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> For somebody who isn’t super cyprtography-savvy, what’s the difference between over the wire and e2ee?

E2EE: As long as it is correctly set up and no significant breakthroughs happens in math, nobody except the sender, the receiver can read the messages.

> Does the former mean that telegram itself can read non-private-chat messages if it so chooses?

Correct. They say they store messages encrypted and store keys and messages in different jurisdictions, effectively preventing themselves from abusing it or being coerced into giving it away, but this cannot be proven.

If your life depends on it, use Signal, otherwise use the one you prefer and can get your friends to use (preferably not WhatsApp though as it leaks all your connections to Facebook and uploads your data unencrypted to Google for indexing(!) if you enable backups.

Edited to remove ridiculously wrong statement, thanks kind SquishyPanda23 who pointed it out.
Unpopular opinion, but using the border would kill at least two birds with one stone. Further federal security funds must be spent to protect it so why not reduce the surface area of protected areas.
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The emoji sequence is a hash of the secret key values generated as part of a modified/extended version of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. The emoji sequence is generated and displayed independently on both devices before the final necessary key exchange message is transmitted over the wire, so a man-in-the-middle has no way of modifying messages in flight to ensure that both parties end up generating the same emoji sequence.

I'm not a cryptographer, but that's what I glean from their explanation: https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end/video-calls#key-ver...
I don't have any Stripe equity, and it's not ok to attack other users on HN—not even a moderator.
> hey, i own an iphone 12 mini; you didnt get one?

I got the SE as soon as it was out, was the form factor I'd been after so I bought it.
OMG ME TOO!!!
Not sure how recent you're talking but I have an iPhone 11 Pro and I just tested pressing the side button 5 times and it takes me to the power off screen and prompts me for my password the same way that side button + volume does.

Apple's docs also say that pressing the side button 5 times still works.

> If you use the Emergency SOS shortcut, you need to enter your passcode to re-enable Touch ID, even if you don't complete a call to emergency services.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208076
> It is still just ARM. You can buy ARM chip everywhere.

Only large companies can build CPUs based on ARM. Also, now companies might rely on everything in vanilla ARM, but soon they will be adding parts of their own ISA, improvements to the memory hierarchy, a GPU, or perhaps even their own management engine to keep an eye on things or to keep things locked down.

> There is no walled garden.

There is huge potential for walled gardens, just look at Apple.
> Or they're just trying to distance it from dog shows and farm animal competitions like you see at state fairs because those are boring and well known and won't get western audiences to click.

One of the ways to be racist and put down other cultures is exoticism, make the culture feel more dissimilar than it is. They are increasing the sense of “otherness” and de-emphasizing commonality (the camel show has more in common with dog and horse shows than with beauty pageants)

The title definitely is doing that and as you said, doing it for clicks which makes it all the more risible.
I don't know one way or the other, but great question. I prefer launching stuff to hinting about it :-)
Completely agree on the points here about organizational buy-in, apis, pros/cons of gradual convergence etc. I'd add UX into the mix. If these products have user-facing UIs they probably employ different metaphors, cater to different user persona's etc. Figuring out how (or if) to migrate users of A and users of B to C is part of the problem space.
The number of people completely missing what this service does either means they did not read the article, or the article was very poor in clairity.

For those who were mistaken, which was it?
this is literally ads.. and we saw how well that works (for say Facebook)
It's not so much summarizing the text of bills, but having an API to query just the text of bills would be really nice. Even better would be some kind of diff/git blame log of changes. I would love to know who voted for which amendments, or how a particular bit of text got into a law.

But, realistically, that would never happen as it's not information that I think people would be comfortable providing.
> Just about everything (including resizing and moving windows) can be done entirely from a keyboard without ever touching a mouse. The mouse works everywhere, but you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard if you don't want to.

That's literally how Windows has worked since 1.0. You can still resize and move windows without leaving the keyboard. The shortcut key is Alt-Space if you're curious.
The EU had a study that indicated that you need at least four competitors before price competition appears. Two or three act like a monopoly, almost automatically. The free market thing requires multiple players to work. So mergers that bring the number of competitors below four should be prohibited.

The US is down to three big banks, three mobile phone companies, and three drugstore chains, and they don't compete on price much. If an industry gets below four, maybe the companies should be given the choice of breaking up or converting to a common carrier or regulated public utility.
I actually think that these posts have gotten much better over the past 2-3 years, at least based on my taste; the level of technical details is just right. On specific topics, I wouldn't mind James Hamilton-level specifics, but you can't be too deep on everything all the time.

(hi Jeff! Hope you're well :D)
The loading lag in the example is ugly and confusing.
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> Most people who go to hackathons have tons of boilerplate already put together, at least in my experience.

I agree. After a couple, the sheen wore off because a majority of the people there either attend hackathons all the time, trying to "win", and fork existing projects with slight variations everytime, or are unable to do anything at all. Wish there were some kind of rules about not using existing personal repo's.
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My team managed to negociate half a day of internal presentation/keynote/formation each friday with the management and all the team (with one monitoring production and the whole team on call still). I thought at first it was interesting but without added value, i was wrong. Not only the teambuilding, but also understanding why your coworker work like they do, it help a lot. We also got a lot of hindsight on why stuff are build the way they are, why we have sometime /25, sometime /24 subnets, all historical debt origin, i think this is a net benefit for the business.
Also, as is the case with WhatsApp, they siphon off your metdata and even have the gall to make an agreement with Google to download message content unencrypted to Google when one enable backups.
When did hackathons become about "winning"? I thought it was a chance to test out new solutions that your day-to-day job wouldn't necessarily give you the opportunity to explore.
What about the type that has bad knees, or metabolic issues, or low vision, or seizures, or about a hundred other things? Somehow I think a hard-to-see-in-traffic recumbent bicycle isn't going to be a solution for them. Advocacy is a wonderful thing, but when it turns into ableism it's disgusting.
This is a good first step, but ultimately it's nothing but a band-aid.

We need to make it illegal for toy manufacturers to negligently mis-plan for the holidays, leaving millions of children disappointed.

If it is found that a toy manufacturer could have produced more stock, but failed to, through malice or incompetence, they should be fined at the very least.
They may actually have a great career and a great relationship (with their spouse).

But their relationship with their parents is bad. Or they are in debt. People typically show off what they optimize for. I’m not posting pictures on instagram of my figure skating…
I am not a liver expert, but it seems like those kinds of compounds might be created by a malfunctioning liver, rather than specifically diet induced.
What do you mean? Nintendo could sell the NES Classic for 13k if they wanted to, but nobody would buy it. Companies choose their pricing very carefully, and there are a whole lot more factors than max value on secondary market that go into it. Nvidia is well aware they aren't going to be able to keep up with demand, but if they raise their prices too much people will consider the cards poor value and won't purchase them. Think mac pro wheels. Scalpers operate on a different playing field, and are really just parasitic.
How do these findings line up with the controversy surrounding Aducanumab?
> the likelihood of any of these things actually becoming a problem decreases significantly as you read through the paragraph.

And yet, "likelihood" doesn't necessarily mean "hasn't been done".

Just look at:

* [0]: Intel ME

* [1]: Solarwinds attack and CI systems

* [2]: Ubiquiti attack and complete infrastructure compromise

* [3]: And the famous Ken Thompson statement

[0a]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15298833

[0b]: https://www.blackhat.com/eu-17/briefings/schedule/#how-to-ha...

[1]: https://www.cisecurity.org/solarwinds/

[2]: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/ubiquiti-all-but-confirm...

[3]: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-tho...
I think we will get rid of Covid-19, which is the disease. It will be just another common cold virus.

But, "no", we will never get rid of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus).
Walled garden. It will converge as the great reset converges. It is like closing the fence around your cattle.
Large scale climate models are more like modeling the possible energy distributions of such pendulums into the future. That can be done analytically for pendulums. You can do it analytically for very simple models of climate, too, but more complex models that include enough of the forces to be predictive require computers.
Not relevant to this, which is about physically placing antennae at a location, to provide a local service.
No, you're wrong. They're still taking risks.

You see, when you have 1000 million and you invest 500 million in chunks of 1 million into 500 different companies, practically guaranteeing a return of >500 million [1], then you're taking a huge risk! Almost like the Average Joe/Jane investing on the stock market :-)

[1] Since it's supremely unlikely all 500 companies fail, and it's much more likely that at least 1 of them comes up with a decent return on investment.
> Imgur? Reddit?

Both of which fall under arguments 1 and 2
If someone like Shopify introduced an auction system that can be turned on/off from the click if a button, or automatically when inventory goes out too fast, that'd probably help a lot of online stores.
There are a lot of ways to do 2FA that don't require a mobile phone. Does anyone remember the verisign key dongles?

Or for example one bank here in Switzerland will give you a calculator looking device where you insert your bank card, enter a challenge set of numbers, then enter your pin and get back a other set of numbers to enter where you are logging in. Might seem cumbersome but doesn't require a phone.
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Yep, you said it, the pricing page is, in fact, an advertisement of the product.

It's not like you can easily compare the prices between two different products in the same segment.

It's an ad. Embrace it. Leaving out the GIFs doesn't make it less of an ad. It just makes it… a worse ad?

Also, does your boss not have a computer?
People are dying all around us. Let's see, who can help save lives. I know, what does the international banking cartel have to say. Surely they have our best interests at heart.
> Twitter's success derives from how well it serves the people who work on Twitter.

Black Rock and Cato pushed Dorsey out. I thought this was common knowledge and a clear sign of where Twitter is headed (and indeed where some notorious Twitterers would have liked it to go a while back).

Getting high on ones own supply is precisely the point. Its meant to be addictive, for Twitterers and followers alike.
> What I like most about it is how easy it is to achieve something useful with a very moderate amount of code.

100%. One of the best things about both Wikipedia and Python IMO, neither may deliver perfect results but they get you WORKABLE results very quickly.

I was also delighted reading this article about writing a Python parser for Wikipedia on a Jekyll blog... because I did an eerily similar thing ~5 years ago and it's still my most starred repo - https://roche.io/2016/05/scrape-wikipedia-with-python. Small world :)

Best of luck with the project! On one hand it seems impossible with all the irregularities in article structure and being able to QA the long-tail of niche topics. But on the other if you can manage to wrangle 99% of it into a reliable query language... that can mean a lot to many other side projects!
One man's lost feature is another man's business opportunity. I thrive on building the products and services that the mainstream, particularly Google or Facebook and now YouTube see as their downfalls. Sucks they did it and I don't think anyone will ever create anything as popular as YouTube, though we have examples of TikTok and Vimeo that certainly have their market share.

It is wrong to move the dislike button. Even I published a video for my business and got a dislike on it -- I took notice and moved on with my life. It does suck and I think you're on to something: without a dislike button, there's really no reason to use a like button. However, Facebook has never offered a dislike button, only an angry button, and we all tend to use it.

BUT... you are right about one thing: less focus on your like or dislike which doesn't even really do anything in the first place.
Regardless of what you think we deserve or what is right, those sweatshops in Vietnam are lifting the nation out of poverty, just as they lifted us out of poverty in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The sky didn't fall down because business folks didn't yet figure out how to build the most effective walled gardens.
> diffuse lower class energy via grants of land in westward expansion

Which would make them property owners, and therefore eventually able to vote via the statehood process. Your premise is self-contradictory.
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Thanks for re-posting, I'm not sure how I missed this research, and even in Australia as well (I'm Sydney based).

We're in sleep tech, building closed-loop SWO which of course has an impact on removal of beta-amyloids, but all the research I've seen to date has just not gone further than saying there is a "correlation" between Aß and Alzheimers.

I'm not sure this completely closes the loop on cause-effect, but it seems a very strong bit of evidence. Not sure how I missed it before, but thanks.
Fair enough, and good luck with the rest of re:Invent
The way these became bullet points on the slide is ~

An active investigation leads an agent to a suspect known to have used one of these applications

An administrative subpoena is issued to the company asking for what information is available

The company is then ordered by a federal judge to provide information related to a particular account or accounts

The company complies.

This is why it is important to understand how your messaging service handles data and how you can compromise your own safekeeping of all or part of that data.
I'm not sure this much common sense is appropriate for the Internet; thank you for trying to inject some much needed perspective.
I don't know how people like the OP and many others in this thread have the energy to be constantly offended and wound up over so many things utterly out of their control. Nor how anyone that has to live with them can put up with it too.
The people responsible for investigating and prosecuting such crimes have some not so great incentives to avoid doing so and keep the whole thing secret though, don't they?

And then when they get caught, they do this:

https://cdt.org/insights/the-truth-about-telecom-immunity/
I agree with you on the level of my person, and naturally flag that this economic argument is extremely poor policy. It’s quite unclear that the marginal cost is non-zero, or even flat by person. One might reasonably conclude we are already each inside a high-resolution springing trap, waiting for the moment we find ourselves athwart the powers that be. Imagine in physical space where the local police could simply call in foreign air strikes upon domestic citizens, with only economics to prevent otherwise. We must have transparent and firm laws, reformed at a fundamental level.
Did you even read the snopes article you referenced before making what seems like a definitive claim about how Trump was suggesting muslims carry special IDs? Because Snope's own rating is "Mixture" of truth and false and if you read the assessment, it is grasping at straws to even make that conclusion.
Couldn't agree more.

I've followed this rough pattern to build a rock-solid offline-first core for a personal application: https://flpvsk.com/blog/2019-07-20-offline-first-apps-event-... It's got some pain points; in particular it's quite difficult to evolve the schema once your app is out in the wild. But event sourcing is very amenable to TDD, and once all my tests were passing I had a nearly bulletproof solution for my current schema.

Strangely, offline-first functionality is usually not what event sourcing is pitched for. Maybe it's just a a legacy of its enterprise origins, but I often see it sold as a solution for enterprise applications where it's liable to cause more trouble than it's worth.
Also, the title is Why we choose profit.

tl;dr basecamp made profit a requirement of their company to prioritize self-direction. They gesture at alternatives like accepting investment or loans that would come with satisfying non customer priorities. They also gesture at reinvesting (ex hiring more or buying different capital equipment) as suboptimal for them, given that their company might not last long enough for them to recoup it. Basically, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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There's a clear conflict of interest when owning the platform and services on top of it.

You'll be <<very>> tempted to do things to the platform to favor your own services.

The incentives are so strong I don't think we've even invented things to prevent this on a long enough time scale.
I should have made it clearer that the voided contracts are so the leader could sign big juicy contracts for their own cronies.
I once bought a used book for a family member for their birthday. It turned out to be an old library book and the card within was stamped with the last date the book was checked out, which was on their birth date, down to even the correct year.
> Okay, great, so you ban scalping bots. Now consumers can't buy GPUs because they're sold out, as opposed to because they're too expensive.

Scalping bots don't increase the supply of GPUs. In the scalper's absemce no more people than before will be unable to buy GPUs because of the shortage, it's just those that do manage to buy them will tend to get them earlier at a cheaper price.
KA9QNOS FTW!

http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/

There were other ways too, but i found that code so valuable several times
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I think this is available now. The waves/wavefronts on a GPU run independently. Communication between them isn't great, independent is better.

Given chips from a couple of years ago have ~64 compute units, each running ~32 wavefronts, your 256 target looks fine. It's one block of contiguous memory, but using it as 256 separate blocks would work great.

I don't know of a ready made language targeting the GPU like that.
I can't think of too many downsides to making bot scalping illegal, making it illegal to misunderstand demand seems more fraught......unless this is sarcasm.
> That's diversity.

Careful - you'll cause some heads to explode before they can retreat to their safe spaces...
https://interestingengineering.com/microsoft-will-build-adva...

"The second phase will see these entities develop custom integrated chips and System on a Chip (SoC) with "lower power consumption, improved performance, reduced physical size, and improved reliability for application in DoD systems."

maybe its coming?
> I don't even know what that means.

I just mean if you were an alien anthropologist, and you were trying to understand napoleonic europe by looking at paintings or time-travel-photographs or whatever, you'd almost certainly notice gender divisions before you noticed anything else.

Nationality is obviously a social structure. That's a large part of what the napoleonic wars were about: the birth of nationalism.
It was bugging me and I had to look it up. I was running Frontdoor with RemoteAccess. I have no memory of how it all worked though. What I do remember is; making ANSI screens with TheDraw and chatting with visitors who were dialing in (if I had any). lol.
While there are many factors, an essential one is that someone in Twitter finds you morally acceptable.

If Twitter thinks you're not morally good, they will actually remove a blue check which they previously granted (e.g. they did this to Milo Yiannopolous). If blue checks were just about identity veritifaction, this would make no sense since Milo's account's identity was never in question. Ergo, it isn't just about identity verification.
I don't think these studies are just taking the average life expectancy (let's say 70 years) and considering each 70-year reduction of life expectance to be 1 death. I think it's more like each time a person dies in a given year where event A occurs who would not have been expected to die in that year if event A hadn't occurred, that counts as 1 death caused in that year by event A.