doing tick checks on the kids after one of our friends related that she suffered lifelong issues after being bitten by a tick 40 years ago in our neighborhood.

A vaccine would be a huge relief.
Most people pay more for that label.
XSF gets donations too
Yes, they are all still online, even the verified accounts.
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> I believe that both have TOS that will get you booted out of the platform if you breach them.

TOS written by Twitter and enforced by Twitter exactly the way Twitter decides, including against governments and heads of state? Right, exactly the point of my previous comment.

I think this is a watershed moment because "de-platforming" Trump while he is still President will be seen as a step too far that will have consequences for these platforms. Not least because they are already very much on the radar of governments.
No one talks about King VIBER anymore?!
Or you believe in the mission...? Ubuntu, SpaceX... I don’t see that as pathetic.
This is the cathedral style of development which was historically how GNU was developed, so I think it's perfectly in the spirit of Free Software.
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In my experience, the more logos there are, the cheaper the clothing. Higher end clothing has pretty much no logos.
Yeah but they weren’t trying to upend the current system, they were trying to perpetuate it.
Seems like #2 would have the opposite effect by prioritizing the author's political leanings rather than the issues.

Facts aren't actually Democratic or Republican, and there's not a single consensus opinion for each party. But slap a party or ideological label on an article and it will appear to indicate the article is aligned with that bias label (even if it isn't). And people will conflate the contents of the article with the appropriate side even more than they already do.

What might be more successful would be to include a neutral fact check-style notice like "This article presents the majority Republican opinion on ___" or "This article uses widely-disputed claims to justify a fringe Democratic position". That would provide more context to the actual content of the article and how to interpret it.
Google Talk's usage of XMPP was more of an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish than _actual_ adoption.
Firstly, you seem to believe that password hashes provide only a small reserve of difficulty compared to the abilities of current computers. That's not so. Just read or watch any introduction on hashes: the most basic principle is that even with a huge cluster of top-of-the line hardware, it would take billions of years to guess a password of a decent length. When hash algorithms are ‘broken’, like with md5 and sha1, it's because newly found weaknesses bring down their strength by a factor of billions.

Secondly, you seem to conjecture that attempting password guesses against a network service would somehow bring that difficulty down considerably, to reachable levels. However: local hash guesses are made on GPUs or specialized FPGAs, whereas servers run on regular multi-purpose CPUs—plus, if you had a server respond to login attempts nonstop, it would spend half of the time in context switches and kernel calls. Top http frameworks in pure C reach just over a million responses per second when doing nothing but sending empty responses. You're asking that Steam dedicate a fleet of thousands of servers to facilitate cracking your password. And on top of that, the service would also need a database that likewise serves billions of requests a second.

Additionally, modern hash algorithms like bcrypt are constructed so that they take considerable and configurable time (on any hardware), so the hashing rates are on the order of tens of thousands a second or less, instead of billions and trillions. Since Steam are evidently very concerned with account security, I'd guess they take advantage of these algorithms—and since you changed the password recently, it was probably hashed with the latest used algorithm.

Besides all of the above, a service easily foils password guesses by limiting the number of attempts against an account in a time span, which is by now one of the basic prescribed measures. The whole purpose of ‘password spraying’ is to sidestep this limitation by attacking a lot of users but using most common passwords. In no way does it help with guessing a single long random password.

Lastly, while it's conceivable that Steam could have some vulnerabilities that would make cracking its accounts easier, those wouldn't be burned by attacking the same accounts over and over for months.

To sum up: the whole magnitude of the task is such that no one would solve it just to steal your trinkets, even if they could. It's time to accept that either your passwords are easily guessable, or are lifted from you in some way.
"That money" is the money right now in savings accounts - it does not belong to the people who would use for "paying down rent thats been placed on credit cards and payment plan", it belongs to the part of population whose income was not harmed by the epidemic, but whose expenses were limited - or, as the article argues, postponed.

As the article states, there are two worlds, and they don't really overlap. The amount of total household savings has greatly increased at the same time as most households are running out of savings; and it's not about the 0.1% magnates - as the 2/3 poorer households are becoming poorer, the 1/3 wealthier households are becoming even more wealthier. As the numbers show, one world has an unprecedented amount of available money, and they are going to spend it, kickstarting the economy - all while while the "other world" is experiencing all the things you describe. But since the gap between them is so large, it's counterproductive to talk about "the average american household" as in this bimodal distribution talking about the average is just as meaningful as saying that the average american has one testicle and one breast.
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I hate it when people hide behind the brand. The reputation of people working there still is damaged, screw the brand.
My problem with this is that if you do the same thing, but remove the value 12 from the data you get 4 out of 8 values that are outside 1 stdev...
Refik Anadol uses machine-learning algorithms to generate 'quantum memories'
> Why do people care about old messages?

Example from recent days: "what was [friend]'s postal address again, I didn't copy it over to contacts, search for address, there it is".
How are any of the others violating GDPR?
Facebook's is in an unenviable position: They tried to commoditize user-data to go after Google which back-fired. They tried long and hard to not be sole arbitrators for content moderation and were squarely blamed for it. They do take a stance to de-platform the most powerful person in the World but are now in the cross-hairs of every conservative as well. The left-wing obviously would like them regulated to oblivion... They have always been between a rock and a hard place post IPO.

Kind of gives perspective to how long Google (with Android, YouTube, Groups, GMail, GSuite, GCP) has managed to go relatively untarnished (as a brand) but Facebook couldn't.
> Germany and France attacked Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. after U.S. President Donald Trump was shut off from the social media platforms, in an extension of Europe’s battle with big tech. German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decisions, saying on Monday that lawmakers should set the rules governing free speech and not private technology companies.

> Rights like the freedom of speech “can be interfered with, but by law and within the framework defined by the legislature — not according to a corporate decision.”

As much as I support this pure democratic view of Angela Merkel, and as much as I hope Ben Thompson is right with his Internet 3.0 "Return of technology" and "open protocols" idea to have a counterweight to big corp, I think it's really difficult to escape Internet 2.0 economics.

e.g.
EU Cookie law - Good intention and poor implementation.
Whatsapp vs. X - We all on HN know, we want better, but network effects are really strong.
This is misrepresenting the real limitation of the vaccine that dampened demand...

> First, the vaccine efficacy of <80% meant that 20% of fully vaccinated individuals could still get Lyme disease [20]. Second, achieving full protection required three vaccine doses given at the time of the initial dose and 1 month and 12 months after the initial dose. Third, the vaccine safety and efficacy database lacked tests in young children, a population at high risk of developing Lyme disease [3]. Also the vaccine was effective only against the predominant North American Borrelia strain without necessarily conferring protection against international subspecies [16, 22]. Finally, uncertainty about the length of vaccine-induced immunity implied that recipients might need booster vaccine doses as often as every year to prevent waning immunity.

The real underlying malicious behavior here was from the lawyers who actively recruited and fomented anti-vax culture...

> The final agreement included over 1 million dollars in legal fees for the prosecuting lawyers, but provided no financial compensation to the ‘vaccine victims’.
It depends on one's situation.

'Gainfully Employed' people are generally better off in the US. The healthcare there is great - when you are covered.

The risk comes for those unfortunate/unforeseen situations, and of course, when one doesn't have coverage.

Overall - it's one of those factors that goes into the equation - but for a young, single talented person, usually it's not a priority - or - it factors favourably.

It's a good point because for the 'elite economy' - US healthcare is just fine. Good in fact.

For the 'everyone economy' it's arguable that Canadian style (or something like that is better).

The H/C equation kind of reinforces what I am saying: exceptionalism vs. the commons + stability.
> This is just pure speculation.

It is the pigeonhole principle. The M2 has gone up by ~25% [0] and population has gone up by about 0.6%. At a given moment someone must control around 25% more dollars, and probably more assuming a quite dis-equal distribution of the new money. Unless the US is bailing out foreigners, I suppose. Doesn't seem like a winning strategy if they want to drive up monetary velocity though.

Probably shareholders are the winners here, if I were going to speculate. It is a bit silly and it doesn't help anyone.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
To Disney (especially with the promotion of Chapek over Mayer), it's just a marketing expense for Disneyland.

I think a better way to say this is that Netflix is in the content business, but Disney is in the intellectual property business. The parks are just one aspect of that difference, and Disney’s by necessity is a long-term strategy.

To put it another way, Baby Yoda alone is going to be making more money for Disney 20 years from now than Netflix’s entire 2020 slate of programming will be for them.
These private companies didn’t come out of nowhere. They were able to exist because people were educated in a certain fashion that allowed large central attention grabbers to have a large impact on people. And this came largely as a consequence of political decisions.
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My grandpa's always removed branding from stuff he bought, he says "I'm not paying to advertise this brand", he's like that ;p
The defeatist in me wonders if education is possible. It seems a lot of people just refuse to accept things that disgree with their world view and dismiss the source as part of the conspiracy.

I wondered if it'd be possible to make a honeypot website that would pretend to be some internal Pfizer website, or the Gates foundation, or the DNC, but fill it with content that would actually educate the conspiracy theorists, for example about how mRNA vaccine works, or how a Biden administration won't be forcing "fascism" down their throats. At least they'd be hopefully diligently reading stuff and learning while looking for smoking guns.
Both of them aren't probably going to use this either because <insert random tech tradeoff they believe is worth dying over>.