skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
>End-to-end encryption provides the highest level of data security. Your data is protected with a key derived from information unique to your device, combined with your device passcode, which only you know. No one else can access or read this data.

So messages are opaque but photos are not?
No surprise this hasn't been completed. The Pocket team has lost key people to the greater Mozilla org, and to other companies. Unless someone's comp is tied to completing this, it won't get done.
Don't use the license if you cannot uphold it's principles.
It doesn't take many people to agitate, if they are sufficiently unpleasant and noisy and can't be easily written off as cranks.
from the same article

> On August 17, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice, under the Trump Administration, announced that the Obama Administration's Operation Choke Point would officially end, stating that it was hurting legitimate businesses instead of preventing fraud as intended.

maybe Biden has done something?
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Thanks for a thoughtful response.

> My argument is actually that the economy is built on the backs of underpaid workers, and now that these workers are demanding their fair value we will either see inflation or the failure of many businesses.

I don't see how it's inflationary from some money to be shifted from the owners to the employees. Also, I don't see how that causes a business to fail, unless it was operating very close the margin. Corporations are doing very well; Bezos has over one hundred billion; paying employees more won't bankrupt these businesses or have any effect on people like Bezos.
At the time PC was generic for personal computer. Only later was it associated with the IBM PC.
Is it of any effect though? The internet is pervasive, easy to access and censorship-resistant. If they want access to any resource on the public web anyone can get it -- at this point it's effectively impossible to prevent this.

This measure seems to only make the life of ordinary citizens in the open. Not only that, but the measure seems to cause the opposite effect: the Iranian government seems to be making efforts at censoring its users, censorship which just serves the control of the regime.
Ranging (JavaScript Library)
What I do is call if it's urgent and time sensitive (SO is out shopping and I need to add something to the list). If no response and more urgent (actual emergency or needs immediate attention and is high priority), I call again. If not an emergency, I send a text with the necessary information and they can call back or respond via text.

Seems to work out well and fairly straightforward, I'd imagine I'm not the only one that follows this flow.
> I think it's dumb to call them phones

Circa early 2000s we used to call them PDAs. I remember with fond memories my pocketPCs well before the iPhone was even a thing.
Kidmailing? Based on blackmail... But it's not really blackmailing...
I would starve the very construct of sequestration to start with. It's appeasement. It's “The garbage will keep coming, so let's build more landfills” pragmatism. That won't work with greenyhaasgas. We don't need sequestration, we need stoppage.

Capitalismus. What is this stop you speak of so amorously?

But if you have 1T to throw around, simple: Buy every top polluter and then shut them down. Buy their customers too, because they'll be the first to bitch loudest. Government obstruction could be non-trivial. Buy them too. Fuck it. Increase to $10 T and just buy everyone and shut it all down. If that doesn't work, nuke 'em. See why promotions defy me? (j/k)
TIL what synechdoche means ...
In fact it's much more than that, the CA is not supposed to sign any certificate it didn't choose - and it isn't meaningful in X.509 to have more than one signature.

You will often see people describing the sequence of events something like "I send them this CSR and then the CA signs it" but that's not really what happens at all. The CA is obliged to construct a to-be-signed-Certificate (tbsCertificate) of their own choosing, incorporating only information they're actually happy to stand behind, and with a largely random serial number at the start.

The serial number is because X.509 doesn't have a nonce component, serial numbers are very near the start of the document so it would likely be impossible (using known techniques) to collide a certificate hash (even a known broken one like MD5) so long as this number is very random and chosen by the CA not the subscriber.

The constraint on information in the certificate (e.g. Subject information) is because the CA is signing the entire document. Relying Parties have no reason to assume that a certificate for "Johnny Poopy Pants" was actually not issued based on the CA believing this is really "Johnny Poopy Pants" but instead just because it also mentions the DNS name some.cheap-server.example and the subscriber does control some.cheap-server.example. So, any claims of information about the Subject that aren't being warranted by the CA are not included in the certificate. You can send Let's Encrypt a CSR saying your company name, email address, mailing address of the head office, a logo, whatever, it just gets ignored and Let's Encrypt only care about the DNS names you asked for, those are all that will be in the certificate.
You cannot abolish the church.
Their official return window may have passed, but that doesn't mean you can't return now that they have changed the terms of the sale.
Someone's reinvented timeshares :)

Reminds me of when I accidentally reinvented a recruitment company
It isn't beneath them to use dark patterns, they already do that in real life with their wages/practices.

Realistically I think it'd be pretty difficult to test this from the outside and get definitive answers. If they implemented something this scummy they'd surely implement some safeguards to make it harder to prove they're doing it, similar to the VW Diesel Emissions scandal.
It’s a maker vs manager/sales thing.
... but ... but I thought covid came from a bat and not the bat lady? Fauci said so!
How Does TCP Work?
Suicide involving guns? Drowning with bricks? Suicide is not easy - curious how you think they commited suicide. Suicide of a whole family is complicated. "Under Mysterious Circumstances" - means to me the investigators are: wtf.
I would like to know what engine they use to fetch the text of the article from URL? That technology is neat.
Dogs might be so friendly because they have their version of Williams syndrome: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/science/dogs-genes-sociab...
The everlasting war against the human naked body continues.

I genuinely struggle to understand the obsession of these payment processors have to block services that focus on displaying the naked human form. Are we as a species so despicable that a nipple offends us? We are all born naked and are essentially part of the larger ecosystem on this planet.

Sure, I could understand the high chargeback rates argument , but then again, huge Bahamuts like MC and Visa can surely absorb the cost here.

These systems provide a safe channel for sex workers to profit _directly_ from their services and yet here we have society pushing them to an unsafe alley to profit.

I hope the hypocrisy of western nations supporting the sexual liberation of women whilst cracking down on their ability to do as they please with their bodies should not go unnoticed .

The extreme religious institutions and people supporting these policies should go down in history as villains.

I sincerely hope that future generations drive change and that one day we can look back at this time and chuckle.
I think author needs tablet. Some have 4g connectivity and can make regular phone calls. Basically 10" phone.
I agree with you that this is both correct and unhelpful, but there's an interesting reason for that! It's because a good bit of weight loss is achieved through exhalation. If we had a way to measure that consistently and accurately, it would be more helpful information.
It's been over for a long while for the average consumer
Thanks all. Update:
- Brave(!) had the same slowness problems.
- So I realized that maybe the 60-page long example doc I was using was the problem. Moved to a 2-page long doc and it did seem better.
Ah, thanks...not mentioned in the linked article. There's more info in the source article: https://restoreprivacy.com/att-data-breach-70-million-custom...

The hacker group is "ShinyHunters".
One way to look at this is unlike a timeshare, Ancana has no ownership interest in the property. Resorts own the property and sell you access to that property. At the point all of the shares are sold, we become property managers. You don't have to sell the share back to us like you do with timeshares - in fact, we don't purchase shares back. You are free to list your fraction with an agent of your choosing or sell to your own network at whatever price you desire. Given that we have a large list of qualified leads, we are happy to list your fraction for sale, but that is not a requirement.

Curious why you think there is no secondary market for these homes. The primary market is exploding for this model of ownership and given the limited inventory of vacation homes on the market, we think the secondary market is also going to be very large
What are we gonna use instead? Hardware keys, like Ledger but for ID?
Given the C and the A and the proximity of swatting to spanking, I propose switching, as in beating a child with a switch which is pretty well recognized as abuse these days.
> Maybe you got the B in A/B testing

I suspect this is the case
> but employees will also have funds to buy stuff and generate demand, which has been lacking.

Employees in the 1st to 3rd decile will have funds to buy stuff and generate demand. The 4th to 6th decile of income will have to cut consumption, however.

The deciles are of course made up, but my point is someone will have to cut down on consumption if others that were not getting a piece of the pie start getting it (unless the size of the pie gets larger at the same rate, but it will not in this case due to demographic reasons and the type of work not being able to be automated).
If it was truly global, I could accept it grudgingly. But this is a single actor: the US. The US gets to decide who has access in other countries to stuff built by people all over the world. It's not the US saying "this cannot be accessed by US citizens", effectively only affecting its own citizens (who can then exert some pressure on their own government if they disagree with the restriction); it's the US deciding what other countries can access. And the stuff they are deciding on is collaborative, not 100% built by US citizens.

It's not global. It's unilateral.
That doesn't mean there is someone willing to buy it on the other end.
Third party cookies are set to go away, I don’t know how bad the situation is for first party cookies and local storage.
> it's what [credit] card has the best interest/rewards/whatever

...and doesn't have a reputation in the toilet.

Would you get a SatanCard(tm)? Generous 10% cash back rewards but we make our money by extorting the elderly, killing kids, addicting adolescents to hard drugs, profiteering on pollution in your hometown, kicking puppies on video, and if you die we come after your family for the money, regardless of local laws.
I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family
Not sure what Roblox is in first place. An integrated game engine and hosting site?
it has nothing to do with media. They just use the media to justify their strategy.
Oh my god I completely forgot about stuff like the NY - DC shuttle. You could show up at LGA, walk up to the counter and buy a ticket for a flight that ran once an hour and be in the air literally within minutes.

The last time I remember it being that easy was probably 9/13/2001. An ex-girlfriend was trying to get to DC from MSP because her father worked in the Pentagon and she hadn't heard from him. She called me from the airport in a panic at 2AM asking for help because her credit card was declined. I drove to the airport, groggily handed the ticket agent my card and drove back home. She was probably on the plane before I got home.

Then a few weeks later came all the TSA crap...
To save millions of mostly Asian lives. Japan was never going to give in without taking as many lives as possible. Japan was brutal with people in China, Korea and other nations around that area more so than the west. Sometimes you have to shoot a suspect to save a family. That's justified.
I worked there 11 1/2 years.

An engineer gets promotion from "having impact." Improving an existing app is usually not enough impact. Replacing it with some shiny new thing is. Once it's out there, you ideally transfer to something else where you can also have impact, or you quit & join an outside company.

As many people have pointed out, your own manager cannot promote you; only the Promotion Committee can (although your manager can certainly help).
Apple's only slightly worse than all the others in that they severely limit what you can use iMessage on, but I'll always be a lot more pissed at them because they kicked off this whole mess.

I really miss the days of when I could load all my accounts into Pidgin (Gaim!) and have almost everything centralized. Now I have a teams window (which doesn't bother me too much since it's a work app), a tab for slack, a tab for the umpteenth iteration of whatever Google has decided to call their chat platform, a tab to get SMS messages through google messenger (a welcome change), a window for signal on the desktop, and tabs for Facebook and LinkedIn (both or which I try to never visit, but would like to know if someone contacts my on, and I refuse to load on my phone). I just realized I've apparently abandoned my ICQ/AIM accounts to the past.

That's the desktop. I have almost all those as separate apps on my phone, with separate ways to use them, separate notification preferences, etc.

The instant messaging ecosystem has gone to complete shit, and I doubt anyone that used it seriously before this happened will disagree. And what we got in exchange for every company walling off their own IM system? Honestly, I'm not sure anything that couldn't be recreated fairly easily in a client with a couple months work if someone had extended their protocol to do more.
Those who are old enough will certainly remember the ozone hole, then the global warming and now finally "climate change". All the previous ones were dismissed/forgotten by the press but I like "climate change" because it can never be proven wrong.

The climate has always changed so you really can't miss this time. ^_^

Nevertheless, historical evidence documents how the climate has _always_ changed across the thousands of years. More snow or less snow across 20 thousand years is normal.

This university page does a proper collection of the related sources: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/climate.htm
If you have ever tried to edit something on Wikipedia, you will know that other people deleting your edits is not uncommon. Or a conspiracy theory. Anyone who uses that word might have felt like they needed to delete it from the article.
I'm asking because I would like to know the answers.

> Sorry - not going to play that game.

You assume bad faith on my part for no good reason.
Dec H-500 Computer Lab Reproduction
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-exodus-cry-the-shady-ev...

2021
Here is my take: content creators are the problem.

When Friendster, MySpace,Facebook, et al started, it was about connecting friends online. People that already had a connection. When you shared something, you wanted to share something personal with friends. YouTube was about sharing your home videos. Not for money, but for actually sharing. What a strange concept!

Then people noticed you can monetize their content. No longer was it about sharing with friends, but creating for profit.

Social networks, as they were envisioned, are a great concept. As a method for distributing content to be monetized, not so much.
That is problem of low end GSM modules.
Literacy tests were biased in the post civil war era not only because black folks were at a substantially disadvantaged insofar as becoming literate in that era but because veterans of the civil war and their progeny were exempt as were other fellows of "good character".

That is to say it was used as an excuse to prevent black folks from voting whilst many white illiterates were welcomed into the voting booth.
I think it is a terrible waste if even one kid with a bright future developing (for example) indie games is traumatized by this stuff and ends up pushing spreadsheets or designing webpages at an ad firm instead.
In the churches of which I've been a member, most tithes and donations come in cash. More orthodox Christians won't even have credit cards because the consumerist nature is contrary to scripture.
> My partner, a journalist, has gotten death threats

Sorry that happened to your partner.

I am surprised that death threats are still around. Is it not actually a crime or is anonymity so good that law enforcement can't trace them or do the recipients or police just not bother following up?
> It's almost as if putting your filing system, personal diary, correspondence, photo album, and directory on a surveillance and exfiltration device was a Bad Idea.

I hate that tone and way of arguing.

It is as if the author is accusing everyone of buying a surveillance device and then coming up with other uses than being surveyed.
Are you seriously suggesting that pornhubs payment processing was not cut off because of the series of NYT hit pieces organized by Exodus Cry?

From NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/visa-mastercard-...

> Mastercard and Visa said they had prohibited the use of their cards on the adult website Pornhub, after the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reported that the platform included videos of child abuse and rape

BTW it’s silly of you to try to pretend to be some sort of industry expert and then immediately admit that you have never worked with porn payment processing. Everyone knows that the fraud rates for porn are very high, that’s not new.
Avid hikers are more likely to travel light and source water on the way.

Me I’d rather lose a couple of kg of weight and carry it in water instead.
... have you ever tried to actually do this?

On top of having to deal with, at minimum, going out and buying a new washer drier on my own dime until I win said court case, there's no guarantee you'd win (it's the app ToS, not literally the appliance, correct?) nor that it would ever compensate for your time spent dealing with it.

Sure, you might have a good case, but when you're working full time and have a family this is not a good use of your time. It requires a level of committment that I shouldn't have to have in order to fix a unilateral change to the terms I agree to when actually making a literally $2k+ purchase. I can't just float them a loan for $2k to buy replacement equipment while suing them.
Yikes. Is that something that AT&T openly advertising?
Grew up in northern California. What is suspicious was the death of the dog. The dog can live 2-3 days without water - and most likely would have found some. (They smell water).
Read the next line: "These features and their data are transmitted and stored in iCloud using end-to-end encryption:"

Notice the absence of photos from the list that follows?

> So messages are opaque but photos are not?

Yes. Unless you use iCloud backup, in which case your key is included in the backup and technically even your messages could be accessed.
I agree with you (obviously), but I'm not sure we should invoke "descriptivism vs prescriptivism" here. As far as I understand that distinction is mostly applicable to English (or other natural language) teaching, which is usually quite prescriptive, but should also have varying descriptive elements. And to dictionaries, which are(?) mostly descriptive (even when that means listing two conflicting definitions for a single word), but have to make some prescriptive editing decisions.

When it comes to actual semantic issues like this one, I think that invoking "p vs d" just muddies the waters, because such issues should be examined on a case-by-case basis.

This issue specifically is quite akin to the "literally" case: different instances of usage of the same phrase have (almost) opposite meanings:

See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/literally and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

I think it's fair to say the Perl-style semantics are just wrong, because there's no way to use them without being confusing.
I read the article but have not watched the video so I may be missing some context.

It really depends on how you define “exploiting”. It doesn’t seem like you _need_ to buy the ads. A kid could make a game on any platform and would encounter similar barriers.

Would it be better if the kid played Call of Duty rather than creating something? Even if the chance to profit is low does the kid get something else out of Roblox?

To my knowledge kids aren’t dropping out of high school with hopes of being a Roblox millionaire. They may dream about it but I don’t think they act on it. I dreamed about being a pro eSports gamer in high school and I’d argue my time was much worse spent doing that.
Thanks for the downvotes. That will surely change my mind rather than polarizing me even further against these abuse claims.
This tool started off as Excel VBA a million years ago, and has made trips through VB6 on its way to VB.NET.

The language is ... ehhhhh. I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. There are things I like, but occasional items that are awful. Sometimes at the same time.

shrug I've been doing this too long to get worked up about language. Of the tools I own nowadays, VB.NET is somewhere in the middle of the pack.
Yup, was paying attention to these communities during that time and after. Saw very similar things to you. A grass roots type of coordination, which just looks inherently different than a top down type coordinated effort.
I've cleaned hotel rooms. I think we had 20 minutes a room (it was a long time ago).

You get good at it.

Different people did different parts of the job, with only one in a room at a time. For example, one person removed all the bedsheets, cleaned surfaces, polished mirrors, replaced toilet rolls etc and tidied things that were out of place including the resident's items. Another brought in and fitted clean bedsheets and placed clean towels. Another went around with a vacuum cleaner after them.

The total time per room when you count each person probably exceeded 20 minutes.

When not cleaning rooms I worked in the kitchen.

I was 17 at the time, and this job helped pay my living expenses subsequently at university, because the government grant was sufficient for rent, but no food.