skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It backups your keys encrypted with a password only you know at server side (opt in)

When you login, you provide that password, and Element can use that to decrypt the keys and use these to decrypt the messages stored in the cloud

Alternatively, you can solely rely on syncing keys between verified devices.
Can't they just use BitTorrent or similar for older data? They'd just need interested people with a spare large HDD.
Lol, that's a slick way of working around this mess.
Linux disk management tools were my gateway drug.

diskpart and diskmgmt.msc are fine, but gparted does nearly anything feasible, it’s indispensable.

Then you just run ‘mount’ and ‘df -h’ a lot and in the end that’s similar to ‘net use’ on Windows + My Computer wrapped into one.

“Everything is a file” is a useful paradigm, and then just think of your disk as an image file in a fixed spot.

Sorry if this winds up a ramble or you’re well aware.
Perhaps it could be more helpful to think of the caricatures as "spherical cow" models the author is using when trying to isolate and illustrate a particular social (?) dynamic.

Of course real-world models will be much more nuanced, but the really interesting bit is that you don't need all that nuance to produce the particular pathology outlined in the article. Specifically, selecting on "who is most right most of the time?" can end up causing your city to be covered in lava, missing a store break-in, or what-not.

There are even more levels to explore with this idea. For example, should you always ignore the heuristics and go for the earest, honest experts? Maybe. In the volcano example, the cost of a false negative is so high that you probably are okay with the incurred costs of false positives by the experts.

However, in the case of the Futurist, the false-positives incurred for a non-rock opinion might end up netting you less karma points or whatever. It's somewhat fun doing a re-read trying to evaluate the cost-benefit tradeoff yourself in each case!
Yes. The 'fully Kelly' betting is the fastest growth, but the variance is sky-high in practice. If I remember the math right, while betting using full Kelly stakes, you will have a 50% chance of losing half of your current bank at some point in the future. Most people (rightly or wrongly) don't have the stomach for such wild swings in fortune, and so using reduced stakes will lead to less variance while still being profitable.

Also, in the real world, you never accurately know how big your % edge actually is, so there's a real chance that you are over-betting when using Kelly stakes. Using reduced stakes is a way to compensate for this.
Native language and math are the two most important skills we should teach to primary school students, 10h of language, reading, speaking, understanding is the basis of everything else. For math, anywhere between 5 to 10h, and remaining hours for geography /history/society /"world discovery" (basic of science)
Coding is generally useful - useful for the coder -, not "just a job".

(And «focus» does not mean neglecting the rest.)
> or just a consequence of

If you diagnosed yourself (or by a friend) after consulting some articles on Internet then of course.

If you got diagnosed by a medical professional (and preferably by not a one) then there is a chance it is real.

But the biggest problem with ADD/ADHD is what even if someone can properly understand what there is a problem it is rare when someone could do something with it without external help.
https://www.securityweek.com/ghostwriter-widespread-disinfor...

https://medium.com/dfrlab/kremlin-media-legitimize-operation...

https://threatpost.com/anti-nato-disinformation-campaign-lev...

https://www.gov.pl/web/sluzby-specjalne/media-attacks-on-pol...

https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/Gh...

Account is old for 29 days and has no other activity than 3 submissions to same site.
My own car only has one year left!

My wife keeps nagging me to buy a new car, maybe she's right.
I don't think people should be wary of "what it could be used for" outside privacy violations or military action. The distinction "used for freedom vs control" is too vague/subjective.

In this case, I think it's best just to hold companies accountable for discrimination that isn't based on some protected attribute. Companies lean to heavily on "right to refuse service (for any reason)" and "we can choose who to do business with".

The fact we distinguish between "things you are allowed to discriminate on" and "thins you aren't" makes for a very convoluted process. Same with at-will employment tbh. We should just flip it from a "you need a reason to thing you were unjustly discriminated against" to "you need a good reason to fire someone".
Millions of people eat McDonalds.
> for context, one of the most recent ones is accusing him of "wasting" billions of pounds on PPE because the government ended up buying more PPE than it actually ended up using and the price dropped since then.

Ah, gotta love alternative takes on realities. Nah mate, the expensive PPE contracts went to friends and family of people in government. Ooh sure, these are just "cynical attacks" and in reality Boris and co are competent and non-corrupt people working so hard to serve the UK public.
This is the company from the article:

https://www.neurorestore.swiss/join-our-programs
This is a bug and it's fixed. Just update.
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Sure, the military bootstrapped the semi-conductor industry, but we’re a long fucking way from the 8088 processor - thanks to capitalism.

I mean for $1,000 I can have effectively a 1990’s supercomputer in my pocket. The government didn’t do that, greedy capitalists did.
I'm sorry but I don't know. I was laying down, eyes closed with light patterns blasting into them, and instructed to try to not focus on anything. Afterwards, I got a written report from the concilium (3 people were studying the recording for a few days), but that did not include these details, it's intended for layperson like me and it simply says "Conclusion: ADHD very likely, hints of Asperger syndrome too.". I inquired about getting the brain-recording file, but they said I'd have to get it in person (I had it done in my home town where I don't live).
I installed "uBlock Origin" and still get a modal login interruption when I scroll down on Twitter.

At least this will take a bit of load off my pihole :)
Right. I imagined some solar flare or something.

From my understanding, they are the biggest existential risk to modern humanity, slightly ahead of rogue AI. From that context, whether misguided or otherwise, you can imagine that my heart skipped a beat when I read the link title.
This. I do my work on a clamshell laptop, got a similar gadget (bus powered, with LED indicators) when I got an external webcam.

Windows/browser permissions don't have device level granularity AFAICT, so I can't allow access to only an external cam/mic, but I can disable the internal ones in the OS for full tinfoil hat compliance.

Most importantly off is actually off when a button cuts the power.
Investors pushed in a new CEO/management to optimize for profit per user now that the days of never-ending user growth in social media are over.

In growth mode, investors hand out free candy to companies, companies hand out free candy to you. In consolidation mode, investors want their candy (+ returns) back, so companies start taking away your candy until they determine the minimum users will accept. Many such cases.
Not sure I get your point.

Imagine store A is a platform like Booking.com, and store B is seller’s site. There is a complaint every day to store A that store B sells cheaper. Store A charges the customer less but pays the seller the same, taking a loss.

Meanwhile, it turns out that those customers are friends of the seller, to whom the seller compensates the transaction plus some extra on top.
On my machines twitter got blocked. That's what happened to twitter. At least for me.

It's a terrible website. Character limit leads to terribly shallow discussions that still need to be split into multiple posts. It's a dumb medium of exchange.
> Because the measures we have in place are working.

Citation needed
> language[: ]reading, speaking, understanding

You forgot formulating - writing essays -: an absolute game changer, one of the most important exercises in primary schools (in some systems).
I note the blog post relates to MacOS.

I regrettably had to install Zoom on my Mac because so many people use the service.

However the Mac makes it an easy process to block microphone and camera access. So when I don't have any Zoom meetings scheduled imminently, I just go to System Preferences -> Privacy Settings and kill off Zoom's access there. Only takes, what 5-10 seconds. I guess I could even script it via AppleScript (or potentially CLI), but have never had the time to investigate.

One of the best things about Apple MacOS and Apple iOS is the centralised privacy settings that make it easy to see what has access and easy to turn it off.
Check out NestJS (https://nestjs.com/) - it's a typescript framework for Node inspired by both Spring and the Angular architecture.
> The question is, why people take travel insurances that cover lost sunglasses?

I think the answer could be a quite mundane appeal to 'bundling'. i.e. I get very comprehensive travel insurance when travelling to the US due to the punitive cost of healthcare (your (1)). This comphrensive insurance can often cover unrelated and unneeded items, but it's hard to slice and dice the coverage exactly.
Ask HN: Why can't I open an ePub image/chart in a new tab?
Most of the time when I read an epub, it's on one of two devices. On my cheap android smart phone, or on the crouton chroot on my Chromebook. On the Chromebook/crouton, I use the Kindle Cloud Reader from Firefox. If the epub is unencumbered, I use Calibre.

As is widely appreciated, diagrams, tables, charts, etc, are often too small to be useful, are inconveniently split over two or more pages, but could easily be LARGER and FULLY CONTAINED on one page were the epub reader smart enough to open it (upon demand, of course) in a new tab/page within the epub reader itself. And why not ignore current margin settings when displaying figures and such in a separate tab -- to maximize chances of displaying the whole of the figure? Further, why shouldn't one be able to rotate such an figure or image in a tab with a click or a quick key-combo if the data would be easier to view that way?

And why the fixed size of images in epub readers? (This may be something that is not true in all readers.)

Does anyone know why this isn't done, or if it would be a particularly difficult task for creators of epub readers to effect?

Go easy on me if your epub reader does one or more of these things. My experience is limited, my ignorance is great.
It probably has to do with the US requirement to announce the call sign at least once an hour. Regular listeners will associate it with the station due to this.
>The former is a glorious ride until the ride is over (regrettably).

If you sense you're falling to death, it wont be too glorious (personally), but freakish. It can also always fail to bring death!
>More importantly this government will likely not be around long enough to actually introduce it

Don't worry. The next one is going to introduce it. Doesn't matter which party gets into power - one thing stays the same: The government/state always expands in scope.
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Hetzern, or any other cheap VPS provider as your are not storing any data on it anyways so even it dies or corrupts it shouldn't be a problem.

Open VPN has a clients for every major platform:
https://openvpn.net/vpn-client/

Make sure do your research about Open VPN and VPS before using any of it.
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"Every M1 Mac .. due .. for .. refresh .. "

Great, I look forward to Apple sending me an M2 to put into the CPU socket, or will it be a download to reconfigure my M1 into an M2.
It is suffering though. Hollywood has largely moved to Instagram. What is left on Twitter is musicians and politicians, with their toxic communities. If musicians manage to find a better outlet, Twitter will become unable to escape the stigma of being the cesspool of humanity.
I think it might provide some benefits to teach problem solving with code then. E.g. modelling some concepts from maths or physics in Python or something even simpler. Or demonstrating ideas with computer animation. Not sure how far we are with platforms that allow doing that without going too deep into how computers work.
Same here. I had similar issues with the other TLAs in the comments.

(TLA - Three Letter Abbreviation)
XState is a great state machine library for JavaScript/TypeScript and we're happily using it in production.

For us the visual editor is a great sketching/design tool between engineers and product managers.
> That requires re-encoding all transmitted data with a single password and is potentially vulnerable to brute-force attacks. Encryption used in signal, etc relies on double ratchet mechanism that continuously regenerates keys as they move along. This way one compromised key will not allow to decode the rest of the messages.

That's a different, further goalpost - we were talking about E2E encryption, weren't we? I.e. the server should not need to decrypt your data to provide it.

Obviously if you want to be able to recover your history from storage with just a password, that does mean the password is the only protection over that history, tautology. So storing your history should be optional, if you're seriously worried about brute-force attacks on data encrypted at rest (indeed, even WhatsApp makes it optional to have a backup of your data!).

In any case, that doesn't compromise future secrecy - i.e. gaining access to the history still doesn't give you access to future messages.

> Also, downloading blob to client side and decoding it locally can hardly be done fast enough for user to consider it 'instantly'.

Off the top of my head, it doesn't have to be a single blob for all your data. You could split the blob into tiny equal-sized chunks, and then have a separate encrypted index file which stores the information of which chunks hold which chats (plus just enough metadata, e.g. chat titles and last messages, to display your homepage properly). The index file is the only one downloaded on first login, then when you want to open a chat it moves the corresponding chunks to the top of the download list.
>In my neck of the woods, we generally hire specifically PeopleSoft Programmers, ideally with Payroll experience.

I can see why that works for the employer but as an employee I would be terrified of that becoming a career dead end.
If enough people are reacting to the spiking price, then it will peak at a much lower level, one where you'd feel okay running perhaps half of your things.
Who did you tour with?
Thank you!

It's a shame AmigaOS' volume system never caught on. It would have solved the problems the article describes re. drive letter assumptions:
"Assign A: DH0:" - Problem solved!

I feel really old now.
Kinda find it (un)funny that "web2" has this somewhat solved already? Never really took off much, but there are already multiple options

off the top of my head, webdav, https://remotestorage.io/, no doubt there are others
Against Experts
The difference is also important because if it’s an issue with altitude under certain conditions they may be able to take preventive measures with future storms.
Whereas torm-related electronic disturbances could lead to satellite design changes.
Boot2container: An Initramfs for Reproducible Infrastructures
That's classical victim blaming. We are all humans and make mistakes.Some mistakes only result in some property damage or money lost and some, like running over a person (doesn't even have to be a child, don't forget that there are handicapped people who might not be able to react fast enough to get out of that situation), can't be corrected afterwards. Handwaving that away because some people like to save a few dollars is not a great idea.

By your logic we could also hand everybody heroin and an assault rifle and abolish most laws, people watch TV after all and therefore can be taught not to do bad things.
Wasn't it fixed? It was almost e2ee, but not really due to a bug as it trusted the server, but it was fixed save for key verification, but AFAIK, key verification is an open problem in e2ee.
Beijing 2022: Winter Olympics hit by deluge of complaints from athletes
You can learn to cope with ADHD, that's why it presents differently in adults than in children - all of the small problems are hidden under many layers of coping strategies but still may cause shame and anxiety.

There is a scientific debate still whether it is 'real' or not, you will run into psychotherapists and psychiatrists who tell you it isn't real - you will run into clinicians and specialists who have helped people immensely by treating it as real.

Whether or not they reach agreement, what is a fact is that there are people who have various problems with adapting to our modern structured life (distractability is only one of many issues connected to the complex) that benefit immensely from various approaches to the complex of issues we mean when we say ADHD.

Edit: I myself got diagnosed and tried Ritalin - but after a year switched to antidepressants because it was better for me to manage my anxiety to not fall into depression from burning out (anxiety that is basically conditioned coping due to distractability, hyperfocus and emotional disregulation).
> For the average user it shouldn't matter what its written in,

True.

> but lately I've returned to the theory that language choice for a project signals a certain amount of technical sophistication.

Sometimes it can signal the opposite, if you think a given language/framework/other is not a great tool for the job. For a relatively new project it can be a sign that there might be otherwise avoidable growing pains later.

From an open source standpoint what a project is written using can be very important from the point of view of what you are familiar with. If the project progress or support vanishes (for instance if the core maintainers move on to other things for whatever reason, or there is a significant license change making future work on the core project incompatible with your use) would others be able to maintain it securely in a fork and if no one else steps up would you be able to (at least until you migrated onto something else)?
Why do you think the tech stack matters? Is it because you want to compare yourself to other people working with X, or because you want to pursue the best paying technologies?

I don’t think either should matter, you’re paid for a job function not the tools you use, but the latter is a trap on my opinion.

I’m turning 40 this year and as such an approaching the sort of midway of my career and in my anecdotal experience you’re never paid for the tech stack. I’ve worked in startups, enterprise and startups growing into enterprises with lucrative employee stock options. I’ve worked with everything dotnet, Python, C++, RPA-tooling, Java, COBOL, SharePoint and SAP, JavaScript and now TypeScript. I’ve worked with every sort of operations setup from in-house to cloud and I very where in between. I’ve worked as a developer, then project/actual manager then enterprise architect and now developer again.

The only things that I have done that had any real impact on my pay grade level was changing jobs and doing indirect negotiations. You need to deliver solutions, you need to show the business the impact of those solutions and you need to make sure your employers know that they aren’t the only company in town who knows about the business value you being to the table.

I also encourage sharing your pay information with your peers. I’ve been fortunate enough to land some nice contracts, but because I’ve shared info with my peers I know of at least two people who went to the negotiation table where they managed to get the company to at least match my pay.

But tech stack? As long as it’s a sellers market, I’d encourage you to get good with something that is in demand that you also happen to enjoy working with. For me that is currently TypeScript front ends with node/dotnet backends that run in azure functions.
You make hypothetical scenarios sound like presupposed fact. You don't know that life is rare or that something else happens to make it appear as such. There are multiple alternative scenarios that you haven't considered amongst the vast sea of possibilities. That you suppose thusly is indicative of your lack of imagination.
Yeah I've dropped it too. It's full of terrible people looking for excuses to abuse people, awful wannabe comedians making terrible jokes, and never-ending bitching. If FB and Instagram are where people go to show off, Twitter is where people go to moan, whine, and fight. No thanks.
Does uBlock Origin enable you to read threads?

Opening a thread and scrolling down results in a login prompt being shown; but simply removing the login prompt still doesn't let me load further tweets from that thread, at least not when I remove the login prompt manually (via web inspector).
Sure, but it’s for some reason framed as a WhatsApp competitor even in countries where Facebook Messenger is relatively popular, which seems silly to me. It appears to fill a similar feature niche as Facebook Messenger, not WhatsApp, even if these two categories can be somewhat conflated for most uses.
But my point is does moving to FP, which is the direction of change, actually bring any benefits to the actual outcome?

My question is simple as that, yet as engineers we get lost in the detail of the doing and some hand wavy suggestion that it makes things better, yet where is the actual evidence for this?

Be pro FP or not, or any other programming paradigm, lets say logic based (prolog etc), where is there any measures on how it benefits outcome.

I appreciate this isn't something that can be easily measured, but that is arguably a key problem with the state of the industry, that its emotion, intuition and bandwagon driven.
let's be realistic:

(outside of certain self-referential bubbles - like this site) no one cares anything about encryption, if in public chats I am anonymous and untraceable (example: no one can know my phone number and there are granular privacy settings) this is enough for 98% of people out here

"yes, encryption is useful if I want to send nudes to my partner or if I want to buy drugs but not while I'm asking mom for the sufflè recipe or I'm organizing a dinner with friends" this is what people think, and they are not completely wrong
Yes. I've worked with children who was diagnosed with ADHD. They truly are many SD:s outside of the mean behavior.
Fractal. Works at the second-by-second level of meditation. Works at the lifespan level.
> Russian gov is mad at him

citation needed
Wasn't Facebook supposed to be some sort of monopoly with an iron grip on its audience due to the first-mover effect? So now it turns out even chat platforms are viable competition...