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> Re malleability: instead of just thinking about this issue in an abstract way, I recommend writing an exploit.

Challenge accepted! Hmm, doesn't work. Let me think a bit more abou— <facepalm>

Of course: I totally forgot that h is a hash of R and A, not just the message. So if I change them in any way, h's main factor will change unpredictably, and the signature will fail. Looks like the only malleability left is `s`, and that has nothing to do with the cofactor. Let's take the whole section down.

Lesson learned: I should test my writings like I test my code.

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If I may, you should have lead with "If R or A is changed, h will change." I let myself get worked up by your first comment¹, and failed to notice the single most important sentence near the bottom. I ended up having to reach the same conclusion independently. I almost missed my error.

[1]: You didn't address me directly, and you didn't start with my error. Regardless of your intentions, that felt mildly confrontational. Being nicer would have been more effective.
The twenty rules of formulating knowledge is a good article about effective Anki strategies https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20ru...

I also like the image occlusion and incremental reading plugins
By the time Nikon reforms happen, the Russian Orthodox Church already had its own independent patriarch.

And in fact, the reforms were about making things more like what the Greek church was doing at the time. Russian traditions, meanwhile, were based on old Greek ones, and basically better conserved. It went above and beyond matters of dogma and ritual, even down to stuff like clothing and hairstyles.

Tsar Aleksei was also a Grecophile, and to him this was less abstract than just church issues - he was seriously eyeing Constantinople as a potential "Orthodox Reconquista", with himself as the new Constantine -the emperor of the Orthodox faithful. Military feasibility aside, this all is a lot easier if tsar's take on Orthodoxy itself is more consistent with what the Greeks see as such.
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> Red Hat almost doesn't sell RHEL by itself anymore [0][1]. RHEL is lumped into OpenShift, Quay, OCS, OpenStack, RHV and more often than not sold along side Ansible, Tower, JBoss, AMQ, Fuse, DecisionManager, etc.

Right, but that only strengthens my point. Red Hat is bundling add-ons with RHEL in an effort to boost add-on sales. Without the bundling, those products would be doing considerably worse in the marketplace.

> So, the revenue streams are being bundled together which makes it harder to tease out which product is pushing the Total Revenue line

Again, this supports my point. Given the historical importance of RHEL revenue standalone, there is no good reason to bundle it with other streams, other than to hide something. What is being hidden, presumably, is exactly how much Red Hat still depends on good old RHEL renewal, as opposed to genuine demand for their new products.
Did you ever read Robert Anton Wilson's "Illuminatus Trilogy"? It's basically all about this process and the higher-order manifestations of it. (It's about a lot of other things too.)

Specific to what you're talking about there is a bifurcation (really a series of them) when the system detects the invalid data and re-calibrates. Often this takes the form of a "conversion experience", and some people build specific rituals (initiations) to try to engineer them artificially.

He once described society as "open warfare between competing gangs of magicians" or something like that. By "magicians" he meant people who deliberately program the "reality tunnels" (his jargon) of others.

What you're talking about, in the context of RAW's models, is a kind of transcendent goal: allegiance to truth itself. (And critical thinking, evidence-based data collection, etc. All that good stuff.) You're part of the great anti-conspiracy.

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Now that I think about it I seem to recall that RAW had a piece where he talks about experienceing the Santa Claus disillusionment. I think George Carlin does in his autobiography.
Might actually just do that first and then I could eventually migrate to this. Thanks for the idea!
And for a very good reason. They're also offering the APK for those that need it, and they might make it more accessible e.g. for US users if EARN IT passes.
I mean, he goes into some detail about the issue: he wants to be able to use an internationalisation library, but the best option is in javascript, and these libraries are very hard to write because i18n is really hard with a bunch of edge cases. He also gives evidence that some commercial apps using Elm really need this functionality. He wrote bindings so it could be used in Elm, it worked well, but the core team were not interested in his solution, seemed to misunderstand the problem, and will not allow anyone else to solve it without an outright fork (which the core team act extremely hostile towards).
Yikes. It's 2020, and emotional abuse (which is absolutely what shouting at people you hold power over is) is not even a little acceptable. When you're an adult, you control your temper.
Ah, now I miss Meebo again, which was like adium but browser-based.
Whether that verse is abrogated or not is a matter of debate in Islam, particularly when it comes to its specific meaning (i.e. many would say that it's not abrogated, but that's because it only applied in the original context of Muhammad's conquests, and is not a broad commandment).
> what can the average person do to continue to access Signal's servers in other countries?

I suspect once you get into "use a secure VPN in an EU country" you've already given up as far as the "average person" is concerned. You might as well recommend something like renting a VPS in a country with strong privacy laws and installing your own VPN on that, which is slightly more difficult but a much better security win if you're going that route.
What aspect do you want to get into? Making plugins for post production? Developing new codecs? Streaming? Broadcast? Apps?

There's lots of work doing less sexy things like building workflows for transforming existing video libraries to something to use in various OTT platforms. Think B&W films or older TV programs. Understanding old video formats and how to prep them for modern platforms is something that not everyone does well. Of course that would require deep dive into the history of Film->Video.

There's also lots of options on developing supporting software to do non-sexy things like storing descriptive metadata and making it available. Transforming closed captions, subtitles and other ancillary file formats that support video.
After reading that I’m fairly clear in my mind that Elm is something I will avoid if possible. The author seems extremely credible to me and several of the quotes entirely damning. For example, the one where the core team / leader ended a communication by saying that they weren’t interested in hearing alternative views but that they did want feedback on whether their communication was clear. I cannot imagine that behind those words lie people I would want to work with.
Most startups fail. Most employees get nothing beyond the experience and the paycheck they earned at the time. It's important to keep that perspective when considering outliers of the "if only I had done <x>!" variety.

Which isn't to say employees should always abandon ship, just that they should be clear-eyed. It's a great time to really consider if the risky $1m+ potential equity payout you signed on for still looks as shiny & filled with potential right now. Heck, even if it is still a great idea with solid execution, if they can't survive the next 6-12 months then it won't matter.
Does it alert you when your contact's key changes? Does it alert you when your contact buys another iDevice and installs iMessage on it? Thought so. That's where the attack happens, when you receive a new public key for contact's device.

Just because your account keeps track of your devices, doesn't mean Apple can't do this attack.
Really OSM is kind of a special case. Database-wise it is more of a catalog of points and edges. Traditionnally, GIS databases support more complexe geometries natively.
Fair, that wasn't a good word for me to pick. But I think Newsom's "nation state" is still fair; it's a nation (Californians have a group identity) and a state (it has broad independent power to decide how it'll handle matters of governance).
I guess we can look forward to Chinese hegemony in the future, since the US doesn't want to do it any more.
It would have to attempt to withdraw from the United States.
I believe TARP made a profit... Out of curiosity were profits privatized?
> I disagree. I think these scanners can only be good, but never perfect, so they're mainly effective against technically unsophisticated abusers

Assuming the checks are not hash-based (literally any mutations to a file make these worthless, and the libraries of hashes of illegal content are gigabytes and growing), the computing power required on the client side is infeasible to ship in a product intended for any modest consumer hardware.

Let's assume this is limited to child pornography only. You first need to store some perceptually-encoded version of _every_ illegal image on the user's device (in such a way that it's impossible to reverse-engineer one of the images back out). Then you need to try to match the image being sent against each of the encoded versions of each of those images. On a server farm, that's _maybe_ practical. On someone's crappy Samsung Galaxy phone from 2013, it would take days or weeks to process a single image.

Let's assume it _was_ some hash based check. People complain that the Facebook Messenger app is over a hundred megabytes. Do you think someone is going to download the Signal client onto their phone with a gig of file hashes so that they can get reported to the police in the event that one of their images has a prohibited hash? No, that's crazy.

And even if it _was_ feasible, Signal is open source [0]. It would take a single person maybe a day of works tops to create a version without those restrictions and throw an APK onto a static website.

[0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android
Effective at what? In the short term, nuking all of them will get you fewer meetings, both wasteful and valuable. But it doesn't teach people much, except maybe that their bosses act arbitrarily. The better solution is to coach people on more effectively using company time.
Oh, Google. Another flavor of the day, or is it the hour? Takeaway: Any Google product has a very very short lifespan, so don't get too attached...
Taiwan rejects WHO chief’s claim of racist campaign against him
Seems like a pretty common thing from major powers doesn't it. Maybe it's just human nature? e.g. US banning exports of respirators but throwing a tantrum when India tries to ban the export of hydroxychloroquine.

Not sure what the solution here is, but it certainly does seem it's everyone for themselves in these situations.
"Quantitative easing was born out of Bernanke's deep study of the Great Depression"

QE was born out of the seigniorage, the ability for the FED to now print endless money at no cost. This is a cycle that repeats every 50-100 years for the last 1,000. A governing body slowly fights for more and more power until it has enough to simple declare what is or is not money. Then uses that power to print as much as it can before runaway inflation takes hold.

Bernanke's insight was nothing more than that of previous King's, coin as much money as you can before people catch on to what you are doing.
Or asthma attacks, or infections from broken arms, or "minor" heart attacks, or anything else that people can fully recover from but still need immediate assistance with at risk of death.

You're going to have to show more of your work if you're convinced there's negligible difference. We know that even now some hospital systems are overwhelmed, at a point when the worldwide population has room for another 10-13 doublings. We also know that mitigation has already proven to bring effective R0 down to close to 1.
Eventbrite laying off nearly half its staff
True, I will probably switch to something like that.

The problem with tor I don't like is that it's no longer the lighthouse of freedom it once was. It's too tainted by all the perverts and heavy criminals that abuse its power. The same happened with Freenet sadly and completely killed it for the mainstream public. This "slimy" feeling is slowly corroding tor as well. I can't help but feel it does need some kind of control, not identification of peers but some kind of banhammer.

Also, the anonimity tor/tox provides is not really needed as I'll use it to communicate with people who know who I am anyway.

Finally, tor isn't exactly serverless either. Governments could shut it down if they wanted to. But I think they rely on it too. I'm sure they run exit nodes to keep tabs on things and I'd imagine they use it for communication with their own spies. After all, it was invented by the US government itself for such reasons.
> But the purpose of universal wearing of cloth masks is mainly to protect people ­from­ the wearer.

Cloth masks definitely don't protect other people from the wearer. What's the mechanism of action there? Someone coughs, but that shitty cloth mask i) catches everything and ii) the wearer doesn't fiddle with it all day and then touch everything around them?
Don't forget the other three essential ingredients... The three T's:
Time, Temperature, and Technique
Though it seems organizations have completely disregarded CAN-SPAM.
But when you don’t make your own masks then the one who does is free to shape their own relations and deals.
> Why do we not let the airlines have an asset selloff of their "super expensive machines" in an attempt to bridge the coronavirus gap before giving them public funding?

Because airlines don’t typically own those airplanes, they lease them from finance companies like GE Capital. Anything they do own is likely to be at/near EoL and generally worth $0 in a market where nobody can make any use of it.

Unless you’re suggesting that the Fed just take ownership of the aircraft and print money to make lease payments to GE Capital. I’m sure the Democrats in the House will jump right on that.
Doesn't really absolve the federal government in any way. The United States has a Federal Emergency Management Agency which historically has stepped up to the plate during these types of situations.

In what way is this case different?

There are plenty of cases where states have been trying to follow the approach you suggest and have had their orders seized by the federal government. It seems like it's still quite unclear which approach states are supposed to follow so it seems perfectly reasonable for governors to be pointing fingers where the blame lies.

Colorado: https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/04/coronavirus-colorado-p...

Los Angeles: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-...

New Jersey: https://www.newjerseyhills.com/echoes-sentinel/news/somerset...

Broader piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-f...
beamforming
[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10542-der_pfad_von_4g_zu_5g

Go through the cited papers / patents
[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/CN106643287A/en
[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US3951134A/en
It's still baffling that Apple is allowed to have such strict controls over their platform while still competing with the products they're charging rent to to be on it (i.e. iTunes & Spotify).

I get why some make the analogy with Grocery Stores and stocking their in-house brands (e.g. Safeway with Signature, Apple with iTunes), but with Apple, it's like the customer has already bought the grocery store and Apple is still charging rent on their shelves.

At least it looks like they're loosening the controls a bit with deals, but that's only for big overlapping partners like Amazon.
Well it's pretty obvious that China is vying for the position, and the likeliest to achieve it.
> This criticism is spot on; it is exactly what I observed in late 2018, early 2019 as well.

These issues were obvious much earlier than that. I looked into Elm and was excited about it initially, in either late 2013 or early 2014. Then I looked into the history of some of the design decisions that baffled me (such as lack of type classes) and concluded the project was poorly conceived and led. The leadership didn't respect the opinions or capability of its end users.
If a group of organized children have a big influence on a vote, maybe that's a good thing...

A simple way to allow children to vote while avoiding parental coercion (the only reasonably arguable downside) is to require them to complete the ballot without the assistance of a parent/guardian.
It’s a unique situation though in that the trigger for the collapse of these markets was not underlying economic issues in the markets themselves.

Unless you assume that the virus will never go away or that we’ll all develop permanent agoraphobia, you have to figure many of these markets will come back strong eventually.

If you can find a way to weather the storm, you’ll be in a great position for the rebound, since much of the competition will probably get wiped out.
This is the 2009 report quoted in the article, https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf
wonder how many of these techniques will turn out to be BS?
I think the person you're replying to meant that under normal circumstances (where you can go to these places), WFH would not be as bad.
There is a side-question about this, are search engine even legal at all, by violating copyrights by publishing excerpts of websites (or full content like lyrics) in their search results without owner consent.
I am willing to entertain the idea that postmodernism has been misunderstood, but I still consider that a bit of an indictment. If a few people misunderstand you, it's their failure. If everyone misunderstands you, it's your failure. Even worse the misunderstanding here is extremely destructive. It's a misunderstanding that enables the worst of the worst of the intellectual landscape.

I feel like some people wear "nobody understands me" as a badge of distinction. This is wrong. If nobody understands you, you're a poor communicator.

> I think it's an argument essentially captured in the term "ivory tower", which began being used for academics in the 1800s. It's a pretty old argument.

I suppose it is an old argument, but I don't think that invalidates it. I think it's always been true and what we're seeing is the gradual unfolding of the consequences. Of course I still do believe that the ivory tower has become more tower-like in recent years, especially in the humanities. Why is Jordan Peterson so popular? Where are the public intellectuals who are not crackpots or misogynists to answer the deep life questions of all these disenchanted people who otherwise flock to people like him?

Science and engineering papers are impenetrable too, but those at least yield end products that have results in the world outside academia. At the most base level academia can always petition for their continued existence on the grounds that they are necessary to maintain military superiority. That's a narrow rationale, but if all else fails it's not wrong and it at least grounds academia in society somehow.

I think academia has to either come down from the ivory tower or the tower will fall when the masses inspired by a tweet by the first American Emperor lynch them all for promoting vaccination.

I agree that we can't go back to the positivist position, but it's also not clear to me that positivism is wholly wrong. It seems to work really well in certain domains. What we need is to examine the domains where it doesn't work and decide if we need to refine it, expand upon it, or realize that its domain is in fact limited and come up with new methods for other domains. "Anti-method" is not a method, so that's not an answer. That's giving up on the question.
OOP is not just about using classes, just like functional programming is not just about using functions.
They're different programming paradigms, each with their own patterns, strengths and weaknesses. Idiomatic TS favors an OOP style, which is why there are event libraries out their [0] whose sole goal is to enable using TS the functional way.

> The Angular community requires use of TS

Angular was once the king of the JS frontend, but now it has more or less been reduced to a certain niche in the market. It is no accident that it is very popular among those with a Java background, with Java being a very good example of a static OOP language.

> The React community has split in general between types and no types

That split is being caused by TS. This is not a good thing for the eco-system as a whole. The idea that everyone will be forced into adopting TS because of the power of MS is the very idea that will lead to a backlash, just like the backlashes against XHTML and Java applets.

[0] https://github.com/gcanti/fp-ts
I guess the core of my argument is that none of these features need to be used. It's very easy to write basic scripts in Rust at least in my experience. Maybe you might encounter difficulty with the borrow checker occasionally, once in a blue moon now that non lexical lifetimes are a thing. Most of the other disadvantages also apply to Swift.

Either way, people will find a way to justify their preference. The people in question liked Swift, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I think OP means on the developers' end. The only monthly fee my iPhone seemingly requires is $.99/mo because their cloud storage tiers kind of suck.
Obviously it isn't legit to use multiple accounts like this. I've banned this one. If you don't want to be rate limited on HN, we're happy to take off the penalty whenever anyone sincerely wants to use HN in the intended spirit.

If you keep breaking the site guidelines with your main account, we're going to have to ban that as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The terrorists and pedophiles that are the most dangerous are using far more sophisticated means of communication than Wire, Signal, WhatsApp, Wickr

You'd be surprised how poor their opsec can be. Regular file transfer services for instance see this traffic, entirely in the clear, not even the slightest attempt at encryption is made.
Some messaging apps like Pidgin provide API for message input and output via some IPC like dbus.
Is the difference going to be 5% or 30% annual? Big difference IMO. If you are holding out cause you think you are going to get an extra 30% (and it is a realistic expectation) then that's a different calculus then if you are holding out for an extra 5%.

5% annual is most likely < $1000 per month, so holding out for that and risking your savings seems a little reckless when it is unnecessary. Everyone's risk tolerance is different, so maybe not for your situation. For a guy raising a family that is a high risk, but for a single person with no kids that is different math.

If the difference is in the equity/grants side of the equation (and not the cash side) it could be very different but I'd still say risking an off public market to try and maximize over < 10% seems non-ideal.

Just my 2 cents.
I took it a few years back. It was an introduction to ML course.
Great job. Buttery smooth even on a low end mobile device.
That's a fascinating narrative which I don't believe one bit. Source?
Just brainstorming here...

What would happen if you double-bagged the 50 lb bag of flour in some big Hefty garbage bags and tied them really tight? I wonder why that wouldn't work for keeping the flour fresh for at least a couple months?
The author didn’t “need” to, he decided to. It’s not clear how your own actions, or lack thereof, pertain here.
Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes CI/CD Workflow Engine, Argo
It would be better, but it would be that much better for me at least. I miss sitting next to my team and interacting spontaneously. Zoom and Slack are fine, but it just isn't the same. YMMV, but my sense from talking to people is most people prefer being colocated in an office.