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This has always been a weird quirk of GitHub. You can disable issues, boards, wikis, but pull requests cannot be toggled. It's a pain point for lots of projects: those closed to contributions, those which are not primarily code (issues-only), those that use a different platform for review (e.g. Gerrit), ...

Why does GitHub persist? It's not like forcing the feature enabled helps anyone. The maintainers will still not merge if they don't want to. There are bots in the marketplace that will close PRs with a message. GitLab has a toggle. Why is this so important to GitHub?
It is interesting how accounting does the opposite - even quite complicated situations quickly become dry and boring.

The complexity of economic discussion is 100% politics. Nearly everyone in the debate is looking for justifications as to why they & theirs should get more stuff and not have to do anything for it.
Before College all math courses in the US 'build up' to Calculus 1 & 2 [1,2] presumably to prepare motivated students for engineering. Calculus 2 is the highest you can go in a public High School before a student will start thinking about starting their college career early or doing an independent study. This one track path is not without its side effects. As you can see by skimming this textbook the information on linear systems is lacking - something that might be more interesting to those who want to study CS.

[1]: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus-1

[2]: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus-2
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Be careful when companies market themselves as Swiss or that due to them being located in Switzerland means there is some extra layer of security or privacy.

Sure, it's a more stable country than many other countries in the world, but not much different from most EU countries for example. And privacy wise there is no difference.

Be also aware of the fact that many companies market themselves as Swiss, but all it means is they have a head office in Switzerland due to tax reasons. In one example, it's a cloud storage company, they say on their marketing page and their about page that they are based in Switzerland and under Swiss law, but if you look at the legal pages the company you sign up with are actually based in Bulgaria. Their servers are based in Texas, USA and Luxemburg, Europe and their development team in Bulgaria.
The budget - and I think you are talking about the budget reconciliation - includes a lot of stuff besides infrastructure. It's the budget after all.[0]

Well... one half of the country is working on such a budget. The other half is doing everything to sabotage that budget, get back control of the senate and the house and spend that $3.5 trillion on a tax bill for the super-wealthy. You know, like the last time they did that [1].

Bit even if the infrastructure got $3.5 trillion; that isn't enough to even fully repair the existing infrastructure[2]. The last time the ASCE released an infrastrucutre report, fixing the infrastructure would cost about $4.8 trillion.

That's just to fix the existing infrastructure. That money isn't going to build new nuclear reactors. By the way; how many nuclear reactors are currently being built in the US?

... Two... Two reactors with each a bit more that 1TWh. The latest one to come operational one was the Tennessee’s Watts Bar Unit 2, which began operation in June 2016. Before that Watts Bar Unit 1 in 1996. So, two new one ones in operation in 25 years. Two new ones being built.

How many more do you think we would need?

Well, we don't just have to cover the existing energy needs. Since it's getting hotter (I'm taking +1.5°C by 2050 as granted, since we're already at +1.25) we're going to need a bit more - but hey! - let's discount that. Let's say for living we don't need more energy, as generous as that is.
Unfortunately you also want to grow food using electricity. And desalinate water. But let's also discount that. Let's discount all that and go with our current energy needs, for the sake of argument.

We currently have 100 reactors with each about 1TWh. That covers about 20% of US energy needs. Let's say we can get the other renewables also up to 20%. That would still leave us with about 600 new reactors to be built. By about 2060.

Do you honestly thing that this country has the political will to build 600 nuclear reactors over the span of forty years? This country cannot muster the political will to phase out coal or gas. This country cannot even muster the political will to stop subsidizing fossil fuels.

Sorry, my friend. I'm afraid that brute-forcing technology will save none of us. It might play a part in saving us, but unless we have a radical rethink about our current economic structure and incentives[3], this is just hot air.

[0] https://wusf.org/heres-whats-in-the-democrats-3-5-trillion-b...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017

[2] https://infrastructurereportcard.org/

[3] And we know that this isn't going to happen. See [1]
Well, at least they own their mistakes and change accordingly.

All email is shit. Nothing is encrypted and many company's simply try to sell you on better productivity (hey.com). Already having my email be encrypted so that the host can't read it is a step forward, in my opinion.
So right, people just dont get the big picture.

If they were forced to log the IP address, they can be forced to log user password. This makes entire encrypted mailbox useless.
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> “We know we’re not what companies are looking for”

Why do you say that? Because I can tell you as an employee of a FAANG company that you are exactly what these companies are looking for. They’ve got serious diversity issues - especially among Black men (not assuming a gender here just facts) - and they are desperate to balance themselves out.

I mean that as an encouraging statement. You ARE who is being looked for. Be confident in that and use it to your advantage.
In my opinion, email is the wrong medium for highly confidential communication. Especially, if someone's personal freedom or safety depends on it. Even if E2E works correctly, you still have to worry about meta data. Maybe Matrix over TOR would be a better alternative?
You can usually find a html parser for your language, that you can use xpath/xsl on. It will just make the same assumptions that the browser does, by adding missing closing tags etc.

I made a tool that extracted parts of web pages 10-15 years ago, and it worked well. There are of course cases where the html is so unstructured that the results were unpredictable, but it worked well in general.
> haven't you implicitly signed up to _not_ running the cutting edge software

Yes, exactly. Meanwhile the Rust community, in its current fast-changing, cutting-edge state is doing its best to work itself into being a basic dependency for everything. In the name of safety.

It's psychopathic behavior.
The line is thin between privacy and anonymizing criminal activity.
What is missing is dividing all that by field of study. When white males give up college, what exactly do they give up?

https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/publications/homecoming-a...

>Once barriers to female careers were lowered and their access to higher education was expanded, two key factors may have played a role in the female college advantage: relatively greater economic benefits of
college for females and relatively higher effort costs of college going and prepara-
tion for males. (girls exceeded boys in secondary school performance
and attainment)
More College-Educated Women Are Having Babies Outside Marriage
It won’t help with switching, but it is good for routing/fw + running real software.

I just run a Netgate appliance for that plus something less flaky than OpenWRT.

I also wonder what actual speeds you can get out of these NICs. So many cheap gigabit NICs aren’t really up to the task. And I’d guess that the switch plane runs at 1 gigabit total here.
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Is Modafinil legal? It is absolutely legal for you to purchase Modafinil is classified as a schedule IV drug in the United States for personal use if you have a prescription.
The empirical results of mandating masks is that virus spread is reduced substantially. But most masks people wear are not N95 type masks and shouldn't be as effective as the empirical results indicate. One article I read suggests that the effectiveness of masks comes not primarily from the filtering out of the virus but from increasing the humidity in the respiratory tract which in turn affects the ability of the virus to transmit disease.
If you think about it, publicly traded companies are precisely that: nationalized. They exist as partly as government fiat, and partly of managerial control, but not as property. They are, by necessity, of somewhat unknowable, and almost always unaccountable ownership, ownership so diffuse it may be regarded as a generally representative subset of and equivalent to the general public. As such, can any public company be regarded as private? Or treated as private? Their ownership is public, and no individual, or small, knowable, and generally convenable group of people can say: these are our servers. On the contrary, a group of people equivalent to the general public, a subset of them in fact public or pseudo-public institutions (pension funds, university endowments), are the owners. As such, public institutions should very much be treated as public entities. After all, it is the general public which owns them.
No, I just get outdoors and live with real people, and see it myself. I've been pulled over in a car with two other dudes, and watched the darkest skin guy get the crap kicked out of him because they thought he is a gangster, while we had to sit on a curb and watch. Where I went to school, counselors tried to get me to take AP classes, which I didn't want, while my friends with darker skin, and better grades, had to go on the wait list. I lived in an area where 13 year old pregnancies were regular. Guys raping chicks while they are passed out drunk in high school was regular. Jumping the gay kids were regular. I got to watch it, empathize with my friends, but I never had to bear the burden. My burden was folks like you, denying there are any problems because you are so safe, can't fathom life being different, even when it's across the street.

> normal people

Point exactly, when you say normal, you are thinking of white dude America. And yes, this does not happen to them.
> nationalize tech companies for being successful

It's not saying that at all (nationalising companies is a very specific action that doesn't have anything to do with what you described).

That said, I don't agree with your premise which appears to be that this is bad. Converting something that is basically a utility already (i.e. everyone uses it and everyone expects to be able to. It's almost unthinkable to have daily life without it) to a nationalised company would be a good thing.
Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster
It’s a bit disingenuous (sensationalist?) to go from:

> “No one outside of this chat, not even WhatsApp, can read or listen to them.” Those assurances are not true.

to (buried in the middle):

> Because WhatsApp’s content is encrypted <…> WhatsApp reviewers gain access to private content when users hit the “report” button on the app, identifying a message as allegedly violating the platform’s terms of service. This forwards five messages <…> to WhatsApp in unscrambled form

Unless I’m missing something, the article so far confirms that in WhatsApp:

(1) Signal-based E2E chat encryption still works as expected,

(2) reports actually get reviewed (I used that feature a few times), and

(3) FB mines down to bedrock everything else apart from actual chat contents. Nothing new here.

Since, as far as my personal experience goes, almost no one uses Signal and almost everyone uses Telegram in non-E2EE mode, the choice appears obvious.

That all said, the horribleness of content moderation jobs deserves more awareness.
They can force you to implement functionality if it doesn't exist? Like logging?
Having grown up in a rust belt mining city and having gone to school with a lot of non-intellectual classmates, I can say that "regular people" are much more ready to accept inborn differences in mental abilities as self-evident (similarly to, say, facial beauty) than intellectuals themselves.

Smart and highly accomplished people, on the other hand, often try to deflect, dispute, water down and distract, once the topic of heritability of intelligence comes up.

To a part this is given by the fact that intelligence is a hard topic, but I wonder to which degree this semi-denial is psychological. Smart people might resent the possibility that part of their success could be traced back to random unearned biological privilege that cannot even be taxed and redistributed. "Just World fallacy" is an attractive one, especially in a society that verbally celebrates equality and equity.
I agree with you here 100%. It's empirically true that all these things commonly happen. So the question is how do you mitigate these issues, if there are better alternatives? That's what I've been trying to do with the design of Odin, and try to nudge the user away from any of this nonsense whilst still being enjoyable to program in.
In general I think these kind of bug bounty competitions are fun and great idea. But this one seems pretty technically sophisticated. Maybe I'm underestimating the students, resume builders, etc that typically participate, but I'll be curious to see what comes from this one. The prerequisite papers look interesting, though.
So let me get this straight.

Your reasoning is that in brutally sexist societies women choose to study completely male-dominated fields because they don't have to make a living after it, whereas in the most egalitarian societies in the entire world sexism pushes them towards traditionally female fields to escape discrimination?
Is it true that nobody knows how acetaminophen works?
I would not go so far as to day that email cannot be used privately, but I would say that it is very very difficult to use email privately. I agree that most people with highly confidential needs would be better served by another system, though I don't know what to recommend - Matrix over Tor seems viable, perhaps.
Or you protect your own IP, I wonder if ProtonVPN could have done that? Would have been a nice test of those claims as well.

All in all, I still trust ProtonMail, they are handling this quite well and transparently. Their original messaging was probably a compromise between getting the message out there and leaving some room for things like this. Arguably that was a mistake, or maybe with the whole truth in bold on the front page, people would have flocked less to ProtonMail? I still don't agree with that original messaging though, as they don't themselves anymore.

Still pretty great free service if you ask me. If a family plan was cheaper I'd have migrated everyone there a long time ago.
The company you’re mentioning in the end is Tresorit, right? If so, they still do get some kudos for running a pretty solid end to end encrypted storage service. Their whitepaper checked out to me and their heavy focus on business users instead of consumer seems to attract less of the advocate types of users that ended ProtonMail in this weeks situation to begin with
I wish the thing killing Google's golden goose weren't worse than Google.

TikTok does it by pairing Twitter-level burnout-causing engagement juicing with short videos with no option to turn off autoplay.
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Would you trust any VPN provider in that regard? I sure don't.
Is this a common expression in Dutch or something you made up yourself?
I see many comments here that seem to be uninformed. Please, make sure to ProtonMail's official statement first. It includes a lot of important background info: https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/

For example, this paragraph is important:

> Unlike other providers, we do fight on behalf of our users. Few people know this (it’s in our transparency report), but we actually fought over 700 cases in 2020 alone. Whenever possible, we will fight requests, but it is not always possible.
I think that's exactly how racism works right? You segregate people by how they look like and you make them believe that because how they look like and their origins they are less important then the others. Kind of funny how we humans think: "let's correct a mistake repeating it over and over again".
Most of that is extra unused capacity. They've shared their load graphs and past anecdotes where it's clear the entire site runs very lean.

Also 23 is very much a couple for a company and application of that size. It's not uncommon to see several hundred or thousands of nodes deployed by similar sites.
You are right.

The US has basically been a communist country since the 70s when it passed the ADA requiring businesses not only to serve the disabled but spend money to make sure disabled people can access their services.

There’s basically no difference between the US and the USSR ever since.
You can have large apartments in tall buildings. There just aren't enough high rise buildings in SF.
Your service is connected to the internet, isn't it ? An IP is a fundamental component of it. It's impossible for you to say that you cannot have the IP. Even if it involves you going to your edge server and reading everything with Wireshark to find out the IP, you will still have to comply.

EDIT: To add to this, this is why ProtonMail recommends using a TOR node to protect your address.
IIRC, you can already set priorities on different swap partitions, so that the kernel chooses the ones you want it to use first.
In the (post)modern world, every device should have its driver built-in (along with a CPU to run it on). The communication protocol (the command language) should be standardized for each given class of devices. The protocol should support the ability to upload custom “shaders,” whenever this makes sense, to tweak or extend the default behavior.
Agreed, there should be a threshold where people can get the minimum to live a normal life. Basic healthcare, a job with liveable wage, easy access to education etc...

However, there should be a playground for innovation as well.

Europe makes it so damn hard to innovate because of it's many laws. Ambitious people inevitably move to the US.
What constraints? Windows Server licenses are bought per-core and the company can easily afford plenty more. This is a non-issue.
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I did this for a few years in a genero small router passively cooled form factor PC from China. Celeron with discrete Intel NICs. Ran PfSense.

Worked great until it died a few months back. Now it’s less expensive to just buy the equivalent Netgate appliance. It’s been great.
one company in the cloud sector failed 20 years ago, before people were even using the word cloud in this context
ProtonMail has always said that they would comply with Swiss law. Your IP will not be logged unless you commit a crime in Switzerland and the swiss police hands in a request.
Are you sure he was arrested due to climate activism-- or is it possible that the irrelevant description has been added to manipulate people into a target reaction?
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Some companies try harder to fight the decision than others and it makes a difference.
Go on. Take the upvote.
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> For some reason, I was under the impression age itself had some logic for keys.txt files.

An early version of the draft spec did include a default keys.txt path, and I implemented it in rage. However, during the beta phase discussions we made the decision Filippo described above, and I removed support for a default path in rage 0.5.0.
For over 100 years we have had laws and rules that prescribe that when a firm or industry reaches monopoly statue they must act as a common carrier and not discriminate. Been that way since telephones and railroads. People should understand history, this is not a new challenge and the solutions are already on the books.

https://blog.scorchedweb.com/technology/supreme-court-on-con...
How much does a SWE make (San Francisco)
It's far from a false dichotomy. Typically, part of the assumption that the world must be broken down into hierarchical power structures and the subhuman valueless people must be suppressed, is an insistence that empirical evidence has established these things as facts.

Further investigation (for instance, Shaun's video on 'The Bell Curve') reveals this evidence is faked.

Some of us have had our patience with this sort of thing eroded, over time. You cannot simply assert you have the evidence, you have the facts, any other interpretation is wrong, and therefore you automatically win. That ain't gonna fly, except among a subset of HN commenters and system-participants.

And their brigading only discourages the participation of those who still think all this is about exchange of ideas. In my experience 'we define the facts, the evidence, and use systemic means to stifle anybody who gets in the way' does not enhance the free exchange of ideas.
If you reduced the development aid but also stopped bombing people, regime changes and all that good stuff that brings instability to a region, I'm sure everyone would be fine with that.

If you want to do some good, take some refugees. Like, a significant number, not a homeopathic amount.
I did not forget. But ads were the reason I entirely stopped to consume TV.

The same happend with youtube. I cant stand it anymore.
Does the kernel even have the information to know which is closest. I figured that would be absracted away to the disk controller.
The expectation that Proton would be able to disobey the legal requests of their local authorities with impunity is unrealistic. Protonmail makes certain claims about privacy, particularly about encryption. They don't make any claims that they have the intention, or ability for that matter, to defy local authorities at their peril. Like Grugq said in one of his presentations (paraphrased): "Don't expect your VPN company to do your jail time for you". I'm neither for nor against Protonmail. I don't think they've been dishonest. I think people have an unrealistic expectation of the service they offer. They offer additional privacy, not legal indemnity.
Murray was as far as can be determined acting in good faith.

The general argument of the Bell Curve, that people from different parts of the world have wildly different distributions on many different attributes, is (or ought to be) completely non-controversial, consistent with almost all scientific evidence and obvious.
This is correct. The middle class owns little in cash, but owe a lot in debt. Inflation eats a little of the former, and significantly lowers the burden of servicing the latter.

Inflation isn't the thing they need to worry about. What they need to worry about is making sure their particular job's wage inflation is keeping up with the average.
Yes,but it only changes the swap partition/device/file once another one is full.
is anyone else using the https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath over the jq route?

I hope we standardize on some jq query language, like we have with a base set of SQL syntax
Email and SMS aren't reliable, you've no way to know if they've been read.

SMS is unencrypted so someone's harvesting your data.

They require a cell tower connection, that's only 1 step away from an internet connection, probably 0 in many cases.

Cash and Phone numbers are trivial to steal.
Looks like they only serve webm video without fallback. So now when you aren't using a browser with webm it doesn't play the video and doesn't show any helpful message either. One could argue "but freedom!" and then we'd still have a terrible UX.
A perfect system? No, but think about how people must have felt about Wikipedia on launch.

Love this idea.