skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Identify theft happens because you have weak online identity protections. Strong e-id systems as can be found in many parts of Europe almost completely fixes that. Where I live nobody is afraid of identity theft since you can't do anything just because you know someone's names, addresses or numbers.
Oh, mdx looks really cool. Could be cool to build a data viz blog with that and OWID's grapher.
> * We strive for achievement so much that we tire ourselves to depression

That resonates with me quite a lot, as I fell into this trap too many times, and am currently in the process of getting out once again. Being stressed out and anxious makes me depressed, which makes me unproductive, which then reinforces the stress and anxiety. While you are in it, it is also difficult to take a step back and reflect on how this isn't a very smart way of doing things.
It’s dangerous to compare any cost to trust. The two concepts are independent and do not overlap from experience.

But at least do yourself a favour and find another merit to sell your product on that isn’t ”cheaper than the usual guys”
Also there is a difference at a firm level and an individual user. If I have a company where this is used all the time (real-estate agency, law firm, etc) I might want the all-you-can-eat subscription model and not worry about usage. In fact, I might buy extras like white-label branding.

But for personal use or occasional use, yeah, being limited to subscription plans really sucks.
Howdy, relay engineer here.

The random aliases at mozmail.com are certainly the most private option. The subdomain aliases are for convenience so you can make up any alias you want even if you don't have a device on you. (e.g., checking into a hotel, etc.)

As you say - there's always trade-offs involved.
As of a few months ago they could have an aggregate spending limit, I used it in June.
One could argue that `class="m-0 md:m-4"` is more legible because it describes exactly what is happening. No margin on small screen, margin of 4 units on medium breakpoints. Where the styling on thumbnail is unknown and the breakpoints are unknown, unless you look at the css, then if you need to override that css you have to worry about specificity.
This is not a problem with XMPP, but any open ecosystem. There's no way to force third-party developers to implement stuff, especially when they are open-source volunteers working in their free time.

XMPP does have this feature parity issue, though there is a good selection of modern active XMPP clients across platforms with important features like end-to-end encryption and calls. But you're right - there's no way to stop people trying to use clients like Pidgin, which have been essentially frozen in time for a decade.

Matrix is newer, so has less diversity, and lots of resources to put into the Element clients. However there certainly is exactly the same problem growing in the Matrix ecosystem too - there are many features supported by Element that are not (yet?) implemented in popular alternative clients such as FluffyChat.

The best you can do is ensure that when two clients communicate without the same set of features, that you degrade gracefully and securely (e.g. the worst case I can imagine would be E2EE that silently becomes unencrypted if not supported by your contact - thankfully that's not how it's done) to the best common feature set between the two.
We tried our hardest back in the early 2000's to make this stick. I cofounded a startup building servers, clients, and SDK's. Maybe the world is finally ready for it now. The issue we ran into was customers/consumers just didn't care about federated systems. And various implementations had all sorts of quirks making interoperability between domains and clients difficult, at best. There are just SO MANY THINGS you have to do to make good messenger software that lining up all the pieces with open standards proved impossible in the ~8 years I was working on it. Again, maybe it's better now, but I'm skeptical, probably jaded. :)
Did the Y2K Bug Cause Any Problems?
Also Rich Harris (Svelte creator) joined Vercel this week: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1458822051263823875
That process has value when Party A and B each signed with their respective digital signature.

However, what happens with these signing websites is that WhateverSign signs the document with their own certificate - but makes no effort to verify that the person that signed the contract is truly who he says he is. So nothing stops me producing a Docusign contract with your name on it.
They were extremely late to the transition to GUIs. By the time they had Windows versions, the world had already switched.

In the case of WordPerfect, what I recall reading was that this was in small part because WP kept writing everything in pure assembly language for way too long, and in large part because MS gave Word a leg up with internal Windows APIs. This was raised in one of the antitrust suits against MS, but I don't recall which one. Either way, I had used a GUI WYSYWIG version of WordPerfect (for DOS) long before I'd ever even seen MS Word of any form.

Java was never widely deployed on the web.

This is a point that would have to be settled by numbers, and I don't have them. What I do know is that every simple web-based calculator app was written in Java, and that in my circles installing Java was one of the first things one did after installing Windows and a browser.

we all expect browsers to be free (and built into the OS) today.

I think this was a mistake. All that "you're a feature, not a product" nonsense is a distraction from the insane degree of consolidation we've tolerated in technology. There should be thousands of billion dollar tech companies each serving in interoperable niches, not a handful of trillion dollar tech companies.
> They want to walk a LoD/culling tree

DAG, my friend, not tree. Seriously, I recommend people watch the talk, it's one of the more impressive demonstrations of how to use GPU compute power I've ever seen, and the results speak for themselves.
People seeking out medication because they think it's a prophylactic for Covid-19 is not what any of those studies covered.
This is a terribly unnuanced take and does not put into context any of the numbers.

Harvard is ~50% white, 43% of which has some status that grants them preference. Further, 25% of that group would have gotten in anyways, according to the article. That means this preference group applies to... ~16% of the overall student body. Whether legacy/athlete/donor preference should be given is a conversation that can be had, but this article is just pathetic.

Also, to come to the conclusion that "Turns out, Harvard students aren’t that smart after all" is disrespectful. I understand the issue is that they're taking spots away from more deserving candidates, but I'd posit the majority of that 75% that wouldn't get in are at least above average intelligence. Not getting into Harvard does not mean you aren't smart.
That's one proposed solution but not the only one. You could just ignore comments, like most programming languages do.
I'm split on my feelings about it.

One the one hand, trying to put a lot of thoughts on a topic together without writing them down is like trying to ladle water with a colander, but implying that you become unable to think without a systematic process of writing down your words is patently untrue.

For instance, the Greeks relied more on the bardic tradition and oral communication than the written word, and few people would claim they were unable to think.

Any process that can be used is useful, both oral tradition and written tradition's uses are a matter of training and application.

It wouldn't surprise me if we found someone who effectively thought in emojis after all. Our brains are pattern recognition engines, anywhere we can establish a recognizable pattern to offload memory is usable.
Just responded to another comment to the same effect, but this is neither a law nor a regulation, but rather a policy statement, probably so they can get away with not having to go through APA-mandated notice-and-comment rulemaking, so it's deliberately framed as recommendations for how to comply with existing rules/statutes rather than creation of new ones.
Question: how will the free/liberal society (plagued by polarization, etc) fare against the dystopian ones?

In the past we've been able to out-innovate and maintain moral leadership thru a fictional aspiration to democratic norms. Now state actors can run finely targeted propaganda campaigns and measure our engagement with them in real time while using extensive censorship measures to prevent us from doing the same to their populations.

None of this invalidates your point, but the tables have been tilted and abstract discussions of freedom tend to avoid wrestling with the geopolitical ramifications.
Discount tire is the best tire place I have dealt with hands down. I still have people look at me like I am nuts because of the name.
Great job on cracking down on illegal behavior from bad actors.

The next step I'd like to see is to focus on having deletion of accounts made very easy for all apps. Alot of web/social media companies make creating a account dead simple, but when you want to delete an account the tab is hidden by dark pattern design, or its made extremely complex and time consuming by sending multiple emails to different 'departments'. Account deletion should be legally as simple as account creation.
Yup, Matrix as a network has no central authority at all, although it's a common untruth which gets passed around, rather depressingly.

Things which could be at the root of this misunderstanding include:

* The fact that we operate a *strictly optional* logically centralised directory service to look up matrix IDs by email address or phone number. I really wish we'd never added this to Matrix; it causes way more grief than it solves - we'd have been better off waiting off for someone to build a decentralised keybase service and use that instead.

* Element runs a centralised integration manager (aka app store) to make it easier to add bots/bridges/widgets to rooms. Again, this is completely optional - although back in 2019 we had a stupid bug in Element Web which meant it checked the integration manager even if you weren't using it. This was fixed in June 2019 (https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/6802).

* Element has to query your server to find out what authentication mechanisms are available before you log in. Therefore if its config points to the default matrix.org homeserver, you end up pinging that every time you log in, even if your homeserver is elsewhere. The solution for now is to change your default homeserver in the config to avoid this.

* Servers need to be able to validate events from servers even if those servers are offline. To do this you need to grab the public key for the offline server from somewhere; by default Synapse uses matrix.org as a fallback, but loudly nags the admin to pick a better default when you install the server.

None of these actually allow a "central authority to have influence on another server" though; I've just listed the only places I can think of where a typical self-hosted Matrix implementation might interact with centralised services run by Matrix.org or Element.

Unfortunately I think the real root of the misinformation is that it's just a bit too tempting and easy to throw around FUD. Some day we may get to the point where alternative FOSS projects will realise that the real enemy are centralised proprietary user-exploiting services rather than one another...
I don't know about that. I'd rather see all of this stuff disappear from youtube and to deny the conspiracy sphere its oxygen than to let this run its course. The damage is very real. Experts tend to communicate via scientific papers and symposia, not via youtube, that's aimed squarely at the masses only a very small fraction of which has the capacity to interpret what they are hearing, but almost all of them have the capacity to filter that to select the bits that they like or that they feel support their pet desired outcomes.
I'm a brain.fm fan too. It blocks out the internal monologue and, like you say, is surprisingly effective at entering a flow state. I'm a fan of free jazz and I've found it has a similar dissonant effect. Ornette Coleman is a great place to start.
It's your discretion whether you bite something you perceive or suspect may be "idiotic", which are the exact reasons why:

1- I've not watched it

2- Unsubscribed his channel

3- Irrelevant

4- I don't bite any "Geerling" content
I think this is a very intuitive theory. I feel you can actually notice this consciously when you do some mundane repetitive task you've done a lot and something is off. For example if you lift a cup you thought was full and it isn't and for a moment it really throws you off. It's not just perceived as a difference but as something 'out of whack'.
> It does make it harder to maintain code for businesses, since keeping up with language updates means that you will have to do relatively more maintenance work to keep up with these breaking changes.

That is so incredibly slow, that this point is moot, unless you are comparing it to C++.

You will have much more work keeping up with change on the Haskell library ecosystem, will have more work keeping up the changes on the core of most mainstream languages, and will have orders of magnitude more work keeping up with the ecosystem of any other language.
If it were a large enterprise who's idea of innovation is to do whatever Facebook does, then yeah, you can't change their processes and will have to jump through the hoops to get the job. It's also a hint of how work at that corporation will be later on.

Otoh, at a start-up, I surely would expect people working there being able to think for themselves and given that they like your code, a leetcode interview does indeed seem absurd.
About time this happened. I experienced this with the ACLU, of all the entities out there using this dark pattern. Enable subscriptions online to donate to the ACLU, but if you changed your mind, you have to get the phone to cancel. Needless to say, I just let my credit card expire.
I'm actually surprised the ssh protocol doesn't have MITM mitigation built in. Part of the original U2f Spec was that the TLS session State could be hashed and included as part of the client signature, effectively making MITM impossible. I don't believe this was widely implemented in practice however, although it seems like ssh would be a much better target to implement this behavior.

Either way, if the guy wants 500 starts to implement a security tool and advance security for the world, a gold star he gets.
Former Tmobile customer here. I ended up with an account on my credit report because tmobile never actually closed the account and kept right on billing me.

Twice. Once back in the late 90's when they were called something else, I think...and again a few years ago.
It would be a bit unusual for the US to declare Taiwan independent before Taiwan does so itself. The governments on both sides of the Strait continue to, on paper, adhere to the legal fiction where both claim to be China and claim the entirety of the territory.
I agree with your point that you could get into trouble for violating your contract terms. I perhaps should have mentioned specifically about NYTimes which seem to have designed around people blocking the payments to cancel their subscription.
An interesting theory with no backing evidence changed your mind?
Exaggerated face with a PCB is basically your trademark. If you see it while scrolling you know it's you (and that it's going to be high quality content).
Who instigates the creation of a directive? I thought that was one of the roles of the commission.
and backed by Dropbox
Big Pharma isn't a singular entity.

In this case, if Ivermectin was so effective against Covid, then Merck would be commercially incentivised to prove that.

When you combine that fact with the facts that complex problems rarely have simple solutions, that such high levels of collaboration are rare, & that the same people promoting Ivermectin are also promoting theories of 2020 election fraud, it's pretty easy to doubt that this conspiracy theory is realistic.
I'm glad to hear that because so far my impression agrees with yours (before you learned Lisp) and this comment[0]. Do you happen to know a good tutorial to learn Emacs Lisp?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29256103
Decentralization was not a quest when those protocols were created. It pretty much became "a thing" with blockchains. It previously... just "was".

It started "not being anymore" with corporations - and once again I bow before Microsoft and Google - using less and less lube over time when telling their own clients what their role is at the ecosystem.

I will absolutely fight any attempt at calling e-mail protocols broken just because a corporations can't figure out their revenue around it.
Oh, dear, engineering people have to do engineering. The horrors.

The "broken" four years of Apple laptops (2016 to 2019) were quite a bit more frustrating to users.

- The keyboard was prone to failure at entering text - "You Had One Job!" This was an amazingly bad reversion to... I don't even know when, actually. People love and hate various styles of laptop keyboards, but it was exceedingly rare to hear that a keyboard fundamentally didn't function as a keyboard after some time of use. Ive's (I assume, given his known preferences) pursuit of Thin Uber Alles led to a fundamentally broken keyboard. Ok, not a huge issue if the keyboard is a cheap and easy fix, but...

- The keyboard was so integrated into the top case that the whole thing was unrepairable without literally replacing the whole top case, track pad, battery, etc. IIRC it was around $700 out of warranty, and while Apple kept extending out the keyboard repair issue window for a while, it doesn't change the fact that it was both disruptive for users and, apparently, quite expensive to Apple.

When I got a lightly used mid-2015 MBP in 2018 or so (oddly, the base model was still being made quite a while after it had been "replaced" in the consumer lineup), I figured it would be my last Apple laptop, because the replacements were clearly broken, and after three or four years of it, it was clear that the direction was set, and that you were typing on it wrong, or something of the sort.

I'm exceedingly glad to see that with the departure of Ive, some engineering sanity has returned to Apple, and the freshly redesigned M1 {Max,Pro} laptops seem to be a reversion to "That Which Works." A more standard keyboard actuation, and actual ports on the side. Woah...

Unfortunately, that said, I'm no longer using Apple products at the moment because the whole CSAM thing, on top of bowing to China regarding iCloud, and the questionable labor ethics involved have driven me off. I'm glad to see they're addressing repairability and such, but it was painful enough to rip myself free of that ecosystem (I'm currently using a Flip IV phone, a PineBook Pro, and some Kobos as my general use hardware - yes, they all have a lot of sharp edges) that I don't want to really dive back in unless I'm confident I won't have to exit it again in the near future. With the on-device scanning, in particular, "Well... we're delaying it... for a while..." is a very different claim from "Yeah, sorry, that was a bad idea and we're not going to do it." The second would be useful, the first implies that they're waiting until either a few more issues are resolved, or until people simply forget about the objections. Or it could imply that they're planning on the second, but just don't want to say it for some reason. I have no way of knowing.

It's been interesting, though. I so very badly want one of the M1 Max laptops, as it's literally everything I was looking for in a laptop, just... anymore, I'm too hesitant about Apple to actually buy one. And the alternatives for little ARM laptops all mostly suck... oh well. I didn't need to do high performance compute anyway.
I use Ubuntu, and most of my games work great. Check protondb.com to see if your critical games work well or not in linux through steam. Some may require special switches to be add in the game setup in Steam to get them to run well. There is also a version of proton (which is Steams's additions to Wine which is what lets you make Windows API calls) called glorious eggroll that implements some fixes that haven't yet made it to proton. Make sure you install the proprietary nvidia drivers, and you should be all set.

It's truly a new world for gaming in linux now. I've been on linux since the early 2000s and had basically given up on getting almost anything to run through wine. Now almost everything in my steam catalog runs fine.

Just a heads-up that it's not all roses, though. There may be games that run fine for some people but don't on your setup, and anything with anti-cheat is basically not going to run yet, though Valve is working hard on that problem. You may find issues with alt-tabbing from fullscreen games, you might find that some games rely on an api that isn't working in proton or wine yet. For example, I play Phasmophobia solo, and that works great for the most part but they rely on Cortana for voice recognition, and that isn't implemented yet. I can make noise and ghosts will hear me, but they won't understand what I'm saying.

In my opinion any issues you run into will be small fish in comparison to issues thrust upon you by Microsoft being Microsoft, but they will seem huge at first because you're probably used to trying to solve problems the "microsoft way". Once you get past a few you'll be doing great.
This really needs an introduction of some kind. There's just a 1000 line single js file. Please warm us up some.

The only reference I could find to have any idea what to expect was a help section, which I found in the source[1]. I'm curious what fragments are and what the intent is in this repl. But I'm also not going to download & try it out to find out, not without some prompting.

[1] https://github.com/hedonjs/hedonjs/blob/master/hedon.js#L81
That is for the EU. The equivalent regulations in the US are much more lax.

> The only thing Docusign "proves" is that someone with access to your email signed the agreement.

Also IP address and timeframe, which might be sufficient in the case of a dispute.

Still, I agree investment in better authentication is worthwhile.
Since I used it? No. Running it on many things. Upgraded it? Yeah. I've done a lot of fresh installs but don't usually upgrade the system because it doesn't seem trivial compared to running one command occasionally on the rolling release distros I'm used to. What you're describing is unknown to me. It sounds a bit OpenBSD-like, maybe. I also consider OpenBSD to be unreasonably annoying to upgrade (although it's been a while since I tried with that either, I heard it got better).
I don't think you even need to be in a particularly big city. I think most cities of at least 50k population have one even if it's just a kiosk in a mall.
Preview signing isn't a digital signature (meaining an ECDSA signature of the message HMAC with your personal certificate).

It is just a digital picture of your signature.

Two very different things, but in some cases that is sufficient.
If your email was included in dozens of data leaks, as is the case for most people, isn't that signature is worthless?
>hugely-overpriced city

If you compare the rental flats with other top European cities, it’s really not overpriced.

Look at a 6k eur pcm flat in Barcelona and London, in Barcelona you will find slightly bigger flats with terrible build quality and services. In London you’ll get top quality fit and finish with excellent services.

Good luck finding a building with a decent concierge team in most European capitals. It’s almost unheard of.

Luxury product for rich people? Yeah, of course. Overpriced? Definitely not, there simply aren’t any viable alternatives to settle in.