skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ProtonMail, in fact, had to comply with a Swiss court order, which came after the French police had requested Swiss cooperation through Europol, making use of international judicial assistance.

What exactly did / do you expect Proton to do here? They were given a legal mandate to comply and they complied. Did you have a fantasy that they would fight the Swiss and French governments (and apparently Europol) when given a valid court order and risk their entire existence?
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I think #4 is definitely right (though not necessarily the entire story). For my entire career, it has been necessary to either move to SF / the Bay (blech) to work for most of the world class tech companies, or work for one sprawling enough to have lots of satellite offices (mainly Google and Microsoft). Now I'm seeing opportunities at all kinds of great companies that I can actually apply for. This started before the pandemic actually (I date it to Stripe's "remote headquarters") but has really picked up. Nowadays if I click through to the careers page of a company I admire and might want to work for, I'm surprised if they don't have a few remote positions. Only a few years ago, what always happened in the situation was "local only, based in the Bay" -> close tab.
A lot of parts of science and math are very different from the 60's while a lot of remains the same!

How do you make sense of all of this and wrangle objective truth from the chaos?

That's an epistomological question people have been asking since the dawn of mankind.

IS there even objective truth that our limited monkey/human mind can grasp?

I don't know the answer!...but I know censoring a multitude of opinions and claiming a monopoly on objective truth in an infinite world of chaos is not the way to do it.
Software used to be all closed-source and sold in shrink-wrapped boxes. It
was a more honest time. The internet destroyed all that, and new schoolers
like Netscape and Yahoo pioneered the portal strategy -- have the world come
through your door, and good things will happen (advertising revenue mostly).
While vscode does not thus far post ads, the motive is the same: foot traffic.
I don't know what this website is, but any essay seemingly uncritically using Stalin as a positive example of anything is incredibly disturbing. The essay itself is thin and doesn't even seem to be in favor Stalinist socialism, so the inclusion of that quote at the end is bizarre.

Let's have debates about economic systems, but this doesn't seem to be a thorough, novel, or even sincere attempt at that debate.
We know the web is now so complex that it is impossible for a voluntary project to maintain a web browser, at least to a level of near-parity with Chrome.

It seems impossible, but I wonder if Mozilla could be salvaged?

I want a browser styled like the rugged and customisable UI of Firefox 4.x with the Gecko improvements of the Quantum releases. With desktop-to-mobile sync with real cryptography, before this nonsense of a 'Firefox account'. A browser that preserved features pleasing to techies and power users, while omitting features abhorrent to them, would be the ideal.

How could such a thing be funded, and how could we get the old hacker collective style of Mozilla back? Or how would we start something new and get the full time labour necessary to develop such a browser, with an independent rendering engine and JS VM? While keeping unethical incentives as far from sight as possible.

I don't pretend it is an easy question, but framing the right question is a start.
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I wouldn’t say so. I learned these by watching it get made and helping countless times. There’s nothing hard about them. They could be recipes if a more skilled cook was involved.
If you were an architect, would you let your builders use nails from a manufacturer that required the designs of your buildings be released if a single said nail was laid?

Even having that nail in my tool chest is a liability. I wouldn’t buy those nails to begin with.
> This unencrypted file is then provided to drive if you select back up with Google drive in WhatsApp.

And in terms of the grandparent's point about the public not being notified for 5 years, perhaps not by Google is accurate, though it was raised by Telegram's founder in response to Snowden's recommendation of WA back in 2016 [1] and covered elsewhere [2]. Snowden was rather dismissive of the relevant point about this, which always puzzled me.

[1] https://twitter.com/durov/status/778618631060066304

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20170729003715/https://www.makeu...
It brings enormous security benefits to end users. TPMs drastically reduce entropy/complexity requirements for things like passwords/pins since the TPM can rate limit guess attempts. Doing that without a TPM is impossible since an attacker can always read the encrypted password off of the drive/directly from memory and then brute force it.
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So basically you're saying that wherever hospital admissions are 95% unvaccinated people the vaccine rollout hasn't worked.
That sounds nice, but does your insurance cover treatment in the US? Singapore?

I pay about 600 EUR a month and that only covers up to 3 months abroad (but abroad can be anywhere) — for longer trips I still do at least a “major medical” policy and I have MedEvac insurance, so my effective price for an ad-hoc global insurance is probably more like 700-800 per month.

Which on the one hand is horrendous, but on the other hand very competitive with serious global policies that cover everything everywhere for someone my age.
Sometimes you are defining a date by the local time.

I have a meeting on June 13th 2026 at 15:00 london time.

This could be 2026-06-13 14:00:00 Z

But if the U.K. drops summer time, or makes it double summer time, the meeting will still be 1500 london time, but the UTC time might change to 1500Z or 1300Z
> In Germany salaries are the same as 2 years ago

Not in tech.
>AGPL does not mean you must provide up-to-date source code in an automated matter; you have to be able to provide the source code upon request, and there's nothing in the license preventing any forms of delays (much less so for ensuring security of users)

I think it does, if you modify the code. From section 13 of the AGPL:

"Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software."
It does seem a bit strange as some of the authors are from the US and Switzerland.
I understand the point, I'm not arguing that you can't do that or speed up your code by doing that.

Python is also slow, but you can still go fast (in some cases) by calling into C libraries like numpy - but the performance is coming from C, not Python. Python is still slow, it's just not an issue because you're only using it for plumbing.

But Clojure is immutable-by-default, that's the point of the language - it gives you various guarantees so you don't have to worry about mutability bubbling up from lower levels. In order to wrap your heavy path you have to go outside the Clojure structure and sacrifice that guarantee. You do lose structural integrity when you do that, even if you attempt to insulate your mutable structure. The system loses some provability.
True, I forgot about that detail. Basically anything that relies on driver signing enforcement for security/privacy -- DRM, anti-cheats, specific proprietary algorithms -- will deactivate when test mode is enabled, whether one-time via the bootloader or set via bcdedit.
I hear up is the hot new dimension in other places that hit the same barrier.
>> There's no such thing as a non rate-race life.

There is. If you never met a Buddhist monk, I highly recommend to.
Until there is a better hypothesis I'm applying Occam's razor. Nothing "unmaterial" has ever been found in brains. There are 0 indications that consciousness needs more than matter (or I should say, more than our our laws of Physics can describe currently).

Believing that something special is required, sort of stops the reasoning about this topic, as that something is very vague. Or do you have some hypotheses with some experiments you can suggest?
>than any form of "security by obscurity" corporate scheme has.

Companies wouldn't use security by obscurity if it didn't work. Obscurity definitely increases the time investment needed by attackers.
I guess the new kid on the block is Brave Search
Welp, it's time to de-google my networks then. Facebook traffic is already blocked, now I wonder how much Web content I will lose when I block all google traffic.
‘A kestrel for a knave’ is another great novel on this theme.

It was made into a film ‘Kes’ I’ve not seen it though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kestrel_for_a_Knave
> With desktop-to-mobile sync with real cryptography

Firefox Sync is end-to-end encrypted? My understanding is that Mozilla cannot actually read user sync data.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
I don't know, I dabbled in ecommerce and while it wasn't a roaring success, people definitely did click the ads and buy the product, and I made a tiny bit of money. My guess is if someone actually knew a few more things than me they could make it work properly.
Some discussion on Haiku forums: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/ok-lenovo-we-need-to-talk-hai...

Beyond the GNU/Linux debate [0], there's some interesting points in there.

[0] Today i learnt: Haiku should not be called GNU/Haiku because Haiku is the entire system and not just the kernel, and rms (to my surprise) approves this interpretation
... the biggest win would be a business model that could win with them in the free market.

The alternative business model is so simple and is already in place --- simply advertise based on expressed interest.

This is what DuckDuckGo is doing very effectively. Show ads based on search words. No global, privacy invading network required. Amazon is doing the same quite effectively. Their ad business is growing by leaps and bounds simply by showing ads based on search terms.
The numbers don't add up here. Walgreens closed 17 stores in SF - much more than anywhere else. ...and other retailers such as CVS have disproportionately closed stores in SF as well.

The article also doesn't dispute any of the numbers in regards to the staggering volume of theft, despite higher investments in store security. Combined with dozens of videos of blatant mass theft circulating on Youtube, I wonder if any amount of provable facts would convince the author. It's reminiscent of arguing with climate change deniers or evolution deniers where facts don't seem to matter.

The real question to the author is why? Why write a piece like this? Why defend organized crime? Is the desire to combat any narrative that the other team has so strong that they're willing to deny undeniable evidence?

This author admits he's political, but it's bizarre in this case because it's to the benefit of literal gangs of criminals ruining the city he lives in.

Are some people so entrenched by their politics that they're willing to defend those destroying their own community?
Quarter depends on reporting periods, or fiscal year, which does not match calendar year everywhere.
Hexagonal architecture in Rust #7 – Long-lived repositories
He can't be sure of it, but it's the way it works, so its expected.
Also, 2nd dose usually causes a stronger reaction from the body (you get the symptoms without the risks).

See https://xkcd.com/2425
I guess that depends: do we believe that AMP developers and leadership did this, possibly misguided by a promise from on high of “don’t worry, this is normal,” or do we believe that higher-ups were doing secret development work that went unnoticed by everyone else?

I think it’s easier to believe that the AMP team was simply naive, or willfully blind to the implications, or they didn’t care (probably all 3; teams are big enough that there’s room for all).
That's obviously true, the browser just blindly interprets the rules. However, sometimes spec changes or solidifies in a way that can break existing code so there are other cases to consider.

There's also tooling to catch these errors if it really matters.
> although he doesn't really explain why HAMTs specifically are slow

Hello, author here :)

HAMTs are certainly slower, for "churning" operations, i.e., lots of updates, which is where Clojure exposes the transient API, which gives you limited localized mutability (some terms and conditions may apply)

Where iteration is concerned, they standard library implementation is pretty good. It relies on chunks of 64 element arrays which store the keys and values contiguously. Thus, APIs which expose direct iteration, Iterator and IReduce(Init) operate on these chunks one at a time. It isn't as fast as primitive arrays, but it's pretty fast.
Considering how tiny it is, we’ll definitely have mutuals if not! Send me an email or something (in my profile)? Always fun to meet someone here
Isn’t this price fixing? That’s a criminal federal offense. The US Government would have to bring the criminal charges, although you (and likely the FTC) could bring charges for damages.
Most of Eich-related vitriol I see is towards Eich and Brave, not from Brave people against Mozilla.

Brave->Moz arguments are mostly about how they've objectively fucked up, Moz->Brave arguments are much more hateful in tone.

The comments sections don't matter, direction and management does. And Brave is growing, Firefox is in freefall. Brave focuses on privacy, Mozilla on politics. Not much else there to it. Build your product, users will come.
> The fight is not about which programs the user can run, but who controls the user data

Some things were so horrible, not even Stallman could imagine them happening in his worst nightmares.
The fact of limiting the list of extensions that can be installed is indeed for technical reasons — I'm sure there are some extensions that don't work. But the list of which extensions can be installed is not restricted solely for technical reasons.

I use several extensions in Iceraven — Privacy Redirect; Bypass Paywalls Clean; I don't care about cookies — that work usefully. If there are any missing APIs, I haven't noticed them. These extensions can't be installed in Firefox for Android.

There's no technical difference between Iceraven and Firefox, except that Iceraven has a more generous allow-list. This isn't a technical restriction; it's a choice by Mozilla.

It's a valid choice — if they're aiming to curate a set of high-quality extensions, and prevent the use of lower-quality extensions — but it's a choice nonetheless.
And they tell me that automake is bad!
>Why does you grandma care about when tabs start overflowing?

Oh she doesn't. The issue Grandma, Uncle Fat, Cousin Lou all have is they used this thing and started getting used to it and then they got an update and someone changed everything and they don't know how to do anything anymore. Repeat this three or more times and when you tell them to use something they smile at you and nod then stick with Chrome because it's something they know how to use and doesn't change all the time.
F-Droid's repository excludes several projects because it might cause them trouble. For example, they block forks of the Signal client that connects to Signal's servers, a violation of Signal's TOS but not F-Droid's.

Hosting projects in their repository causes work for them and they are right to exercise pragmatism in what they choose to host. There's more freedom with F-Droid than Google Play, because F-Droid allows its users to use rival repositories as well as its own.
While we're at it, I should really recommend Mitch Murder - Breeze, particularly the unofficial video, which is really a clip from Skateboard Kings (1978)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_hF5_o-lYDA
AMP was a historical irritant for me, and I do recall the tide turning over time. It was initially hard to criticize it here without your comments being downvoted pretty hard. There were a set of defenders that believed it was solely about page loading time, and that any "trojan horse" accusations were from conspiracy theorists.

I think part of it was that the AMP team members were active here, and seemed genuine and competent. I'm somewhat curious how much they knew. This delay thing wasn't the only terrible part of AMP. The initial banner with the [x] button that sent you back to Google was terrible. As is the still-present hijacking of swipes and back button behavior on other people's content.

I did an Algolia comment search and can see my AMP rants getting more traction over a 4 year period.

Edit: I think it also had defenders because it forced sites like news organizations to re-think their 20MB+ ad and tracker laden story pages. So it wasn't all bad.
Sports clubs (not necessarily serious ones) are great if you're into that. Just make sure to actively try to build friendships outside the sports as well. I.e. ask if they want to get beers, hang out, etc. Treat it almost like dating.

Also I'd recommend shopping around when looking at sports clubs. When I first got to Stockholm, I ran regularly with 4 different clubs. After about 4 months, I was mainly hanging out with one of the clubs that was the most social. It felt like I had a full social life there within a couple weeks of moving there.
Thanks!

Seems to contradict sections 5.2 and 5.5 in spirit...
What makes Michael Seibel special?
I don't think it's a weapon, but it doesn't need high lethality to be an effective tool. Terrorist attacks and school shootings are rounding errors when it comes to overall deaths, but it doesn't stop them from dominating the news and being used to scare people into accepting more restrictive laws.
That sound is amazing. The cover reminds me of the protomen albums.
Understanding arithmetic overflow/underflows in Rust and Solana smart contracts
Integer overflow/underflows are surprisingly common in smart contracts, because blockchain applications often compute math over financial data. For many developers, it may be a misconception that Rust is memory-safe so it is free of arithmetic overflow/underflows. This article explains why Rust programs still suffer from arithmetic errors, how these issues affect blockchain security, and how to deal with them in smart contracts.
How would anyone compete with a scam business model? Ad buyers don't care if it's effective. Or rather they need convincing-looking gibberish to convince their bosses that they're worthwhile. Bosses don't want to seem stupid and are afraid of missing out, so they let it continue.

I suppose a free-speech distributed search service could make a difference if it was actually better than google. Imagine with distributed hosting similar to mail/dns-servers, where ISP:s could redirect their traffic to local mirrors.

Really slick alternatives to walled-garden apps as interfaces to standard protocol services like imap/matrix/etc, and make sure the servers are reliable and painless to set up.
Time to add the right to use a computer as you see fit in the human rights, before it's too late...
:) I didn't know that. I though most/all countries in the west have an equivalent.

In UK we have something like that(can't remember the name of it though). The courts can forbid all parties involved to have any public discussions, They can ban topics from reaching the public through normal mass media means. To make it even worse, they can prevent individuals to do this sort of thing too. Prison time and/or fines if you don't comply. Democracy at it's finest.
Anyone who thinks or thought before the election Joe Biden is going to be the one running the country as a president they were naive to say the least. The only reason Democratic Party had to throw Joe Biden to everyone’s face was he was the only electable candidate they had left as the mouthpiece of the establishment. Pete was the other one out of the 15 candidates they had, but then his sexual orientation wasn’t going to fly well in mid America.

Joe Biden doesn’t run the country. DC Establishment does. It always has. The very same thing they accuse others of such as causing big tech monopolies, wealth inequality, climate change etc, the same establishment protects those interests all.

He was the most backed candidate by the Wall St. for a reason. Enough said.
I remember in 2nd grade, a kid brought a note from his parent which was written in a few dozen tiny Post-It notes. The teacher was furious about the improperness of the format of the message.

That just came to mind seeing yet another too-fucking-long Twitter thread.
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Have you used bangs with DDG?

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

This is the killer feature for me because if I know I want to search wikipedia, reddit, amazon, pydocs I can directly.

If my search results are kind of bad, I just append !g and off to google I go.

It's not great, but it's done a lot for moving me away from google as a default.
> It was a SaaS that I was fine with letting end users copy and tinker with but didn't necessarily want big companies to do the same. Now that's obviously against Free Software

If you're talking about Libre Software then you were totally right in picking the AGPL: the goal is to put the user in control, not intermediaries. A big company providing a service through your software is not a user so you don't owe them anything. AGPL is actually the best license because if a company uses it, they must give their users the freedom you wanted to give users in the first place.

> I found that at least for a SaaS that you'd like to make money off of, proprietary is the likely way to go.

The always-renewed armada of email providers, all of them being just a slight variation of the same stack (postfix/dovecot/cyrus/rspam/any unix). It's the same for pretty much any internet service: I do believe that if it weren't for Open Source (not Libre Software), half of them wouldn't have taken the time and money to develop the necessary bricks. Google, Facebook, Twitter, and their monstruous influence, were made possible due to Open Source licenses that voluntarily didn't want to care about the user specifically.

The success of your business will be orthogonal to the licence you choose. You are providing a service, ie making sure the software runs, isn't slow, is at the last secure version, allows people to register etc... none of which depends on whether your software is Open Source or not.
I'm curious what your tax rate is. Most countries with way lower health care premiums have it offset with higher "middle class" taxes than we have in the US. This is the big issue with changing the system here, people are convinced that their taxes will go up without their premiums actually going down. This is a reasonable concern because it kind of is what happens / happened with middle of the road (arguably worst of both worlds) solutions like the ACA.
Tesco Groceries and Payments site and app down in suspected hack
I am referring to this feature:

4.4.4 Architectural features
<snip>
The NC4016 allows combining nonconflicting sequential operations into the same instruction. For example, a value can be fetched from memory and added to the top stack element using the sequence @ + in a Forth program. These operations can be combined into a single instruction on the NC4016.