skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Protection against 0-click commercial exploit chains like Pegasus, that cost thousands to maintain, can not be done with just switching to another messenger app.

If that is part of your threat model IMO better to have good OpSec understanding and continuous training in compartmentalization. Ideally travel guidelines and dedicated devices.

Most journalists/activists don't even have that (sadly). So the argument to just use better Technology is a dud because no amount of tech can solve them from themselves.

(poorly) Paraphrasing Grugq:

> Good OpSec will get you through a time of compromised encryption better than good encryption gets you through a time of poor OpSec.

Software based encryption (not using HW backed) appeals if the threat-model needs to protect against the case where you think (or know) the hw might be broken e.g. in your given example AES. That claim might be true especially when you're trying to build a solid solution without control of the hardware or the underlying OS (like e2e mobile messengers trying). That would be a good reason to ditch HW based encryption.

But unless you fully trust the OS or the hardware, or your own ability to compartmentalize (which IMHO you should not), why put trust in an app running on top of all this compromised garbage :D
That’s not my claim, but it would seemingly follow with your hypothesis (along with a range of other asset classes). The tough part is actually showing good data of the causal relationship.
Need? Or is is simply a matter of some people just wanting them?
Am currently working on that at Digital Flanders. Curious about any use of the API out there.
I went to school in Maine which had one of the first of these programs in the USA. It was a great success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Learning_Technology_Init...
They can do both things, and both things are described by Edgeworth Price Cycles[0].

In gas prices, there's undercutting to draw business -- which seems natural in a free market. That's often smaller, local players who drive this stage, pricing things just below the nearby competition, but players of all sizes are involved.

But sometimes, the price jumps up -- often by a significant margin, and across the board. This is often at the behest of a big player; when company like Exxon Mobil seemingly-arbitrarily raises gas prices in an area, it tends to set a trend. The smaller players tend to raise prices in accordance with this higher baseline and are happy to see the financial relief.

This may seem counterintuitive in a competitive market, but it does happen anyway. And it's all temporary and cyclical, as we've all seen over and over again. Free markets aren't necessarily stable systems that are free of resonance.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth_price_cycle
> must also have missed the constant smearing of protesters as anti Semitic by American public officials, as well as mainstream media alike

Yes, people disagree. Vehemently. And in public. That's sort of the entire difference.

> I can assure you that coverage of pro-Ukrainian protests as unpatriotic happens in Russia too

Where these protesters are congregating that isn't inside a prison?
It's about a specific issue known in the 2016+ laptops, I just don't want to carry the risk of this known issue bricking my laptop out of warranty. And still exists in the current ones.

I have a 2012 i7 Thinkpad T530, that is still useful. My whole life desktop machines are usually useful for about a decade. Cheap laptops don't seem to last more than 4-5 years at most, but the top end laptops built really well can last a long time. It's nice to hand useful technology down to family members also.

Low power sleep states seem to have been broken for many years in most laptops. Apple machines do not have this issue it appears.
He didn't "escape to Russia", this is a very disingenuous, and plain wrong to say. It's ridiculous having to explain this after 11 years on HN, which is supposed to be a techie place for intelligent people.

Either you've been hugely mislead by anti Snowden people, or you are willfully ignorant, or worse.
Believe it or not, there are people that think real innovation is happening in crypto, and they also make investments and pay taxes.

If you search around for crypto tax software, you'll find there's actual demand from people that want to pay taxes on their crypto.
Are any of their servers actually in France? Or is anybody with a website automatically "operating" in Iran, China and Egypt?
Economic development is the best way to get technology into the hands of the poor. It's why even homeless people have smartphones in the US
Exactely, I was really surprised that dokku isn't all based on storing these commands in a config/script which gets executed every time you change something.
> Yet, I don't think Gunn should be criticized for it at all.

The article dedicates itself to critiquing the techniques, but spends no time that I can remember talking about the human beings and their feelings. That’s how I write professionally, and I’ve found it can really upset people who infer that critique of some thing is therefore critique of some person — even when no such inference is intended by the author.

> Did he really have to go on to flame everyone else to a crisp?

No one person is flamed to a crisp here, but some people’s mathematical works are absolutely set on fire. If this had been a critique about the people in geometric algebra, I never would have read it at all, because that’s not what interests me. Critiquing cargo-curled erroneous hearsay as invalid resonates strongly, especially with the focus on the math instead of the people.

As a newb, I learned a great deal about mathematics from reading this, but I still don’t know who any of the people involved are. Isn’t that the holy grail of professional critique: it’s about the work, not the worker?

Or, am I missing something where this article is personally attacking people rather rhan people’s work output?
Yes but the effective resolution of the 13 inch air when it is at 2x scaling is pretty cramped, which is why the default is to use blurrier fractional scaling.
The "companies all of their employees moved to" don't make leading edge semiconductors with US based R&D, so I don't know why you're acting like they'd be able to do what Intel does.

This isn't about Intel, it's about keeping US companies competitive in leading edge semiconductor manufacturing.
If we let Intel fail, we'd have an even tougher battle to get some other US company to compete.
ha, no thanks. it also can't work for bitmessage, there is no coin to stake.
Especially if you follow the WP's standard to the T. Wordpress coding "standards" came from one person's idiosyncrasies, going against most other coding standards including (especially) the PSR ones. It's a while since I last looked at contributors' attempts to bring some sanity to it all, but the last I saw was that they kept getting knocked back by the gatekeepers.
A government contractor working on classified systems typically signs a strict NDA and is quite likely told in no uncertain terms what will happen when those terms are broken. He did it knowingly and willingly. What did he expect? If he was doing it for a higher cause, he must also had known that people will possibly die if what he passed on to the Russians contained personal information. If he can live with the deadly consequences of his own actions, he must be OK with a potentially violent end to his own life.
>On Linux desktop (and phones) it doesn't even allow to enable e2ee at all.

There's "New secret chat" option on my Android client. Or what do you mean by "phones" here?
Dungeons, Dragons and shoulder pads: Why I loved D&D as a closeted teen
> Sadly Apple seem hell bent on ripping us off.

Did you mean "Fortunately, Apple are laser-focused on maximizing shareholder value"?
Well of course there's also this: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

Which is almost as bad as AM (being that it is more realistic)
There is a second-order effect to this too, which connects to the original article.

If the piano is slightly out of tune, and the orchestra is slightly worse, people stop appreciating it (not realizing how much better it COULD be), and the art dies out, not because it's moved past it's time, or the culture moved on, or people don't want it, but because THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY CAN HAVE.

That is 100% the case with Tomatoes. Most people I know (including myself) think tomatoes are bland boring filler. Annoying to cut. Barely add any flavour. Need salt + fat (cheese, bacon, etc) to really bring out their flavour.

And then one day we have a farmer's market heirloom tomato, and it's like our world gets shattered.

"I COULD be eating tomatoes like this on the regular? And I'm not? Whatever happened as a society to get me to this point was a crime, and needs to be undone."

But most people never even get to experience that, I think.
Agreed. It also can't hurt to setup a firewall or EC2 Security Group that only allows ingress from Cloudflare IPs: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/

Alternatively, you can use Cloudflare Tunnel, and then block all incoming connections.
This is likely a function of yields of the process. The better the yields, less the need to bin chips by what works. Likely the M4 yields are quite good at this point. Just a WAG.
I believe that the amount of "untraceable" crypto that exists is extremely low.

Go try to buy some crypto in the US without KYC. It's already pretty tightly controlled.
> Involved with CSAM means having a platform that openly has CSAM and not doing anything about it despite many warnings and requests in years

You'd have to show that he knew about specific instances and declined to intervene.

I'm not saying that's unlikely. But I haven't seen it shown, and I suspect part of what the French police are trying to get is that evidence of wilful inaction versus gross negligence.
I have a deep fear of death. I don't find it reassuring to think that there might be a copy of me running around. I'm not so vain to think that my consciousness is of value outside myself, I just know that it is of value to me because that's the only place I exist. It seems strictly an exercise in ego.
Why? Did they ask you to send them pictures of dinosaur footprints or something?

Leave them be, you're not going to convince them of anything (if they are set in their beliefs) any more than they will convince you, no matter how much you'll claim "well I believe them if they show me proof". You wouldn't, as they can just point all around you for proof but you're not accepting it, and neither would they if shown proof of dinosaurs on different continents from millions of years ago.

Their beliefs don't affect you, or, only as much as you let them. It really doesn't matter that you're right. What do you think you look like if you send them "proof" without them asking for it?
Common sense has finally prevailed. IMO Boeing fought this tooth and nail because of Musk, risking the lives of the astronauts to save corporate face. Heads should roll but Boeing is too big to fail, to big to jail, and the executives will make out with a golden parachute in the end.
It's not just about Telegram though. It applies to any messaging app. Surely the head of the CIA uses some messaging app.
I remember this at the time, a really interesting idea (for 2006) to try and change the world by getting the next generation in the developing world onto the internet. I saw headlines about the project from time to time and my vague impression from the time was that they got bogged down in open-source purity arguments (lots of arguments about what should be on the device and what not on the device, and creating their own OS/UI rather than going with a common one, some seeing it as a way to conquer Windows for the next generation ) and ever increasing scope-creep or constantly redesigning everything as technology progressed. And so they never really shipped.

I guess with the ubiquity of smartphones these days you could say that 'one laptop per child' more or less happened anyway, but not quite in the way anyone imagined.
You notice how the right (or really any politician or think tank blabber) doesn't trump the "free market" anymore? It used to be every other minute on CNN in the 1990s and 2000s.

Why is that? Well, pretty simple, the corporate powers have all largely settled into cartel, duopoly, or outright monopoly alignments within their markets. Market competition is pretty weak in the US, and it is hurting our competitiveness worldwide.

The reality is that the nth-iterative stability of "free markets" in the real world with barriers to entry and even more important, regulatory capture, is cartel in best case.

A lot of the centralization of wealth in the US is through the large cartel megacorporations. Using those, the "elite" can extract wealth and wage war on labor costs, which goddamn they LOVE to do, more than shirk taxes. Oh, and the megacorporations also enable massive tax avoidance (loans on existing unrealized stock value as a great example).

So what the government SHOULD be doing is antitrust right and left, and breaking up all these monopolies and cartels. It would inject a huge amount of labor demand (at good job wages), a huge amount of anti-inflationary competition, and produce massive amounts of innovation, since you'd have a dozen companies trying different products and production methods in markets, as opposed to ... two.
Somewhere else someone mentioned the mud puddle test for messengers.

I would like to propose a test for how free countries are: take a cart-board and write something critical about the current government, hold it up on a major square in the capital. Count the seconds/minutes/hours until they arrest you.

Now compare results across countries.
I think "total failure" is a bit harsh. At the very least it sparked people's imaginations, and shed some light on what would work and wouldn't work in the real world. Perhaps netbooks/chromebooks that came after also took some inspiration from it.
Yup - thats what an AI vector DB is all about - matrices.

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EDIT: @-probably_wrong

You have to think that she also has to put things into the minds of others who dont have here prescient forethought of systems.

Listen to all she says about "systems of computers" where "you need a computer to run all these other computers" and that you have ~160KB over head to run a 32KB program... andn how she breaks down all the constituents in a cluster, down to security auth...

And she tells you to buy a Scientific Molocule Model set to be able to design computer systems in 3d.

She is fn the foundation of cloud.
In France if you operate a telecommunication network, even encrypted, and your network is used to conduct illegal activities, you will end up with the police taking you into custody to ask you for details.

There were similar questions with Tor exit nodes:

https://lafibre.info/attaques/hebergement-dun-noeud-de-sorti...

It's legal, but you will get police interrogation.
Maybe it's similar to adding a new chat participant, except your client says "btw this is also me." I used that way when designing a toy e2ee app a while back. Or maybe there is a central repo of each user's per-device pub keys, and your client signs its updates to it using the original pub key so it's tamper-evident.

Maybe there's some key derivation mechanism so the new pubkey is self-evidently owned by the first one, never heard of one though.
> Tentpole stuff like Harry Potter is the only thing saving us from complete societal atomization where everybody is a stranger.

This can even increase alienation if you don't resonate with the source material.
Is it? Hardware engineers at Apple, Microsoft, Meta, NVIDIA, Amazon are paid much better than at Intel.
The faster we burn through fossil fuels (especially Oil and Natural Gas), the sooner the transition will be. The only question will be how painful it is.
Not sure which complete lack you're talking about. You can run the SotA open source image and text generation models on the 7900 xtx. They might be one or two iterations behind their nvidia counterparts and you will run into more issues, but there is a community.
Doing `/searchterm/e` doesn't work.

Quite nice otherwise.
The majority of people on HN have been out of the closet about their authoritarianism for many years now.
The oil major projected that oil demand would remain at 85 million bpd in 2050 even if every new car sold in 2035 is an electric vehicle. That's roughly the same level of demand as in 2010.

Does anyone know the distribution of oil for consumer gas vs other uses (fertilizer, airplanes, ships, etc)?

Taking it as generic fossil fuels seems silly because coal usage is quickly disappearing everywhere. Coal is not cost competitive vs solar.
On the flip side of the coin, it's amazing how many on HN are public anarchists. When we come together as a society to create laws, we make them for a reason, and nobody is above them.
Barbie told me math is hard...
The point kinda was to optimize for security over scalability. It wasn't the goal. Go make a messaging system on TOR if you want a less secure more scalable tradeoff point.
I have some insight into this space (compensation analysis) through a family member. Either the VP was incompetent, or the mismatched job situation was used as cover for the outcome they intended (people leaving). "The bureaucracy" exists to serve businesses interests, and legal risks to same.
Very interesting device, saw this in a small prototype city (below 6k people) that managed to acquire one device per person and setup eletronic versions of the city services at a time much before this was common. The city even had free WiFi for everyone - low bandwidth but still useable.
My MacBook Air M1 has 16GB RAM and the base 256GB RAM. I decided I wanted to try some native Apple Silicon games like “Resident Evil: The Village” and “Death Stranding”. So I took a 1 TB WD_BLACK external SSD, installed macOS Sonoma and made sure to boot from that hard drive when I wanted to play games. It works perfectly. Sadly there is no way to add RAM externally ha ha.

I boot from the 256GB storage that is soldered on the MacBook Air M1’s logic board when I want to do anything else. I have about 174 GB free currently.
There are 0 skill fakes, you just take a picture from some other source and label it as something else.

Don’t believe everything you see on TV kids.
And that's the confirmation. But given how emotional your response is I guess there is something personal to it so I won't push it.

I'm just curious as to why did you make a distinction between France and Europe.
Blackberry failed because they didn't spend 5+ years building a complete mobile OS that carried all the amazing stuff that desktop OS had at the time (top tier, networking, graphics multi tasking etc.). By the time the iPhone launched, all the competitors were already screwed.
Having used acorn (via roots sage) on a project recently I'd say on balance it does improve working with Wordpress. I wouldn't describe it as a nice experience though.
Or as Pratchett put it, put there as a prank.
Coinbase follows US law. They are designed to disintermediate traditional players like banks, yes, but not the USG. They are at the mercy of the USG.
TLDR: in Germany you aren't allowed to plan becoming Hitler 2.0 and start the 4th reich. That's basically the limitation of free speech.
Because I noticed that lying to people constantly, and mass surveillance controlled by a small parties is probably a bad strategy in the long run?

I think evolution figured it out a few billion years before me. I think it's just easy to forget.

Of course I could be entirely wrong. Just a hypothesis of mine.
> You should be able to connect with people over things besides "tentpole" pop culture artifacts.

You can, of course. You're missing or ignoring the implication that one can have any kind of expectation about connecting with an arbitrary individual.

Personally, I think this is for the positive: acknowledging that you can't expect to connect with everyone seems healthy.
There's also The Prestige which comes at it from an angle kind of like Soma but with a 'flawed' teleporter.

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow also has a big theme of digital simulations with the added twist that you may have to have your cognition altered to not freak out about being in a simulation and some weird moral implications that has about using uploaded humans.

Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neil Stephenson also does a lot with the idea of simulated minds and even the kind of brain scan booting directly related to this article. It even puts a funny bow on the whole Baroque Cycle/Cryptonomicon semi shared universe with an appearance and story for the mysterious Enoch Root.
>And also, oxen were absolutely bred to be bigger. That's kind of the defining thing that distinguishes draft oxen from other kinds of cattle.

In your attempt to take down the analogy you just reinforced it. They quickly hit the limits of large oxen and had to scale up far faster than any selective breeding could help.

The exact same thing happened in computing even during the absolute hay day of Moore’s law. Workloads would very quickly hit the ceiling of a single server and the way to unblock yourself was not to wait for next gen chips but to parallelize.
US Government is mad that people have figured out how to evade taxation as well as their Senators.
The fact that Telegram is home to thousands of military bloggers discussing the war in Ukraine without getting blocked is a clear signal that the platform is completely compromised and controlled by the Russian state. There is a 0% chance they would allow a free flow of information of this type.
That's an interesting tidbit I did not know about UW. Sad the wood wasn't used.
The OLPC was likely a direct cause for the first Eee PC, and thus the netbook device category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC

Even though the project may not have been succesful, I therefore think it had a pretty strong impact on the democratization of computing, and may also have influenced the development of Chromebooks.
Is it? I don't know what the most popular Windows laptops are, but tooling around Lenovo's site, the starting configs for laptops seem to be either 8, 16, or 32 GB. Some soldered, some not.
The panel resolution is fixed, so it'll have the same number of pixels on it regardless of what you "set the resolution to."

For maximum visual fidelity, it'd be ideal to scale to some power of 2. Apple's stock settings offer resolutions that ... don't always follow that rule.
https://www.forbes.ru/newsroom/biznes/424315-rfpi-investirov...

https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-56501991
> Any modifications for the app binaries and protocols would be quickly noticed

Signal doesn't support reproducible builds, does it?
>The only reason Edward Snowden got asylum in Russia is using him for propaganda

Yeah, good propaganda - if you're an anti-WEF-globalist - F WEF and F the surveillance state
HOTscript: Higher-order TypeScript, a library for type-level madness
Park'N Fly reveals data breach affecting 1M customer files
It's a press release, not a document that substantively lays out the factual allegations. Compare that to something like the indictment here in the US: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258..., where it is pretty explicitly laid out what the alleged acts were that led to each of the counts.

So it's still manifestly unclear why he was arrested (although I note that the press release says he wasn't arrested, merely held for questioning until Wednesday).
If instead the 2 gas stations were both selling at $4.45 and looked around and decided not to lower their prices to $4.15 even though they could, it's equivalent.
The internet is globally accessible and that used to be considered a good thing. If France or the EU want to build a Chinese-style firewall to block unapproved parts of it, that’s up to them.