skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We probably agree on the substance of the piece, but that aside: there are people who write bad takes on this stuff that clearly enjoy the writing (Matt Taibbi is a classic example). Paul Graham isn't one of them. I wonder why he bothers: he's exactly the least persuasive kind of person to take the "cancel culture is a problem" side of the argument, and the process doesn't seem pleasant for him.
I would think so, for two reasons: First the web pages using this library are still disrupted (hence sabotaged), and second—a bit far fetched—the propaganda campaign and information gatekeeping efforts by the Russian government have been sabotaged with leaked information.
This is actually a totally solved problem using a solar reference frame and done every day for missions far out in space. NASA has a free tool[0] to see the current time for any body on earth, even correcting for light-delay. It works via email, ftp, telnet, and web.

0: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/
Having to go through TSA makes it even harder for trains to compete with cars.
>I can't think of any way to punish terrorists worse than making them ride Amtrak.

I can. Make them ride the bus instead.
Email is open.
Every single one of those services you've listed could close down tomorrow.

I mean I think you were joking, but just in case you weren't.

When I sign up to get my Electricity bill, what do I give them? My Whatsapp? My Twitter?
Israel was doing it before the US. Going through Ben Gurion airport is next-level unpleasant as a business traveler.
NL had a train hijacking long ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Dutch_train_hijacking

There was an attack on the Thalys not all that long ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Thalys_train_attack

and another attempted attack

https://www.voanews.com/a/europe_americans-who-foiled-attemp...

So while there isn't nearly as much history for train hijackings they did happen, and I'm sure there will be more in the future. But that doesn't justify the kind of security theater that the TSA goes in for.
Remember when we gave the government all sorts of power to fix the environment, build infrastructure, feed the poor, etc. and then they actually used their power to fix those problems rather than just stomping on dissenters and calling it problem solved?

I'm being only a little hyperbolic here. TSA can only do this crap because they have authority to do this crap and they only have that authority because congress lets them because people let them because people keep falling for the same old dumb lies.
State changes propagate virally through peers storing any given contract. If a peer doesn't get an update for whatever reason there are a variety of mechanisms that get it back in sync ASAP, so it will be eventually consistent.

The contract ensures that the state is valid both before and after any change and every peer who sees the state will ensure it is valid, so it is verifiable computation in that sense.

Happy to chat - you can pm me on reddit or twitter, username "sanity" in both cases.
And you're assuming they haven't done so why? Both actions are not mutually exclusive.
did this person just completely *miss the point* of bioshock?
The amount of time they've wasted (billions of hours) is on the order of one 9/11 of lifespans. Is that a valid analogy?
Spam is a non-issue in 2022. Also in 2012. The available solutions all work extremely well, from rspamd to Gmail, and have for many years. We can thank Paul Graham for popularizing the solution, in fact. Thanks Paul!

The only real issue for email today is deliverability. That's getting worse, according to reports from people who have not had a stable verified public IP address for decades.
It’d be nice if there was a service like this for physical addresses and even phone numbers. Every account you sign up for could be with a made up name, email, phone, address, and single use credit card number.
Polish railways have a auto-stop system that works by radio.
The $11BN Tunnel Connecting Scandinavia to the Mediterranean
If you can acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of the TSA's work is performative, it might be worth considering whether a similar principle applies to actual law enforcement agencies.
Not many is still not none, which is the order of magnitide for lives saved by the TSA.

While driving is safe, it's also a lot more dangerous than flying. So pushing people towards driving miles instead of flying iles also should have been a source of mortality in your analysis-- too bad that one is harder to assess. Since for many trips driving is often not a reasonable alternative there probably wouldn't be that many-- but again, it wouldn't take much to overcome any arguable benefit of the TSA.

And, of course, the enormous resources that go into the TSA could be instead funneled into actual lifesaving activities.
The reason is covered in the article:

> I've deliberately avoided mentioning any specific heresies here. Partly because one of the universal tactics of heretic hunters, now as in the past, is to accuse those who disapprove of the way in which they suppress ideas of being heretics themselves. Indeed, this tactic is so consistent that you could use it as a way of detecting witch hunts in any era

Talking about PR[1] isn't wrought with intellectually-dishonest landmines in the manner that it is for talking about what Graham terms "heresy-hunters". This is also obvious to even anyone who's paying a mild amount of attention to the cultural changes he's describing.

[1] the topic of "The Submarine", for those who are unfamiliar
I was phreaking (stealing long distance telephone service) in the late 80s and early 90s when Phrack magazine was at its peak.

At one point, the phone line I used with my modem would have a long delay between the time I picked up and the time I got a dial tone, and the connection afterward would be weak, noisy and attenuated. I'd even get bad packets over the Ymodem file transfer protocol.

I asked some of my hacker friends if my phone was being tapped by the companies I was stealing long distance service from. One of them knew the number of a department of a department at Pacific Bell (my local phone provider) that handled investigating illegal taps. These companies would tap the lines of people that they suspected were stealing service without getting the required warrant just because they had the capability to do s.

So I called that number and asked them to see if my phone was being illegally tapped. One of the first things they asked me was, "are you calling from the line you think is tapped?" I told them I was, and they explained that in doing so I revealed my hand to whoever was tapping me.

The very next phone call my modem made was back to normal without the noise, delay and attenuation.

I estimate that I made $50,000 to $100,000 in illegal phone charges. I was calling other computers all over the world. This was back when calling Europe or Oz from the USA could cost $10 per minute or something insane.

I never got busted. But I knew some people who had. I think I was getting close to getting busted but it never happened.

I went on to have a very successful career in Silicon Valley.
Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen) posed this hypothetical to a homeland security official.

"What if they were laying the tracks during the night - and, God forbid, ran a train into the White House?"

https://youtu.be/fNfSQA6ZRsc

The whole interview is genius.
Government overreach. We never learn.
Are there plans to switch the matrix.org homeservers over from Synapse to Dendrite once Dendrite is feature-complete?
The really dumb thing is we only started doing security for airplanes because the airplane itself can be used as a missile to hit another target. A train can't be used to hurt a third party. If someone wanted to attack a train they wouldn't need to get onboard at all. Simply wait along the track in the middle of nowhere. The whole idea is pointless.
The immune response example is instructive, but supports Graham's position, not yours. Immune responses often are destructive--but we've evolved to have them anyway because the consequences are potentially far worse. There's some really important principles of our society--not just free speech, but meritocracy, color blindness, etc.--that are under attack right now by a novel ideology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor_ideology.

It's not an ideology that's widely embraced, but has outsize influence in key institutions (kind of like Scientology). And it manipulatively invokes large groups of faceless minorities to paper over the fact that it's being advanced by a small, affluent, relatively homogenous minority: https://hiddentribes.us/profiles/
For loops are syntactic sugar for while loops, e.g.

for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++);

Is just

int i = 0;
while(i < 10)
i++;
Thus about as useful as selling an LCD already unevenly burned in with some ad or station logo already on it?
The Buzz Aldrin selfie in space:

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/on-national-selfie-day-...
I've set up a catch-all SMTP server for my domain and now I make up unique addresses on the fly. It simply forwards everything to gmail. Was too lazy to set up sending.

Thanks to this setup, I've already encountered one instance of a company either leaking or selling their customer information.
you should work for a month in a 3rd world country call center for minimum wage.

you have it way too good, be grateful
The bus is like 5 minutes late. Amtrak is more like 5 hours late.
Any thoughts on improving the situation on self-hosting? I've written about the situation for Firefox Accounts (FXA, a dependency of Relay if you don't want to use third-party hosted services) here before[0][1] and Relay looks kind of similar.

When comparing Relay with the other two, I get the impression that SimpleLogin/AnonAddy actually interact with the community and understand that self-hosting is something people want to do and provide approachable documentation and support for that, whereas Firefox Relay seems built only with a single global prod deployment in mind and is more like "well theoretically you could but you're on your own and who would do that anyway?". Even if it's public and under an open license, the intended audience is Mozilla internal, e.g. [2]

Like, if a user signs up for Relay today and in 2 years Mozilla sunsets it, the way things looks today I think it wouldn't be viable even for most seasoned self-hosters to migrate to their own deployment.

I do appreciate the work you guys are doing and I think the engineers seem to have good intentions, so don't want to be overly critical. But mentioning it as open source alongside SimpleLogin and AnonAddy comes with some major caveats IMO, and I'd wish that some more priority is put on keeping docs complete and up to date and making the stack realistically approachable for outsiders.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30727935

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30315816

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay#optional-enable-...
But also those people would still exist and have other jobs to commute to instead.
> The solution seems to be setting a framework that fits with yourself.

I think this is true.

I tried time off and it only made things worse.

It was only when i started putting a structured framework in place that I started enjoying tech again. Although, I still struggle after a big burnout incident.

I'm one of those people who got burnt out, took 1.5 years off work "for myself" thinking it would help, and then when I went back to work, I hated technology even more than I did before I'd taken the time off.

> I knew nothing about the bitterness that seeps into your soul when you’re working in tech. Now, in order to avoid it, I had to learn what made me lose so much of my enthusiasm for the thing I’ve pursued.

I'm still searching for this answer, I think it was just accumulated bitterness over time and giving %150 of my self to jobs and not taking time for my self.

Thats where my 'structured framework' comes in now, holds me accountable to ensure that I'm taking the time for my self.
TSA can only do this crap because people fall for the same damn "give us tons of power and we'll fix stuff" that they fell for last election cycle, and the one before that and the one before that and...

Everyone always imagines all the power going to the EPA or whatever their favorite pet agency is (the fact that we even have these de-facto lawmaking executive bureaucracies is a travesty for another day) but forgets that there's one TSA, one DEA, one ATF and one DHS for every EPA.
My favourite example: the Latin word musa ‘banana’, which originates from New Guinea of all places. It was passed language by language through Indonesia, India and Arabia to eventually end up in Europe. [Source: https://www.academia.edu/25619010/Things_your_classics_maste...]
In my experience, people will do anything they're allowed to (and often much that they aren't, but that's another issue).
The Anti-Social Media app minutiae
Hello folks,
Even though we take more photos than ever most of them are special moments - birthdays, dinner with friends, playing with our pets, etc.

However, 99.9% of our lives go undocumented because these moments seem too mundane or ordinary to be worthy of documentation.

My co-creator and I created minutiae, an app the “forces” you to document these moments - before it’s too late.

This is how it works:
Once a day at the exact same minute all participants around the world receive a daily alert.
At the alert, you have one minute to capture whatever is in front of you there and then.
The result is thousands of complete strangers capturing ordinary moments of their life at the exact same time together creating a global ritual of self-documentation.

Once you have captured your moment you have a one-minute window to view your own timeline of previously taken photos or with the tap of a button get matched with a complete stranger. The experience offers a highly intimate view into a stranger’s life before the app closes down and the process is repeated again the following day at a different minute.

The project continues for 1440 days until every single minute in a day has been captured creating a highly unique journal of what really happened in life as opposed to what we tend to remember.
The project has been called:

Wired Magazine: “The curious app the captures your unfiltered life”
Financial Times: “Anti-social photo app offers Antidote to Facebook and Instagram”

Minutiae is 100% artist-led and created by photographer Martin Adolfsson and neuroscientist Daniel J Wilson the app was built by the developer studio UsTwo. First released in the App Store in 2017 with the Android version released in June 2021.
It's because if you only allow an app to access an approved and whitelisted API endpoint, that endpoint can trivially implement a proxy and essentially act as a gateway to the open internet.
> "I don't think he would be happy if we called him at 3 AM if some problem came up".

...And who would?
Unless you're a shop that doesn't test 100% of your incoming parts to 100% completion.

How would you know it's going to work at the advertised speed?
This has actually been very true for me so far. Whoever killed it probably has never burnt out badly. I mainly feign enthusiasm for the various new tooling things that come out. It largely doesn't matter if ya ain't gettin $$, and sometimes that's all you should care about.
Amtrak service is fine, good even, in the places where they own the trackage and have right-of-way. But they own less than 1/4th of their tracks, and everywhere they don't is a place where they're given the lowest possible travel priority.

Given the right resources (more wholly-owned tracks and legislation requiring commercial railroads to honor Amtrak's timetables), Amtrak could be a pretty great national service.
> The question isn't "staying in good graces". While people should have friends with whom they disagree, the topic here is heresy. Heresy leads to punishment that goes beyond social consequences.

Potayto potahto. I was talking about the same thing that the article called "heresy".

My claim isn't that shunning and social pressure doesn't exist or isn't a problem. I'm just a bit skeptical that it's a lot worse now than in the past, and I'm a lot skeptical that it's only a problem on one side of the political aisle. I don't even think it's really a thing with a political valence, I think it's just a human thing.
10x0 was Pascal, Volta was Quadro only (Titan V), 16x0 and 20x0 are Turing, 30x0 is Ampere and Lovelace is Quadro only at the moment.
Many Amtrak victims have been surprised to find their tickets are actually for bus journeys. Amtrak, incredibly, thinks of themselves more like a travel agency that happens to own some trains and buses, and not really as a rail operator.
Is there any specification for this elisp based html template?
Hang on, though: doesn't this essentially hand Apple a big list of which domains you communicate with and how frequently? There's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through. I know a lot of people trust Apple more than Google, but you're essentially signing up for a vendor-locked product that you're hoping Apple will continue to support, with no guarantee they won't collect - even at an aggregate level - your communication preferences.

They're even slightly pre-filtered for Apple's convenience, as the times you're likely to use Hide My Email are for shopping and social media - nice, ripe marketing targets.
> TSA screening in trains make much less sense than in planes. First, planes have a history of hijackings

Not to mention that the most important measures protecting against this have nothing to do with the TSA. 9/11 Changed completely the way passengers and crew see hijacking. It used to be that hijackers had demands, not suicide missions. Anyone trying to do it now will face a planeful of people fighting them like their lives depend on it, not to mention a locked, reinforced cockpit door. Attacks on planes are stopped either before they ever make it the airport, as with the plot that made them ban liquids, or after they're in the air, as with the undewear- and shoe-bombers.
...what?

The second paragraph is saying that the practices that the FHA banned were also illiberalism, just like the current practices of the current service providers.

And there is no charitable interpretation or benefit of the doubt needed; it's crystal clear. In order to even have the option of reading it the way you keep trying to, I'd have to ignore: referring to the landlords who had their bad behavior banned as "bigots"; putting scare quotes around both cases of "wrong"; explicitly calling the current platform providers illiberal.
Why change when it works fine and will negatively affect more people than it helps. It would be cheaper to buy Amtrak it's own track than rearrange the people and companies needed to get passenger service on current tracks. Why are the needs of a few so much more important than everyone else?
What if you do that and find that it makes you happier?
I use mozmail and on the fly emails are great but so easy to exploit and spam.

For example, my custom domain is foo.mozmail.com. I enter my on the fly email address bar@foo.mozmail.com on attackers website. Voila. Now they know my custom domain name "foo" and can use it to send email to all possible on the fly addresses. e.g. 1@foo.mozmail.com 2@foo.mozmail.com so on and so forth.

Now my custom domain name as a whole is compromised but I can not change it anymore and lost all benefits of Firefox relay.
I _know_ I have it really good. But I still feel unhappy and unfulfilled. I'm planning to have a sabbatical next year to see how that pans out for me. I honestly don't know how my parents worked until retirement.
If I’m not mistaken, this is more generalizable as Silly HashMap Algorithm Idea, which is probably a worthy pursuit. The idea is to find the minimal meaningful key with the highest likelihood of resolving to the correct value. Compression is meaningless to the former but valuable for the latter.
> This could easily, under the US legislative framework, be interpreted as extending beyond the 3rd grade.

The or makes it quite clear this is the intent:

> Classroom instruction by school personnel or third
parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur
in kindergarten through grade 3

So, no instruction in K-3 is permitted.

> or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.

And in 4-12, it may only be age appropriate / developmentally appropriate as determined by state standards. (E.g. it's not an independent finding of fact by the court as to whether what you said to a bunch of 11th graders was age appropriate.)
>I am largely referring to activities like rock climbing gyms, archery, horse riding, accessible national parks and a more extensive board games culture

That is an interesting comment to see, because a cursory Google Maps search gives plenty of results. I think I can easily say that Bangalore has archery clubs [1], Rock Climbing gyms [2], Equestrian clubs [3] and a National park [4] (with others also pretty accessible). I can't, of course, talk about board games because I can't get that from a cursory Google search, but this is an interesting nitpick.

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/search/bangalore+archery/@12.890...

[2]: https://www.google.com/maps/search/rock+climbing+gym/@12.890...

[3]: https://www.google.com/maps/search/equestrian+club/@12.89137...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannerghatta_National_Park
>The bus is like 5 minutes late. Amtrak is more like 5 hours late.

I haven't experienced that on the train. And I have on the bus. An accident on the road and you're not going anywhere until it's cleared.

What's more, have you even ridden on stank Greyhound or Trailways bus? Yuck. I'd rather have my tonsils extracted through my ears.
I use duckduckgo email protection.
What parts are implausible? The port is obviously fine. Lan communication between rokus makes sense. And it might have updates or other things, but it's just a reboot so that doesn't even matter. "exact same bytes" sounds harder than it is. Then a silly probability joke.

And that's about it for the original post, it was only a couple sentences.

It's entirely believable as someone who mostly knows what the problem is, but doesn't have a perfect understanding, tossing it into a quick reddit post.
I think you're both a little wrong. The ideology isn't collectivist, it's pseudo-collectivist. For example, as a foreigner who finds ethnic "identity politics" rather natural, I'm completely befuddled by what passes for "identity politics" in America. It's not collectivism where everyone all the Muslim kids line up in their tribe and follow what the patriarchs and matriarchs say. It's a hyper-individualistic cosplay of collectivism. "Proud Muslim Americans" wear their identity on their sleeve and complain about "white people" and "Islamophobia," but their beliefs and causes align with those of their white progressive friends, not other Muslims.

This, incidentally, makes the movement seem much bigger than it is.
nice tips, Thanks.
Eesh.
I hope the Communist Party of China doesn't steal my sick Fortnite strategies.
Planning to build a new web application, and need it to be SPA style (no page reloads). Is it worth spending the time to learn React or will something like Turbolinks suffice. I know big apps use Turbolinks such as basecamp and snapforce crm.
I wrote a comment here about how the term "heresy hunter" is a good example of what I'm talking about, bad writing because "heresy hunting" is a clunky made-up term, and there are much better, more vivid words to use instead. But, it turns out, there is a lot of writing about "heresy hunting" out on the Internet --- in Evangelical Christian theology. Maybe that's what happened? Maybe Graham is born again?
Who Is MacKenzie Scott
Terse affirmative is ambiguous.
Another perspective: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
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