skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After Trump won, story after story, show after show in the MSM and beyond was about reaching out and talking to the Trump voters. Famously left-wing people went out to speak with Trump voters to get to know them, to understand why they voted, and made sure to humanize them. They went out of their way to not be negative. This went on for a long time.

If that is true - and I don't remember it that way at all - it clearly doesn't make a difference now.

> The flaw in this article is reading only the negative headlines, and ignoring all the reporting that is done.

That's how news is consumed though, so what little reporting and journalism actually occurs can safely be ignored for the sake of his argument.
I'm very glad that hardware manufacturers often don't seem to take this advice.
You don't need their Java client (which I agree, is BS) if you use a Cloud Key or a UDM PRO.
Bullying is real.

My wife and I run a side Business Saas product. She is listed as COO on her social media profile for the company.

She is also in a bunch of groups about gardening in our local area.

During the height of BLM protests and CHOP/CHAZ, someone made a post that was very off-topic for the group, basically saying we should all support what was happening in the CHOP and all the violence against cops was justified due to racial injustice.

My wife took no position on the issue but politely replied saying the post felt off-topic and she didn't want to hear about politics in her favorite gardening group.

Several people attacked her on the post, calling her white privileged, racist, etc... all for suggesting the post was off-topic (even though the group's own rules prohibited political content).

One person took it a step further and went on her profile to see where she worked. They then messaged our company's social media profile to tell our company that my wife was a racist, and she should be fired or reprimanded because she had made racist comments in a FB group (she had not, and the person provided no screenshots/proof either).

Unfortunately for that person, they did not realize they were talking to my wife's husband (me) who promptly banned them from our page and blocked their profile from my/my wife's profiles so they could no longer bother us.

However, this type of new "online activism" is rampant nowadays. Small companies often have little choice but to comply or be publicly shamed/bullied, including doxxing or going after individual employees, as in our story.

I disapprove of this type of behavior. This is mob justice in a different form. It is the court of public opinion rather than an actual court of law where someone would get a chance to defend themselves. It is wrong and our society needs to grow up past this childish phase it's going through where every angry person riled up by this or that party's rhetoric feels like they have the right to attempt to destroy another person's livelihood for the sake of pushing "their truth" or "justice". That's not what Justice is.
>2) e2e encrypted

As you haven't mentioned it: Supporting e2ee isn't enough. It must be the default, else the non-technically inclined will often end up not using e2ee.

>As much as I dislike to admit it, this leaves Matrix, and nothing else.

I'm in the same position. Never been a fan, but I have to support it, because that's really the only option, even if bloated.

I also tried running a server (synapse) with similar results. I have hopes for dendrite, but they've just been dampened by your report.

Fortunately, the client side is far more important, and there's some options there. Particularly, the web-based hydrogen is massively less resource-hungry than the web-based element, and nearly there featureset-wise.

>XMPP

I didn't even list that one, because e2ee is not the default, and support was added way too late in the protocol's trajectory.

>Signal

I mentioned it, but I'm actually not about to use it. The reason is that accounts are tied to phone lines. That's a non-starter for me.
Have you tried MikroTik gear?
Nobody who liked it when Brendan Eich resigned from Mozilla (over his support of Prop 8) should consider using Brave, now or in the future.
I wonder how much of this is broken QA throughout the industry. I burned ~60 hours in cyberpunk on a ps4 pro, the content of the game was fun - but the bugs were pretty dumb. Many of the worst bugs originated in story pathways that would only be triggered if various conditions had occurred (which undoubtedly changed during development).

From a testing perspective It seems like it would require an impossible amount of QA time to vet all of the quest paths as a player, and it would be easy to miss game breaking bugs if QA testers were using manipulated save files. Issues like the bad police AI only crop up once in the main game, but are pretty noticeable throughout free roam.

If players want games to get bigger, will we need smarter and more automated QA tools? what would these look like?
WhatsApp became massive before being bought by Facebook and you had to purchase it for $0.99 (or $2,99 it's been almost a decade so I can't remember the exact price). So no, as long as the network effect is there, costing money is not a no-go.
They know the smell of tyranny all too well.

Yeah, because they’ve been the ones cooking it up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/world/europe/eu-poland-la...
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Certainly exchanges love all paying customers.

The liquidity argument is a good one IMO. If you did not have participants willing to arbitrage fractions of a cent per share, it could be really difficult to get the ends to meet on a daily basis for things that arent traded with as much volume as monsters like TSLA/AMD/et. al.

The use of microwave links is just a natural consequence of competition within the HFT space. It might be reasonable to apply a minimum latency bound across the board as some participants have already, but I argue this would inhibit much of the innovation that got us to this point to start with. Being able to quickly clear a trade on thinly-traded securities is a wonderful thing for all involved. Capital not locked up in limit orders is more useful to humanity (in most cases).
Here is what puzzles me every time about telegram (which is my primary messager so far)

I can get the reasons behind not doing e2e encryption by default to reach more audience (msgs history, lack of resources on start, special backups)

What I cannot get is why Durov is blaming FB/WhatsApp that much, it seems to be the main competitor. As for me the story with WhatsApp is clear, it's Facebook and if you like being Zucked - go with it. But why so much hate on it?

On the other hand, every time Signal pops up the only answer I see: 'because it does only e2e well which is only one feature of Telegram' - wrong, Signal does secure messaging and messager has to do its job well, that's it. You need a media platform - go for Telegram/WhatsApp/Facebook, you need a messager - use Signal/Wire/etc

Does anyone else feels this bias towards WhatsApp? I cannot blame WhatsApp for being WhatsApp, that's how FB makes money
> news channels

I love getting glimpses of how other people use certain apps. I can't imagine _wanting_ news in my messaging app - that's what my news app is for! Very valuable reminder that our own perspective is not always widespread.
I don't like these type of comments because they show little understanding of how the market works.

Explain the process in which the HFT firms "leech value" from your trades or "[steal] information and [jump] the line"? Your trade arrives at the exchange. Then, the HFT firms learn about your trade. They then price correct many instruments and derivatives that are all inter-related.

Now, if we are talking about quote stuffing or intentionally trying to DDoS exchanges, everyone agrees this is bad behavior and is regulated against.

Finally, as you mention, these type of algorithms contributed to market instability of the flash crash but it was also initiated by large (slow) directional bets. You propose taking the oxygen out of the room of a fire but one can also propose removing matches that started the fire.
- the story of mel

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

- "Not just any wire but a 230 KV, many-hundred-amp, 10 mile long coax cable"

https://archive.org/stream/engineering-pornography-this-is-o...
I just think, given the current milieu, that asserting that there is literally not such thing as a good cop (a hyperbolic and somewhat extremist statement by its very nature), and that stealing from corporations (I mean, there are lots of videos of people violently smashing into stores in recent months) that perhaps this is encouraging violence..

Yeah, you can twist the last 2 into a political position. But given the context, they seem to me to be appeals to violence.

I mean look at just a few tweets down on the same pro gun user:

https://twitter.com/Windstalker361/status/131033080427967283...

How is this not inciting violence? What else could "seizing the means of production" possibly mean in a tweet that literally shows off his/her set of assault weapons?

Or literally talking about killing pigs?

https://twitter.com/Windstalker361/status/130913405350173491...

I absolutely don't disagree that there are racial problems that we need to solve, or that the police need reforming. All I'm saying is that by not acknowledging that maybe this needs dealing with too, we are still going to have backlash by the other side.
Meraki is a Cisco brand. It's most important feature is, that once you buy into it, you are going to pay yearly license fee.
It's not about the game being bad, it's about CDPR lying to their shareholders.
Westerners have been saying the era of Chinese economic rise is over for more than 20 years now. For pretty much all of the same reasons. One would think the lesson would be learned after 20 years.
I think you’re commenting without having tried to post on r/conservative
> This is kind of insane.

It's especially insane because Polish law is not a superset of every other country's law. If a web site is forced to remove content because it violates a law specific to the country the site is based in -- boom, now they've broken the law in Poland.
Organise anything like this.

The difference between the Capitol thing and the stuff 4chan gets up to is that the protests like this require a critical mass of not only people but belief - the former is possible on 4chan, but the latter needs some kind of consistent identity to rally around.
Well I've played it and is has routine quests, an underwhelming plot, and not too many interesting choices for character development. I was most disappointed that crafting is useless because I wanted to roleplay that skill tree. The game is so boring I've been playing Far Cry instead and Far Cry is trash. Coming from a Deus Ex background there is nothing there to Cyberpunk. However most people liked the game so what's the big deal, it works and the audience is mostly happy.
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Maybe it's based in Anguilla :-)
Is he a derivative of that?

He’s covering - his beat is - the current media’s stoking of culture war as a commercial reality of modern media tech.
I think what we had in the last 6 or so years was actually a lot worse than some "darknet chat platform", because honestly the equivalent of that in terms of usenet/forums has always existed.

What we had more recently was a kind of social media conveyor belt and sieve system that found, nudged and filtered people into a specific direction until there were enough deluded/lunatic/trolls/whatever you want to call them citizens from across the country willing to storm the capitol building.

Your darknet chat room just doesn't have that reach, potentially it has the reach to organise domestic terrorism in terms of bombings or something similar, but you'd never get a group of people so self assured in their bubble of reality that they'd willingly assault the capitol building.
Why not? All you have to do is point to one particular company whose systems have not been verifiably breached after having resisted actual attempts.
I think it would be better if internet went not in the direction of removing stuff but in the direction of providing users with tools to avoid the content they don't wish to engage with.

We shouldn't rely on security through obscurity when it comes to dangerously stupid ideas.
“Not supporting side A” is not “Supporting side B”.
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Well I'm glad to hear that e2e is a feature that's in demand. :)
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I'm not sure there is a real risk. Slippery slope falacy is easy to reach for here.
> Now that people have a decent life standard, they should, and probably will, raise against injustices being committed by the governing party.

This has not happened at all in the US with 5X the income per capita (at least in nominal terms), why are you expecting to happen in China?Maybe the relationship is inverse, the more money the Chinese have the less probable they will rebel, same as in America and the rest of the world

> It is really painful to see China moving back to authoritarianism in this way after a couple of decades in which it looked like they were embracing, slowly but surely, more freedoms and human rights.

No country moves in a straight line (assuming you can even trace its "movement"), you should notice that easily with the US. Compared to 30 years ago China is better in almost all indicators, and yes that includes things like freedom of expression, because despite of still having an iron hand on censorship the CCP cannot avoid the common folk to communicate among themselves in million ways. Western people are too naive or arrogant if they think the regular Chinese just buy wholesale everything that is told. This does not mean the other naive take of course, that they dont buy anything that the politicians say and they will align with the western countries if they just had the chance. It turns out, surprise surprise, chinese are as much people as the Americans.

> The problem is that they have misguided fears of what may happen if the people is given too much freedom and try to mercilessly prevent their fears from becoming reality

This fear is not misguided and it is not exclusive to the Chinese by the way. The external threat is very real, and the CCP as every power structure takes very seriously the internal threats too. If you think the US is different I kindly invite you to revise the history on how any political movement not called mainstream Democrat/Republican party has been treated covertly and in the open by the power structures in America. So again, you are not saying nothing new or particular about China that you could not repeat about your own country.
The post reads (to me) like calls for web sites and advertisers to implement these practices (like transparency in advertisers), not like features/changes that will ship in Firefox. I'll gladly change my tune, of course, when I see a patch land that blocks users from viewing certain content.
Non room members shouldn't be able to read the text in the room. That's quite basic.

As far as old messages goes, Matrix rooms do not allow new participants to see old history, unless explicitly enabled.

>if you have 250 people in the chat I'm not sure it'll be very effective. It only takes one of those people to leak the messages.

Ultimately, the system is only good when the members of a room deliberately leaking messages is the primary concern; It means the system is working as intended, thus privacy is a matter of trust on the conversation members, as it is away from keyboard.
If I take the issue to court, I can either prove I didn't do the 'crime', or argue there is insufficient evidence. But police officers testimonies carry a lot of weight, so that is not a fruitful path.

It is still unclear to me what you are exactly saying.
Really?

What if I have a blog with comments? That is a website that involves social interaction. If I remove a comment on there, that is “removing content”.
It's the classic case of seeing a curve pointing upwards and thinking it will continue doing that forever, even though the universe is like 0 for nearly-uncountable in cases where that has held true indefinitely. Every growth curve is an S curve.

The AI Singularity is like the Grey Goo scenario. An oversimplified model projected out so far in the future that its flaws become apparent.
Don, did you ever figure out the difference between a "client" and a "server"?
> - It doesn't do e2ee by default.

When creating a 1 to 1 chat, it's one of the default buttons. In Android, you click a {pencil} icon, then "new chat" (encrypted in transit and at rest like your bank website) or "new secret chat" (end to end encrypted)

> - It is not an open protocol.

The protocol is fully open source and audited. https://telegram.org/apps scroll down to source code.

> - It is not open source.

As above https://telegram.org/apps . The client apps are fully open source and reproducible.

> - It has a history of extremely poor cryptography
practices.

People pointed out the security issues in MTProto v1, and they were all addressed in MTProto v2 over 3 years ago.

You may be recalling some FUD spread by the author of what eventually became Signal, but none of what you said above is factual.
When has he done great work in the past? His coverage of the Snowden documents was so bad that people who read his articles understood less about what was in the documents than people who didn't. For example, he still hasn't issued a correction for his PRISM reporting.
> RFA's long-earned reputation

Does RFA have a much better reputation than I realized?
The part of pg's comments that relates to your comments is this part:

"Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem—and a particularly useless sort, because good ideas often come from outsiders. The question is whether the author is correct or not. If his lack of authority caused him to make mistakes, point those out. And if it didn't, it's not a problem."

But in general, Paul Graham isn't saying anything that is novel to this site's comment guidelines:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
Forcing them to split off Instagram and WhatsApp would be a fine start.
> it was added way too late in the game.

That is not a thing with XMPP. The very essence of it is adding things in, and OMEMO is quite good.
Seems they have yet to meet the Matrix Protocol.
If always is 2 months, you comment only confirms the curtness that has increased.

I agree with OP that the quality on HN has decreased recently, both stories and comments. This has been a progression over several years from my perspective.
Put another way: In the US at least, r/jailbait didn't actually break any laws (well, maybe some individual posts did, but the whole idea of that subreddit was essentially to ogle underage women/children but in a way that was not explicitly illegal). So with something like this law all social media sites would be forced to host the equivalent of r/jailbait.
What does https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ show for Brave?
Its ok to differ on the opinion about wether an explanation is reasonable or not and we differ on that. How one can make that mistake to me is a bit worrisome. To me, thats not a developer bug (nor does their explanation provide any proof that it is), its an intentional way for someone to benefit financially without informing their users. Also have a look at the +1 posters history. Some more interesting behaviour.
If you want and care, do some of your own research on some of the other 'mistakrs' brave and their CEO have done. Ive never seen such mistakes happen regularly with other browsers that have been around longer. Feel free to use Brave, Im just informing the public.
"Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words"
This comment misrepresents the situation by failing to indicate that the 'Constitutional Crisis' started before the current Law and Justice government took power by the previous governments anti-constitutional actions of trying to appoint Constitutional Court judges ahead of the end of their terms.

For a summary of events: [1]

Imagine if Barack Obama / George Bush decided to go ahead and punt some SCOTUS members ahead of the end of their terms, because they were afraid they were going to lose his upcoming elections? Imagine what what the consequences would be.

'Law and Justice' , after having won elections came in and did some nasty things (which you point out) and were sanctioned by the EU for it, however, it's hypocritical that the group that initially broke the law on a very fundamental issue were not also sanctioned.

I don't remotely support any of this, but it's important to consider that this didn't just happen out of thin air.

This 'free speech' bill is an interesting political issue, I wonder how much of this is pointed at the local population, or how much of it is trying to obtain some populist goodwill in other EU nations ... or if it's trying to gain some kind of 'moral high ground' leverage in their current 'issues' with the EU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Polish_Constitutional_Cou...
The irony is that if they just released it on single device then nobody would bat an eye. There has been plenty of just bad, unplayable games in history.
An important note. Recent events had nothing to do with that.

I almost jumped at the idea of Poles having having to "thank" Trump Donald for that.
_NET_WM_PID is optional, some clients do not set it and even then afaik the server doesn't do any sanity check and the client can set it to anything, making it inherently insecure. This is not good design.

> What makes you think this is the case?
Many other ways in which async behavior happens on X11, on any machine I've tried, with the mouse cursor lagging to register a click event, for example.