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> I remember when paying for dating apps was considered taboo. I don't envy single people...I don't doubt they intentionally make it difficult to get a date now if you're not paying.

I wonder how sustainable the boost dynamics are. It does make things a bit pay to play. You sell out the integrity of your game long-term in order for short-term gains. It might take people a while to move on to something new, but they eventually will. OkCupid eventually lost mindshare to Tinder and Bumble.

With pay to play is that the players who pay aren't necessarily the best players, per sé. They're just the whales most financially and likely psychologically involved. The more I describe this, the more disturbed I am thinking about how the Bumble and OnlyFans attention economies really work. The whole thing just seems like a skinner box designed to psychologically and physiologically prey on humans in isolation. To harvest their sexual instincts and sell it back to them with interest. It's cruel.

Nevertheless, as they say, there's nothing novel about human nature going on here, and none of the fundamental dynamics are really changing. Maybe the most disturbing part is how little has actually changed.
Even granting your position for the sake of argument, while the set of “orders to use nuclear weapons that the public would, in retrospect, consider catastrophically undesirable” and that of “orders to use nuclear weapons that would be clearly illegal” might overlap, the former is clearly not fully contained in the latter.

But I’m not sure we can take your position as true, anyway:

First, the historic lack of accountability for illegal Presidential orders or obedience to them both reduces the clarity (through absence of case examples) of the legality of such orders and reduces, due to incentive structures, the probability of any person choosing to be the one that takes a stand on the perceived illegality of such an order even were the legality relatively clear.

Also, given the War Powers Act, its not clear how any order to employ the military by the President (except domestically in a manner violating the Posse Comitatus Act) would be illegal under domestic law initially (which, for a nuclear attack, is all that is going to matter.) It might violate norms of international law like waging a war of aggression, but I think recent history shows that even if maybe you can trust the US military to resist some set of illegal orders, “orders to wage of war of aggression that is, nonetheless, authorized by US domestic law” is pretty clearly not within the scope of “illegal orders” for which that is true.
You might just be an HSP: https://www.amazon.com/Highly-Sensitive-Person-Thrive-Overwh...

I've had this problem in many contexts. Some of it stems from childhood circumstances, but it's also that I often read people better than they seemingly know themselves, i.e., noticing anger that they don't think they have. This can cause a lot of stress.
I've had two recruiters and even a company founder reach out to me both on OkCupid (back in the day) and on Tinder (more recently) to see if I'd code for them.
Through, honestly, I would not qualify the above a good coder. It is more off highly intelligent but not good coder.
I think it comes from liking people a priori, but having a habituated expectation that the people we know will take from us (our happiness, our time, etc.)--so that one can't feel safe to be oneself with those one knows. IMO this expectation typically comes from childhood and can best be mitigated via mindfulness.
And when a post starts by lying by a factor close to 2 about the rate of obesity (42% 2018-2019 per CDC as opposed to 71%) what else in this post is trustworthy?
(I wrote this in a dupe of this story so I'm posting an extended version of the message here. Maybe it is useful.)

Maybe that's a good reason to open for federation and now I wonder if it would be possible to have an user migration between servers without cooperation from the origin server. This would allow users to move to a new one without losing track of existing conversations.

Seems crazy, but the reason we can't do this with email is the lack of a generally agreed identity for an user account that does not depend on the server itself. Signal accounts have a "master" key that can provide this and it's only stored in the device and backups (it's the most trusted of all keys, after all).

A sketch:

- User creates an initial account on server X (account: user@serverX.org), the procedure includes signing a message saying "I use server X since $TIMESTAMP and this is the 1st server that I use";

- Everything works as now.

- User wants to change server, so they signs a new message "I use server Y since $TIMESTAMP and this is the 2nd server that I use" (account: user@serverY.org); this message is sent to all chats/groups/contacts and to the old server (as an information only, it may be already down or be non-cooperative). Contacts update the server part of the account and start sending messages through the new one. Maybe the user can still try to contact the old server for a while, for the event it delivers a message from a account that didn't get the first, but at some moment all users will get the new address.

Notice: I have no idea of how this can work with sealed senders of other metadata-prevention measures that Signal uses and we all love.

Bonus: no more dependency on phone numbers.

Or if it goes to an more email-like architecture were users only speaks with their servers, it can adopt concepts from djb's Internet Mail 2000 [https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html]. This will *not* work for current email due to the need of keeping compatibility with the enormous existing user base, but this problem does not exist for a new protocol.
> It's clear that this man developed a personality disorder as the result of suffering abuse as a child.

I'd say that is pretty hard to tell from the hearsay and all these are just speculations, which are okay. We're learning more from these conversations anyway.
Norway adjusts advice after vaccine deaths but isn't alarmed
I'd estimate that Signal is a fair bit better than Keybase since the latter wasn't end to end encrypted in the first place. But since you're on Matrix now, of course that's self hosted and as stable as you make it yourself. Decentralization for the win, kudos for going with an even better solution (even if I disagree about Signal not being a stable choice)!
Hey, this is Benedicte. If the app is not for you there is also the newsletter about privacy, menstrual health and POW!: https://www.usepow.app/newsletter
There were more than 120 days of protests detailed in the above link, only about 25% of which were classified as riots. There were live streams from these protests and riots every night, many of which include numerous incidents of explosives being hurled at police and fired being lit. Its not an issue of trust - the hundreds of archived videos containing thousands of hours of live footage of these many protests and riots is easily available to anyone who wants to examine the proof with their own eyes. This isn't an issue of ideology, its a matter of documented history and objective reality. One can argue about whether the riots were justified or not, but not over whether they happened - they did.
For all you Bitcoiners talking about how it's impossible for a government to turn off the internet, this appears to be a counter-example.
Thank you, you understand my point correctly. It's frustrating that most of the responses think that X11 is a solution to this.
True - but multimedia folks can buy separate controls for their specific needs; (for example, I use a separate volume control knob; just to have a handy way to control volume; mainly because my external keyboard's volume buttons require fn-key which is annoying when I need to respond quickly to change volume or mute.

So the touch bar might be great for SOME purposes in multimedia, not for others; but a variety of VERY CHEAP peripherals are available for these purposes - no need for a one-size-fits-all integrated approach.
Overall, I enjoyed listening to that as an audiobook. I thought it was a bit odd that the story of the damaged Titan-2 was interleaved with the part about protocols and security, which I considered the more important part of the book. Whenever the story switched back to the Titan-2, I found myself wishing that they would just get it over with so I could get back to the more interesting part. However, the Titan-2 story might make for a good movie by itself.
VMware/bitnami: Sealed secrets for K8s in GIT
Hasn’t the problem always been that small nuclear reactors like this are a huge security risk?
One tip: Be sure to not make your free tier too generous so you don't have to go back on it later :-)

I've just trashed Dropbox, Microsoft and to some degree Google over that in another thread :-)
> It's OK to worry about totalitarian control

I agree.

> Some people may worry more than others. I have read reports from therapists that they have clients from former communist countries who struggle with the lockdowns, because it reminds them or horrific things they experienced.

Those are probably not the people who compare themselves with Sophie Scholl on protests or something like that. They know the difference.

> It's not that far fetched to think about totalitarian regimes murdering people in that context.

Really? I think this only makes sense when you have a rosy idea about how Totalitarism looks like.
For those looking for a UI and full desktop environment UTM has full support for the M1 now: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM
what's the conscionable alternative?
> print USDT, buy BTC on sham exchanges, send BTC to Coinbase, sell for USDC.

The steps you described don't result in new USDC being minted. That happens only when people send dollars to Coinbase and change them to USDC.

> If it were legitimate flows, you would actually expect USDC to far outpace USDT given the much greater ease of conversion and trust in the sponsors.

No, USDT has been around for a lot longer and lots of very liquid trading pairs are based on it. So if you need to buy lots of crypto currency you might need tethers so you can buy on an exchange with a liquid trading pair (BTC/USDT on Binance being the most liquid trading pair).
That's not what the fallacy fallacy means.

It is possible to form an coherent argument that happens to include a fallacy, where eliminating that fallacy doesn't invalidate the argument. Essentially, the argument itself is poorly constructed but the claim is still supported by evidence.

In this case, the entire premise is fallacious. You can tell because the written premise includes the fallacy.
The PS Vita is by far the best hardware for this if you can find a good used one.
I am very interested in hearing the postmortem of this extended outage technology/architecture stand point.
Not to be cynical, but I wonder if this is caused by an attack by the company who is losing users!
Native Chinese speaker here.

I'm not sure I understand your point. Without keeping up with the new memes, IME still let people type them (it's simply not as easy when IME does not auto-suggest the new combination, users can manually select each Chinese character).

Regarding "an informal ambiguous layer", are you implying there is something more fundamental/low-level than the Chinese characters used in communication? If so, what is that?
Slippery slope is actually a kind of logical fallacy.

The author needs to prove that suppressing fascist speech actually has some kind of negative effect or that it leads to other kinds of speech being suppressed. You have to look at intent here to see whether the suppression will lead to a slippery slope. In this case, it's not about suppressing speech it's about removing people who act in bad faith.

On this forum we often suppress the speech of people we disagree with. And people get banned too. If we subscribe to the author's point of view, then why do we have moderation or shadowbanning in the first place?
Yep this. Even on computers, most Chinese people I know won’t use the OS’s IME and instead use third party programs.

There are entire companies that exist to solve just this problem that is basically orthogonal to Signal’s purpose and mission. While it would be great for there to be a top tier Chinese IME from someone we trust, it’s by no means an easy task like most people are probably envisioning.
your comment led me to do same!
Tinder on the other hand has been completely ruined in big cities thanks to this free “tinder passport” thing.

Browsing Tinder in Westminster with the search distance set to the lowest possible, half the people you see are 1000s of miles away.
Below the BTC address is a link to a blog which is actually the personal page of somebody who claims in "projects" that dns.watch is his project.
I've received calls but by the time I pick up (between 2-3 rings) someone else has already picked up the call and is likely helping the caller. I've had the app on my phone for nearly a year and haven't yet been able to handle a call so it seems that people are getting the help promptly when they need it.
Author here. I agree that past inflation has been minimal; what I was referring to was the expectation of future inflation after the pandemic has materially ended. It would have been rational (or so my thinking went at the time) for investors to buy into Bitcoin in anticipation of this shift.
Seems to me that there are two factors:

1) If you are weird, then you have mismatched expectations about relationships (and other social obligations) than majority society. Not providing something that is expected would be 'neglect', while expecting something that is not provided would be 'entitlement'. Social rules with strangers or casual acquaintances are much simpler.

2) Being in some kind of deep relationship means emotional stakes are higher. Perceived violations due to (1) causes higher emotional damage if they are from someone near than someone distant.
- You need to orchestrate key exchange between clients which is additional overhead (probs negligible).

- Messages can't be edited so any corrections made by users need to be entirely new transmission over the wire (probs negligible)

- Encrypted data can't be effectively compressed, and compression before encryption can lead to side-channel attacks. You can generally mitigate this by building your compression and encryption together (e.g. SSL does this), but not entirely sure this works for Signal with an E2EE arch. Either way I would assume that E2EE payload sizes transmitted over the wire are larger than stuff sent over the wire with GZIP/SSL (as Telegram is probably doing).

- MAIN REASON (my guess): group chats in the Signal protocol require sending a different encrypted message to each participant, rather than a single identical message to all participants. Honestly my algorithmic complexity chops aren't the best, but I think that would make Signal group chats O[2n] while Telegram group chats are more like O[log n], if they utilize clients sending the group chat to each other, which is a crazy level of difference in efficiency for what is effectively the same thing and a pretty common use case (group chats).

Long story short, secure things that are hard to mess with are less efficient than things that are easier to mess with. This is why blockchains like Bitcoin are much more lethargic than a normal database – there are some necessary performance trade-offs required when you want high levels of security in your system. There are a bunch of small little things that probably aren't a big deal, but every little bit adds up when you're trying to scale a service to millions of active users / billions of messages.
I wish comms were more honest about this, they'd earn more trust than just telling the community SSPL is now an OSS license despite what OSI has shot back about it, and that this is some type of necessary evil.
Sometimes the future you plan for never comes, so live for the day a little.
Or that you can use that money for a Matrix server instead of supporting centralization.

Element is less polished than Signal app but they've been catching up quite fast. If you and your friends aren't locked into the Signal ecosystem yet, might be worth considering, especially if you're techies.
Paying for something doesn't really tell you anything.
> People who decide to commit suicide sometimes appear to others to be feeling a lot better in the time between the decision and the final act.

To misquote a line from a favorite TV show;

"Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds its certainty." -Ka D'Argo, Farscape

I have attempted suicide, and that line fits for me. As another reader has pointed out there is also peace that comes from making a choice and knowing that your pain will be ending soon.
It's crazy how they talk of a bunch of risk to their business, but don't talk about their main risk. The more people are able to find interesting people on their app, the more they will loose their paying customers.

So basically the better they do their job, the less revenue they make.

At least they never advertise or tell in their S-1 than they want people to find exclusive relationships. But they are not alone Tinder neither advertise themselves like that, they always use tricky expression like "Bumble empowers users to connect"

Today their product is great compare to Tinder (Tinder is more profitable mainly because their product prevent guys to match with girls, don't forget that dating apps, the less people match, the more you make money) so they are gaining users. But I bet in 2 years, they will have the exact same profitability that Tinder has today, and their product will be as bad.
Please don't cross into personal attack and name-calling in HN comments. It's against the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Indignation commonly gets a lot of upvotes but it's not what we're looking for here.
Although I agree with the sentiment, it is harsh to say this.

I am in my 20s as well and can see where he is coming from. I have not gone out on dates this past year and it feels bad. 20s are the prime dating years, it feels like a year was taken out where I aged but my life hasn't moved.

To make things worse, the whole staying at your home thing has made the desire of having a relationship even more strong as the alone periods do hit you hard.

Though to put things in perspective, a lot of people had it way worse than just their dating life/travel being disrupted.
ToTTo: A Controlled Table-to-Text Generation Dataset
Grey on white background is the nuclear strike of web design.
Weird. When my puppy was teething last year, he chewed the ends off a bunch of Apple USB-C and Lightning cables, but didn't touch any other cables (including our non-Apple USB-C and Lightning cables, of which we have plenty.)
Saw this on reddit, so copy/pasting for wider audience

Donate to them so they can buy more servers https://signal.org/donate/

* If you work in the US, many corporations will match your donation. Easy double of your donation

* Set https://smile.amazon.com to Signal, so your purchases on Amazon go to Signal

* Use services like Paypal to donate, that sends 100% of the money to the foundation
It shows how this could be done for cycle analytics as well...If I remember the target case correctly it was not the buying of a pregnancy test, but general products like more body lotion etc. Things that correlate to the symptoms of the hormons present.
If tether crashed I would expect bitcoins price to go up not down. It would suck for people holding tether because nobody would want their tether.
Makes sense, especially the part about the "recipe" being more about organizational capacity than code.

Do you think it's important for volunteers to live in the region that they're trying to report on? Concretely, could a network based in the Bay Area make reports about availability in Michigan?

I might be able to get a sufficient group in Massachusetts, but the state hasn't approved general availability yet, despite CDC guidance.
The world definitely needs more outlets for liberal perspectives. The ones we have now heavily lean centrist.
Guess who is not having technical difficulties, ever: Telegram

They are going to be the next Facebook. I don't understand why people underestimate them so much. When they rolled their own crypto in some areas, people made fun of them, yet no one could break it. When they published their source code openly, people say they aren't open source like signal. When FB bought WhatsApp, people seriously continued to choose it over Telegram, despite Telegram able to host much bigger chats, and so on. And being used all over the world, by the same government officials who were officially trying to get it offline LMAO.

I just don't get what's so bad about Telegram.
Yeah the two things I liked about using hinge:
1. You can comment&like a pic/prompt that the other person will see
2. Girls can 'invite you' to initiate the conversation

Ultimately the types of girls to use bumble in my college, home town, and when traveling aligned with the types of girls I like. I know hinge is super popular in major cities like LA/NYC. But in the suburbs of SoCal 90%ish of hinge girls seemed socially awkward and I did not find their pics/writing prompts attractive.

Yeah girls do tend to drop 'hi! :)' on bumble. You just have to be clever when responding to it. I treat it as she is signaling me to make the 'opening move' which sets the tone of the whole conversation.

You can always unmatch (on any dating app) if the conversation stales. At least bumble unmatches if the guy does not respond to the girl in 24 hours.
Absolutely. I can only speak to what I know, and this, I happen to know, all too well.

I just found that I could relate to pretty much everything he was about (check out my code for some truly anal coding), with the exception of the abuse, but I could also easily see myself getting into that, if I had the trauma background (although I don't have that, exactly, I am quite familiar with what trauma can do to even neurotypicals).
Reason: he has the best total average annual investment return of all time for any individual. Over 20% since 1965.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/12/22/5-reasons-warren-b...
Now they just need to get rid of MacOS and it would be an amazing product!
That would be ironic, wouldn't it -- flagging an article about free speech.
That’s amazing, congratulations on all of your success.
The point of having laws is to protect the people who everyone thinks are the worst. Even the worst people should enjoy the protections of a free society, because any one of us could at some point somehow (accidentally!) become the worst. The police don't get the right suspect 100% of the time, so if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time you could now be a murder or rape suspect, or worse yet charged. Anyone could!

Similarly we should favor even "bad" people being allowed to speak because norms change, often very quickly. 15 years ago it was entirely within the mainstream politics to not publicly support gay marriage. Now if you're against it you're labelled a homophobe. What views do you have today that might be decidedly distasteful in another decade? Do you know? Do any of us?

Suggesting that because you're expressing what are now mainstream views means you're reasonable and thus safe is to -- at least to me -- completely misunderstand the ideas behind equality under the law or the real goal of freedom of expression.
No, the one thing that you can never absolutely recover back is time, there have been miricale cures and people win the lottery, but no recorded events of someone getting to live two lives.
There are roughly 209 million adults in the US. Providing a $1,000/month UBI (which seems to be what's commonly proposed) will cost us $2.5 Trillion every year. That is a lot of tax to collect. If we are not careful it will be become a debt burden and it will cause inflation. I'm not saying that it can't be done but I think we would all like to see a very careful plan on where exactly that much money is going to come from.