skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do not make such an explicit claim in their privacy policy. There is a carve-out for "affiliates", although what constitutes an affiliate is not defined. They also say:

"We may collect, use, and share End User Information in an aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized manner (that does not identify you personally) for any purpose permitted under applicable law. This includes creating or using aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized data based on the collected information to develop new services and to facilitate research."

This is a cop-out used by a lot of services these days. De-identified data can be and is routinely re-identified. For financial transaction data this is fairly easy. For example, if you buy location data, it's trivial to determine where someone's home is, and therefore their likely identity.

Once you have a set of locations a person visited, you can correlate them with financial transactions. Even just a couple of retail transactions are often unique. You were probably the only person who was at your neighborhood Starbucks on Monday at 6:37am and also at Starbucks on Friday at 7:32am. Your credit card transactions provide a time and a location for every retail transaction.
This is a great idea, and I think this type of individual-reported news is the future.

I also like that you focus on positive news, we could use more of that being reported today. I feel like there is plenty to go around, but is ignored.

My critique:

a) Google Play Store ignores the spacing, and lists your app 2-3 pages down the search results for "goodnews". Your listing also lacks an icon, which makes it even more difficult to find. I suggest you add some kind of unique string to your app's name to make it more searchable.

b) Out of my local device stable of about 10 devices, only two can run your app, because it is proprietary to Android. To contrast, all of them can access the web, and most would support an OWA/PWA setup.

c) You require registration or login before showing any content. This is a higher barrier than I personally would climb over when exploring a new app. When I see that "login or signup" dialog as the first thing when I open an app, the next step usually uninstall.
My immediate impression when I saw a list of past HN stories in this case was a sense of "everything had been said and done, over and over" and I was about to add my submission for Beaker's 1.0 release of a month ago because I felt the list didn't sufficiently tell the narrative of steady progress over the years. I ended up not to when I noticed you just picked the submissions having significant engagement, or the ones coming from straight from beakerbrowser or pfraze.

I guess adding links to past stories (at least when not posted by you dang) can signal different things; in this case, maybe including the title may have changed my first impression.
Not sure "competitor" is the right word, but I started to work on my own boilerplate/project-starter some time ago[0]. I choose to use NestJS, knex and NextJS. My objective is to achieve the best tradeoffs between autogenerated-boring-stuff and easily-customize-everything (yes, including complex DB queries, especially those actually).

Also, there's BlitzJS which seems to have similar objectives.

There's definitely no incumbent in the Js/ts/nodejs world similar to the django/laravel/rails/mojolicious frameworks in the other, more mature, dynamic languages.

https://github.com/tudorconstantin/knests
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> There are organizations and companies that are trying to do this legitimately, through open standards and real incentives to both FIs and customers to share information in exchanges:

That is never going to work. The reason the world works the way it works is because banks dont want to give easy access, so market opportunity for companies like Plaid exists.
And so? Bitreich seems to be a gopher-centered splinter group of suckless today.
Yes. I think at this point Naomi is seeking official recognition from Moxie that this is a flaw in the overall system. I think she feels that she has been unfairly ignored, and she also knows people who she believes have been kidnapped by her government because of this flaw. So it’s a very real and visceral issue for her and she is also a very high profile person so it seems wrong to ignore her. I believe her recent Twitter frustrations started when she noticed that Signal responded to questions from some very small Twitter account, but still hasn’t responded directly to her.

If, due to factors outside of their control, Signal cannot actually guarantee that your conversations are secure, it may be irresponsible of Signal not to make that more clear. But one can understand why they might prefer to avoid the issue...
You can and I regularly close tickets for not following the template that says at the very top "tickets not following this template will be closed with no reply".

It's even better if you can get a bot to automatically reply and close it.
Redis can be persisted with RDB and AOF, can also be replicated to another machine. In the cloud, you don't need to worry about that, hosted Redis are ready to use.

The is an ongoing effort [1] to improve the persistency and availability in general, which is expected to be GA in 2021.

[1] https://github.com/RedisLabs/redisraft
I personally spent many hours on Parler reading the discourse. The Turner Diaries were openly discussed and gave rise to various gallow-related hashtags which proliferated on it.

I don't presume to predict anything as was correctly pointed out. I could not and did not imagine the events that transpired.
This looks like a great service. There doesn't look like there's a way to post a bounty for a repo that's not already signed up though.
This might sound like a joke, but I believe spreading that info about Uyghurs to your friends in social networks might be the first thing to do. Western governments do nothing about this situation because voters do not ask/pressure them, which is in turn, because most western citizens don't really know (I suppose) how bad is the situation with human rights in China.
No snake goes out of its way to attack humans. They are mostly nocturnal and chilled animals. As for laying eggs, think most of them lay them underground.

To be honest, I'm also very afraid of them, but like sharks, they are very essential to the ecosystem, and very useful for us.

If you want to pick an animal to hate, mosquitos are perfect candidates.
It’s a pain in the ass to debug with huge log piles. Good to see such improvements.
You can. You can do anything, really, including not reading issue reports at all. But you set out to be helpful anyway, so it’s about finding a cutoff where you don’t want to help anymore. As I said, it’s simply harder than ignoring assholes. (Plus you may get a bad rep.)
Right now, the metadata is not replicated to S3, you can replicated it to another Redis, or backup the persisted RDB and AOF to S3.
> AMD already has GPU RDNA drivers in Linux kernel. So It doesn't need Samsung to kick start this.

I think that was the GP's point, ie Samsung wouldn't need to invest in writing new drivers but should rather be able to do relatively easy adaptations to existing ones to get things off the ground.
I think the issue is that Naomi is seeking official recognition of this system flaw but signal and moxie have not done so in response to her questions. I think “signal creator acknowledges that signal is not always secure” would be a headline that would help non technical people understand this system flaw.
I think consistent standards about it what is and what is not free speech and what is and what isn't protected and what is and what isn't allowed to propagate on a big platforms is something that's good for the culture. so I see making them public utilities that are regulated as creating that overlap between the state definition of free speech and the corporate enforced reality.
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I don't have a citation for the anecdote, but possibly this was the email? https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html
gas-lightning, now thats something that might be cool

The Internet is not real life, just because someone wrote something somewhere means nothing. It could just as well be russian bloggers writing the same inflaming crap . We need to be able to know whats what.
Sound like something only a Trump supporter would do.... #cancelrambo
Not to mention, sliced thinly and deep-fried (in coconut oil, if in Kerala) to make Banana Chips, or battered and fried to make Pazhampori. It's like no other banana!

Edit: to be fair, no banana is like no other banana. I love them all.
Maybe not HN enough, but my Photos are stored on my laptop. Together with all other data, they are regularly backuped to an external HDD. Works very well since I've owned my first computer.
Note "SubscriberLink" and "The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber."

You are likely not supposed to post it to HN
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Yep. Citation & world details here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
I agreed it isn't a conspiracy and pointed out that isn't what people are worried about.

And don't call me friend. I flagged you for that.
WhatsApp won't be able to do anything about it. Even with publishing full page ads. It is just a big waste of money. I have had so many of my relatives and friends move to Signal already. Big Tech companies haven't yet understood Indian psyche. If we make a move it will be en masse. So never antagonise Indians. Just see what happened to Tik Tok. The next big movement would be from Twitter if Twitter doesn't fix its ridiculous ideological censorship policies.
And any presidential speech would be posted to YT after it took place
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Good point.

Most of file storage picked GPL, for example, Ceph, GlusterFS, MooseFS, so we followed them.
Great firewall is coming to the EU soon.
Are you really sure it's appropriate to compare Newton and Jobs either?
There used to be a Signal project on Bountysource with a bunch of pledged money, but I can't find it anymore. I had pledged. Odd, I can even find the PayPal receipt for my pledge.

Edit, found it: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/whispersystems the old links did not work
The Nintendo strategy is quite interesting, because they're basically content being the "second console" if it means being the second console in everybody's homes, and leaving MS and Sony to fight for top billing.
Any details on that? Because I currently use it as workaround, and I can't remember reading about June in the docs I had a look at.
At my company, the PE is simply the Team Leader, who does:

* communicate with clients
* does the architecture design
* does the API stub implementation
* does code reviews
* provides technical leadership / last word on a choice
So from what I understood, the study is only about the antibodies themselves, not about people getting "actually" immunity and not getting sick m
For someone whose username is 'quotemstr' (quote master), that post is a great, short explanation of that idea and very.. quotable.
>At this stage in the game, it is highly unlikely it is not Russia, as this sales pitch is very similar to when Russian associated actors leaked the NSA toolset. It too was advertised for sale via bitcoin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Brokers).

Great post overall, but I disagree here. It's indeed very likely Russian intelligence did the compromise, but it's still unclear if this particular "leaks for sale" offer is legitimate or just a random unrelated troll trying to make quick money before they get outed as fake. It does sound similar to the Shadow Brokers offer, but that could easily be emulated (and probably would be emulated if a scammer was trying to sound like Russia).

It could be legitimate, but I would be highly skeptical unless/until they release some samples of what they have. The Shadow Brokers started out not providing anything but later started leaking things to prove they weren't lying.

So I'd say this is worth keeping an eye on, but shouldn't be taken very seriously until they post at least some shred of evidence supporting their claims.
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I believe the Signal app should at least have a token fee. It can be donated to the open source community.
That would immediately get rid of the freeloaders and their annoyances.
"There are more Trump voters in California than Texas, more Biden voters in Texas than New York, more Trump voters in New York than Ohio, more Biden voters in Ohio than Massachusetts, more Trump voters in Massachusetts than Mississippi, and more Biden voters in Mississippi than Vermont." [https://xkcd.com/2399/]
Yes, it's a frustratingly hard problem. I want a way to supply links to past discussions that communicates clearly: "this is just a list of additional things that some of you may be interested in and if you aren't that's cool and this is a fine post and don't worry everything's great!"... except brief. I thought If curious see also would do it—but apparently it doesn't quite land that way with everybody.

You're right that when I post those I filter the list for only the most engaging discussions, because HN readers don't like clicking on things and being taken to something not-so-interesting. Unfortunately that makes it a bit harder to write software to come up with just the right ones.
https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn says

> Where is it appropriate to post a subscriber link?

> Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and blog entries are all appropriate. As long as people do not use subscriber links as a way to defeat our attempts to gain subscribers, we are happy to see them shared.
Paranoia is a useful blinker to keep people like you from going insane by considering ideas outside of your scope of comprehension so you should keep using it but people who can really think clearly have no need of that. But don't stop foreshortening the range of your thought by invoking such useful blinkers because it may be dangerous to your health and mental health.
Tor Browser is a good option to avoid generating "inappropriate" suggestions - decouples tracking from both your login cookies (permanent incognito mode) and also from your IP address.

Even better, restarting the browser clears the cookies & other stored data, making tracking across session highly unlikely.

YouTube videos take fractionally longer to load, but it's manageable.
Why today?
What kind of freelance do you do?
See Canada for an example of an independent federal institution overseeing the elections, see https://www.elections.ca
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So they found a demographic that would swallow anything.
What's wrong with NPR?
> people have been set-censoring in real life forever

Agreed. But what they haven’t done is “over shared” as much as they have in the last decade. So perhaps part of the self-censoring being described is a return to mean?

EDIT: it seems I’ve repeated (and agree with) your last point - “perhaps it needs cooling a bit”.
The inference is that these cloud/tech companies can shut down businesses they don't like by behaving as an oligopoly.

And oligopolies pose antitrust issues.
I store them on a nas, but also do another cold copy to a simple usb connected 5T disk.

And I also do make use of google cloud and apple cloud where available. Is that a problem? I'm honestly not sure. They're just innocent photos I would not mind if they leaked.
How would proof of god be found on Mars or through studying biogenesis? It would just raise more questions.
We embrace nutters, charlatans, and second-rate sci-fi authors especially if they go on to found religions.
And what do you do when your webhost becomes your moderator and deplatforms your site, on the exact same day?

We can take this all the way to fabricating wires to build computers to make our own servers; at some point we have to discuss the actual issue: where to private and public rights intersect and what is the role of government in resolving the conflict.
I haven't had it in those ways, only raw (ripe) and steamed. Good to know!
We started to build JuiceFS since 2016, released it as a SaaS solution in 2017. After years of improvements, we released the core of JuiceFS recently, hopefully you will find it useful.

I'm the founder of JuiceFS, would like to answer any questions here.
Apparently their answer is “five times”.
Statements such as these 1) are meant to reassure 2) are meant as an exceedingly strong caution to servicemembers and 3) aren’t issued unless there’s a question concerning loyalties.

Steve Inskeep on NPR reiterated that this is an extraordinary statement.
I don't get how a bifurcation is supposed to work, Ukrainian grand mothers are supposed to choose between America First and (American only) Black Lives Matter?
What are the insurance protections for a security company? As in, there's professional liability available, but what are the consequences for SolarWinds/FireEye (if any) for this kind of breach? Can their clients take any meaningful action?
Please do! and if you reach a point in the future where you feel like it's ready for another public discussion, we'd be delighted to support that—emailing hn@ycombinator.com is the best way to let us know. This stuff is eternally cool as far as we're concerned.

(Edit: the parent was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25755267 but that's kind of buried lower down, so I detached it.)
"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights"
https://twitter.com/cra/status/1306694315624796160
for you and sibling - from the FT today:

> Signal was downloaded 8.8m times worldwide in the week after the WhatsApp changes were first announced on January 4, versus 246,000 times the week before
> My point still is, if you force these people into places like that, where their plans are easily observable, and 99% of people wont go there then it will fester in silence.

Good.

Better they fester in silence in a place where they can be observed and reported to authorities when they cross the line. Without a popular, legitimate, high traffic platform that allows them to influence a mass audience the cancer doesn't metastasize.

I can't banter my own mother into giving up whatever conspiracy theory crosses her path. There are so many people with equally poor fact-checking and critical thinking skills that they form their own festering bubbles on popular platforms. The bigger the bubbles, the more extreme they get, and now the end result is a confederacy of deluded, violent extremists sacking the capitol. We're lucky it wasn't worse, but this might be a dress rehearsal for far more violence if we don't get a better grip.
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That doesn’t actually work unless you first fill all possible values with `false`.
>This makes a lot of tricky things easier, but there are pitfalls.

Some people are calling excessive data "toxic asset", due to the future risks of it causing unexpected breaches of privacy, damage to reputation, or other losses.

We'll certainly develop standard technical means of handling that in due time, quite possibly ones based on cryptography. A common scenario at present: instead of trawling all backups & distributed stores to laboriously expunge every bit of deleted data, you could delete the relevant encryption keys - a small piece of data, a known quantity - rendering the encrypted data inert. This is particularly suited for systems that use WORM approach to backing up & distributing data.
> just set a "deleted" flag in a database somewhere

this has been a thing since the 1980s, at least. It's not new, and it's often important for auditing purposes and because mistakes happen.

What's new is the ease with which databases can be accessed and hacked over a global public network.

> Or an errant database migration isn't going to transfer it properly. Or the database will be leaked, and all of the "deleted" content will still be there

Backups are a thing, you know. When you issue a delete command to your database it's not reaching back to time immemorial through the archives and ripping out those records. If we're playing what-ifs, then backup databases can just as easily be leaked.
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UBI and Unschooling are contrarian.

I think both don't work, which is perhaps your point, but you have to include contrarian things you like in this theory.
So it's a bit like a JSON schema, but with more fine grained checks? Very interesting.
Ok, I've clearly misclassified you—sorry! There are a lot of accounts doing less defensible things and it's not always easy (well, basically impossible) to tell who's up to what.

I'd be happy to help you get the wolco account back, but can you email hn@ycombinator.com? The process for account recovery is best not performed in public.
Lol. Proton mail has strong encryption and is hosted in one of the most strongest jurisdictions in the world as regards privacy laws. Nothing to worry about :)

Tutanota on the other hand lost a court battle in Germany and had to give up email data from one of their suspected-to-be-criminal clients [0]

0:https://www.cyberscoop.com/germany-court-ruling-tutanota-ema...
Thanks! I was unaware about such approach, thanks for clarification!

"subscription-only content" confused me and I failed to parse "has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber".

It is the first time when I see such approach explicitly encouraged and I really like it. Hopefully it is going well for LWN.
Nendran is also briefly mentioned in the Taxonomy section of this article about banana:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
The realistic answer is to abandon your personal project and get hired to work on one of the many open source teams within Google or Facebook.
How to record streams easily to S3 compatible systems(OVH, Digital Ocean)?
Employers get sued and sometimes they demand social media accounts during discovery. I decided a while ago that I’m not prepared to quietly defy a court order by trying to conceal an anonymous account, so instead I stifle a lot of what I really think because moral fashions always change: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Freedom of speech is genuinely important. Critical even.

But it certainly does not extend to my lounge room, Your right to freedom of speech does not mean you get to act like a troll or jerk in my house, or to expect to be able to behave in ways you think I should "just scroll past". You will be asked to "be nice", and asked to leave if you choose not to (and ejected of you continue and refuse to leave). Your "rights as a troll" do not superseded my comfort in my home.

Your (assuming you're in the US) "Freedom Of Speech 1st Amendment" rights mean your government may not pass laws to inhibit your free expression. It does not mean your choice to freely express yourself will be free of consequences (as the well known "yelling 'Fire!" in a theatre" example illustrates), nor does it mean that owners/managers of private spaces are required to put up with your free speech in their venues.

Whether an internet forum is closer to a private home or Speaker's Corner in a public park is a good question. But claiming the forum regulars and owners should "Just ignore the stupid trolls and go on with your life." is not the only possible answer to that.
even better: throw away a raspberry pi that automatically connects to the McDonald's WiFi at night from the trash can. the evidence is disposed of, and surveillance captures many people throwing away trash. whose happy meal had the toy?