skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signal is a walled garden. They refuse to allow federation and even prohibit any modified client to use their servers.

It's the least open "open source" model, and once (if) they gain significant market share they can easily close down the app and lock-in the users.

Please use and spread federated alternatives. Donate and contribute.
Awesome. Anyone working in this field able to tell me what is the current overhead for FHE using this toolchain?
> Anecdotally I know a few women who have switched into tech in the last few years. They all talk about how they never even knew it was a viable path for someone like them. (And "someone like them" means "normal" young woman.)

Speaking as a woman who most would consider conventionally-attractive, I really think most of that is less about prejudice against nerd culture and more about what happens when more women become more visible and vocal in tech. It’s not as if suddenly, “beauty queens” started to study computer science or get interested in engineering, there have always been beautiful women who work in tech. It’s that when there is more visibility — and this is true for people of color too — that can five individuals who don’t fit the stereotype the confidence to join in.
My grain of salt meter just kicked in, here's hoping.
Deplatforming internet racists is categorically different from deplatforming the president himself. TD, 8chan? Most people who support the president don't even know what these are, and maybe have a vague idea about Reddit. I would be surprised if Reddit overall had more influence on the election than talk radio, and it doesn't come close to the bully pulpit now that he's president.
The only two rules that I think matter are:

1) make the presentation interesting to sit through

2) have something that you are convincing the audience to do, you should be telling them to "do X" not just tell them "about X".

Whether you have page numbers (I don't) or builds (I do) or executive summaries (I don't) is not going to meaningfully add to the chances of your presentation landing.

Structure is key. The "Tell ’em what you’re going to tell ’em; then tell ’em; then tell ’em what you told ’em"[1] method works well.

The Duarte Method's[2] "Big Idea"[3] is a good approach:

> A big idea is that one key message you want to communicate. It contains the impetus that compels the audience to set a new course with a new compass heading.

Presentations without a key message are just somebody standing there and talking at you.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/08/15/tell-em/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470632011

[3] https://www.duarte.com/presentation-ideas/
My maze algorithms done in perl more than 10 years ago

https://github.com/xa-bi/mazes
Remember how bad internet search was before Google? It would still be that bad today if the government was in charge of it.
Iain Banks' "Consider Phlebas" has a great section of the story in such a setting.
I think ipv4 is just fine for private home networks.
So, 2fa is worthless. Hardware tokens are just a token gesture.I have 4 apple devices, which one provides me with a token is somewhat of a gamble...

If this is fine with Apple, ok. Why are they pushing apple school manager on me though? Why do I have to provide a cell number for an apple id to sync backups? Why are ASM accounts unable to install apps from the app store unless you assign them from a central app store profile? Why do ASM accounts not work for iMessage? Why do ASM accounts not work for iCloud backups?

It's not about usability, it is about locking people in.
The anti-Signal rhetoric has already started. News articles about Antifa specifically mention that they communicate via Signal.

If Antifa is designated as a terrorist organization, then we'll see all the counter-terrorism tools brought to bear against them. If the state can't break Signal encryption, then you'll see renewed energy for anti-encryption / anti-privacy policies.
Hey,me too!
Pretty cool. But somewhat tarnished by the idea that it's just a punch in the nose to Trump, who has actually done a lot to further black causes since he's been elected.

I fear there will be tears on Nov 4th, when pretty much all politicians will utterly forget about BLM until the next cycle.
You might enjoy Naked Capitalism:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
in away you are correct, and honestly my biggest problem I have with reddit (and other tech companies) is the double speak they employ.

If they come out with a clearly defined OBJECTIVE set of rules that is UNIVERSALLY enforced then my objections would disappear

Instead they have a vague subjective list of rules that they selectively enforce largely based on a political bias they continue to publicly deny exists

They claim their site is open to all political leanings and views, if they want to have a liberal version of thedonald.win then more power to them, put up a banner that says "Democrat Supporters Only, This is Reddit. Our community is a high-energy Democrat rally. There are no exceptions." then my objections, and the objections of many would disappear, of course reddit would lose most of its value and traffic, which is why they want to speak out of both sides of their mouth. Reddit is only of high value if it has a large cross section of the public participating.
I started using Ubuntu in 2006 and really appreciated the ideals of "Linux for Human Beings" and accessibility (I get a bit nostalgic at that drum sound lol). Over the last several years though I have been migrating my systems to Debian. I like the greater commitment to free software and, nowadays at least, it's just as easy to install. A lot of knowledge carries over too, not surprisingly, and you can get away with most of the same troubleshooting solutions. I'd really recommend giving it a shot!

The process for installing proprietary drivers like NVIDIA is the same for both. I just added an extra buster-backports channel then apt installed it. I chose KDE[1] as the default desktop at install time and I was off to the races for my workstation. It was also easy to install Debian on my Dell laptop too, I just had to use the special firmware-ISO to have the Intel WiFi driver built into the image.

All of that's to say: one of the reasons to use Ubuntu for a while has been that they made installing proprietary drivers easy, and that could be a serious pain-point worth alleviating. But now it's just as easy on other distros too, perhaps due to the relevant drivers being better packaged/supported for Linux by hardware companies.

[1] I was also really surprised how nice and smooth the latest KDE experience is after being on tiling window manager setups for years. It's fast, looks good, can configure absolutely everything, which I like, and it is really complete in terms of application coverage.
Wikipedia does.
This contains much too little discussion of the feed algorithms.
When you create a corporation, you're essentially creating a society (remember: culture is the foundation of society and society is the foundation of civilization)

You can model your society in any way you wish but the intention ought to be to make your society more competitive and capable than the default (i.e. society at large)

The socialist system is something along the lines of 'from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs' but that has never worked out in practice.

There are other systems but the capitalist system ('to each according to his investment, from the collective pot') is close but we mistake what investment is and we drastically misunderstand how to maximize the collective pot.

The whole VC system as it currently stands is a symptom of our distorted view of what investment is and the breakdown of trust required for people to truly maximize their returns, nothing more.

VC's bring money to the table and it seems that this buys them enhanced privilege compared to people who bring other sorts of investment. The minute you begin the VC conversation you begin devaluing the investments of people who bring other sorts of investment (i.e. faith, effort, opportunity costs) and create a sort of toxic feedback bubble whereby the entire system goes off the rails because apart from the money the VC's are hardly invested in your vision, innit

hence the term 'vulture capitalists' -- how are VC's any different from tech recruiters anyway?.

The only way to make any money is to sell something somebody else makes.
I'd rather have people pay for decent financially sustainable products rather than fueling surveillance capitalism and monopolies with their data.
"I'm the HN shill for snap, posting dozens of times about how awesome snap is in a single thread, and since the Mint maintainer doesn't think snap is as awesome as I do, I'll call him unprofessional". FTFY.
None of the parents of your comment mentioned Windows. Perhaps you have the wrong thread?
Yes. Homomorphic encryption databases are totally unrealistic in practice. It’s a common BS justification for research to make it “practical.”

(There are real applications, particularly in privacy preserving financial cryptography. But the database application is just a BS non-niche justification for grant purposes.)
What's wrong with just"video call"?
Ask HN: How do you deal with perfectionism in your work?
There's something about programming that just brings out my inner perfectionist in force. The prospect of writing the perfect code is irresistible to that part of me and I get obsessive to a fault. I get impatient, I give myself a headache. Sometimes I experience anxiety just thinking about it. It doesn't feel healthy and it doesn't even always make for better work.

How do you focus on making something good instead of something perfect? How do you stop churning the code just because it could be a little bit better? How do you focus on the end product instead of on creating a flawless artifact?
Option 1) rob a bank to get money. Option 2) use credit
Card with fake name like a normal person.
Once a month email to fight slacktivism towards everyday injustices
Lots of ideas, few commitments. I guess this is positive.
You gotta ask on Reddit.
fastest way to big bucks is to create an auction market (have multiple simultaneous offers) at companies with revenues growing fast enough that they don’t care
Exactly this. The number of exceptionally beautiful people (using whatever standard of beauty your culture defines) is limited in nearly every field except for acting. It’s just not common, regardless of industry.
Nothing is really being announced. He said they will discuss a few things but what will come out of these discussions is not guaranteed. Great way to say you're doing something without doing anything.
A whole lot of review of policy and very little clear commitment to action.
I feel like this could end badly, like I feel about the rampant efforts I'm hearing about to "defund the police". Yes, maybe less structural protection and military grade hardware might help.

But conversely, non-unionized jobs can easily turn into mills for low skilled, unmotivated people. If there is no nuance to this, are we going to end up with a deteriorated police force scrounging for anyone willing to run into a fight and start shooting. I think an over correction here would be very costly long term. Once a union is gone, getting it back has historically been..challenging.
>smashes your phone, then assaults you
True, but a book from MIT Press benefits from considerably more editing ahead of time than a blog post. It's like the mention of network "broadcast packages" in talking about how Doom's netcode destroyed LANs - yeah, I get that it's not technically accurate, but I also know what he's talking about, and that his commenters will catch it and he'll fix it in post.
oh good, they’re reviewing their policies. Worth just about as much as an internal investigation at a police department.
>This top female VC, however, realized that, although she was more excited about the male founder’s pitch, when she objectively thought about what he had accomplished, she realized it wasn’t much. And that the female founder had knocked it out of the park although her storytelling wasn’t as amazing. This story is a true story and this happens all the time in venture.

Aren't VCs also investing in companies that they are betting can raise more money down the road? If you invest in someone who persuades you at a "gut" level, you're taking into account that they will also persuade others at a gut level.
The most-used verb in the numbered list is 'review'. I hope some action comes of this, but, I dunno, it's Facebook.
haven't had that issue for years with npm/yarn, thanks to lockfiles.
You can unilaterally make critical decisions that favor conservative supporters, but to make common sense decisions that protect democracy you need to set up review boards?

If you still participate in this pestilential quagmire of a social network, delete your account today.
how this guy has any credibility after Myanmar is beyond me
> My first computer was a 286. My dad brought it home as used salvage in 1987 because the office was going to throw it away.

Okay, but that's not representative. 80286 maximum sales period just started in 87 and lasted until 90.

In 87 at my place, in homes (I am not talking about the office world), everybody I knew (the ones who owned a computer, that is) was still using non-PC 8-bit computers (in the 1 to 4 MHz range). Then a bit later there would be the start of the non-PC 16-bits (Atari/Amiga) era (skipped by many) during which PCs were still more expensive and er... uncool, and only after that the PC started overtaking the non-PC into homes.
Thanks for the link. There's a subtle threat in there, that they'll move out of the country if they have issues which I think a lot of tech companies would.

This bill is so stupid in that tech companies can relatively easily move.
Why did you have to move on?
>If that’s the case doesn’t it matter even less that signal requires it since it’s already known anyway?

Well, if you're operating on that premise, which is to say, a premise of complete and total resignation and surrender, then from that starting point of course you haven't lost anything. I don't think anybody is joining you though in agreeing that that's a legitimate starting place to analyze privacy concerns associated with the phone number requirement.
Let me know if you want to look for WISPs in any particular county or area. I know where most of them are in rural eastern OR and WA.
If it didn't have this feature of being a drop-in replacement for SMS, then I would be using Matrix to communicate with my two privacy-minded friends, and plain-text SMS to talk to everyone else in my contact list. With this feature, I've been able to convince about half of my Android-using contacts into switching (iOS is a harder sell).
The example is called "Privacy Preserving Search". If the server could see which row was accessed, that would not satisfy the privacy requirement. This implies that each query needs to process all the rows equally (and all in the same complicated encrypted way).

Provable privacy like here or in zero-knowledge proofs is generally extremely expensive because every possible execution path needs to be taken each invocation. This is multiplied by the overhead from each simple operation becoming a complex cryptographic one.
> culture is the foundation of society and society is the foundation of civilization

That’s a terrible analogy because it’s trivial for the culture to change without civilization being put at risk. Foundations can’t be substantially changed without risking everything on top.
On the other hand, it’s the RTFM approach of Arch documentation that forced me and others I know to actually learn Linux, and step up from beginner use to power user status.

Sure, if you want to remain a Linux beginner forever, the Arch docs would be terrible.
>>The Reddit ToS has always had restrictions on communities that brigade and abuse other communities.

Reddits content policy, by their own admission today, is subjective and poorly defined.

Further it is beyond denial that admin moderation and crack downs on subreddits is often politically biased. for example it has been shown many times Admins will crack down on "calls to violence" in conservative or "right" subreddits but are hands off in progressive or "left" subreddits.

You ask me to go to ceddit or mod logs to see violence and racism, but what about the left subreddits that have it on display with out having to visit an external site or mod logs?
As someone who doesn't use facebook at all, this reads as so hilarious. Zuck knows, in this "difficult moment", his internal employee memo would leak, so he makes it public outside the walled garden.

Hey Mark, let us know when you have something concrete to say to us peons.
They don't, but the assumption is that platforms will rubberstamp any LE request.
Did they ever restore the general + search operator

No.
Could you elaborate how Google is worse than Facebook? I thought the general (hacker) consensus was that Facebook has much more negative impacts on society.
What are you saying? the minute culture shifts so does civilization. Look at where we are now compared to where we were in the industrial age.

This whole techbro culture has destroyed corporate society and brought about drastic shifts in the entire world civilization and not for the better.

What is this wishful thinking?

Edit: and by the way the word 'culture' comes from the latin for 'core' it's by definition the foundation. I can't believe we're arguing the semantics of well-known words look up culture and society for yourself.

Edit 2: think of your culture like a potluck dinner. Everyone brings their carefully prepared dishes. Some latecomer shows up to the door with a wad of cash and says I didn't prepare anything but suddenly the money they brought entitles them to be first in line. What kind of civilization can exist under these cultural manners?
Other commenters are suggesting that this would mean the end for YouTube and Gmail.

My understanding is that a hypothetical breakup here wouldn't mean that YouTube and Gmail would have no ads. They would become clients of an independent "Google Adtech" company.

That certainly changes the economics of the business, but ad-supported Google services would be here to stay.

What would likely change is Alphabet would no longer profit from "Google Adtech's" ads on third party services.
He said that instead of flagging, they’ll take it down entirely. Guess that’s a step forward.
That's all pretty solid advice. One thing that was always repeated to us over and over again was:

'Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them'

As in, make sure you give a clear summary at both the beginning and the end of the presentation. Most people have short attention spans and tend to best remember the beginning and end of things.

Make sure you've repeated the main points of your presentation at both the beginning and end to ensure maximum retention.
>Dragon capsule so yeah they don't use crazy RAD stuff:

Those PowerPC processors are RAD750's.
I think you have your answer.
Wilson's algorithm creates the best mazes by having a variety of short and long passages.
> this basically boils down to TOFU (trust on first use), but the trust does not perpetuate across uses, so it’s more like, TOAU (trust on any use). The trust is ephemeral, the meeting is ephemeral, the ID is ephemeral. For a lot of meetings, this is perfectly acceptable.

I think I would call this TFSU (Trust For Single Use). Trust On Any Use sounds like complete and total trust.
They could also do that with flatpak or appimage.
I'm surprised that the general sentiment on HN right now seems to be that Facebook should act gatekeepers, something that traditionally has been one of the major fears.
I find it ironic that a post teaching people how to present information properly is filled with typos, which is the number one sin in presentations.
you are right, but some of us(climbers) don't count those due to Prominence issues. :) Otherwise tall ridgelines could have dozens of points littering up the lists.

I'm always amazed at how many different ways we can count mountains.
almost every paragraph in that post starts with "we will" or "we have". I'm sure Mark actually meant to say "I will" given that he more or less has unilateral control over the entire community of 2.5 billion people. The world's largest autocracy if you will.

Wild propopsal, if the community and in this case the voices of African-American members matter so much, why not give up some of that decision making power
Oops! Yes, that was just what came to mind when I meant to be referring to non-flat spacetime in general
That’s 7 days since last use. So if you continue to use the app at least once every 7 days, it will remain registration locked.

Also, anyone who had communicated with you before the switch would see a “safety number changed” notification if the number became affiliated with a new device.
This is such an uncharitable interpretation of what I was saying that it's basically a straw man.

If you're required to use ID to get a SIM (as K2L8M11N2 stated in the parent comment I replied to), then what I was saying follows - that the person is already tied to the phone number anyway.

In this context Signal revealing the only data they have (that a phone number signed up on X day) really doesn't matter or reveal anything new.

K2L8M11N2's other response to my comment is a helpful clarification, it's less about what can be compelled from Signal the company and more about what can be turned over if a user's device is compromised. In that context the name to number connection is more serious because they also have the content.
Windows Phone was simply terrible. Without monopoly pressure, no one chooses Microsoft.
> Simple: they decided that maintaining the chromium .deb takes too much effort, and that snap is making that easier. So they moves it to Snap.

Their whole distribution is copied from Debian. Is it too much effort to just copy and distribute the upstream package, like they have been doing from the very start?
nice maps and great idea.

Just shared to some hiking forums i use, hopefully you get some sales.
Can someone report this guy for spam/bot?
I am not sure what you mean by “average American” but millions of people in this country rely on emergency room visits for their health care needs. I suspect the NHS provides a superior “patient” experience.
How far behind they are...
Imagine having to talk to humans instead of interacting with scripts.
I've always known that Germans are barbarians.

/s
Aws and microsoft don't write the code, they host the platform.