skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Aside from this, I also write daily at neo-network, which is a Telegram content channel I created to spread awareness of issues on technology, privacy and security. More importantly, it shares new revolutionary technologies, and educates readers on using them to break out of the web of control, creating a neo-network in its place."

Well the author of this has a Telegram content channel.
I have a lot of infrastructure on Linode, and have been a customer for many years. I've been very happy with the price/performance, especially compared with large providers some of my customers use like Rackspace.

I hope that being part of a public company won't cause too much pressure to reduce services or raise prices.
From Linode blog:

For the immediate future, we will continue to operate as we always have. Akamai has no intention of changing what has made us successful. This acquisition will propel us both forward — not take anything away. Linode will soon be able to call on the power of Akamai to offer entirely new products, services, expertise, locations, and scale, while Akamai will be able to tap into Linode’s deep expertise in compute, storage, and on-demand infrastructure-as-a-service.

https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/linode-and-akamai/

I like Linode and been with them for ~5 years. Their pricing didn't change much (if at all) during that time but hosting landscape got more competitive since then. Hetzner and OVH offer a better value I believe. I hope Akamai's resources will help them to not lose in the long run.
That could work though it's only a one time transfer (you can't continue playing on both devices unless you keep copying the encoded data).

One neat idea I like is using a GUID and having that act as a server key (vs an account) they you can copy the GUID, put it in a URL, have it transferred via QR code, etc. Of course that method then requires server storage.
Now we're talking! Why read the documentation, when you can play the documentation?
It's funny how a post highlighting how hn crowd dismisses opinions... is being dismissed :D

I empathize with the OP but I can't possibly agree HN is "toxic". It is a place were clearly a lot of legitimae conversations sparkle and unique ideas are being surfaced. I myself feel frustrated when people misinterpret my comments and downvote, but that's just a fluke. I have seen the bottomless pit of toxicity in some online gaming circles... hn is miles away.
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The title is super clickbaity, emails are likely compromised?? Uh no. Every single closed source client for end to end encrypted messaging has this problem.

What happens if whatsapp decides to exfiltrate your end to end encrypted messages from the client side app?? There is nothing you can do to stop them. They can even attach it to an analytics event to be discrete.

Protonmail is unable to view your emails without your password and that claim is true regardless of whether they hold your encrypted private key server side.

Total garbage
We’ve been trying to plan out building our data team at my company— been so hard finding a data scientist to do infra too. Wonder if this would help...
Relevant portion of the article:

"According to economists David Tuckett and Richard Taffler, we often view a hot new financial opportunity as a “phantastic object,” or an unconscious representation of something that fulfills our wildest desires.

These objects are “exciting and transformational.” They appear to “break the usual rules of life and turn aspects of ‘normal’ reality on its head.” They promise something far departed from the market’s typical behavior.

During a bubble, we formulate a “collective hallucination” of prosperity, and fall victim to groupthink, a phenomenon where “a significant chunk of society feverishly buys into a shared dream” and ignores reality."
This was kind of the idea behind a side project I started a few years ago:

https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-democratization-of-searc...

In that post, I don't address the reputation management aspect as much, but it's central to making the whole thing work, and I think crowd-sourcing and a well-conceived reputation management system that can influence results are good next areas for exploration.
even the ones that are unambiguously negative?
"Unless you're practicing continuous restoration to ensure that your backups are actually backing up what you need, the odds that you got everything critical are not good."

"OK, but how about at least testing that that it's actually feasible to restore from that S3 bucket of yours?"

These comments have been both off topic and unhelpful. I gave an example of S3 with object lock (or veam equivalents) that I liked - to be helpful to others exploring this question.

Continuous type services are what this story is about - how things that are disconnected / not continuous may fare better in a hack / ransomware situation. Lecturing me that I need "continuous restoration" and or making random claims that I don't test restoration (huh?) is weird.

If I was to give some feedback -> focus on one thing. If you don't like S3 with object lock, say that. If you want to add some comment about restorations from S3 with object lock being tricky for some reason, say it and explain it. If you have something about "continuous restoration" helping in malware hacks explain why. In many cases this can pass corrupted data over to your backup site if you are doing HA/DR work where continuous stuff is most common.
They can't keep their website online and their search tech is so broken it regularly fails at returning my own sorted post history, let alone find anything.

You make good points:

>They have the data. They have the dedicated, active user base. They have free moderation.

...but overall I think they're likely to get wiped out mass exodus Digg style due to some black swan mismanaged incident before they enter FAANG tier
Yes, exactly. Having to have the backend infrastructure adds a lot of costs. For some of my apps that I've been building with local storage, I've considered adding a paid sync feature in the future if I ever launch anything that gets a lot of usage and there is the demand for it.

I really want to build apps that don't trap users. I'd like to have users stick with me because I provide value, not because I "own" their data. I also want to build free apps. And finally, I want to decrease the environmental footprint of my apps. Local storage is perfect for these goals, at least for some apps that don't absolutely need centralised storage.
why can't verbatim mode be combined with time frame limits?
Indeed, ~patio11 has glossed over the distinction between ‘definitely reversible’ & ‘possibly recoverable’ here - which can be a salient difference.
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Your argument is that Trump attempted a coup and failed to interrupt it, but that is okay because it wasn't a serious coup and other corruption exists.
Based on what we've observed, and our current standard model of particle physics, only one type of neutrino can be massless. We've observed neutrinos oscillating flavors (for example, an electron neutrino later interacting as a muon neutrino), and the rate of those oscillations suggest nonzero mass differences between the three different types. So even if one of them is zero, the other two cannot be.
> And yes, it's incredibly partisan for you to claim that republicans are trying to "reduce democracy."

Is it, though?

My belief is that voter fraud is basically a non-issue, that it doesn't really happen very much at all, and that it is a bogus argument put forth by the Republicans to give an excuse for why they are so consistently fighting to not allow people to vote.

Google search "does voter fraud really happen", and "how bad is voter fraud":

https://www.google.com/search?q=does+voter+fraud+really+happ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+bad+is+voter+fraud

I can't find any results that don't back up my belief. Can you?

The Heritage Foundation, a far-right think tank, has a page on voter fraud: https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

But, in my opinion, it's kind of amazing that they leave the page up. The purpose of this page is to document and expose how bad voter fraud is, and they provide a searchable database on all the cases they have found and confirmed. Their database goes back to 1982, and they have found... 1340 cases of voter fraud.

This is an embarrassingly low number, isn't it? A few thousand fraudulent votes over the last 40 years?

Also, it's not like these cases are cases of people manufacturing thousands of votes. You can check for yourself, the entire list is here:

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud-print/search

These are overwhelmingly on the order of "a single extra vote was cast" because someone voted in two districts, or mailed in an absentee ballot for a deceased relative.

Meanwhile, do Republicans work to suppress votes? I think it's hard to argue otherwise in good faith:

https://www.google.com/search?q=do+republicans+suppress+vote...

Why does Mitch McConnell say that the idea of making election day a national holiday is a "naked power grab" for Democrats? Shouldn't making it easier for people to vote be a "good idea that strengthens our democracy"?

https://www.google.com/search?q=mitch+mcconnell+election+day...

Another belief of mine is that it's common knowledge in politics that the more people who vote, the worse Republicans fare in elections.

The Republican professional politicians are usually better at not openly admitting such things, but Trump gave us another example of "saying the quiet part out loud" with his usual eloquence: "They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again"

https://www.google.com/search?q=They+had+levels+of+voting%2C...

Why would Trump say that?

The Republicans are trying to reduce democracy. They lost the support of the people. They have only won the popular vote once in the past 30 years. Rather than changing their platform to try to appeal to more voters, they've decided that the people are their enemy.
I'll bite.

> centralized enough to allow for transaction reversal

You can argue that the developers held outsized influence over the consensus mechanism early in Ethereum's lifecycle. You can also debate their recommendation & push to hard fork to a new ledger that undid the hack. But to argue that it is anywhere close to 'centralized' today is disingenuous at best.

It should be impossible for any one agent to change the record, but it is the nature of blockchains that consensus holds as "accepted fact". In the event a blockchain is ever relied upon for anything of social importance, the ability for consensus mechanisms to fork away from "systemic ruin" is a desirable trait.

I'm one of the few that argue the DAO Hack was a proof of concept for an ultimately 'required' capability for any critically important blockchain systems.
"If the web client is open-source (as at seems), can't anyone build it locally and compare the built files to what they were served?"

Yes, but the results of such an inspection would only apply to that particular web request at that particular time.

At another time, or to some other person, a different app could be served up by ProtonMail if they so chose.

That's not to mention that the vast majority of ProtonMail users probably don't (and wouldn't have the skills to) evaluate the code they receive from ProtonMail, so even if they were being served up something suspicious, they'd never know.
This is one of the big missing pieces of the web development puzzle. It would be quite nice if the browsers handled sync & backup of local data. Would be even better if came with SQL access.
> Are you expecting support forever?

I mean... maybe? Why not? At worst, drop to a second tier of support where firmware might not get updated and new features that actually need new hardware don't work, but why should chromebook hardware stop working any more than any other PC? Most of my machines are 5-10 year old machines that Linux happily supports; why should Chrome OS - built on top of Linux - support any less?
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True. Not only easier but often times that user wants different settings on different machines (or even different browser profiles). What I want in my settings on my mobile device is not always the same as desktop especially when it comes to visual settings.
>They have the dedicated, active user base.

Have you ever used reddit? It's manifestly full of bots, with the second largest usergroup being schoolboys looking for porn and talking about video games.

There's a reason the ads you see on reddit are for absolute garbage products made by companies you've never heard of.
Yeah, and unfortunately the only rooms not run by scammers were filled with people talking about anti-semitic conspiracy theories. What a cesspool it became.
Ok, I'll bite. Google "Grievance studies affair". It provides a chilling look into how wokes are corrupting science in order to advance their political agenda. Is this example sufficient for you?
Loosen up and make friends at your own comfort level. That really is what university is about. Clubs are a good idea. Do your own thing but your focus should be connecting. You don't need university to self-learn all the CS and programming concepts- you could've done it at home alone. So university is less about the education and more about the experience (and I'm not talking about the stereotypical American way of parties and getting drunk and watching football). Do things that interest YOU. Talk and branch out to like minded people who you find INTERESTING.

You have people here on this thread on hackernews for gods sake telling people to connect to others. On hackernews, the Nerd Central. So that just emphasizes the importance of doing it when a bunch of nerds are telling you to go out and meet people. And if you are socially anxious, talk to a doctor asap. You want to make this college experience good. Your doctor can help you out with some antidepressants that just lifts all the anxiety from you so you can talk to others. They work, really good too for highly neurotic kids like many of us. Don't focus your efforts on being liked, rather, focus your efforts on connecting deeply with a few really important people in your university.
And this is the takeaway for everyone using any platform anywhere. The fundamental reality is people disagree with other people.
> We've gone from a world of personal computing where software was a free market with open choices, to a closed and proprietary world where there is only one available source of software.

That’s true but at the same time I think most people are pretty happy with it. HN readers aren’t typical in this regard.

I’ve been writing software as my job since the mid-80’s and it’s only been in the past 4 or 5 years where I realized that I’m finally pretty happy with the tech I use day-to-day.

If I had any complaint it would be that app stores have made software too inexpensive. When I look at something like Procreate which I think cost something like $10, I’m blown away. This can’t be sustainable.
On a similar post here I was given a lot of flak for posting anti-Nazi sentiments, I didn't realize that it was such a charged topic considering how it's Canadian truckers boycotting mask mandates as the mask mandates are ending and how neo-nazis are showing up in support for the whole thing.

I mean, generally, if I am at a large gathering and Nazis show up and they're on my side I would hope I would have a nice long think about what I was doing at that moment but some of these people are failing to realize that the sentiment of "they're on MY side, so it's okay now" increases the likelihood of people ending up on their side as well in the future.
I didn't want to take the discussion off topic but I appreciate that and thank you! Lots of work to do! Please reach out if you'd like to as well :)
I believe you! (see my other comment in response to the original one).

But it seems people don't (my original comment is being heavily downvoted because of this). And although they can't submit even one example, the fact that they don't believe you is obviously a symptom of a bigger problem.

For some reason, Google is losing the trust of power users.
Not sure what to make of the source, a random writer on a new age hippy website?

Seems that the primary claim is that ProtonMail is potentially compromised by Intelligence agencies and can nefariously show users fake pages to steal credentials and decrypt messages?

Overall the article seems light on evidence.

Edit: Found a response from ProtonMail to the Researcher quoted in OP's article.

https://protonmail.com/blog/cryptographic-architecture-respo...
Yup, deep paging is a huge problem for distributed search systems. It's not just a Google thing, its every search engine. Here is a section from ElasticSearch's documentation[0]:

"Avoid using from and size to page too deeply or request too many results at once. Search requests usually span multiple shards. Each shard must load its requested hits and the hits for any previous pages into memory. For deep pages or large sets of results, these operations can significantly increase memory and CPU usage, resulting in degraded performance or node failures."

[0] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...
Some arguments against "no ownership" :

- Are you willing to get sued on behalf of the company ? owners do.

- Are you willing to share all the downsides of running a company ? Owners do.

- Are you willing to be the person where the bucks stop with ? Owners do.

- Are you willing to do things that a regular employee cannot or will not (e.g. working 80 hour weeks) ? owners do.

- Are you willing to not just quit because things are tough ? As an employee, you can quit and tell the company to f off. As an owner, it is not that simple. You cannot get out that easy even if you want to.

I am not necessarily saying that CEOs who exploit workers are great but this idea that everyone is equal in a company is just not practically possible. People are not equal. That is a fact. Some people just want a paycheck and get the f out. Why should they get the extra upsides that owners risk ?
Then you just stop trusting them for your search results, it's not like you are unfriending them.
Why the Days Seem Shorter as We Get Older (2019)
That is the American issue in a nutshell.
TSA is not wrong. A luggage lock for most normal types of luggage serves no security purpose. TSA don't actually care, they'll just destroy any real lock.
> it's mass-energy that gravitates, not rest mass.

TIL! That's a very fun fact. I never learned that, and I have a physics undergrad! Or I forgot it, which is just as likely this far out.
> Because everyone uses reproducible builds

Of course not, but it is possible to do so. It can also be verified by trusted third parties, etc.

> However, I believe that most people use protonmail for convenience and that it fits the threat model of the average joe. If you're getting targeted by the NSA, you shouldn't use a browser with JIT enabled anyway.

This is a non-sequitur. If you're starting to talk about average Joes with an unspecified threat model, surely GMail will be fine too, for some very low bar of "crooks can't hack my facebook". But there's obviously a big span inbetween that and "specifically targeted by intelligence agencies".

More to the point, no matter your threat model, you should try not to do business with scammers. Firstly, out of moral imperative, and secondly, because your threat model might change.
Well for one, in the UK, when you sell a car, the seller fills out a little chit and mails it to the government, who then mail a new title to the buyer. So at least there'd be record of the sale, and an address to start to track where the money came from. In addition I think he thought the bank's security cameras would add critical information about the seller. Not sure what other verification he may have done.
Congrats caker and team!
Ask HN: Fundraise for a side-project, or go full-time first?
Hey all,

Say you have a side-project that has started to pick up a bunch of momentum. You have a solid MVP, you have customers lining up at the door to use it, and you don't have a huge amount of expenses to keep it running, yet.

Your plan is to raise a seed round and go full time.

Do you go full time first, then start to raise?

Or do you try to raise with the expectation that you'll go full time once funding comes through? Free from the distraction of "how will I pay my mortgage?", with a straightforward transition from a full time job to a full time startup role.

Do VCs tend to prefer the former, or is it ever typical for founders to raise and then go full time?
I don't think that's true from the perspective of the employer with the stolen money. The employee took the cash. The employer just wants to hit undo on that. They don't see it as a new transaction, but the reversal of the old one.

Of course, this is all a bit arbitrary. So I don't think we'd have much to disagree if cryptocurrency proponents were open about that. But what we get is a lot of them talking about 100% irreversible transactions. That may be true in the technical jargon of a particular system, but is definitely not always true in the broader social context or in casual uses of the term.
They use "smart" as the opposite of "poor", which implies that they see "poor" as pretty much synonymous with "stupid".
That's what the GP wrote. Their electron value has a decimal point before the last three digits. The GP values are approximately 510 keV and 938 MeV.
Congrats with the side income .

I've kind of thought about the moral of it myself. I ended up integrating Stripe to let people remove the ads. For a blog that might not make sense, but for a solitaire website where some people play an hour or two a day, it makes sense. I think the lowest pricing I had was a one-time fee of $5 and basically no-one uses it. I'm super surpriced how few people use it. But if you won't pay for playing, you're gonna get ads . And from what I can see, people are fine with this arrangement.
Google was boiling the frog really really slow.

You can still can get exact searches by google dorks but "normal" people might find "google trying to be smart" actually useful.
People also complain about rich "Chinese/Russian/Middle Eastern" expats buying up all the property in large Western cities too.
Finality does exist in the payments. It may not exist in consumer (fiat currency) payments, but it definitely exists.

The EU has a directive Settlement finality - Directive 98/26/EC that address this problem specifically. If there were no finality, markets would need to price in more risk in every transaction.

> WHAT DOES THIS DIRECTIVE DO?

> It guarantees that financial product transfer and payment orders can be finalised, mainly by mitigating problems arising from a participant’s insolvency.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/settlement-finality-directive-...

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=CELEX:31...
But how dangerous is that idea, really? How many people heard the idea, and didn't get vaccinated because of it? If this idea weren't put out there, how many of those people would have just found some other reason to not get vaccinated?

It's just a scare tactic to get us to accept censorship/deplatforming/cancellation as a legitimate practice. Drugs are scary. Terrorists are scary. Now podcasters are scary.

Looks like we've already decided to give up our values, and we're just looking for any flimsy excuse to justify it.