skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great article and I agree with the overall premise and ~90% of the individual points made.

But.

> If messages can be sent in plaintext, they will be sent in plaintext.

This format is such a common line of attack in critiques of technology that I think it needs a new logical fallacy coined to describe it. I've seen it used as the primary basis for entire "x considered harmful" essays (thankfully not the case here as the rest of the bullet points more than hold up without it).

The idea that many people will use technology wrong is not an argument in itself against that technology. It's essentially an argument against UX, which is important (especially in the case of security) but while a false sense of security is much worse than no security, that doesn't justify advocating against correct application of that technology (or against efforts to improve the UX of said tech).

As mentioned the point here is moot given encrypted email's other larger failings, but without them this point simply wouldn't stand.
Heh. How long until substack will fall out of favour with the tech and free speech crowd?
> I’m speculating

Was that a pun?
Ditto (since Big Sur: I had problems with 10.14 on a 2010 MBP).
I'm happy to come out to Texas and vote out your culture. Your ancestors did the same exact thing to the people that were there before.

No wait, your ancestors used guns and pushed them out by force.
What we need is more federal laws that make it a crime to continue spamming someone once of course they hit that unsubscribe button -- and of course the spammers themselves keep the rolls of who tried to unsubscribe.
The Search for America’s Atlantis
WaTor: Population dynamics simulation
I don’t think that’s true. Covid is dangerous precisely because healthcare systems can be overwhelmed.

If you receive care and have nocomorbid conditions, Covid for most won’t be dangerous, certainly not as dangerous as the 1918 pandemic, which killed young people.
There are plenty of reader apps that will do this for any type of article/blog post.
The sweat does vaporize, but I still think keeping it hot helps to clean it maybe? I also like the smell of a hot sauna. The main reason I don't do that and I run the dehumidifier is that I like to flip the power off to the sauna at the panel when I am done, just in case. The dehumidifier is heavy duty fwiw.
You know your website is bad when people build a browser extension to make it usable for its original purpose.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab...
Firefox != Gecko and I maintain a 200,000 lines of code product alone no problem, so I think possible.
Ummm... because great shows stay great forever?
I don’t think Salesforce is much of a victim here. What is Salesforce’s misfortune? It’s something else.
> Lots of people were sending white powder to official addresses.

It turned out that anthrax came from a government lab, and was supposedly sent by a single rogue employee... though doubts linger.

There were some hoaxes and bogus scares too though of course. One of my classmates almost got suspended for having foot powder in his gym bag.. thankfully cooler heads prevailed when school officials realized the kid had athletes foot and thought to doubt how a teenage boy could have plausibly procured weaponized anthrax spores in the first place. But yes, the hysteria was palpable.
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-your-area/midlan...
My relatively uneducated impression: it seems like the current leaders of Saudi Arabia are the most liberal (in the classical sense) option. Other candidates for leadership are even more hardline religious conservatives (and when people think of the 9/11 hijackers coming from SA, it's from these groups). Pushing against the current leadership is unlikely to result in an overall improvement in the situation.
The author lists a bunch of alternatives, but none of them have monetization built in. How are those viable alternatives?

This seems like it is totally missing the point about why people want to write on medium, which is to make money.

This is the equivalent of telling people “why are you working at a job, why don’t you work on hobby projects instead”
Oh, in this case I misunderstood what the parent meant, and I replied to a wrong interpretation of their words.

Thank you for the clarification.
Those were some examples in mind, but the broader point was it's worth spending substantial time finding material that works for you.
WTC Building 7 was _not_ hit by a plane, yet it somehow spontaneously collapsed in a very curious way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZiMG84hws0

EDIT: Of course, merely stating a plain objective fact, that doesn't challenge any narratives or make any controversial claims whatsoever, with a link to an AP archive video, will be downvoted negative within minutes. You are not allowed to even look at WTC7 collapsing. Don't even think about looking at it!
If this is the case its actually anti-competitive and supposed to be against the law. Obviously there is a difference between braking the law and getting caught though.
Problem is in the first paragraph they say they are against racism, sexism and homophobia. Gab is the way to go for free speech.
You spent resources. Of course to have to pay.
So you pull that tube over yourself and then cover the top with the sleeping bag? No worries about air circulation or passing out? Is it pitch black in there?
The Great Resignation
There doesn't seem to have been any activity around that space since ~2015 at least according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mail_Alliance
Hypocrisy isn't a criticism I've seen leveled at it. I thought the problem was autonomy over one's own body, like wearing masks.
Obesity is socially contagious, and causes higher rates of heart disease and cancer.
It might help identifying arguments. It's a huge cognitive load to identify the premises and the conclusion of an argument.[0] I've seen quite a few philosophers using text markers to help themselves navigate through arguments in prose.

[0]: https://philpapers.org/archive/DAVCAM-8.pdf
Getting paid to develop open source. What’s not to like? Great in theory, but projects will only generate income if they are a dependency of the subscribers.
Unconstitutional how?
Feynman was remarkable for many reasons, but one that particularly stands out for me is his skepticism toward science and scientists. The essay Cargo Cult Science is a great example. His kind of intellectual rigor is sadly rare among public intellectuals today.
https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/01/whatsapp-is-blocking-links...
There may be more reasons to see Mastodon as a potential threat. There's something of a different paradigm to it. First of all it is decentralized (federated), and anyone can spin up servers for themself or a community of users, set their own topic and rules (CoC, ToS) and connect with the larger social network (the Fediverse). Second of all this fediverse is based on open-standards and anyone can develop their own social apps and integrate them with others. Mastodon just happens to be the most popular / well-known. Other apps, such as Pixelfed and Peertube offer nice, ad-free, and 'calmer' experiences to their large-scale social media alternatives (Instagram and Youtube). See https://fediverse.party/

Also note that Twitter has taken an interest in decentralized protocols with Bluesky project.
There are content curators for the publications - essentially, you just submit them and if your article is good enough they’ll publish it.
DeepMind tried to break away from Google
Why wouldn't you just mobilize the California National Guard and occupy Texas?
Spanish, from Italian pignatta, a kind of pot, probably from dialectal pigna, pine cone (from its shape) - vehicle carrying a seed. Partners of aborters would be getting money from suing them rather than being taxed for the ride in sum.
twtr is also bad (requires an account just to read its amazingly intellectual social media content), but people still use it. Sigh. Let's blacklist this blogger guy for his perpetual crimes against civilization.
I guess it's popular because people outside of Germany didn't know there is a better product search than amazon.com. And if we honestly compare the two, Geizhals beats Amazon in almost every regard, from better filters to less tracking...
This exact thing happened to me last week.

I was notified on Sept 4 at 6:40pm.

Clicking on a link in my post to joinmastodon.com notifies you that the link goes against their community standards.
At least they let me know it was scam in the first sentence.

"The KryonEngine is a mechanical device which generates the Earth's first (heretofore undisclosed and taught/believed to be impossible) real Perpetual movement"
> Interesting how "because COVID" has become the thinly veiled excuse here.

The message says it triggered spam filters. It's not related to COVID misinformation.

The only place COVID appears is in the warning that their manual review queues are longer than normal due to COVID.
ELI5: While jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel you don't need to melt it to weaken it.
Doesn't look very ghostly to me. That doesn't have the smooth lines of a stealth design. The closest comparison I can think of is a Q-ship. It looks like an ordinary merchant ship but a Standard can take out most any pirate raider. The SM-6 has active homing, it could take cueing from a drone and sink a pirate from over the horizon. The SM-6 can engage from far beyond the range a Hellfire could.
Sculpture Holds a Decades-Old CIA Mystery
Some of the better episodes and their guest murderers:

"Swan Song" features Johnny Cash as a gospel singer with an unconventional murder weapon,

"Any Old Port In A Storm" has Donald Pleasence as a wine aficionado,

"Double Shock" has Martin Landau playing a pair of twins and Columbo harassed by their uncle's fastidious housekeeper,

"Columbo Goes To College" is one of the best of the 90s-era revival episodes, and features a couple of cocky frat-boys murdering their criminology professor.
I'm not attempting to moralize.

What I am trying to say is it didn't pass here because it was trying to target any specific group, it passed here because people tend to be conservative and for them the moral position is to be against abortion.
Cue an influx of resumes to this guy's team at Workday from litigious pro-lifers.
"Surely the Taliban should have been very upset with their 'guests' for getting them involved in Al-Qaeda's war, right? "

I am pretty sure, they were upset and maybe there were actual heads rolling behind the scenes. But on the outside, they had the US as common enemy. An enemy that hit them both as hard as he could, without making any difference.

So of course at that time, talking about extradiction was over.

But the Taliban while at power did made the civic offer to extradict Bin Laden, if presented with evidence.

So of course, it is not sure, if they actually would have done it. Maybe they would have ended in a civic war by themself over it.

But we never knew, because the US choose to go the brutal way.
No evidence. No extradiction. Just war.

Now 20 years later with the Taliban back in power and stronger than ever, I can just say, awesome outcome with this approach.
This is a stealth Signal promotion, and self-promotion of Latacora in a style of Lennart Poettering.

It's a bad advise, don't listen.
Communication platforms are a bit different. Nobody would be okay with Comcast blocking the signup page or mentions of Google Fiber or your municipal broadbrand network, or Verizon disconnecting your call if you mention AT&T.
Unfortunately cheaters ruin everything
“Together, these effects may make it harder for employees to acquire and share new information across the network.”

Remote is hard and not every company is going to adapt to this long term.

I’m happy that remote is now an accepted structure but I worry that full time remote employees will miss out simply because they aren’t present.
> In my book, it's wrong to pay if original authors don't get that payment.

Wait, are you under the impression that the authors don't get paid?
Same. I thought it was going to be a “don’t use some commercial encrypted email. Roll your own” kind of arguments.
right, thats why they were lucky
0 state income tax, but property taxes are 3% vs 1% or so in California.
It's the kind of thing that if used as precedent going forward turns into a mine field. It breaks federalism. It's something law the fugitive slave laws of the 1850s.
They should include C-SPAN coverage.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?165916-101

https://www.c-span.org/video/?165959-2

The second link is a particularly disheartening time capsule of political discourse that morning.
Ghost = no crew, maybe read the article before commenting?
If you like this, check out قلب [The current name قلب means Heart, but is actually a recursive acronym for قلب: لغة برمجة pronounced 'alb: lughat barmajeh meaning Heart: A Programming Language].

https://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/
https://github.com/nasser/---
It's not hypocritical. Salesforce wants to keep employees that relocated to their Texas offices happy. France and Mexico have not changed the status quo, and I'd assume most of their employees in those countries have always lived there.
First, journalists shouldn’t be “advocating” for anything. Second, a byline only serves the purposes of allowing ad hominem attacks rather than focusing on the content.
Solid at what?
Holy crap, I've gotten emails from your headhunters. Temptation intensifies.
If recent news is any indication, I think we've learned the hard way that you can't export democracy by force
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a3524/427...
They can’t capture anything at all even - anything goes wrong just blow up the whole thing!
They are, but people are now king of expecting to be able to access their software from anywhere, including their phone or tablet.
Hard to do, if you have millions of lines of MFC code. Which opens up opportunities for newcomers.
False.

Outlier exclusion is standard practice.

It's useful to note what is excluded. But you exclude bad data from the analysis.

Remember that what you're interested in is not the data but the ground truth that the data represent. This means that the full transmission chain must be reliable and its integrity assured: phenomenon, generated signal, transmission channel, receiver, sensor, interpretation, and recording.

Noise may enter at any point. And that noise has ... exceedingly little value.

Deliberately inserted noise is one of the most effective ways to thwart an accurate assessment of ground truths.
A mobile app can get location updates every 15 minutes even when you're not using it. A web page can only request location when the browser is processing its requests.
If you are able to share the story, what went wrong with the webhook?
But Apple and Microsoft weren't competitors then. Apple was a hardware manufacturer. Microsoft was a software manufacturer. While there was some overlap in their product offerings, they were in different businesses and so weren't really competitors.
Did you read the whitepaper? The key used to encrypt the backup is not derived from a password
I just feel somehow personally responsible for the way things went with the internet and surveillance capitalism.

I remember in early 2000s how I used to download some programs[1] to pay me to watch ads. I didn't pay content creators anything, didnt donate, I didnt have money, but I could've spared some.

I just didn't do anything to stop it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_to_surf
... and Instagram was just a photo sharing app - how could it ever compete with Facebook?
It's always worth remembering that the European and American legal philosophy on anticompetitive markets are different, and lead to different conclusions.

European law tends to favor maximizing competitors. American law tends to favor maximizing consumer value. At first glance, these can be considered equivalent, but they differ at the margins (which is why, for example, Amazon keeps getting hit with antitrust in France but not in the US).
> could get Facebook in trouble with a regulator if you squint at it.

How could it?
I think they got cause and effect mixed up.
They use a ton of it. Millions and millions of devices around the globe on a bunch of networks.
Very true, and I've also found that revisiting/discovering old techniques or initial approaches often yields new insights.
> You're scandalized a civil liberties organization opposed putting a minority's liberties to a vote?

That is a very creative way of framing a charter amendment that proposed to build 2,000 units of emergency housing for the homeless who are currently sleeping on the streets and in parks.

If there was a strong civil liberties argument here, why didn't the ACLU make it? Why did the entire legal argument rest on a claim that the measure conflicts with other state and local laws? The lawsuit did not cite any instances where this charter amendment actually violates any civil liberty of the homeless.

The ACLU is part of a progressive establishment that believes that the homeless must be allowed to continue sleeping on the streets and in parks, even if shelter options are available. They believe that we must spend until the homeless are enticed to choose shelter, and if they do not choose it, the only option is to spend more. I am against sweeping homeless camps when no other option is available, but I do not think it is reasonable if parks are occupied by encampments of homeless who have decided not to take offers of shelter.
I’m increasingly confident there’s a campaign in progress to persuade abandoning standards the NSA can’t crack and migrate us into projects using algorithms with built in backdoors. RSA is not cracked and PGP works fine.
I've found that the biggest marketplaces are on the Chinese web, places like taobao have a HUGE number. Also Russian social networks as well.
I think it would make more sense to point to the Matrix protocol instead of Signal.
Matrix is actually decentralized like Email, allows any service provider as well as app provider - free to choose as a user.
It supports Perfect Forward Secrecy (based on the Signal Protocol), arbitrary many devices and "one verification for each individual".

Well, you might argue Matrix stores meta data server side (the ones chosen), while Signal at least doesn't have to.

But do you really want to give up all that freedom trusting a single service provider in that really no data is kept?

Maybe you can wait until Matrix allows you to avoid signing up on a server using P2P[0], then you have got it all, and don't have to commit to an alternative that has advantages, but also big draw backs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27077660
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there are no "people who structure society" in a meaningful sense. no one sat in a meeting and said " ok lets design it so some people have to eat out of the trashcan"

yes some people have more pull than others, maybe a lot more, but even the president doesnt have that kind of ability to "structure" the day to day reality of average people ina generalized way
>games need to be built better by sending the least information needed to clients, ie. zero-trust

That isn't possible in real world for every type of competitive gameplay; trade-offs need to be made. Even games you list are not "zero trust" - things like looking direction are left to the client because of the latency.

Moreover, it's not enough. What's also needed is a hardware chain of trust for input devices. On-device cryptographic signing of mouse events would be sufficient and would guarantee that input comes from a fair play-compliant device.
Listen I don't want to get into a whole thing here
Yep. Facebook censored me for linking to an entry about COVID-19 growth on my personal webpage — https://samiam.org/COVID-19 for the record — saying the post violated Facebook’s community standards, falsely claiming it was spam (no, I do not have a single ad over on my personal website).

Also, interviewing for a job at Facebook has been one of the worst job interview experiences I have ever had.
They don’t do a very good job of defining what “treat women badly” means - you can find lots of women in any society who will insist that they’re being treated badly, and lots of women in supposedly oppressive societies who will defend traditionalism.
Will they relocate me if a state raises my tax burden and offer relocate me due to the hardship?

Are they only offering the relocation to employees who might need an abortion or because you differ in opinion?
What sort of monsters would willingly subject newborns to any additional risk of Covid?
Not to mention that every time you start Storybook, it seems to compile itself. At Aha! we use it for hosting our component library (which are web components written in Stencil, and which don't require webpack to be built), and even then, we spend about 20-30s waiting for webpack to startup and compile everything inside of Storybook.
A year of free startup credits, I'd guess.
emphatically: no. the solution to things that are broken and hard is not to abandon them like a petulent child out of frustration.

defeatist bullshit from the article:

>Every long term secret will eventually leak.

is not a valid excuse for abandoning PGP or encrypted email, its wishful thinking at best.

>The standard and best answer here is Signal

Signals github releases are sporadic at best and hard to compile consistently. its also centralized and has a dependency on google services to operate and lacks real transparency about its outages or plans to scale/operate, but at least its not too hard for you.

>Hop-by-hop encryption is a good thing: it makes untargeted dragnet surveillance harder.

the devices that handle this mail are commercial MTAs and are already largely backdoored by three letter agencies. a poison prime here, a weak cipher there, or even an opportune warrantless surveillance national security letter can sidestep this easily. companies will bend to the rule of US law.

>PGP don’t make this kind of surveillance any harder, and a targeted attacker will still get access to mail servers and messages.

this is a tangible, almost white-hot ignorance i cant abide. yes. youll get a PGP message. that message is encrypted with an asymmetric key and with a strong passphrase will have your adversary guessing until the last star falls from the heavens* and the statute of limitations for what was once your proud nation finally expire. PGP was invented to secure things that were transmitted IN PLAINTEXT.

trust was sacrosanct as you were expected to verify and know the person to which you were sending...you had keysigning parties and you used PGP to talk about important things with people you trusted. PGP is still valid and useful to this day.

* quantum computing may make this easier, but if it does, post-quantum ciphers are still an option
The original, main value proposition was that you don't need to physically manage your server anymore. Some products are just wrapped, managed versions of something you're already familiar with. Then there are more "original" offerings like DynamoDB, Bigquery, and Bigtable that bring a lot of value on their own and are significantly easier to operate at large scale than any open source equivalent.
You certainly can. Yeast multiplies fast.

That said, using excess yeast can actually reduce gluten formation so using extra yeast in pizza dough, for instance, is a way to make the dough less springy.
Sad that someone put so much work into this. At least they haven’t spent the money on trying to build it.
There are far more discreet approaches than marking these messages as spam and notifying users. My guess is that an actual person reported this as spam and Facebook automatically accepted the report.
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