skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Because everything in Signal is end-to-end encrypted by default, the broad set of personal information that is typically easy to retrieve in other apps simply doesn’t exist on Signal’s servers.

Does this mean that Signal (and other open-source E2EE apps) is a great hiding place for the 'lost and banned', and 'bad' actors?

EDIT: Judging from the responses, it is admittedly a "Yes" then.

In the case of Signal unfortunately for everyone else, the service is centralised and some governments can and may get the ISPs to block Signal's servers instead.
It's a great hiding place for actors.
“bad actor" is a very very relative term in this case.....
If I were looking at this from the perspective of the Govt., it would most likely make sense to request data from Signal. There's nothing much to lose, really.

The transparency is rather nice, too. Reminds me of Njalla, but without the children's pictures.
Which is another way of saying "life isn't boolean" honestly.
Exactly. It never ends. :) Life is all about prioritizing things. And probably compassion/self-compassion (i.e. don't be so harsh with yourself and other people - which helps with priorities, BTW).
I so miss these 2000-era forums, I ran one myself once upon a time.

I think that instant messaging apps have token over those. Nowadays it's more usual to create a private Slack workspace (or a Mastodon server) instead of a forum, but sadly this takes away many of the more thoughtful, longer posts that you'd typically find in such forums.
California has state income tax and county-based sales tax, property tax if you own a home. When I owned a house there, I was paying nearly 45% in just federal and state income taxes, even after deducting the house.
Its a bargain, heavily subsidized by Sony who expects to earn it back (and more) on games & subscriptions. You can't put together PC with similar specs for this price, more like for double.

On top of that, you can't get various PC components easily right now due to chip shortage. With PS5, you're getting it all in a 100% working box.
> Any Telegram users here?

Telegram vs Whatsapp use today is sort of a Shibboleth. Those who only use Whatsapp are typically lax about privacy and security, whereas Telegram users typically take these thing seriously.

So those who target the vulnerable are definitely focusing on Whatsapp right now. The self-selection is working very well in Telegram's favour, though that probably is just a happy side effect.
Don't waste your breath, let them be 'happy' in their little cult.
I think Apple users are often mad because subconsciously they know they are taken a fool.
Across all examples I can think of - some yes, some no.

It's not material to my point either way. I was only arguing that for some company's being very afraid of bad hires may be sensible and dismissing their concerns as hysteria does not seem obviously correct to me.
>not domiciled in the west

Its legal domicile is in the UK.
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The order is dated 2020-11-24. The response is dated 2021-09-22. The motion to unseal is dated 2021-10-20.

Is it normal for Signal to have waited 10 months before responding?
Symmetric keys means that anyone with the key can do everything the key allows one to do. That's bad if you're building consumer devices that contain the key. Signing with public key cryptography, which allows only verification with the end-user key, is much more secure in this scenario.
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Nothing, probably, but the vast majority of the 500m MAU all but certainly use the official client, rather than a homebrewed one.
My research lately is quite meta, and involved in breaking down the various ways in which dissemination of knowledge can be structured. Mind if I borrow this analogy and test it out on some students? Something about it resonated.
If you need to encrypt and decrypt your data, on the same device, asymmetric is only more complex.
While it gave him fame, but then do people actually would want to watch maths video on ph?

I'd rather not
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"I can probably be considered the biggest ethnically Chinese calculus teacher on Pornhub,"

I love how if you slice anything fine enough you can be the best in the world at something. Then add “probably” in there just in case.
> Yet black students still remain at just 5 percent of the student population; Hispanic students are 6 percent.

Apparently not much.
> People often comment how quickly escaped managed bees regress to the local wild bees (2-3 years of natural selection weeds out the foreign genes). He is seeing an interesting selection factor: in tree cavities colonised by swarms from conventional hives (yellower bees), the bees build comb differently to the real wild bees. They have been selected, by humans, to build flat sheets – which is not optimal for defence or climate control, and they die off quickly in tree cavities.
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It changes from person to person, I used to be the same too for some time.

What I was saying is not like "you can't have energy if you eat carbs and take hot showers" but more like "if you lack energy, try not eating carbs and start taking cold showers to see if it helps".
Because we don't generally use asymmetric keys for much data encryption. The operations are (IIRC) comparatively computationally expensive.
1. Too much of hassle for most people out there.
2. (hypothetical) desire to keep Telegram afloat? I would rather pay a recurring fee though than get ads, but if the choice would be "Telegram with ads" vs "No Telegram at all" (if they run out of money), I would prefer the former option.
That's what I did, then deleted WA account. Worked fine. Everyone I cared about came over. It also lowered my noise.

What I think is interesting is that the barrier to entry to join a new messaging service like Telegram is very small. The barrier to leave WA is very high. So to ask people to join Telegram and continue to run WA is trivial for them.
This is (probably) off-topic, but I wanted to touch on it anyway, because it jumped out at me.

The topic of the article is as follows:

> Editorial: Students pay high price for UM diversity goals

The title explicitly lists this as an editorial, rather than factual report.

The article also lists in the header:

> EDITORIAL | Opinion This piece expresses the views of its author(s), separate from those of this publication.

So the paper is being very clear that this is someone's opinion that they're publishing, rather than the position of the paper.

However, there is no authorship information for this article that I could find (other than a photographer's credit for the image), nor does the article specifically state this it was published by an anonymous author. It simply says "The Detroit News," which implies that the article was authored by the paper's editorial staff, which contradicts the statement that the piece doesn't represent the views of the publication.

Is this fake news? As far as I can tell, The Detroit News is a legitimate (if slightly conservative-leaning) paper, and the OP's article is on their domain. So why hide the author(s) of an opinion piece?
Goodness! Is that slightly more or slightly less than the singular UM football coach Jim Harbaugh is making this year? Imagine if that money were spent on paying the teaching staff living wages . . .

Somehow I don't think I proved anything here either.
Then why ask candidates to solve a leetcode hard or two mediums in 45 mins? If you're afraid of people who can't code any program then ask for leetcode easy.
You say that chat is not better in VR than on a 2D screen

I’m just curious, have you ever actually used it? Caught up and had a beer with an old buddy. There’s a reason chat is currently the killer app for VR
I despised it so much that I even installed a mod that made weapons behave like in ME1.
Your first link (to Wikipedia) also has a section titled "Multi-valued functions" linking to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivalued_function

] a multivalued function, also called multifunction, many-valued function, set-valued function, is similar to a function, but may associate several values to each input. ....

] Multivalued functions of a complex variable have branch points. ... for the arctangent function, the imaginary units i and −i are branch points. Using the branch points, these functions may be redefined to be single-valued functions, by restricting the range. A suitable interval may be found through use of a branch cut ... As in the case with real functions, the restricted range may be called the principal branch of the function.

As your second link (to MathWorld) points out:

] Unfortunately, the term "function" is also used to refer to relations that map single points in the domain to possibly multiple points in the range. These "functions" are called multivalued functions (or multiple-valued functions), and arise prominently in the theory of complex functions, where the presence of multiple values engenders the use of so-called branch cuts.

I'll restate my earlier comment. For a given real x, the range of f(x)=x² is a single-element set and the range of acot(x) is a multi-element set. It does not appear the author of this intmath piece understands that the range of acot is a multi-element set, and instead believes there must be only a single "correct" primary branch.

IMO, the conclusion definitely should not be "our math definitions are not as tight as we are often led to believe" but perhaps more like "we need to remember that certain concepts are closely tied to convention and preference, and don't have a simple 'correct' answer."
This isn't a good answer for "Why don't they use asymmetric keys for everything?" as you basically just explained that it would be more secure to use asymmetric keys.
I honestly don’t comprehend this answer. You mentioned unconscious bias in interviews:

> Having unscripted conversations is one of the best way to be swayed by unconscious bias in interviews.

Yet, lack of diversity of thought is “easy to spot”. Without being swayed by unconscious biases?
One of my favorite nuclear incidents (although uncritical): in 2014, it was discovered that workers in the Swiss nuclear plant Leibstadt drilled several holes [0] into the primary containment to install a fire extinguisher [1].

[0] https://www.saldo.ch/fileadmin/content/files/artikel/2016/wo...

[1] https://www.ensi.ch/de/2014/11/05/kkl-beschaedigungen-am-pri...
Assuming that someone has the time and interest to go through granddad's old HD, looking for stuff. Which may be in a non-obvious place, in a HD otherwise stuffed full of horse videos copied off YouTube, or other stuff that only he had any use for. The old-school physical photo album was far less likely to be overlooked and discarded.
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Genshin is a famous example these days, even though I don't play it.
The events section reads like a horror story. I can’t imagine what that poor daughter could have gone through.
You probably don’t need jq
Doing a bit of low-stakes monitoring of webpages lately. It started (as I'm assuming it often does) with right-clicking a network request in Chrome and selecting "copy as curl"

Then graduated to JavaScript for surrounding logic e.g. data transformation

I had assumed I'd quickly give up and move to a headless browser, BUT I can't bring myself to move away from tiny CPU utilization of curl.

Throwing together a "plugin" probably takes me less than 20 minutes normally.

I'll probably have a look at using prowl to ping my phone.

And if I get more serious I'll look at auto authenticate options on npm. But I'm not sure if the overhead of maintaining a bunch of spoofy requests will be worth it.
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You definitely want to have a couple of warmup interviews to get back into practice, into shape. So queue up your "practice" companies first and save the ones you really want for later.

You can keep this shape up to some extent by doing a lot of interviewing of candidates at your current job. It really helps you understand what interviewers are looking for, what they expect, how a good interview should feel and flow.

But there are just some things you don't practice until your own interviews. So you'll want to have your answers to questions, and stories, and narratives all planned out. And make sure you practice them out loud, multiple times, until it's flowing naturally and easily.

And I just accept ahead of time that I'll fail 60% of the interviews that I apply for that I'd be perfect for. Sometimes things click and sometimes things don't. So make sure you've got warm leads and schedule your first rounds at an appropriate number of companies.
it means signal might possibly be one of the last services on earth that respects your mfing freedom.
This reminds me of a little joke link shortener I built[0] that allows you to set the various opengraph tags to the shortened url. This lets you completely fake the link preview generated by most platforms that show you one. Even though I originally built it as a joke, I find myself using it pretty often to make links 'self-explanatory'.

[0] https://github.com/radiantly/the-redirector
I think this is right - my experience as JS and similar places is that really understanding your data-generating process and the nitty-gritty assumptions of your data/simple model makes a huge difference

E.g knowing what's causing missing values in your data and what implications various fixes on that might have on bias in your linear regressor is probably way way more valuable than fitting some shiny non-linear toy
You mean encrypted communications or making order documents public?
It appears to be a site generated with react+Gatsby. Would be interesting to figure it out which text component is responsible for this odd text decoration
When was the last time somebody asked you to implement some text book algorithm?

All the FAANG interviews I had were about some leetcode problem where you had to be familiar and use some algorithm, not write it from scratch.
They started out by not including it in the Slim, then removed it for "security reasons" in a firmware update for the original consoles. I imagine they just decided not to bother with the new product, and then wiped it from the existing ones.
Ethical aspects of leaving a mess behind
I always felt Java was a good enough language which wanted to be a great language. I felt too little attention was given to making coding straightforward and concise.
The most common asymmetric encryption algorithm (RSA) can only encrypt a plaintext of limited size. Depending on padding scheme, a 2048 bit RSA key can encrypt a message of up to ~245 bytes.

Typically to securely encrypt a message you use symmetric key encryption. Then to allow a third party to decrypt that message, you encrypt the symmetric key using the third party's asymmetric key.
>my edit will be reverted within minutes

Post a link. I'm doing some research on this. Ideally we'd get rid of the ability to revert people most of the time, and only let people improve the edit by adding sources and such.
Yep, 100% this. Particularly if you've worked for big firms in the past, those NDAs do not mess around.
They bet with Microsoft on automating programmers (or at least coders)
I dont care how many customers the whales can support or whether they interoperate.

I'll happily pay to support not just my client but who ever wants to connect to me. This is not some big yearly cost given how cheap hardware and bandwith have become.
Excellent, that covers emojis as well.
totalitarian dictatorial authoritarian states, yes
Well perhaps, but I get the impression (as one who lives here) that the EU values privacy over free speech, so perhaps not.
One real person with that name is the current editor of a Japanese science magazine [1] that has been published since 1931. I did some work for him about ten years ago. He is a very nice man.

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First of all, we are talking about on-device decryption, so there is no difference in terms of security whether people extract a symmetric secret key or an asymmetric secret key.

Secondly, yes, asymmetric encryption is slower, so you almost always use hybrid scheme: asymmetric scheme (ElGamal, for instance) for encrypting the symmetric key, and then a symmetric scheme (e.g. AES) for the bulk of the data.

Only in very exotic protocols such as digicash blind signatures or anonymous credentials with "algebraic MACs", you want your actual content encrypted directly via ElGamal or RSA, so that you can do some operations or proofs about the ciphertext — in those cases you can't encrypt symmetrically as that would erase all the algebraic relations.
> This seems like it's not a reason for users to drop.

It's means people have one less reason for sticking with firefox and means more people will stick with what comes with the OS / what google advertises everywhere / what works better with their favorite websites.
Relationships, knowledge and ability to long-term bulk-buy in order to skip the queue. Suppliers want to work with customers who they know will be large customers in 5 years time and not just some random bloke who rocks up and tries to buy 30 chips on a Tuesday.
For that reason, the usual trick is to use asymmetric encryption to protect a symmetric key (a fresh one per payload) that is then used for the actual payload. That way you get the speed of symmetric encryption with the benefits of asymmetric ones.
(Though evidently that's not what the PS5 uses here, otherwise it would be useless to read out one symmetric key).
>whereas Telegram users typically take these thing seriously.

And yet they don't mind the lack of encryption?
I can interview any developer and by asking the right questions prove they are an incompetent fraud.

It’s a simple matter of asking the right questions.

Who’s wrong and who’s right?

The interviewer is always right.

If you don’t know what I think you should know then you’re incompetent.
> Their guess was that in the 6 months the bad hire was there they cost the company maybe ~5 million between wasted engineer time and delayed release schedules after people kept having to put out their fires.

I've worked with one or two of those, but I've also been on interview loops that rejected candidates who went on to massively successful careers at a different FAANG.

The cost of false positives is relatively easy to quantify, the cost of false negatives significantly harder. Which is higher?
To receive push notifications for iOS/Android apps, you need to upload your developer keys (!!!) to Telegram push server. So they can ban clients that disable advertising.
What's in the basket?
I believe you can see in my quote I even wrote "I feel" ;)

Also working for a "large" US company and discussing with peers from others, no such banning exists. There is very clear training and a heavy restriction on who can perform interviews, but this is not the same as outright banning it.
this example display the advantage of leetcode. if your recruiters just can not work, leetcode style still can offer some useful data for decision.
Yeah, I'm a wargamer and bought an Anycubic Photon Mono X with a Wash and Cure Station four weeks ago to strengthen my addiction to shiny unpainted toy soldiers...
I even ordered a second printer yesterday.

And don't talk to me about Blender and the like.
I'm thinking about getting a Wacom Intuos pro.

I'm done, I can't get the monkey off my back.
I see it coming, hundreds of printed miniatures stacked in boxes, unpainted.
Some of them probably designed by myself in the foreseeable future.

So maybe I should make the best of it and sell them as a side/hobby business...
Well if you use a simple convolutional neural network and can get within visual range, hitting the target should be trivial.
They already have an ARM Surface model I think it is called X.

The one I played with for a while was first gen using Microsofts ARM chip. SQ1.

A much slower design than the M1 for sure, but I wonder
if they can do better in the next generation.
I am not sure if SQ2 is out yet.

I know they got really busy once the M1 came out.
Telegram blocks attempts like these by saying that doing that kind of stuff is against TOS. Then they can use that excuse to have apps taken down from the play store/app store.
Also known as "facets". Sometimes you might want to browse "year/album/artist" too (think Various Artists / compilation albums), instead of the more common "artist/year/album". Or even "artist/year/album" for the more prolific artists out there.

Progressively "drilling down" is super low-hanging fruit with regards to tag-based organization, it's seriously neglected.
Well i just looked at both of them, and let me say that mytrashmail is not even closer to the experience of LuxusMail. Firstly no responsive design (smartphone era, i don't have time to zoom your website), no SSL encryption (why isn't my data getting encrypted, i would stay away from those type of websites).
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Given all the issues described in this thread, what is the upside of a game console (non-gamer)? Why not get a PC that you can automatically use for other things, can play games from any vendor etc (some of the issues mentioned in the thread).

Are consoles cheaper “per transistor” or sth? If so, why? Is it about the vendor locking you in and charging more per game? That would seem even more skewed against the buyer: buy this pseudo-pc so we can sell you expensive, limited-choice software.
Cool idea! Is the code open sourced?
> The US could have defended itself physically - protected by an ocean and an enormous economy - but the belief then was that it would have been impossible to maintain democracy and freedom in a world controlled by the Nazis.

The end of that sentence is in direct opposition to the begining. It is not clear at all the US could have defended itself. And it was not clear.

> And Nazi horrors certainly motivated Americans, far beyond 'distaste'.

Most of those became known only later. The most killings, the currently notorious ones happened in the latter years of the war. At the time, Nazi was not the only dictatorship existing. Stalin himself was one of allies.

> Freedom isn't abstract, it is a very real thing that people have taken great risks, suffered, and died for over centuries, all over the world

Yes. But quite rarely for the people of other country. At the time, US was racially segregated and not exactly free for large amount of population. Soviet Union was literal bloody dictatorship, right after purges. Nazi Germany had long term plan to kill even more people then soviet union and had plan to rule the world.

But the US involvement in war cant be reduced to the "lets make France free" only.
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I can vouch for Steve Huffman course.

Maybe some other recommendations from my personal list might be of use to you - https://github.com/damaon/BestCSResources