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Federal requirements for Medicaid starting in January will result in large numbers of people losing coverage.

When they say "social graph for Signal", afaik they don't mean 'on Signal servers' but 'social graph on your phone'. It's a personal social graph that exists on the end-user device.

I don't remember how the hash issue is dealt with, however.

> Signal is not peer-to-peer. It is a centralized, client-server architecture.

It's not a P2P mesh, but Signal's servers are involved only for certain functions. I think communication tx is P2P - to send a message via server (used to hide sender IP address from onlookers and the recipient), you need to enable relaying. Possibly finding the recipient still relies on the server - if I want to send a P2P message to Abel, to what IP address do I send it?

> They got a 50 million seed donation in 2017 and reported almost 30 million in revenue in 2024. They are not exactly small. If they were VC founded and not a non profit they would be a unicorn.

The donation to Signal and VC investment are very different things: Donations to Signal are for operating costs. VCs invest for the purpose of enabling and owning a share of exponential growth to 'unicorn' status.

> unicorn

Unicorns are billion dollar companies that are rapidly growing. Signal isn't close to that.

> The server has access to your IP addresses and the server can at will build social graphs about the users.

How could it build a social graph? I think most messages are P2P unless the user activates relaying?

Thank you!

Last week, after spending 30 minutes placing one order in Uber Eats, I finally hit the last confirm and it told me the restaurant was no longer taking orders that night. I called the restaurant and they said they couldn't help: they only take orders over Uber Eats and they can't control UE's system.

Yes, they absolutely could help. They could take an order over the phone. They could choose a subcontractor who delivered good service to the restaurant's customers. The restaurant is 100% responsible.

If I used a subcontractor for a client, not in a million years would I tell the client, 'the subcontractor's failure isn't my problem; I can't control them'. I would look like a joke, entirely unreliable and clueless.

As in any job or interview - especially if you offer something different than all the carbon-copy candidates - you need to compel them to see your value.

If you believe in what you do - and 'decency' (depending on definition) isn't hard to believe in, having a long track record and obvious advantages - it's relatively easy to be compelling.

Finally, don't work for the corp. Work someplace else. Start your own!

> After running thousands of simulations, the team raised the rover’s tilt limit to 24 degrees and reduced the clearance required under the rover’s belly pan to 20 centimeters (about 7.9 inches). The team also updated the rover’s braking software to avoid rock hazards, nearly doubled steer motor current limits, updated flight software with “dynamic slip tables” to model expected slip, and used cross-slope driving to better anchor wheels on exposed bedrock.

I wonder why they didn't model and use these parameters in the original design (I'm not at all suggesting a mistake on their part; I wonder what their thinking has been):

Were Martian environmental parameters less well-known (e.g., how gravity, air resistance / wind, and scree dynamics interact)? Bot performance in Martian environment (e.g., motor power output) less well-known? Were they being understandably conservative with their irreplaceable bot?

> “Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster.” Yen added, “stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”

It's insane that rational thought, even in engineering orgs, is out the window in favor of AI hype.

AI changes the Quality/Time tradeoff. As anyone with a even a little engineering background knows, that means you can,

  * Cut time to get the same shitty software quality
    with unlimited bugs that we're accustomed to

  * In the same time, increase quality and make
    actually secure software.

How much time does it now take, using AI, to make 'High Assurance' software? Provably correct components? Other quality measures that were once out of reach? etc.

And the capability of AI-resourced attackers makes higher-quality software necessary.

> being a decent person carries very little benefit anymore

You're caught up in the toxic rhetoric and justification. Imagine how appealing decent management is now, as a competitive advantage.

And generally, being a decent person is more important than ever.

Yen's behavior, per the OP, is nothing like optimism. Optimists not only see a brighter future, they are positive and inspire that in others. Steve Jobs was an optimist (at least publicly), to pick a random person.

Yen says there is an existential crisis, Proton employees must adjust to survive, and those who don't agree or raise concerns are losers. Yen's behavior also strongly implies a future of abuse.

Happy days are ahead!

> If you had told those people the modern silicon valley was working to build a Panopticon and sell it to the TLAs they would not have believed you!

I think they would have absolutely believed it - that's what they were worried about and fought against. They would have not believed that libertarians and progressives (to use the terms of this thread) have adopted such an absolutely helpless, defeatest attitude and have therefore become moribund and ineffective.

The OP also is an interesting tour of some authoritative geographic organizations and their policies on nomenclature.

  United Nations Cartographic Section
  U.N. Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
  International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)
  US National Geographic Society
  UK Royal Geographical Society

Could you provide evidence of senior union members making anything close to what executives make?

IIRC, the US administration is claiming that building a ballroom and an arch are needed for national security.