skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shut down(sabotage) the entire service immediately. No working service, no new log. They still can implement IP logging to comply with the government, but alas, service is not working right now.

At least, Lavabit did that when they were demanded by US government for the TLS private key to spy on Edward Snowden.

Destroy the server equipment, then seek political asylum to the Non-EU countries.

Their selling point is they never log IP address. Fulfill that promise or they lose the trust. They chose break the promise. The only unique selling point they have compared to the competitors.
The risk is higher than people want to admit: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/12/texas-rsv-covid-19-c...
What is the background lithium level due to landfill lithium casual waste disposal. There are millions of the little lithium button cells casually discarded, plus tools etc?
Will this ever become a factor - or is it a trivial matter?
I know some areas have natural lithium in ground water.
Well there's no reason it has to be "insufficient" and having too little protein is certainly a bad idea. If you consume a source of protein at every meal, whatever the makeup, you can easily hit 16%+ as part of your macros. Even vegetables like broccoli and peas have protein.
Reminds me of that Google employee that was complaining how during the pandemic, Starbucks was too far away from his apartment he was now forced to work from.

This guy, in his thirties and likely a brilliant engineer, just had no idea how to make himself anything, nor would he have the equipment or supplies for it. A total man-child, spoiled through and through.

I'm from Europe, and once visited Texas. I was shocked by how absurdly cheap it is to eat out. And not just the low prices, also the abundance of restaurants. We were on a highway and saw a sign "next 3 exits: food exits".

What!?

We tried a low tier option, a pizza joint. Upon entering, you pay 3$. Then it's all you can eat, as you walk past pizza slices having any topping you'd like, and you can just keep loading up. At the end, there's a soda machine with unlimited refills. And the pizza was actually pretty good.

I still just can't believe it. Does not compute. I'm not talking "thin margins", I'm talking...how the hell is this even remotely possible at all? In property, actual food cost, staff, taxes, the like? This would be 5-10 times more expensive where I live. A single glass of soda would cost more, and you'd get no refills.

At such absurd prices, I can totally imagine the culture developing where nobody cooks anymore.
I don't think abolishing the federal government would
get rid of local law enforcement agencies. They would probably just get worse.
...from prison, where you were put because your email provider's guarantees eroded over time.
Equally interesting is "it's twitter from 1803" - "TO THE PUBLIC" it was called back then.
Joe Biden supported creating this CF law.

CF is nothing more than empowering American police officers to lower themselves down to the same standards as what used to be that Mexican cops would turn into pirates at night on their highways - - - only now it's 24 hours a day.
A democracy is a form of government where citizens pick who is in charge.

You can have pacifist government against war. You can have the opposite.

Norway is a democracy but doesn't have an aggressive miliary posture. The US has the largest army and probably spends 800b on their military.

Authoritarian government manage by suppressing their own people. This requires an aggressive military presence locally. All of the conditions above could be true as well for these types of governments.
> And if people feel free to buy more games knowing they can return the ones they don’t like, it ends up in more sales and more profit.

Actually I don't think that's necessarily true. We tend to be more judgmental of things we get for free than things we had some investment in. By having a "demo-style" return policy you're possibly being more critical of the game than you would be if you had no opportunity to get your money back. Not to mention the scheme's effect on shorter works. You could play all of a one hour game and then decide after the fact it wasn't worth the money. At least one developer has quit game development because of this, which means that there is a pressure to ensure that every game on Steam lasts at least two hours, and that'll probably take the form of having the best stuff locked away until after the two hour mark.

> What logical difference is there between studying the reviews and screenshots over playing the game for 30 minutes and working out yourself if you like it?

I'll admit, I can't meaningfully articulate the difference it makes when you pay for a game and then take your money back vs not paying for it.

But consider this: how would a 30 minute demo of a game be different than the first 30 minutes of the full game? Like screenshots and reviews it would be designed to give you an overview of the complete game experience it is trying to sell you, whereas the first 30 minutes are what is necessary to get the game going.
This is the exact kind of clarity that was needed for users to have confidence in their understanding of Protonmail. Andy Yen (Proton CEO) is a very thoughtful communicator and is making the world better.

At some point everything on the internet becomes local, because people and businesses eventually must exist at a location in the real world. Proton is always going to be subject to local law enforcement wherever they are based.
> This explains why social divisions about public health measures are so bitter and enduring: They are rooted in divisions about the nature of political legitimacy itself. The global rebellion against the modern bureaucratic state, and the scientific and professional expertise on which it is built, has degenerated into a zero-sum struggle against any effort whatsoever to impose binding, impersonal rules to defend the public good.

What the author misses about the "patrimonialism," (rule of the leader or man) he is criticizing is that it is relatively limited in its scope, which facilitates more individual growth and freedom than what we can infer he is advocating for which is a more presumably "maternalist" and encompassing leviathan that provides group leveling and security. The gendered etymology of the terms is probably not by accident either, where one's preference for the tools of masculine aggression (hierarchy, physicality) over feminine aggression tactics (isolation, shame) are probably psychosexual roots of political orientation you can't just reason someone out of.

If he thinks the root of a problem is other people not complying with coercion, he should consider whether it is worth reflecting on whether he is the problem.
The point is that there will be a lot of pushback from vendors. Meanwhile I doubt even 5% of the electorate actually cares about this. For that reason I don't think it's really "feasible".
I feel as though consumer protection hasn’t really caught up with technology and this is definitely a step in the right direction.

But what if some software update “bricks” or regresses your device in some way?

I’ve had video games even that have become unusable after software updates.
That, though, would be a reason to aim a [citation needed] at the BBC, not at someone who's just offering a TL;DR type summary of what the BBC said.
Not sure "written in Rust" is a headline thing that's worth mentioning anymore. Particularly amusing in this case when parts of Discord are written in Rust too.
Not all civil forfeiture is theft. Too much of it is, to be sure, but it is still mostly used to forfeit proceedings of crime.
West LA’s eruv, the hidden wall built and maintained by Orthodox Jews
> "Just embed a confluence page into a task"

Except that confluence and JIRA are both so slow that you'll still be there 2 minutes later waiting for it to load. Perhaps not everybody's experience is so bad? I don't understand how anyone could consider these products convenient given how ridiculously slow they were.

We used to do refinement meetings over video call (I guess everyone is these days) inputting into JIRA, and we'd literally spend 3/4's of the call waiting for JIRA to catch up with the words I'd typed. There's bad engineering, and then there's making writing a sentence text box lag with times measures in seconds.
Alice's Restaurant
Not just the power to keep it up, but also the rotors. Not sure how heavy Earth quadcopter rotors are as a proportion of total vehicle weight, but the Ingenuity ones are absolutely enormous.
They had to comply, and that's a downside of centralization. Use PGP and Tor if you want true privacy.
Yup, fully agree: Protonmail should just say "we comply with the law". Though at this point the security reputation of the Swiss should have given anyone pause to think (Crypto AG, Omnisec AG, etc)

My point was just that 1) the arrest was related to squatting, not the climate 2) these people, idealist and well-intentioned as they were, were not "peaceful" (at least, not when faced with a brigade of police officers)
And the law is the absolute 100% honest-to-your-deity-or-lack-thereof moral authority on all things, so never ever ever disobey it.
I read the article to discover the reason Palantir moved to Denver and came up empty handed.

A better headline might be, "Why would Palantir want to move to an unwelcoming Denver?"
requing operators to allow phone owners to update all OpenSource code, which is probably the majority of the Internet/network facing code in ios and android, could be doable.
How does it compare to matrix? Would have been nice to use that since it’s an open protocol that already takes privacy seriously
Restarts.jl: Common Lisp’s Restarts Implemented in Julia
Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot
What is "fresh pasta"? That flour's been sitting in my pantry for months!

Yes, fresh eggs taste better. But fresh flour? Not really. grains, beans, flour, rice... these "preserved" foods can last months or even well into a year or longer.
Wouldn't that cause them to skip features and pick cheap drivers? How many people would benefit (not theoretically, but in practice)? Average life span of a mobile seems to be 2 years and a bit. After seven years, very few users will be left. And it's not as if everyone ditches their phone because of lack of updates.
While there may be examples of activists being oppressed by Swiss law, in this particular incident activists where messing with others' property which is hardly changing society for the better.
The search engine will happily search any attached pdfs and return those. It just won't search the actual Confluence pages, which seems like it would be easier.
The voltage driving the resistors? Just terribly slow, matching the terribly slow speed of the motor.
You’re right, the hack/workaround to not reclaim ARC if it’s below a size was written but not merged [0]. But the PRNG thing (actual CPU usage bug) is real and in 0.7+ so far as I can tell. Ideally both would have been committed.

[0]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/6544
> Under current Swiss law, email and VPN are treated differently, and ProtonVPN cannot be compelled to log user data.

> Under no circumstances can our encryption be bypassed, meaning emails, attachments, calendars, files, etc. cannot be compromised by legal orders.

> [..] We will also clarify that the use of our onion site (details below) is highly recommended for users who want anonymity

Source: https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/

So I guess you should be using Tor or protonVPN if you don't want to hide your access logs from swiss authorities.

They could have done a better job at explaining the threat model to the wider public, but I wouldn't say they are useless. I think it's advisable to not have a knee jerk reaction.

EDIT: link to their published threat model: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-threat-model/
However, not all phones are iPhone 6s. A Nexus 5X is almost seven years old at this point, but I found mine to be rather slow a few years back.
While I appreciate this article and find it interesting, I'd be remiss not to point out that even 100 years ago, there were people who rebelled against the rules of law and rational, reasonable public health measure and the science around it. See the anti mask league of San Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Franci...

I don't know if the distrust for the idea of bureaucratic expertise is really that recent, it seems to me that it has always been a lever certain politicians, business men or manipulators have used to manipulate the gullible masses.

Sorry for the slightly misanthropic comment, I've been disappointed by people too many times not to become a cynic (even if I do feel wonder and awe at some of the things humanity has achieved).
I wonder how far this is from clojure in practice? Seems to have very similar principles.
A very simple question: Is '' aka (U+F8FF) and 'U+261A' emojis?

Yes or No?
Did you read the article? Because their guarantees didn't "erode over time," this exact attack vector, and how to mitigate it, was disclosed in their public report over five years ago.
Hi, I would just like to add to this, I have been under a police investigation for some time, and although they are wasting their time. I do take every precaution to preserve my privacy. Which just seems to make them more angry. I have a proton main account, and and cant be specific. But I can say with a degree of certainty that not only can the police gain access to the contents of your proton main account with little effort, they also have the ability to remove login instances from history. As I saw a IP login from a certain location, when I got back from work that instance of the successful login was missing. I know what that morning I entered the IP into a IP lookup website, I even saw what area it come from. I hope this helps people make a informed decision about using proton mail. Because if the police have got it in for you, they will just lie and make up reasons and make the Swiss police feel bad for not acting or helping.
It’s pretty sad that they claim IP logging only occurring in “extreme criminal cases” and that somehow includes nonviolent protesting.
When you import without exporting, all you risk losing is the last few seconds of data transactions. If a motherboard dying was enough to lose all your data people wouldn't really recommend ZFS.

So hopefully the pool was exported, but the worst case scenario isn't very bad.
> The better the developer the quicker they’ll find a job.

In my experience rather:

The better the developer is at self-promotion, the quicker they’ll find a job.
Did they get tired of waiting for the case in the Delhi High Court?
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If they were shutting down their service every time police requests logs then their servers wouldn't have time to even boot properly. In their "clarification" they claim they received 700 orders in 2020. It is ~2 orders/day.
Once you grind once or twice, the next times you practice it comes back quicker. The first time I interviewed it took me 3 months of daily morning prep and one weekend day of studying. This time, it took me one month of only a few days a week practicing to get back into it. Granted I’m single and young and Hopefully will never have kids.
there are plenty of software companies that have pretty easy interview processes. once you get that far, you basically just have to avoid talking your way out of the job. but they don't pay way above the median engineer salary either.

the big n tech companies have the same problem as harvard, more or less. way more qualified people apply than they have headcount for, so how can they pick efficiently?

I don't enjoy leetcode interviews, but for these extremely competitive positions, I can't think of a reasonable alternative I'd prefer. you know in advance what topics you'll be tested on, and the interview prep applies to several different companies you might be interested in. I'd much rather do that than prepare a bunch of "tell me about a time when..." answers for each company's supposed values.

> In what other industries are the bars so high?

pretty much anything where you can start at $200k with a bachelor's degree? honestly what other jobs like that have a lower bar?
ProtonMail's blog post:
https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/
We can't mandate health treatments simply because there shouldn't be a need to coerce people into improving their health. Also because we don't know what the boundaries are. To an extreme extreme we will mandate that people should not consume higher more than the recommended fat daily intake.

Another very valid reason preventing a mandate: millions of people are opposing that vaccine, since the article takes it as the main example. They aren't campaigning for forbidding the vaccine, they are ferociously opposed to being forced to take it. It should make everyone think very carefully when not only a few lunatics who don't believe in science are outraged, but a decent portion of the population express their anger towards the idea of mandating medical treatments/preventions.

It is not that we can't mandate Anything. We've mandated that no one shall assassinate, steal, fraud, corrupt, partake in incestuous and pedophile activities, and many other things that make society as a whole go backwards without much doubt. Go after those who get away with infractions, that would be a better start.
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I am not sure I agree with the hating on blue.

I've been testing my own color discrimination and I find it is (1) awful with tricolor LED bulbs on a warm setting, (2) tolerable with high quality "warm" halogen bulbs, (3) tolerable with tricolor LED bulbs on a blue setting, (4) much better in real daylight.

People are used to "warm" low color temperature bulbs but for viewing art the consensus is moving towards light that is richer in green and blue, you are just not going to get the most of these colors on a canvas or auto paint or any other reflective medium unless you have green and blue in your illuminating light to begin with.
. . ."you may have had a role in the operation of a massive counterfeit goods ring" - - - only that the wealthy folks you mentioned have access to any dozens of high profile lawyers which would cost them less than 1/100th of 1% of their assets.

This is all about targeting the middle and poor class - - - whom in too many cases cannot afford to hire decent attorneys just to try to get back what was stolen from them, especially if the legal cost it is equal to or less than the amount stolen.

So called "Justice for All" was never "EQUAL Justice for All" - - even though it's a hideous mockery that "Equal Justice for All" is on the side of the US Supreme Court Building.
I think the reason is that US-Americans are really into pretending they care about their veterans.
It's not undeniable at all, you made an assertion without any base.
This is far from being obvious, there's way too much things to take into consideration to be able to make such claim out of thin air.
And in the spirit of accuracy : the reason for the arrest was the violence during an eviction (several injured police officers), not the squatting itself.
Interesting comment to dissect.

First, assuming that refusing to comply with counter-insurgency enforcement would lead to closing down the service: to my knowledge this can only result in machines seized (riseup.net seizure) or fines for the hosting provider (altern.org), not to the service actually closing down and the admins being jailed (unless they are found to be part of a broader criminal conspiracy, which is definitely not the case of Protonmail).

As long as you have backups and you're not rich, all in all there's nothing to be afraid of. Of course litigation is stressful, but nobody's going to physically torture you for that in the Global North.

Second, assuming that refusing to collaborate with authorities will necessarily escalate to hardware seizure and litigation. There's a long way to go for that, and many ways an investigation can be closed (succesfully or not) without sysadmin collaboration.

Third, assuming that going on a political trial to defend activists will necessarily result in being condemned. A political trial, along with a political (not legal) defense can go many ways, and it's very often that refusing to comply with such obvious abuses of power (eg. using Europol to track down anti-gentrification activists) will result in complete acquittal.

Only when you play by the rules of an unfair system, you're sure to loose at every turn.
For electric cars though, you make more money as a carmaker if their batteries are smaller, which happens when your consumption is lower, so it encourages slicker designs, unlike ICE cars where somehow Americans still think 20mpg is acceptable in 2021, and the carmaker makes as much money or more selling you a 20 or a 50mpg car.
Ansible is sort of bad at everything, and does a few things decently.

I use it as an orchestrator / clusterssh replacement, but for configuration management it makes me nervous because I can't trust it to just not break for stupid reasons.
People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake marketing clones
When did it used to be good? The 90s? The 00s?

I’ve never been (and have no intention to visit) but I remember we got a visit from some Cisco folks at a career fair and they were all super enthusiastic, engaged, what I assumed were hotshot engineers.
Then one of them said “my roommates and I” and I realized that this guy, way more gregarious and successful than me, had to split a place with more than one person he wasn’t in a relationship with, dude looked mid-late 20s too…

Even Toronto prices intimidate me and those are pretty decent for the quality of city, though last time I visited the tent cities and human feces were getting worse…
Moreover, it is quite unclear whether capitalism is capable of optimizing over the long term at all.

Suppose we had two planets. Then if global warming got really bad on one, the other would charge crazy fees to refugees --- turn them into indentured servants to the 5th generation or something, and all the investments on the hot planet would loose their value relative the good planet. Clearly, the hot planet's rich people would not want to become indentured servants like everyone else -- for they have little to offer to the cold planet, and so global warming would be prevented.

(Aside, I suppose this is/once was Musk's plan, but his timing is off.)

Without the other planet, civilization can mostly collapse, but not ones investments go to shit relative and advanced society elsewhere. I suppose there can be an small states in the far north, but the rich people will get priority to move there and could sill own everything. All our standards of living go down, but they get to keep their relative position in society, which is mostly what they care about anyways (at least as long as the standard of living declines slow enough to not be too salient.

Of course, the rich people could still do that if there are two planets, but the cold planet elite will mock and scorn the rich planet elite for being so much poorer holed up in Siberia/Canada.

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We see a similar problem with this chip shortage / lack of inventories. Everyone else did, so no one is loosing market share. The widgets you can sell command a high price, too. What are the consequences? Only when demand crashes do firms suffer.
She said that her lawyers determined that court order should have been expired
No, because they weren't (as far as I know?) used within a body of text written using a different alphabet system?
Police don't bother with shoplifters in my country
My company is currently migrating off of Confluence due to the ending of the on-premise license. We found a combination of a simple web-based knowledgebase app for public content and Office 365/Teams -- which we already license.