skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These discussions are normally expositions of how the other party misunderstands reality and or terminology with a dash of if i don't understand it but can vaguely describe it then it must be inexplicable.
> Firstly, almost no average FB or TW user knows of those forums, [...]

> Are you sure that is a good argument?

It was live streamed on FB. I think the argument holds up.
Ask HN: Have there been any studies done on the effect of Covid on job mobility?
Top FCPA Enforcement Actions, Disgraced Goldman Sachs Tops the List
If a private party can use their monopoly on the limiting of free speech to control the government how is that any different than those private parties _being_ the government, and by extension enjoying the monopoly on violence?

If a handful of companies can influence the election of a government to such a degree then they would enjoy the best of both worlds: the freedom to censor as they please (because they aren't beholden to 1st Amendment / Free Speech), and monopoly of violence as they control who the government is (who gets more positive coverage in their algorithms, pagerank etc.)

I think a lot of people are worried that companies (Facebook, Twitter, Google) _do_ hold that kind of power over governments, and not just the American government.
The Signal Project's greatest vulnerability isn't technical but social. Contributors probably work in clean environments and follow special security protocols. Yet, their policies and procedures haven't considered emotional compromise by hostile attackers. It's a social hack, essentially. If any group wants to shut down the Signal Project, all they need to do is agitate overworked contributors in message forums.
I wonder if there might be any connection between a sudden rise in narcissistic personalities who feel a great sense of entitlement arriving on Signal forums and Trump-supporting lunatics who are fleeing social media sites which are now closing the barn-door after their horse has bolted :)
> starts sharing the hashes of their git trees before builds

Yes, and it'd be equally fine to share the hashes after the build? (Just so I'm not misunderstand anything)
Not sure what you mean? A good password manager (like 1Password or the thing that comes with Apple) makes it easy to keep hundreds of usernames and passwords. They will track if you are using leaked credentials, as well.

Apart from $work, I've always opted for username, password, and 2nd factor over federated authentication. A password manager makes this very easy.
I think it's completely unrelated to Signal, to be frank.

> Naomi Wu has expressed recently that she feels totally ignored in this issue.

Yeah; I'd ignore it too if it was reported in a bug bounty programme. It'd obviously be out of scope.

It reminds me of the "but users might be running malicious WebExtensions!" argument (one of many!) I keep seeing in the Signal community for not implementing a proper web client (along with "but the PKI might be compromised and the JavaScript might be backdoored!"). They might be running a compromised OS too! Hell, their phone might have an entire ARM-based listening device inside the case. Security is always relative, and if someone reading "Use Signal, it's secure" doesn't understand that then they have bigger problems.
I agree. But saying stupid or abhorrent things is not (necessarily) abuse.
What is the fundamental difference between pip and npm here? `pip install` will run whatever is in the `setup.py` of the package (and recursively do the same with any dependencies). That is essentially arbitrary code execution, no?

This feels more like a numbers issue than a fundamental difference, i.e. Python packages generally have orders of magnitude fewer dependencies than JS ones because the standard library is very extensive. Most dependencies are major libraries rather than small ones, which are much less likely to be compromised.
A game could be solved even if its state space was too large to enumerate, for example if you could show that there was some latent structure that let you prove things about large parts of the state space without completely exploring it.

This is, for example, why we have a concrete number for the number of legal go positions even though there are far too many to enumerate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_and_mathematics#Legal_posit...

The rules of chess are so irregular that it seems likely that any latent structure would be tremendously complex, but you never know what some clever new analysis technique will do.
Supply and demand is too simplistic an approach for a lot of places when so many properties in major cities are purchased by foreign investors and left empty.
If your starting view point isn't "there must be a rational explanation for this", then you're also unlikely to report things without bias, unconsciously, or otherwise. If you think "aliens!" before "probably a planet/bird/plane", you're going to forget or ignore lights, squawking, the sound of an engine and so on. Observer bias.

Just look at the Ancient Aliens guy, if you take him at face value, everything is an alien, including piles of rocks on other rocks.

Then look at James Randi.

And it's 2020, everyone has a better camera in their pocket than at any time in history. Where's the evidence? The 'gimbal' video has been plausibly debunked.

UFOs as alien spacecraft do not exist. Sorry.

We don't live in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where it's full of 'teasers' that torment some random guy on a farm in the middle of nowhere having flown light-years to get here.

UFOs as mis-identified natural or man made phenomena do exist.
Exactly. Thanks for getting my point. Let us assume that the entire US Capitol plot was hatched in Parler. Even then that is just 1 transgression. Compare it to the history of social media enabling violence and that list runs into hundreds if not thousands (if you factor in the entire World). I haven't even covered threats of school shootings and other stuff that often gets overlooked.

When regime change happens in Middle Eastern countries Twitter was lauded for being a platform for voice of the oppressed. As long as it doesn't happen in America we should rejoice social media playing a pivotal role. The moment the same "Arab Spring" like situation strikes home all hell breaks loose.
My take is that Captain Elwood sent him a letter more or less reading "This is a Morse code recording from a domestic station but we won't say more about it, but it's not aliens" and that only riled Davidson up, presumably because he wasn't talking about aliens in the first place, so why the red herring.

Now they ask to find the decoded message and give the man the sending station so he shuts up. At the end they warn that just sending him some no-content letter (or [I am guessing they imply] made-up stuff) won't do.
yea. really buggers me that there is no native webdav support in ios (at least there is cal-/carddav)
> Do we have any such examples with 50 different angles of the same UFO event?

Are you asking for known-fictions or claimed-genuine-UFOs?

Because for the former, the average Avengers film.
I think that these days it is safe to assume that one could always be locked out of their google account for whatever reason. It is best practice to simply create a local account with whatever app/service that one wants to use.

I personally use an email with a custom domain which I pay for so I am relatively secure of keeping access to my email address. Moreover, I use a local password manager to store all my passwords. This setup is a bit of a pain but it is also liberating as I am not at the mercy of any third party when I am transacting with a service.
And a bad reputation among game developers regarding their GPUs quality.
'Child spies' bill could face Lords defeat as Tory peers rebel
> monopoly on the limiting of free speech

No private party actually has such a monopoly, so it's not a real current issue.
I am personally happy to have been kept on suspense for the whole 3 minutes.

Maybe because I don't store anything on my Google throwaway accounts, but whatever the reason, I did not mind the title being what it is.
the problem is that macos's kernel API isn't stable at all (like, even across minor macOS versions, and I have heard rumors that different mac hardware may get different kernels... though not sure about that one). So you can't statically link libc / libSystem unless you want your app to only work on one machine.
> The main element pointing to Russia is the timeline of the events.

I didn't realize the bar for "debunking" had become so low.
>If our users knew the half of what our Apple Developers have to do, the meetings, discussions, concessions and re-design that has to be done to make things just work, even on par with the Android equivalent, they might be a little bit more understanding.

It's frustrating, but it's also great job security.
“If curious see also” sounds perfect to me.
There are covered now: https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs#posix-compatibility
Top military leaders issue warning to troops after deadly Capitol insurrectio
The RSS to email thing is surprisingly good because it effectively replaces all needs for specific software: you can mark posts as read, you can read HTML-formatted content and everything is synced already. I'm currently looking to put the same thing in place for a read-it-later usecase: we havevthe tools for fetching content and formatting it, and for pushing it in an IMAP account. That's all I need.

One usecase I was thinking about: when subscribing to a mailing list, by design you don't have access to the archives, you will only receive new emails. Archives are to be browsed in another tool, with another protocol. What if we turned the thing on its head and get closer to NNTP: when a user is interested in a mailing list, they IMAP-subscribe to a specific folder (/lists/announce@myproject.org) and the server will IMAP-subscribe to upstream. Auth is managed automatically, no need to send an email and verify it. Archives are naturally handled. A smart server would provide dynamic listing of content without having to download evertyhing, so that browsing old posts can be efficient.

Some other unorthodox uses of email:

- deltachat (https://delta.chat/en/) replaces whatsapp: it's an instant messenger with e2ee based on autocrypt (https://autocrypt.org/)

- RMS used email to fetch webpages he wishes to consult (https://lwn.net/Articles/262570/). Not sure it is still true today.
Crashes after the loading indicator, the console is full of 503 errors (Chromium on Linux).
> How is all of this supposed to be determined at a return counter in the 2 min interaction between a retail employee and customer?

That's not a valid reason for introducing yet another data collection scheme that's likely to have hidden biases and false positives, not to mention the potential of this data being leaked or exploited for other nefarious purposes (do you really trust a retailer not to secretly use this data for other purposes like marketing).

> As a customer, I would not like to buy an item that did not come from the factory. Especially anything electronic, there’s almost no way for me to discern if someone has damaged it otherwise. I also don’t see how manufacturers could be held liable for warranties if they aren’t sure one the chain of custody.

Is this currently a major problem at big box stores (excluding Amazon because they intentionally ignore the issue)? I personally can't remember a single occurrence of me buying goods in a supermarket that ended up being used/damaged in a way I could tell.

> If retail businesses had pricing power, they would be asking for more than razor thin profit margins. Retail executives aren’t currently turning away dollars from their pocket, they don’t have access to them in the first place since competing retailers will take their business if they try to.

And yet money is still being pissed away in marketing, which means they do have money to spare. Why do you think the savings would trickle down to the consumers instead of just being "invested" into either marketing or something else?

Starting a supermarket isn't an easy task; the barrier of entry and the upfront costs (for the retail location alone) is insane, so I find it hard that competition would prevent this. Possibly over several decades it could translate to your goods being a few dozen cents cheaper, but I'd rather not live in a world where you need to "Login with Facebook" to be able to return an item.
that's using older and deprecated frameworks including possibly kernel extensions, all of which are going to go away in the future.

Wireguard is using the newer and non-deprecated NetworkExtension framework which requires an entitlement that's only given to app-store apps.
I don't think I'd have had the same patience with a response on Christmas morning to a project I'd sunk endless time into. Well done OP. Can't wait to see more Wireguard.
> if it's the global intelligence community saying so

Tho it's really not, the only "official" attributions are WaPos unnamed government source and US agencies saying "Russian linked".

But there is no real evidence for that except those Kaspersky heuristics about the malware having been used before, which is really not that much of a "smoking gun".

There's also the fact that for pretty much everybody involved it would be much more convenient to have this framed as a "state actor attack": The amount of companies breached and their nature just makes this horribly embarrassing for most people responsible and involved.

Even letting on the possibility that some kind of non-state actor is responsible for this would add even more insult to the already existing injury.
Supply and demand still works. That is a confounding factor artificially increasing demand (or decreasing supply). There are lots of approaches to fight this, including banning foreign ownership, or just building so much housing that it doesn't matter (the foreign ownership problem may also go away in the latter case if it turns into a poor investment).
I use this https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dslul.openboard.inputmet...

It isn't as good a others but at least it doesn't spy on you.
> That sort of suggests another question, though: why are we in the App Store at all? Because as far as I know, Apple only allows NetworkExtension-based apps to be distributed via the App Store, according to their developer relations guy [6], so we're locked in. And even if they were to change that someday somehow, and we went to standalone distribution, we would then have to support two parallel distribution channels so as not to abandon former Mac App Store users, presumably, which means we'd still be limited by App Store restrictions.
What more transpareny would you have liked in your state? What have you been refused access to?
There is osxcross: https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross
parler is not mostly dead. what are you talking about? they just found new hosting.
[1] Absolutely. The insinuation is the "wrong people" are not supposed to use it.
Just don't tie police reform to identity politics narratives.
Army looking at which troops require screening ahead of Biden inauguration
"A joke, right?" Do you have any better example of the horror?

Allowing felons to vote sounds correct to me. It also sounds correct to me that we each get to vote about that correctness rather than your opinion being the one that matters.

"tax changes" is not bad or good until you define the nature of the changes and successfully convince everyone else that they are bad. (that darn "your opinion is merely your opinion" thing again)
This was flagged for clickbait a day ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25717156

It's the exact same article by the same author.
Make sure to contact them on their microsoft365gov account hosted on Azure too: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

What an absolute joke, literally every government on the planet is chomping at the bit for this stuff and already openly does it apart from the race stuff which most certainly happens behind the scenes. What we need is better governments not better companies allowed to do such things.
Outline: https://outline.com/tYWU7A
Audio formats: The flexi disc (2017)
Absolutely agree. The app just worked. The connection is fast and stable.
Last year's media scrutiny of politicians' bookshelves undermines your point a little.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/michael-gove-an...
Malvuln: Researching security vulnerabilities within Malwares
I for one think the Mac app is awesome. I much, much, much, SO much prefer telling people to install from the App Store as opposed to, well, anything else. Especially I would never, ever tell anyone to use Macports. It's just not the way forward.

Do not skip the Mac app. It's pretty good.
I've always refrained from calling Trump's supporters Nazis because I'm always prepared for the backfire of "oh, leftists are fascist because they don't let us do and say whatever we want bla bla".

But your comment clearly outlines that you consider them Nazis, that you have no problems with it, and that even if they are Nazis they should not be targeted for their hate and bigotry.
No one said something about extraterrestrials, a UFO is just that: An unidentified flying object.
this is only relevant on linux. on windows I just ran

find . -iname '*ssl*.dll'

and I have something like 250 different results.

even if I just look for ssleay32.dll I have a ton of results:

./Program Files/Calibre2/app/DLLs/ssleay32.dll
./Program Files/darktable/bin/SSLEAY32.dll
./Program Files/Genshin Impact/ssleay32.dll
./Program Files/Genshin Impact/updateProgram/ssleay32.dll
./Program Files/LibreOffice/program/ssleay32.dll
./Program Files (x86)/Clementine/ssleay32.dll
./Program Files (x86)/Kodi/ssleay32.dll
./Program Files (x86)/GOG Galaxy/ssleay32.dll
./Program Files (x86)/iLok License Manager/ssleay32.dll
./Program Files (x86)/Seafile/bin/SSLEAY32.DLL
./ProgramData/GOG.com/Galaxy/prefetch/desktop-galaxy-updater/ssleay32.dll
./ProgramData/GOG.com/Galaxy/redists/ssleay32.dll
./ProgramData/GOG.com/Galaxy/temp/desktop-galaxy-updater/ssleay32.dll
./ProgramData/Intel/Installer/rs_sdk_2014/cache/4f6dfe1e-80c5-11e6-b7da-2c44fd873b55/plugins/ssleay32.dll
./ue4/UE_4.25/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/GoogleInstantPreview/x64/Release/ssleay32.dll
./ue4/UE_4.25/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/OpenSSL/Win64/VS2015/ssleay32.dll
./ue4/UE_4.25/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/svn/Win64/ssleay32.dll
./Users/blah/AppData/Local/GitHubDesktop/app-0.6.2/resources/app/git/mingw64/bin/ssleay32.dll
./Users/blah/AppData/Local/MEGAsync/ssleay32.dll
./Users/blah/AppData/Local/Microsoft/OneDrive/20.201.1005.0009/ssleay32.dll
./Users/blah/Desktop/Shotcut/ssleay32.dll
./Users/blah/Desktop/smplayer-portable-19.1.0.0/ssleay32.dll
./Users/blah/Documents/PacketSenderPortable/ssleay32.dll

so, "yay", dynamic linking is used. what does this gain ? exactly NOTHING.
> the democrats won house, senate, and presidency very much focusing on identity politics.

I'd say the republicans did that. And even after the 4 years of gaslighting and bigotry, they almost did it again.
I wouldn't say it's the democrats who make topics like wearing a mask or the destruction of the environment political.

Now you have democrats who play that game too, but since they have the facts "in their favor" it's to their detriment (I'm putting quotes here because covid and global warming being real isn't to anyone's favor, but it's facts). Mud fights benefit those without good arguments.

That said, I agree with your post, antagonizing people doesn't help changing minds.
I've sometimes pondered about the effect of observation on reality, and how, as in shrodingers cat, the unobserved might be quite flexible in state.

It is interesting to imagine how it might be that more observation might make state more finite, and make possibilities that might be contraindicated by a non-local observer impossible to observe locally, tangentially related to the way that when something becomes more isolated in distance or time the less certainty we can attach to details of observation.

It might be that things can be locally observed that are not globally tenable as long as the interactions between the light cone of the effects of the local observer and the contraindicating observer do not overlap in such a way that the inconsistancy would contraindicate the act of observation.

Probably irrelevant, but it is interesting to note that the rituals of many forms of "magic" "purification" can be characterized as attempting to create precisely this kind of causality barrier between the practicioner and the outside world.

It is rediculous but interesting to ponder how with so many less observers and so much less communication/interaction between distant observers, perhaps reality was once more flexible.
I’ve earned multiple times that of top end salaries where I live.
Not sure why you're downvoted, because your post is true. Svelte's satisfaction score is kinda worthless, if it is used by a fraction of the number of people using React or Angular. For what it's worth, most of them are probably fanboys. There are simply not enough people to be dissatisfied with it.

Interest is another thing, but interest alone doesn't mean much.
CDrom but no torrent?
What are the best phone number scrapers?
Some nations are handling the pandemic a lot more effectively than others. Evidently it's possible to do something right. Also, these guys are arguing that population growth and high levels of consumption in wealthy nations are the key factors. Not even everybody has to do something.
Sign in with Apple is pretty good and it doesn't ask you for a password, and you confirm with the power button/faceid if I'm not mistaken. It's very hard to spoof.
I know. The useful distinction for a filter bubble would be for when a person is exposed only to a small set of ideas, such as “big government, subsidized everything” is the best way, or “small government, privatized everything” is the best way”. Or “so and so method of education is the best way”, things that don’t have relatively definitive answers, based on reasonable logic and standards of evidence.

Using filter bubbles to talk about people that think the earth is 6,000 years old, it’s flat, the US government is run by a cabal pedophiles, vaccines are harmful, the US election results are false, etc is not a fruitful endeavor.
Not sure "live and let live" applies to things with direct externalities like burning fossil fuels, for that you need an emissions tax.
The only way to make housing more affordable is to increase the supply.

That's not necessarily sufficient. From Für eine wirklich soziale Wohnungspolitik[1], citing empirical studies of rents in Germany:

Im Ergebnis muss demnach festgestellt werden, dass eine verstärkte Neubautätigkeit unter den gegenwärtigen Bedingungen nicht zu einer Ausweitung von bezahlbaren Wohnungsangeboten führt, sondern vielmehr die Ertragssteigerungen im Bestand beschleunigt.

As a result, it must be stated that increased new building activity under the current conditions does not lead to an expansion of affordable housing offers, but rather accelerates the increase in yields in existing buildings.

The reason for this is that the newly constructed housing tends to be higher priced, and when old housing gets freed, rents tend to get raised on the new tenants.

[1] https://zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/artic...
They are short-sighted. They don't realize that they are the ones adding value to Apple's platform, and they shouldn't have to pay Apple to do so! With its app store, Apple acts like a corrupt bureaucrat middleman between developers and users, and demands an unnecessary bribe from both to distribute and use the app. It reduces profit for the developers and increases cost for their clients.
For this exact reason I've cut almost all of my tech support for friends and family. It seems that what goes around comes around, and my time was worth what they paid for.
Of course it’s censorship, it just isn’t carried out by the state. But when private companies have more control over media, private censorship is just as bad.