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- he forgot his password
- he lost his private key
- he knows more than he can tell us
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=schneier&op=index
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance
News and reports today of Russian ICBMs and other nuclear forces being placed on high alert (and moved further towards the west of the country) [1] frankly scares me. While some observers think that this is "overplaying" his hand [2] I know that all of this is deeply concerning. The world does _not_ need another cuban missile crisis; it also does _not_ need to vanish in a pile of radioactive smoke.
I live in Europe. My father sent me a message to essentially ask if I'd had a thought about where my nearest "shelter" would be -- and I had. My partner's family have too. It feels awful, but I can't concentrate effectively -- I'm glued to the news and I need to put it down, convince myself that the world won't end tomorrow, and get back to work.
Am I the only person affected similarly by events? How else have you been coping with it all?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin-puts-russia-nuclear-deterrence-forces-on-high-alert-ukraine
[2] https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/02/25/is-putin-overplaying-his-hand-by-moving-icbms-into-western-russia/
remove news sources focusing principally on `The` News
rather than technical topics and the net result has
been a much more pleasurable experience on par with HN
from a few years ago.
I can read the `news` news in many places, and I do,
but I like to come here for industry and niche
technical topics.
Many I've spoken to share this
sentiment and I hope this is of benefit to anyone
wishing to focus more on what they are interested in.
You can block a source or keywords with the same rule:
news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/{phrase1}|{phrase2}/):nth-ancestor(1)
e.g. a brief sample of sites that are not principally
about technology and recur somewhat frequently
(choose your own):
news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/businessinsider.com|dailymail.co.uk|foxnews.com|theverge.com|cnn.com|reuters.com|zerohedge.com|insider.com|bloomberg.com|euronews.com|theguardian.com|wsj.com|ft.com|theconversation.com|thetimes.co.uk|bbc.co.uk|nytimes.com|newyorker.com|theatlantic.com/):nth-ancestor(1)
or simply a phrase:
news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/web3|crypto/):nth-ancestor(1)
This rule isn't perfect as it only removes the title
line and keeps the number of comments, but it is
definitely good enough and I am enjoying reading HN a
great deal more.
You can add these to your Android phone too with Firefox
and uBO.
There's been some of HN posts mentioning degrowth in the past but they were heavily criticized[2][3]. I get some degrowthist literature might seem too apocalyptic, but they make some good points:
- Criticism of "decoupling": there's no way of our GDP keeps growing indefinitely while reducing our ecological footprint. In fact, despite all the advancements made in renewables during the past decades global CO2 emissions are at an all-time high.
- Very few people know how to build/grow anything end to end. Consumerism appears to be the only way to live in the West right now (with it, a shared feeling of powerlessness).
At the same time, I stumble upon articles from time to time that are indirectly aligned with the same ideas although from an entirely different perspective. These couple of HN posts come to mind:
- "The super-rich 'preppers' planning to save themselves" [4]
- "I, Pencil (1958)" [5]
- "CO2 emissions are being 'outsourced' by rich countries to rising economies"[6] (The Guardian, not HN)
I gotta admit, this has me pretty worried. However I also have hope (and with hope, it comes action). Questions that I'd like to get input on from the HN community:
1. Am I overly paranoid for believing this? (degrowth seems like our only way out)
2. Is believing technology will save us from climate collapse really that, a belief? Believing this would mean society should keep doing its thing for a tiny tiny chance of getting a free "get out of jail" card (i.e. decoupling is not a fable after all).
3. On the other hand, if we know it's a belief: why aren't our so-called leaders doing anything real about it (albeit at the cost of GDP), are they just trying to prevent widespread panic? I see how this might sound a bit "conspiranoic" but i can't just find better words for it...
4. Regardless of the answer to the question above on #2, why aren't people actively building resilient hyperlocal communities and actively ignore what brought us here in the first place? I.e. globalization and widespread consumerism
4.1. Low-tech, no-tech initiatives seem pretty plausible to me (provided we leave aside our current individualistic values as a society)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416815
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20058894
[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711413
[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980
[6]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/19/co2-emissions-outsourced-rich-nations-rising-economies
We started Sure to make this process easier. Interviewing our target users validated our key assumption: finding sustainable options should be as easy as finding the closest McDonalds. The market in Europe alone is 56.8M, and with more than 75% willing to pay more for sustainable goods, the need we’re meeting is both prominent and growing.
Solution: Sure is a Facebook Messenger chatbot for finding and buying sustainable products and services. Powered by human assisted AI and using data capture and machine learning, Sure provides personalised recommendations for sustainable consumption curated from a crowdsourced database.
Why YCF: In March, our MVP had a monthly growth rate of 64% and with F8 earlier this week, we’ve tripled our number of active users and received over 1,500 messages just in 1 day. As The Guardian put it, Sure is one of the earliest chatbots on Messenger that actually manages to achieve the conversational UI but we need to expand to other cities and add product lines fast enough to keep up with the demand.
We would love to hear your feedback here and will be happy to answer any questions. Before that, go ahead and try Sure at m.me/besure.io
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/13/facebook-...
Suddenly, while talking with ChatGPT, it appears almost in every other conversation...
Is it because I talk (sometimes) about PHP/Laravel/Eloquent, and it somehow fixed the "Eager loading of relationships," or is the language changed, and I did not notice?
Did you notice other words like this?
I found this article about the word "delve":
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape...
Little off-topic: Lastly, I learned that children in Portugal have started to speak the Brazilian variant of Portuguese, as videos from there are flooding the Internet. It is interesting how technology affects our lives in more surprising areas.
Today, during an interview where Elon Musk merely suggests that Twitter could start charging from all users as a way to fight the spammers and to keep away people who do not actually bring value to the network [0], all of the reports are about how stupid the idea is and how such a move would kill Twitter.
One could brush it off as mere "Musk derangement Syndrome" or sensationalist media trying to capitalize on the latest current thing, but as someone who has been working on a "healthy" alternative to social media that works on the exact same principle of charging small amounts from all users [1], and struggling to figure out if this can ever be a viable business [2], I am genuinely puzzled: if every company that offers free services is "evil" and people do not want to pay for access to networks, how the hell is this whole thing supposed to work?
Is this just another example of people virtue signalling and failing to (literally) put their money where their mouths are, or is there any real alternative to this that I am not seeing?
[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/19/elon-musk-twitter-x-subscription-fees-users-posts
[1]: https://communick.com
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36674034
(Here's the Guardian article I refer to: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data)
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Congressman Rogers,
I apologize for misrepresenting my zipcode to get to this page to send you an e-mail, I live in Brooklyn and am not in your district.
However, as an American, I feel that you owe me and the rest of the American people an explanation for your statement in reference to Edward Snowden and his claims about low-level analysts being able to spy on ordinary Americans with little oversight. You said of Snowden and his statement: "He's lying. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do."
In light of today's article in the Guardian on the NSA's XKeyscore program, it is clear that your statement is clearly misleading, if not outright meant to mislead.
As an American, I sincerely hope you can justify this choice to misrepresent the NSA's programs to me. Seeking to undermine the credibility of a whistleblower that has acted on his conscience and to stifle public discussion about the constitutionality of the actions of federal agencies are serious violations of the trust of all Americans place in their public servants. If there is some explanation you can provide that would show that you have upheld your oath of office and the good faith I and your constituents have placed in you to defend the interests and the values of our country, I would love to hear what you have to say.
I await your reply.
Sincerely,
Michael Carroll
- by girls in Afghanistan: https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currency-afghanistan/feature-salaries-to-remittances-afghans-embrace-crypto-amid-financial-chaos-idUSL8N2QU39A
- by Russian political opposition: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-crypto-curren/bitcoin-donations-surge-to-jailed-kremlin-critic-navalnys-cause-data-idUSKBN2AB2GR
- Nigerians without access to foreign exchange: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/31/out-of-control-and-rising-why-bitcoin-has-nigerias-government-in-a-panic
- Chinese capital flight: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/china-users-move-50-billion-of-cryptocurrency-out-of-country-hinting-at-capital-flight.html
- truckers in Canada: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-bitcoin-fueled-canada-trucker-convoy
It seems Bitcoin is indeed used to subvert Governments. However, it also seems the case that "subverting governments" is not always a bad thing. When people with monopoly on violence resort to bad laws and regulations, having a tool like Bitcoin to go around those goons is actually a good thing!
[1] found in this excellent article: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/a-look-at-the-lightning-network
During the time that X was acquired by Elon:
Pebble / T2 (X competitor) shut down. (1)
Artifact (Another X competitor) shut down. (2)
Post.news is drastically losing traction with it's founder struggling to "kill X". (3)
Threads is faltering and lost over 75% of their daily active users since launch. (4) (5)
Spill is in invite limbo and many people lost interest.
Substack's competitor Notes didn't take off and people are moving away from the platform. (6)
Mastodon is still very hostile to non-tech folks, made no dent to X in user traction and still has major UX & discovery issues. (7)
Hive was a flash in the pan, turned off their servers and fell off with no roadmap. (8)
BlueSky is still stuck in invite limbo with no traction.
Clubhouse and Nostr aren't even on the map here.
All the while X is doing all the worst things possible to destroy their own platform, yet it is still up and running somehow and the X competitors imploded in the process.
If any other platform did what Elon has done they would have been dead a long time ago.
Why is Twitter / X not dead after all these months even when it is valued much less than what Elon purchased it for?
(1) https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/pebble-the-twitter-alternative-previously-known-as-t2-is-closing-down/
(2) https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/12/instagram-co-founders-news-aggregation-startup-artifact-to-shut-down/
(3) https://themessenger.com/tech/why-is-it-so-damn-hard-to-kill-twitter
(4) https://fortune.com/2023/08/04/threads-traffic-spiral-down-82-percent-launch-month-mark-zuckerberg/
(5) https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-meta-app-decrease-daily-active-users-mark-zuckerberg-2023/
(6) https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/
(7) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/18/mastodon-users-twitter-elon-musk-social-media
(8) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data/
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Musk&sort=byDate&type=story
Here are the most recent results ... is this really the best topic for HN to spend it's attention on? Seriously?
Elon Musk Trolls Twitter(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...
“Temporarily on hold” is not a thing. Musk has signed a binding contract(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...
Matt Levine Blog: Elon Musk Trolls Twitter(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...
Elon Musk Trolls Twitter(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...
Elon Musk Trolls Twitter(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...
Elon Musk says Twitter deal is 'on hold'(https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musk-tweets-that-deal-for-twitter-is-on-hold)
Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over bot numbers claim(https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/13/musk_twitter_on_hold/)
Elon Musk tweets Twitter deal ‘temporarily on hold’(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/13/musk-twitter-bid/)
Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘temporarily on hold’(https://nypost.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-says-twitter-deal-temporarily-on-hold/)
Musk Says His Twitter Takeover Is ‘On Hold,’ Then Says He’s ‘Still Committed’(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/elon-musk-says-his-takeover-of-twitter-is-on-hold.html)
Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over fake account details(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61433724)
Elon Musk is putting his Twitter deal on hold because bots(https://thenextweb.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-deal-hold-bots)
Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘on hold’ after spam/fake account report(https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/13/23070306/elon-musk-twitter-deal-on-hold-spam-inauthentic-accounts)
Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is on hold(https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/tech/twitter-deal-on-hold-elon-musk/index.html)
Twitter takeover temporarily on hold, says Elon Musk(https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/13/twitter-takeover-temporarily-hold-elon-musk)
Elon Musk puts the Twitter deal on a temporary hold(https://www.teslaoracle.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-puts-the-twitter-deal-on-a-temporary-hold/)
Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold(https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/twitter-deal-temporarily-on-hold-tweets-elon-musk-2972524)
Elon Musk says Twitter deal on hold pending details on fake accounts(https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-says-twitter-deal-on-hold-pending-details-on-fake-accounts.html)
Musk puts $44bn Twitter deal ‘on hold’(https://www.ft.com/content/a0aa177e-607c-4f3c-b2af-ac74535e2d26)
Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over fake account details(https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61433724)
Musk $44B Twitter deal temporarily on hold(https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-44-billion-twitter-deal-hold-2022-05-13/)
I hesitated a lot before posting this. HN's attention is what it is, and probably won't change.
This isn't a criticism, it doesn't affect me, and I just scroll on by.
Your time is limited, and cannot be replenished. "Spending Time" is not really a metaphor,
it's a reality.
I'm choosing more carefully how I spend my time. I've spent this time in the hope that a few
of you who are significantly more skilled and able than I might reconsider how you spend yours.
What happened to their secularism? What would have been the reaction if such a thing happened for something related to Christianity or even Islam? What would have been the reaction if a Christian or Muslim priest comes and does something like this? As everyone knows that Hindu nationalism is ruling India and it's even hijacked US and UK politics with RSS or Hindu nationalist organisation-backed politicians in power(https://jacobin.com/2023/03/india-modi-hindutva-lobby-nationalism-bjp, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/20/what-is-hindu-nationalism-and-who-are-the-rss). Are tech companies also being now controlled by RSS? These tech companies also allow direct hate content in the form of posts and comments by Hindu nationalists against other religions(https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-politics-muslim-hindu-modi-zuckerberg-11597423346). Is it a sign of so called developed tech industry which considers religions like Christianity and Islam as superstition supporting Hindu theocracy?
Give me honest opinion
This is not a troll question.
Going forward what should one do to himself?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/06/how-close-is-the-us-to-civil-war-barbara-f-walter-stephen-march-christopher-parker
A large section of society is not happy with the current state of affairs.
Today we are a divided society.
Give me your honest opinion and please be frank.
We are here to help each other
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Dod9AWz8Rp4Svdpof/why-i-think-there-s-a-one-in-six-chance-of-an-imminent
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/09/biden-armageddon-russia-nuclear-threat-pentagon
Is anyone aware of a 'Civilisation OS'? E.g. instruction manuals for rebooting civilisation from scratch in the event that some large % of it is destroyed?
I am thinking about something like nested txt files covering everything from how to make a fire to how to smelt aluminium to how pencils are made.
If it doesn't exist already, anyone want to work on it?
What's different about Riddler compared to _most_ casual word games is that it's designed to generate its own puzzles and content autonomously with LLMs.
I say _most_ casual word games because there is a brilliant exception – Wordle. [https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html]
The genius of Wordle lies in its simplicity. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, receiving feedback for each guess in the form of colored tiles that indicate when letters match or occupy the correct position. It can be considered autonomous in the sense that (in theory), each daily puzzle can be created easily by sampling a five-letter word from a set dictionary.
But is Wordle truly autonomous? Almost.
The NYTimes caught some flack in 2022 when a daily Wordle answer – FETUS – was sampled at an inopportune time. The Roe v Wade supreme court draft ruling had just been leaked, and the 5-letter word was poorly received by enough NYT Games players for the Times to make a statement: "Today, some users may see an outdated answer for Wordle that seems closely connected to a major recent news event. This is entirely unintentional and a coincidence – today's original answer was loaded into Wordle last year." [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/09/new-york-times...]
NYT Games scrambled to refresh the word. If a single word – innocuous in a vacuum – can upset users in certain unforeseeable contexts, how does one ensure that longer form generative content is curated in a way that makes it both safe AND fun? This is a question I'm still trying to answer.
Riddler is clearly inspired by Wordle's simple design – I'm not a designer, so I wanted to keep this somewhat constant for the time being. However, Riddler is more similar in gameplay to word ladders, invented in the 1800s and which happen to have a similar layout to Wordle [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_ladder]. So some aspects of the Wordle layout work.
Currently, every Riddler player gets the same daily puzzle, which makes sense for competitive and sharing reasons. I'm currently reviewing the puzzles myself, using scripts to regenerate certain riddles and images if necessary. I think this too can be automated through meta-prompting and LLM self-review of output. So is Riddler autonomous? Almost.
Riddler could allow users to craft their own puzzles on demand, which I think is interesting. Riddler's backend uses path finding algorithms to find paths between two words, but I've found that the most efficient path between two words is not ideal for gameplay because this leads to repetitive puzzles given a static dictionary. Dictionary curation is quite difficult, by the way, and I plan to use LLMs for helping to improve on this front as well.
I'm a server engineer, not a game designer, so I'd really appreciate any feedback on the gameplay since it's not quite there yet. I want to continue creating games like this – and have a dream to move to other types of curated, generative content like interactive articles, podcasts, and videos.
Interested in collaborating or discussing opportunities? I'm looking for something new! Reach out at po (at) po [dot] studio.
Thank you!
It’s time. We ignored their lack of openess. We looked the other way when they read our messages. We condoned their selling of our information. We rationalized their centralization of editorial and social power. But not any more. Facebook’s latest censoring of Nick Uts famous picture of a naked Kim Phuc fleeing from the napalm bombs, and even worse: Its censoring of the following discussion and criticism (even from the Norwegian prime minister), was the final straw. The time of jaded ignorace is over. It’s time we make a change towards an open social network based on sustainable technology.
theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-napalm-girl-photo-vietnam-war
Let’s bring the social back to the social media. We are users, not consumers. For the sake of democracy, we cannot let Facebook last. We knew a change was needed, but we didn’t know how nor when. We must move to an open, non-profit, decentralized and privacy aware social network. Diaspora is such a network. A sustainable technology which will only improve with more people using it. It’s not as streamlined as Facebook yet, but everyone can contribute: The more people use it, the better it will get. Every change has some friction in the start, but if it means we finally can build a global community based on sustainable technology without a centralized power, it is undoubtedly worth it.
However, building a community is not possible alone. We need to collectively do the shift, and this is the time to do it. Find and join a Diaspora-pod at podupti.me, or join one of these directly:
joindiaspora.com
flokk.no
poddery.com
Although these are different sites, they will all connect you to the same network.
After joining, find your invitation-link, swap it for the one below and post this entire message on your Facebook wall.
My link: [enter link here]
Sharing is caring, and a like fuels the journey of the post.
ref: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website
[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/28/damaged-undersea-cable-internet-disruption
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption
[2] http://www.renesys.com/2014/03/beware-the-ides-of-march/
So, how do I make a conscious effort in slowing down and reading so as to improve my retention.
Recently Indian police arrested[2] the co-founder of a fact-checking website for a tweet he did in 2018. There are reports that Government is trying to nab him for reporting the fake news and religious hatred the current regime has been peddling.
Police demanded the data of the donors to the fact-checking website from Razorpay and they complied without a court order[3].
1: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/razorpay
2: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/28/delhi-police-a...
3: https://inc42.com/buzz/razorpay-alt-news-controversy-spotlig...