skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Signal server knows your phone number. Not your contact list, just your phone number (hashed or not, I don't really care).

Your contact list is only ever shared with the secure enclave, which cryptographically ensures that nobody else can read it, and the code being run in the enclave is open source and authenticated (so you can verify that the enclave is not sending your contact list to the Signal developers).

If you trust the secure enclave, then your contact list is not shared with the server.
That's irrelevant. How do you know it wouldn't be higher if there were more firearms? Too many variables.
I think he was making the opposite recommendation.
> all IBM wants to do with Redhat is turn it into IBM

Reading the histories of both companies, it seems to me that Redhat was always IBM. The acquisition was a marriage of separated twins more than anything else, the dominating culture in both organizations is largely sales and consulting driven, with public strategy not quite identical but strongly rhyming. The technology aspects (while perhaps once important) were far from the prime focus of either organization long prior to the merger. I think of IBM's acquisition more as a desire to access marketing expertise and established sales channels than anything to do with technologies, most of RH's open source technology is after all mostly just an advanced form of disguised marketing
Note, CA has the highest state level debt per person of any of the US states.
I like using Jekyll for my personal blog, and Next.js / Eleventy for quick sites. But I _hate_ writing in markdown.

Notion is really the best writing experience out there. You can easily make rich pages of content with video and images, but to add those things in a flat markdown file is a pain!

So I made a workflow that will convert your Notion subpages in a specific page to open a pull request on Github to your blog.

Copy it to your own Pipedream account to use it for free: https://pipedream.com/new?h=tch_OQlfe5

I also put together a quick video to walk through how to set it up: https://youtu.be/HgOWnJSGo6w

Long story short, you just need to connect your Notion & Github accounts to the workflow, and define which Notion page you'd like to sync with Github.

Hope this helps writing a bit more fun!
Does anyone honestly think this is a good idea on economic grounds? It’s just fighting fire with fire.
Everyone has to start somewhere
Nuclear war? All it takes for your Google doc to go away is a bot deciding to not like you today, and close your account. Remember to pick up your takeout before that.

https://takeout.google.com/
Good overview.

At the other extreme, some recent works [1,2] show why it’s sometime better to scale down instead of up, especially for some humanlike capabilities like generalization:

[1] https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00489...

[2]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04358
Thats how my department uses the cloud--we have an image we store up at AWS geared towards a couple of tasks and we spin up a big instance when we need it, run the task, pull out the results, then stop the machine. Total cost sub-100 dollars. If we had to go the HPC group we'd have to fight with them to get the environment configured, get access to the system, get payment setup, teach the faculty to use the environment, etc. Its just a pain for very little gain.
Your cc has a per transaction password, but still a unique identifier. Signal works surprisingly similarly.
A Continuum of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experiences in Adults (2013)
> Most scientific computing runs on queues. These queues can be months long for the biggest supercomputers – that's the API equivalent of storing your inbound API requests, and then responding to them months later

Makes sense if the jobs are all low urgency.

We have a similar problem in trading so we have a composite solution with non-cloud simulation hardware and additional AWS hardware. That's because we have the high utilization solution combined with high urgency.
For some reason this resonated very strongly with me. Especially the reasoning around decisionmaking, where you wish you'd made the "wrong" choice because the outcome would have been better due to factors you could not have known beforehand.

I'm sorry for your loss.
I agree about pages being poorly organized. It's what happens when dozens if not hundreds of people edit a page. Some pages probably have orders of magnitude more edits/editors making changes. It destroys the flow between sentences when people fixate on small edits. That's generally not the case though, I have seen many high quality pages which tend to have a few, knowledgeable editors who watch it.
IIRC part of the issue is that California heavily taxes capital gains and in general has very progressive tax, so they can be wildly wrong about their forecast based on what is happening in the markets.
Yes but could they take the blame for that? A good portion of business decisions and activity is legal liability firewall engineering and maintenance. So promote someone you don't like to a manager and make them make cuts. Then resultant turnover and performance issues are their fault, not yours.
I stopped using Wikipedia a while ago.

Its math and science content is too nonsensical to be useful.

I occasionally read a history article, maybe once every 6 months. But history from things happening hundreds to thousands of years ago, predating modern media... sorry historians, it might as well be fiction.

I'm sure someone has thought long and hard about why the content is losing quality.
This analysis is fine. It indeed is not printing money (although we can and should question whether or not borrowing from the future is equivalent to money printing for states)

However, it's not equivalent to lowering taxes. This is wealth redistribution. The checks are not going out based on your total taxes. It's going out based on perceived needs.

As an example, Oregon also sent out checks this year. It's called the kicker. The state took in more than they could spend in 2021. This year, when I filed taxes, I took my total tax from last year. Then I went through a formula that allocated the portion of the excess to the total I contributed to the revenue of the state. I got that much back. Those who paid no tax or little tax because they have little income get less. Those who are wealthier and have higher incomes got back more. This is exactly equivalent to lowering taxes.

California's program is not. It's wealth redistribution. Which may or may not have an inflationary effect (richer people are more likely to save their refund, whereas poorer people are more likely to spend it, and spending does cause inflation).
yeah, the AI would read your inputs and react without frame delays (contrary to input generated by the user).
there was even some code that would reduce the chance of that happening depending on many coins you placed in the machine
Most surprising part of this for me is learning that Mastodon was created because they wanted a version of Twitter with more censorship.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/introducing-the-mastod...
Sorry I don't comment on Russo-Ukrainian war online as I want to avoid to get the discussion into a flamewar.

"Applying this same analysis for wars that happened 500 years ago is more difficult" Yes it is and there a still colored discussions about this e.g. consider the Roman expansion in into Greece. There is a camp which argues it was (initally) a defensive move to counter a pact between Macedonia and Selecuid kingdom against Egypt (Green at al), which would distribute the power in eastern Mediterranean against Rome. The other side argues Rome was just build to expand endlessly and it was aggressive move. Here I'm slightly on the first side, as I think Rome wanted to consolidate after the Punic Wars. But after the inital wars the following wars were clearly landgrabs, which provided with Rome with rich areable land in the east.
Anyway I argue, to wage war up until to modern times you needed control land as this paid your military, in rome were talking about 50% of state income, most from landtax. And this created the initative to wage war of said reason (we are getting into interstate anarchy theory see. e.g. Eckstein or Waltz).
Wrong. That's exactly the point of the secure enclave.
I still can't figure out how Plaid got away with doing the same thing, but every other startup (rightly) gets raked over the coals.
Maybe because people are increasingly feeling as if they are spectators to their life going by. Our lives are increasingly feeling like they are run by media bosses and central bankers.
Peloton to cut 500 jobs as turnaround efforts continue
Create NFT's with your real identity that can pass bank KYC and sell them for huge amounts of tumbled crypto to your hacker identity.
I with I had signed up for my companies ESPP and 401k earlier. But I didn’t really have the financial acumen to understand why that was a good idea.
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For factual areas that don't change much Wikipedia can be exceptionally good. You're not likely to have a drawn-out edit war over a mathematical topic (I'm sure there are examples, but the final admin decision is likely to be "show both sides".

Same with the census detail pages you find everywhere; they're probably accurate for that point in time, because nobody really cares.
I have found the opposite… there is hardly a consistsntly more organized and accurate source that is accessible to the public, but I would be glad to hear what it is if you have one in mind.

Wikipedia is far more trustworthy than local news channels even about recent events, and everything is sources (casualty count: who said it etc.)
At Amazon, engineers are frequently referred to as “resources” and “head count”.

For example, “Hi Priya, how much are you resourcing project z” translates to, “how many of the engineers you manage will you tell to work on project z”.
Graphia: Graph-based visualisation and analysis of high dimensional data
> The rational thing is to maximize all your votes to be 1 or 10 and nothing in between.

Can't you just scale everyone's votes to the same range?
I may just be seeing the problem in a different way because our positions seem irreconcilable. fair enough to your position though.
What? I'd be interested to see which digitized book provided a curated list of js exploits in a .txt ready to be fed into a parser...

Google certainly can help solve problems.
Ask mullvad
Profits do not increase in response to exporting opportunities. Business people don't bring any market opportunity on average. Instead, they do increase solely as a consequence of salary cuts.

(It's also not clear where the other half of the salary cuts ends up.)
> black Swan events

I think we might be experiencing this just in this year with its new ownership about to occur.
Absolutely true. This is where the privilege shows. I have helped friends run restaurants, and it's brutal and draining. And there is an enormous amount of pretty unique skills required to succesfully run a restaurant. And I am saying this as a scientist with a Ph.D. and multiple publications - the very definition of today's "skilled worker."

The weird thing that has happened is the "collegification" of skills. Unless the job requires an undergrad or, even better, a graduate degree, it's apparently not skillful.
Well with unbound there’s almost no latency because it pre-downloads all the roots names. No need for cron job because it auto updates the root.hints file (usually once every 1/2 months)

But I mean the latency to route all the DNS queries to my cheap VM instead of using the default ones.

Thanks for the info of Ramnode!
I got away with this once. I used wikipedia as the source on a table that everyone in the field knows by heart anyway. When questioned about it (I think briefly?) I said I'd personally edited the article and checked that the table was correct (which I had!) . --~~~~
>I received an email from Stripe a few minutes after I submitted this post on HN

I guess posting it on HN gets the fastest reply from CS.
>you still have millions of dollars you have to get out of a KYC off-ramp.

Come to Dubai, buy some mansions with crypto (some real estate developers accept crypto), sell those mansions for USD, and voila.
Because they're taking income from the rich and giving it to the poor. Poor people are more likely to spend. If instead they took the money and gave it to rich tax payers (which I imagine would be deeply unpopular), then this would likely reduce inflation as rich people typically would save it, and thus remove it from the consumer spending category.
I don't think you can copy culture very easily, which is the primary source of the problem being described.
Sure, and it's use should remain academic. If a manager is using "human capital" as a replacement for their actual team, there's a problem.
The original author is not saying anything to disclaim what the HN comment said.
> Would anyone seriously argue that lowering taxes is inflationary?

Lowering taxes is inflationary. It's one of the reasons the financial markets have reacted so negatively to Britain's fiscal event.

> Would anyone seriously argue that we should fight inflation by _raising taxes_?

There's a difference between recognizing that raising taxes helps fight inflation, and wanting to use it for that. Raising taxes has other effects as well, that might (socially) outweigh the contribution in fighting inflation.
You're just repeating the same points without engaging with anything I wrote. You're still making the assumption that the first choice votes are the most important, and ignoring the fact that people have other preferences that they marked as well.

> Peltola beat the field. In a FPTP system, she would have just won.

FPTP sucks and does not elect representative winners, that's exactly why we need to get rid of it. RCV is just iterated FPTP and as such, carries a lot of the same baggage and problems (while adding a lot of complexity and other new problems).

> He only wins when you eliminate all other choices except one opponent

No, this is exactly backwards. Begich is the only one in this race that can win without artificially eliminating someone (which is what RCV does by ignoring lots of information on the ballots). Peltota can only win by eliminating Begich as Begich wins in the head to head, in order to get this win lots of votes that voters expressed have to be discarded.

> Democratic second choice votes for Begich only exist because Democrats would prefer him to Palin. They don't want him so much as don't want her. And if they can't get Peltola, they much rather have Begich.

That's exactly the point, the voters farthest to the right prefer Begich to Peltota, the voters farthest to the left prefer Begich to Palin, and there's a few people in the middle who prefer Begich to both. Begich was the best candidate considering the whole field of preferences - admittedly a weak compromise candidate for some, but a strong compromise candidate for others and the first choice for many (and as I mentioned before, we can't know how many consider Begich a weak compromise vs a strong compromise candidate, anything you say about the sizes of those groups is just your personal speculation).

> The only reason there's noise about Peltola's win and RCV is because she's a Democrat. Look at all the hubbub being thrown about trying to say Begich should have won.

For some people, sure, but for those of us actually trying to push for positive change this has nothing to do with democrats or republicans. This has to do with RCV not electing the condorcet winner and having a non-monotonic election.

> You'd rather the person who came in third in the general win. And don't think people wouldn't complain about that.

Yes I would, if they win the head to head vs everyone else. You're still treating FPTP like some kind of gold standard. Sorry but that's not a good metric.

> STAR is RCV/IRV with extra steps that doesn't scale.

STAR has exactly 2 steps, a summation step and then a step to compare the top two winners. RCV is a whole iteration process and thus a lot more complex and a lot less scalable. STAR is also precinct summable, whereas RCV requires tallying in a central location which is another thing which makes RCV much less scalable.
Don't miss the short story "Buy Jupiter!" by Isaac Asimov who, as many other things, saw it coming ages ago.
Sounds good, and it could help fund signal without getting advertisers involved.

So you pay $5 on a credit card, which connects you to said handle, much like buying a SIM. How is that any better?

Someone in your social network joins signal next week, how would they find you?
> Most scientific computing runs on queues. These queues can be months long for the biggest supercomputers

That sounds very much like an argument for a cloud. Instead of waiting months to do your processing, you spin up what you need, then tear it down when you are done.
Yes this is the issue. They are sending out checks based on 2021 tax revenue projections.

It will be quite surprising if 2022 tax revenues are anywhere near 2021.
As a percentage of GDP, it’s not particularly high. https://www.statista.com/statistics/246337/state-debt-in-the...

Californians are on paper earning more than many Americans.
It is as simple as: I dont care. Signal requires a personally identifiable information while the keys can be extracted using rubber-hose cryptoanalysis ( https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png ) once you know ---> WHO <--- to beat. This is not secure. Sorry.

I understand the whole concept behind it. I understand why they want a phone number. BUT. This is not secure (oh, really, my phone number is hashed, how long do i need to brute force a few numbers in range of 0-9, a few seconds on my laptop, maybe?)

On the other side, I can use a simple email/irc/counterstrike chat to be MORE secure. Why? As it doesnt require any PII from me.

So why bother? Yes, sure, I can use it as a nice chat interface, I can use it as another way beside ~20 chat applications I need to use to contact people I know ( https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chat_systems.png ). But dont sell me security. With requiring PII they broke it.
Intel has to work with them. Intel was under the religion of x86 everywhere for way too long.

At this point Apple won't work with Intel, because their M1/M2 is so much better than Intel's chips, why give them process experience and transistor-level knowledge of how the M1 is structured, designed, and performs?

Apple probably has the TSMC execs fully adapted to their culture of secrecy. Samsung and Intel would probably never cave to that properly: Samsung is their main smartphone competitor, and Intel is their competitor in desktop and probably ARM in the future.
So then run an instance yourself on your own server?
Linear algebra was more like theory, while linear programming was more like applications. It involved teamwork, projects, case studies, and gaining competency using software solvers; whereas my linear algebra course was lecture/exam based, had no teamwork, and wasn't framed with a practical lens with an eye toward real-world applications and scenarios. I had a lot more to learn in linear programming after linear algebra.
How did the moon form? A supercomputer may have just found the answer
Lambda GPU Cloud has the cheapest A100s of that group. https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud

Lambda A100s - $1.10 / hr
Paperspace A100s - $3.09 / hr
Genesis A100s - no A100s but their 3090 (1/2 the speed of 100) is - $1.30 / hr for half the speed
It is the next step on the euphemism treadmill. Apparently, "homeless" is tainted or declasse now.
Yes, so probably a marketing thing.
> How incredibly out of touch one must be to think that the people getting these checks won’t use from for food, fuel, and rent.

Hold on hold on. The discussion was whether these checks will cause inflation. If your answer is that, by being sent to the poor, they will be used for food, fuel and rent... then that is going to cause inflation. If you do something that makes people more able to spend more money on limited goods (all goods are at this level), then you will cause those prices to increase.
I don't understand what you're asking for. What I stated as facts can be independently verified by anyone with minor research. Troll farms are a reality. Cambridge Analytica and similar companies are a reality. QAnon started on an online forum, where most conspiracy theories live and grow. Information warfare exists on an unprecedented scale thanks to the internet, whether you're aware of it or not.
Wikipedia also requires citations to be secondary sources, so you have to find someone reporting about whatever it was, because Wikipedia isn't for original research.

This can make it more difficult for things that nobody ever bothered reporting.
Once the twitter sale is completed, the new owner of twitter can chose whatever they want to do with it, including shutting it down - which in this milleu would be something that the buyer of twitter will consider doing just for LOL's.

imagine the trolling potential of a rolling outage of twitter or ooops "new owner" deleted the database as a joke. Or replace all twitter profiles with sayings from Doge.

before you say "this person can't possibly do this" ... think again.
Co-author here, happy to answer any questions/chat about stuff we did not cover in this overview!
These kind of people say that the "tools" you suggest we give them are actually just attempts by the Illuminati to keep them down. At a certain point, they just refused reality, and instead insist they know more than you.
Feels like an elaborate scheme to normalize boyfriend geo tracking. :)
Because of sensor readout speed. Phones do what they do by shooting dozens or hundreds of very fast frames, then combining them into the finished picture.

Cameras can't do that, because their bigger sensors take longer to read out. There'd be too few frames, and too much gap between frames.

Big sensors are slowly getting faster, too, with stacked sensors and the like. But they're not quite fast enough yet for phone-style computational shenanigans.
If by "stretch" you mean "consider the context", then no, it's an unreasoned paraphrase.
That is actually common for all encyclopaedias, they do generally cite secondary sources. Especially if the primary sources are not easily verifiable. Similarly they should (I haven't actually checked if they do) cite a translation of an ancient Greek text, not the original Greek text.
I think you may be misinterpreting the use case for Signal. Signal is not meant to be used for anonymous communication, it's meant for secure communication. Signal's threat model is meant to solve issues with SMS: a MitM can tell a message was sent but not the contents of the message. If you were to replace the phone number with a username of some sort it would be a little more anonymous, but could be easily doxed from users' poor OpSec or poor OpSec of a users' peers. Given Signal is meant to be used by people who don't know what OpSec is, it doesn't seem worth the effort to put up trivial anonymity barriers.
I would not call him a genius writer by any stretch. The sheer number of people who consider him a complete fraud part of that reason. The rest is that I've seen enough of his material that didn't add up for me.
Stray strong magnets haven't been a problem for magnetic hard disks for 30 years. I don't think the fading of the magnetic domains on the disk is a problem over merely geological time scales either, though I'd be interested in finding out if I'm wrong. The mechanical parts are the big deal, and for recent disks (last 25 years) there are also concerns with onboard Flash or other EEPROM losing state.

Cosmic rays will eventually destroy anything that doesn't have an active repair process, including archival optical media, but the time scales are longer than when the Sun is predicted to swallow the Earth.

See also my comment yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33116760