skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you might want to look at something like Solid[0]. It resembles your idea, but is more general. People host their data in a personal data store (a pod, which can be either self-hosted or by a 3rd party) and Web applications read to/write from this data store. It is more general in the sense that this data can then also be used by other applications to provide their own features (which is a hard problem to tackle, since you don't want to restrict all current and future different types of data to one interface).

E.g. When you create a new blog post this is stored in a pod of whichever data provider you chose. The fact that you wrote this blog post can then be discovered e.g. on your social media, after which people can read it in their favorite blog post reader.

I find the implications of such a platform to be the most interesting thing. It effectively creates two different markets: that of data providers, which compete to provide the best service, and of application providers, which compete to provide the best features.

[0] https://solidproject.org/
Yep. It would be illegal for dang to remove low-value or irrelevant posts.
Obviously it's impossible to prove definitive statements about every possible potential action, as as per the halting problem some of those actions are unprovable.

It is as ridiculous to suggest that this means you can't contain a superintelligence as it is to suggest it means you can't, I don't know, go buy bread. In both cases you could analyze running a program that doesn't halt but you can't prove doesn't halt, and lock up your reasoning algorithm. The sensible thing is to not do that.
I'm sure their fancier equipment is probably a nightmare of a time sink but the little kits you can buy are dead simple for nontechnical people to set up and use. My parents have plaster walls and the modem lives in the basement so they have huge problems with coverage even though their house isn't very big. This is sort of silly but they connection speed gage on their router is super helpful because they get confused with things like checking internet speed.
I've just spent like 10 hours this week trying to figure out how to get my Android history into iOS. I finally did succeed with one the paid apps, but it's crazy to me that Whatsapp hasn't fixed this (and neither has Signal, by the way).
Congratulations on your successful fishing expedition.
> Imagine if Barack Obama decided to go ahead and punt some SCOTUS members ahead of the end of their terms, because he was afraid he was going to lose his upcoming elections?

Imagine if Barack Obama had Supreme Court appointments blocked by Republicans on constitutionally flimsy grounds that were immediately ignored when the Trump administration was in identical situations.

Would any "nasty things" done by a future Democrat administration then be laid at the feet of this original malfeasance, forevermore, or would it be misrepresentation not to mention it?
>When creating a 1 to 1 chat, it's one of the default buttons. (...)

That's a really long way to say e2ee requires special steps: Deliberately selecting "new secret chat".

If there's ANY barriers to e2ee such as this one, then non-e2ee ends up being used.

That's just how it is, how non-technical people are, and why we should steer everybody away from Telegram.
My take is that Ron Paul is probably one of the most reasonable people in politics.

What's ironic is that people thought he was crazy when he said it would be possible to abolish the IRS, even though he had all the history and facts to back it up.
Yes, a mix of 1 & 2 possibly -- am trying not to think too much about the implementation at this stage tbh.

Problem statement remains that every major SaaS app has an API available - while that's good, an API is still an engineer's tool. These apps can't really expose SQL on the go on their apps given a. multi-tenant architectures b. transactional/nosql databases used.

However, an ideal solution does seem like a mix of 1&2 in my mind. An easy to use SDK (?) to make any SaaS app have the capabilities of Stripe Sigma.
So many apologists here. If you liked the game, that's fine. I did too. I'm lucky to play on PC. But there should be consequences for not delivering anything close to what was promised to customers that has paid in advance. Game companies cannot always get a free pass when it comes to customer protection.
I think the possibly big letdown at some point might be the non-intuitive or non-existing message backups. Getting started with and using Signal is great but the backup functionality stops me from recommending it to non-technical friends.

Facebook messenger history is online and doesn't need to be thought about. I'm fearing there will be a fair bit of resentment once the non-technical Signal users change devices and realise that all their messaging history got lost in the process.
> pushes people toward more and more radical (extreme) content.

content was the key word there.
> Thoughts?

Pick your adversaries and scale your opsec accordingly. Unless you are a person of interest in national security matters, just the fact that you communicated with somebody does not incriminate you.
> where there is silence or substantial ambiguity it seems right to err on the side of popular opinion

If “it seems right” is a good way to run a country, why do we even have laws?

I don’t think abusing silence and substantial ambiguity is a coherent approach to legislation. If something important in the law is ambiguous, the correct approach in my view is to make it unambiguous by the usual legislative process.
I've had a few bugs where scripted events fail to trigger. Nothing game breaking, it's usually solved by loading the last save.
Launching on those legacy consoles then was a mistake. As a PC player, I had no issues playing on a 3 year-old machine, it's about as buggy as the average huge RPG game (like Divinity OS, Skyrim, etc.). Then every week or two you get a patch.

Baldur's Gate 3 did better PR by releasing an early release version first, so the impatient can jump on it.

My personal feeling is there is so much effort put into this game, it's sad to see it spun as a dismal failure by a greedy entity. It must be demoralizing for the devs and artists and other staff members that worked on it.
Here's the telemetry documentation: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/P3A

So it's sending some amount of telemetry, but it's not so bad compared to mainstream browsers. A more detailed comparison is available in this report linked by another commenter: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
You can disable remote login in the settings. It's the first thing I did when I got mine. So it's impossible to login to my router using my Ubiquiti account.

Can't comment on issues have been getting, but I only have good things to say about mine. It's not perfect and the learning curve can be steep, but it's miles ahead of any other routers I've used before. The only thing that came close was when I flashed dd-wrt on my old Linksys.
> 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.

I don't think it is though - the point is who decides if the democratic election was fair?

What happens in a foreign country if their government decides the election isn't fair? Should people be silenced?

Or is it Amazon's job now to work out if worldwide elections are fair and enforce action?

I think the problem is either you are a neutral platform, or you hold too much power.
Except he was not denying them service just not engaging artistically lol stop being dishonest and trying to compare him to racists that denied service when he only denied artistic expression.
From your comments it is quite obvious that you actually know a lot about the case. However you keep conveniently just leaving things out to fit your framing, please just drop the charade and the dishonesty.
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Take a look at our https://www.easydatatransform.com tool. It is a drag and drop data munging tool for datasets up to a few million rows. It runs locally on Windows or Mac. You should be able to install it and start transforming your data within a few minutes. It doesn't have a built in scheduler (yet), but you can run it from the command line.

Excel Power Query is also quite lightweight. But is pretty klunky in my (biased) opinion.
This government has learned from that time, but looking at the state of TVP and these "tematy zastępcze" they seem rather fond of Goebbels' methods. Paint "the west" as the enemy to your "great traditions" and use the wedges like this law to distract people from creeping towards authoritarianism.
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Well... that's complicated.

On it's own, XEP-0363 (HTTP File Upload) and OMEMO both work well everywhere, even in my horribly overpatched Pidgin.

But if you put the two together, Conversations, for example, will encrypt the message and encrypt the upload as well.

My Pidgin then will handle the message well, but display an url starting with aesgcm:// leading to the still encrypted file.

The question is then: is the correct behaviour what of Conversations is doing - encrypt the message and upload as well? If yes, is OMEMO a requirement to HTTP File Upload or the other way around?
Why does Brave need its own blockchain token? Either it's centralised and doesn't need blockchain. Or it's trying to be decentralised, and then might as well use an existing token like BTC or ETH. I understand that the latter may be too expensive for micropayments, but surely that comes with the territory when you're using a blockchain.

I simply don't get BAT.
What am I supposed to say?

Amazon doesn't really come off as the "good guy" by admitting they have weighed the current political climate against their profits. Especially given whose about to be in charge. They made a business decision and wrapped up in some good 'ol PR spin/legalese. It happens all the time. About everything. It's still their right to refuse service.
As someone who is in theory trying to write software for community-sourced documentation and advice, I've been dragging my heels for years watching things play out on reddit and facebook and twitter and now these buffoons and I just don't know if I'm up to the task. My best defense seems to be trying to keep the niche as small as possible and still be worth my while to do the work, and to be perfectly honest, as 'realistic' as I like to be, saying "keep it small" to myself drains quite a bit of motivation out of me.
A social network is not a critical business, like a hospital or 911 emergency software provider.

No one needs Facebook, Twitter, or Parler to survive.
Taibbi is a reporter and a commentator, not an innovator or a leader. The latter two are who we are relying upon to find solutions. At least Taibbi is one of the few remaining journalists doing their job.
Good faith question: Is CDPR worse than other games studios, or do they just get more flak because they claimed they were not going to have crunch anymore? I ask because game dev has been famous for crunch for at least the last 15 years.
Seems like Trump played really well into the victim complex then - if you throw yourself behind a mostly-bad hollow asshole, and people point out "wow this person is bad", you can dismiss the substance of the complaints and just use it as reinforcing evidence that you're being victimised.

What happened to the days when these party leaders were decrying relativism?
I run Nix on my workstation and on my laptop, and have been doing so for a couple of years.

Most of the issues I ran into were just nix being different from other distros I use, so I did have to relearn a few things.

The remainder of the issues are the sorts of things one runs into with a non-rolling release distro. For example, a program I use got a feature I want last September. I'm going to have to wait until March for it to hit stable, since NixOS is on a September/March biannual release schedule.

The good news is that I am running the latest version of that package just fine now; Nix lets you install "overlays" of the package system into your home directory (or globally), and I just copied the package definition into the overlay, updated the URL and SHA256 sum to point to the new version and it "just worked."

Downside of course is when I upgrade to NixOS 21.03 (the march release), I'll have to remember to remove my overlay version of the package, or I'll be frozen on that version. There may be some fancy way to work around this which I haven't discovered, but since I have like 1 or 2 packages in that state at any time, I just manually do it when I upgrade.
That and messsages like that when you want to restore your history (but at least you can, big up to matrix for that over Signal):

> Try double checking that you did not mix up your security key, security phrase and login password as explained above.
I wouldn't cry if fb, twitter, insta and so on were unavaliable in Poland

I think that would be step to the right direction
Thanks for replying! This is concerning if true. Is this documented or proven anywhere? I had heard something similar, but can't seem to find any reliable source that confirms the messages are in plaintext.
Your argument makes little or no sense to me.

1. When it comes to political actors, forcing a person or organization to support a specific candidate (who isn't even on any ballot at the moment) amounts to political coercion and is antithetical to a free society;

2. Which candidate do you hate the most? If what you were saying was reasonable, then you could be forced to provide material support for that candidate. How would you feel about that?

3. Stripe is not a utility like electricity or the phone company. Nor are they anywhere close to a monopoly. In fact, Stripe is just one of many players in that market[0];

4. Not only does the Donald Trump Campaign (a specific "candidate") have other options for online payment processing, online payment processing is not the only way to collect donations. As such, in addition to the dozens of other payment processors on the market, Bank transfers, Western Union, Zelle, CashApp, old fashioned checks and money orders, cash etc., etc., etc. are also available.

You've got this all backwards. Political activity/speech is strongly protected in the US -- no just positive activity/speech, but negative activity/speech as well.

And if the government can force Stripe (or you or me) to provide support to a political actor, then all of our rights are being impinged.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_payment_service...
If authoritarianism means that people can freely speak their mind on the internet, then let so be it.
Even with e2e encrypted chats, the servers could store the encrypted conversations if the devices do not have enough storage to have all them stored locally.

Device Backups: it's an important point that users need to be educated about. But it's also a distraction just like talking about the privacy of keyboard apps or unwanted link previews while composing/reading messages.
I found this Emily Bazelon article from the nytimes really thoughtful. It's about free speech laws and disinformation campaigns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html
Indeed.

If you look at the storage requirements of an app, you can see it's split between "App Size" and "User Data" (along with a cache).

AFAIK there's no way to actually backup/move the user data without rooting. Now I can see why Google might not want to store all that (and why I might not want them to) - but it's somewhat silly not to have any options.
> 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 flagrant anti-constitutional actions of trying to appoint Supreme Court Judges ahead of the end of their terms.

It was the Constitutional Court, not Supreme Court. Also, no, not really - that didn't start the crisis in any reasonable meaning of that word. In a correctly functioning democracy that would simply be blocked by Constitutional Court, and that's in fact exactly what happened. The problem started when currently ruling party replaced not only the extraneous judges, but also those judges who were lawfully supposed to be appointed by previous government. Of course the Constitutional Court deemed that unconstitutional, but that didn't stop the ruling party at all, and the rest is history.
I waited for the reviews. When they were over 90% I pulled the trigger.

Now I realize I purchased a game that was reviewed on what it will eventually become a la No Man's Sky, not what it was on the day of review.

Sure, the crashing didn't affect me, my configuration was more or less normal I guess. Instead what I got was a hollow game that has a lot of hooks ready for eventual expansion sometime in future patches. That didn't deserve the 91% it had when I first bought the game.

I don't blame fellow gamers. I blame the reviewers.
>Jack Dorsey is not an elected leader, and he has no right to act as the jury, judge and executioner.

This type of rhetoric has gotten absurd. Jack Dorsey is not executing anyone.
And, there is a history of advantage being taken of China during its civil wars. It hasn’t forgotten any of that, and it’s in the National psyche as something that needs to be balanced in the future.
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This is just science fiction. To mention "recent developments" in the introduction is somewhat misleading considering how far the current state of technology is from their hypothetical superintelligence.

We don't have superintelligence, we don't have the remote idea of how to get started on creating it, in all likelihood we don't even have the correct hardware for it or any idea what the correct hardware would look like. We also don't know whether it's achievable at all.
An additional non-backtracking RegExp engine
Funny enough, Amazon still sells Mein Kampf, The Communist Manifesto and the Bible and the Quran.. Maybe they should censor themselves.
On building software for the healthcare market
Five peace treaties between Israel and formerly-hostile nations seems like an accomplishment to me.
One of the saddest things on here in my opinion is how vehemently people hate China. No critical thinking ability at all.
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Cats (2019) would like to have a word.
Honestly you have no idea about real use cases.
Almost no one is going to set up a dedicated local server for all of his conversations, hosting only conversations in which you are part of anyways.

Most people aren't even able to do this.
> I don't regret pre-ordering at all, because they have always done right by me.

Same here. I bought it on PC via GOG, and while it was rough and unstable, I happily put about 100hrs of game play into it.

Honestly, they should have released it as under-development on platforms like Steam that support such designations. It's pretty common for studios to release games in an alpha/beta state. At least that way, gamers would know that they are getting a potentially buggy release.

For consoles, they straight up should not have released it until v1.07 at minimum. That's where they really screwed up. The game is in a much less playable state on the PS4, and console gamers in general are used to a much more polished gaming experience.
Note that Keybase is end-to-end encrypted and also supports persistent message history across multiple devices. This doesn't have to be an either-or thing.
I mostly see the news feed tool used for art.
Yes, that is worrying. I never hooked my USG up to the cloud, opting to run it from a local docker container.
The thing is, if you don't write the piece as critical, if you write it neutral, some people will see it as positive, and some negative.
What evidence do you have that anyone has?
As the 'bar' goes 'lower' the reason for other vendors to refuse your money becomes less clear. It is quite clear the Parlor is not someone you want on the books.
I'm not a lawyer, and at the risk of sounding ignorant, but I don't understand how a Polish law can be enforced on a company/service/piece of hardware under US (presumably, but could be any other) jurisdiction.

At the end of the day, the data is sitting on a piece of hardware somewhere, isn't the "owning" place the one that dictates what laws can be enforced on it?
The backups aren't E2E encrypted, WhatsApp even tells you this in the backup settings page in the app. But if they hold the decryption key and the only way to get it is via registering with a WhatsApp server via SMS verification, then doesn't that imply that Apple and Google don't have the key and can't read or restore the messages?
AWS' response wasn't based on 'calling random things "terrorism"'. it was based on things that actually happened so I think the response is proportional.

> I guess for now you can have fun watching how Patriot Act championed buy republicans gets used against themselves

The government didn't get involved here. This is two companies deciding not to do business with each other

> Sadly with full control over all branches, democrats will continue eroding freedoms and laws restraining the government, which eventually will be used against them too.

The government didn't ban or restrain parler
How big does a group have to be before it's a social network?
Socialize and being anonymous at the same time...
It's partially related the webmail-vs-IMAP problem: direct access and control over your data.

An example: There is a pending suit that will ultimately be settled with an insurance company by the courts. Crucial to the case is data collected by a mobile app that helps establish some relevant facts. The incident in question was >1 year ago, and we're going to move forward with the case this week (originally planned for last spring but put off due to COVID). Yesterday, I logged in to the site associated with the app, and it threw up a screen that cannot be dismissed, in the style of "please take care of <these issues with your account> before you can proceed". This is an account which is nowadays dormant, and there is in fact no way to take care of these issues. I dug out my old phone in an attempt to access the records in-app and take screenshots for the benefit of the court. The app itself had had an update released, and the records are now inaccessible, because the old version of the app is treated as an obsolete client. Fortunately, I'd already earlier exported all the data I could readily get my hands on—so the only thing I'm giving up are those screenshots that I determined in a last-minute decision would be helpful as supplemental resources—but this could have been a problem for someone who's never heard the phrase "move fast and break things" and who took it on faith that all this stuff wouldn't just disappear underneath their nose for seemingly no good reason.

If we transition to a world where apps are always writing to (and pulling from) data stores that are under your control, then this would be a total non-issue, even for people less paranoid/guarded than I was. The truth is that there are social hurdles, but there are technological hurdles, too, and dealing with the technological part is a precondition to society being able to be effective in doing its part. People can't solve problems with solutions that don't exist.
My town is blessed with an excellent nonprofit news organization: Berkeleyside and its spin-off, Oaklandside. Together they publish 1-2 articles each day, because that's how much news there is. There's really no reason to have the local dailies like the SF Chronicle, the only major-city newspaper to my knowledge to have been openly mocked in a famous movie, or the SJ Mercury News and the other papers of the Bay Area News Group, a Denver company that hasn't printed anything worth reading in the past decade.