skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Article 1:

>How does Telegram make money?

>Telegram doesn’t make money, or at least it doesn’t generate revenues, as of 2019. Durov pointed out on a blog post that he “believes in fast and secure messaging that is also 100% free.”

>On the same blog, post, Telegram notes that if it were to run out of money, it might introduce “non-essential paid options” to supplement developers’ salaries.

Article 2:

>All the features that are currently free will stay free. We will add some new features for business teams or power users. Some of these features will require more resources and will be paid for by these premium users. Regular users will be able to keep enjoying Telegram – for free, forever.

>In addition to its messaging component, Telegram has a social networking dimension. Our massive public one-to-many channels can have millions of subscribers each and are more like Twitter feeds. In many markets the owners of such channels display ads to earn money, sometimes using third-party ad platforms. The ads they post look like regular messages, and are often intrusive. We will fix this by introducing our own Ad Platform for public one-to-many channels – one that is user-friendly, respects privacy and allows us to cover the costs of servers and traffic.

>If Telegram starts earning money, the community should also benefit. For example, If we monetize large public one-to-many channels via the Ad Platform, the owners of these channels will receive free traffic in proportion to their size. Or, if Telegram introduces premium stickers with additional expressive features, the artists who make stickers of this new type will also get a part of the profit. We want millions of Telegram-based creators and small businesses to thrive, enriching the experience of all our users.

so... they don't?
> The investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organisations suggests widespread and continuing abuse of NSO’s hacking spyware, Pegasus, which the company insists is only intended for use against criminals and terrorists. (from the Guardian inquiry about the same topic).

Every time we allow special laws or special tools to fight "terrorism" or "child abuse" or other evils that get people worked up, they end up being used against the people in general. Every time. Why are we even surprised.
> I think people would prefer to work in an office than a factory and trying to equate the two experiences is a little reductive.

Having worked for a couple of years as a commercial electrician, I would choose that in a heartbeat over “knowledge work”… if they paid the same.
Usually for profit companies are looking to boost profits and work near the legal limit if that means bigger returns.

This happens in finance, tech, food, pharma and pretty much all the industries that have a "legal" risk due regulation.

If breaking the law means a fine that sometimes is less than the profit then you can imagine that the incentive is to break the law.
I tend to agree with this article: we all should be worried about being dependent on having only a few core systems where speech happens, especially when network effect & switching costs are very very high.

I believe platforms have the right to moderate themselves as they see fit. They get that freedom, and we're better for letting private systems regulate themselves. Or, (as mentioned) as Twitter is floating, creating an “app store for moderation”, making moderation an interoperable layer rather than integrated.

And I agree with where Cory eventually brings the discussion to: what makes everything all feel so impossible is that switching costs are astronomical. If we leave the one network our friend is on we lose all digital connection with that friend, lose the view we'd get of them interacting with others. Competitive Compatibility is needed, to let us allow private companies to create their own rules, but to not keep each of us restrained & restricted within a handful of supersized networks.
Given previous incidents where renowned sites spread malware via ads (eg. bbc), accepting ads on your system is simply unacceptable from a security point of view.

I've never heard of anyone being reimbursed by a website that unwittingly infected them. Websites that take responsibility for their ads, that's different. But those are very few and very far between.

Right now, surfing without an adblocker is like going to a swinger party vowing not to use condoms.
(Actually, I think your browser is already intimite with more domains upon one average visit to one average website than that...)

So: block ads. It's basic Internet hygiene.
Drones should be much easier to intercept than rocket / artillery shell attacks which have become significantly less effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
> Everything in the system is global. New projects always started off with the programmer searching for a handful of working storage numbers that could be "borrowed" long enough to complete the calculation, then restored to their original values before the rightful owner noticed that they were gone.
I has a similar initial reaction but my guess is it's not really feasible to repurpose these. I think (my knowledge is out of date) that dedicated miners are basically just asics designed to compute hashes really fast (presumably optimized for bitcoin blocks and cycling through a nonce). Unless another useful application is really close to that, you probably can't use them for it.
The analysis claimed that some video sent by MBS might be malware, but then claimed to be unable to decrypt it and prove that or analyze it in any way.

HN called them out on failing to decrypt and properly analyze the file when that came up:

https://github.com/ddz/whatsapp-media-decrypt
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I don't think the US government will sanction Israel over selling surveillance software to governments that are allied with both the US and Israel.
Bitcoin asics are basically just ewaste once they’re no longer useful or profitable. Since they’re designed for just Bitcoin there’s not really any other use. You can get older asics first cheap on the secondary market (although most sellers try to scam people not knowing previous generation miners are useless). Maybe useful if you want a unique way to heat a room?
Protections in place which created a global shortage in GPU availability for machine learning and gaming, sounds like they didn't work great
How is it different? They are tools that can be used for both legal and illegal means. If you put legal responsibility on one toolmaker to ensure their tools are not used in an illegal fashion, why wouldn't you do the same for other toolmakers?
apple doesn’t care about technical users, they sell a product designed to be of use to the most people who can pay. They are trying to move towards an IOS security model while preserving most of the features of a general purpose computer. we’ll see where it’s headed. in my use case, I dual boot and am the only user of my machine. If this ever becomes untenable I’ll switch mainly linux and dual boot windows, until and unless windows stops letting me dual boot, at which point I’ll have to reevaluate.
Can I recommend Donald Hoffman’s lectures and discussions? They might correlate, as there seems to be common threads in his take to that of the general cosmology/consciousness model as the Theosophists and Rudolph Steiner (Waldorf Schools), which were summarily heavily influenced by ancient Indian mysticism among other branches.

Hoffman might give you a pretty good launching point for some of the scientific aspects as they relate as he apparently tries to keep up with what’s new in theoretical math and physics and how they relate to what we’re once purely metaphysical positions. (Ex. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron)

Some of it is purely awesome stuff. It’s easy to get swept away by it, so if you don’t want to rock your worldview it’s best to keep the work somewhat cordoned to its own intellectual space.

If nothing else it’s a fun thought experiment and some perspective.

Good luck in your pursuit.
How is this legal and why companies like NSO and their principals are not being prosecuted?
It is interesting to consider what happened to Browser as OS market. It is also interesting to consider with what happened to OLPC, one laptop per child, initiative. If all one does is use a device as a web browser then it doesn't matter what that device is. Browser games are gaining traction. As a Linux developer I use Linux as my primary OS and have Windows 10 loaded as a VirtualBox VM but the inverse would be easily doable if my brain fell out of my head and I decided to become a Windows developer. Windows is trying really hard to walk the tight line of making Linux run well for server applications natively in Windows but not for a Linux desktop or web browser. What I'm getting at here is that how users think about these things could easily break a market-changing usage in the next ten years.
The OIC, if I understand correctly, is an Apple vetted OIK which is created on-device.

This mainly would come into play, as the article says, if you install another operating system. By default, the OS is in Full Security mode, so it would contact Apple when installing the other OS and the OIC may come into play.

But if you aren’t installing another OS, or you set your Mac to permissive security which needs no internet, perhaps the OIC is not required because you’ve downgraded the security?

Im just speculating.

Still, somehow, the fact remains you can fully set up an M1 Mac without internet. The technicals of how it does this while reconciling that with the security guide is unknown.
The countermeasures are "uses more RAM than is convenient". The ASIC counter-countermeasure was to add more RAM. The countermeasure was effective for 18 months.
There was also Solomon's Key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_Key.

Breaking down problems and solving real time puzzles was educational in its own way.
Not now, but in 2 weeks
You made one true claim and two ridiculous claims. Then you give evidence for only the one that has been established. Was it FBI informants crushing capitol police against doors and beating them on the ground?
Similar channels as any other arms manufacturer or defense contractor, as far as Israel goes they are regulated in the same manner by the same agency DECA.

They likely do not sell to anyone or for any reason that does not contribute to Israel’s foreign policy in some way or another.
"never let a crisis go to waste" - someone
This does prove or disprove any other Pegasus related claims but regarding the Bezos “hack”, Brad Stone who is a Bezos biographer says in this interview (https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1400539983333793792?...)
that all the evidence about the nude photos leak point to Bezos’ girlfriend’s brother actually just taking the photos from her phone through physical access and leaking them.
One would think a hybrid approach will bring the best results...?

Long reads help with alignment and arrangement, and short reads eliminate small errors of just a few base pairs.
Yes, it's after reading this that I'm asking. I really don't like my own hardware phoning home without my explicit consent. Ideally I'd install a firewall before I first connect it to the internet, and I'd block *.apple.com by default.
Interesting. I just bought an M1 Mac mini. I added a nvme m.2 ssd (Samsung PM9A1 + Orico SCM2T3-G40) over thunderbolt 3 and moved the admin user over. Unfortunately I had to send back the ssd and adaptor since it was reading at only 75MB/s for some reason. Anyway I created a new admin on the internal ssd before deleting the external ssd. If I understand this article correctly it’s saying that I will no longer be able to update since I now only have a secondary admin user. Is that correct?
This would indeed be mildly helpful but real problem is:

Even a "100% match" shouldn't be grounds for kicking someone out! It should just be a cue to check her ID against a list of banned people. How fucking hard would that have been?
Malaysia has some of the cheapest retail power on Earth.

This is the usual performative nonsense by a foolish government. They could have easily sold them at auction like they do with all sorts of other seized goods. ASIC's go for a few thousand dollars each.
Not exactly EU, but it does. Switzerland.
I'm pretty new to this sort of optimization stuff, so forgive me if this is ridiculous for any reason, but I'm wondering about two things reading this:

1: is it useful / feasible to set a sort of "lower bound" to these optimizations by profiling the raw write time on a set of a certain size?

2. assuming that writes are ultimately the limiting factor, could you gain performance by calculating the minimum batch size as it's write time intersects in-memory calculation, and as soon as you hit that size, pop a thread to write that batch to disk - then return some async signal when the write is done to trigger the next batch of writes? is it possible to "stitch together" these batches post-writes?

edit: mobile formatting is le suck
They’re doing the same thing in Europe to the same effect.
I'll just say my experience in early 2021 didn't match that, or I wasn't willing to invest enough to get unsupported, pre-release software working, when I had easy access to x86 macs.
I spent a while writing some not-that-fancy Ansible scripts to bring up new laptops & a couple people have used it & loved it, but wow, there is so much fear & terror about introducing some automation to this process. Dissent is high. People also really fear & lambast the monorepo, even though it works all-in-all fairly well.

It used to be a week long, very slow affair of bringing up microservice after microservice, requesting & passing around .env files socially. Yikes.
$138M revenue isn't half bad. I didn't see a product breakdown on a quick skim of the financial report. Anyone have an idea which products they are actually making money from?
The technology is there. It is obvious that if it is being sold, it will be used. And like most things that do give people power, it is likely to be abused. At least in some sectors there is a strict regulation of what can be used and why ( and there is a cost associated with it so companies tend to scrutinize for unnecessary searches ), but an individual with too much money and time on their hands? The only limit is that person.

I will admit I am tantalized.
Can you disable secure boot without Apple having a say in the process? I trust myself much more than I trust Apple.
Wow I'm so happy I'm moving away from Mac administration. I currently manage a big userbase but we still don't have M1s in our environment as our antivirus solution (Cylance) is really slow in supporting it.

Apple is introducing more and more mechanisms in the name of security but they keep access and information very close to their heart. All us Mac admins have struggled with SecureToken in combination with AD accounts and it took two major releases for Apple to actually introduce a way for us to manage these properly through MDM. In the mean time most information had to be gathered through blogs such as this one.

Another issue is that more and more enterprise management features are becoming dependent on managed (federated) Apple IDs. But Apple requires that the email and identifying account address (UPN) are the same which will never happen in our 200k user environment. So we're stuck with more and more things to work around.

This is really something that should have been considered from the start. And this owner key thing sounds worse. Security is good but the end user or corporate admin should have the keys to every lock. Not just the vendor. Now my successor can deal with this stuff.

I used to be a big fan of macOS personally too but I moved over to FreeBSD 2 years ago and I'm glad I did. I really want an OS that answers to me.
Still rocking a Mi A1.

Not the best performance or camera, but for what I paid it's an amazing product. Battery still lasts a couple of days.

It's a real shame Xiaomi got out of Android One. I'm probably going to get a Nokia when the A1 dies.
Oh God, that game. Ugh, the music of the NES version is permanently seared into my mind.
Most likely a bug. If the instructions start with "Install Beta anything", with apple, this wouldn't garner support from them. Report the problem to apple on the beta channel. https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ if you're a developer having an issue they have a support channel for that too
Perhaps it's among the cheapest because it's subsidized as a public good?

EDIT: According to Wikipedia, it's heavily tiered and heavily subsidized, but also that it shouldn't be particularly helpful for mining, unless they're splitting it into a bunch of accounts to stay in one of the lower tiers:

Domestic consumer pricing per kWh used, subsidized

4.95 @ 1 to 200 kWh

7.59 @ 201 to 300 kWh

11.73 @ 301 to 600 kWh

12.41 @ 601 to 900 kWh

12.98 @ 901 kWh onwards

(exchange rate of 4.4 MYR to US$1 on 24 November 2016)
Here's the forensic report from FTI Consulting:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v74v34/saudi-arabia-hacked-j...

Reviews of the report suggest that it contains circumstantial evidence, but lacks conclusive evidence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos_phone_hacking#Analy...
Huh, I never have tried this, but I'm pretty sure sharing hollywood films on drive has always violated their Terms of Service, although I could see them not being great at enforcement all the time.

If Drive was that permissive, then upload sites that tended to "look the other way", like Rapidshare, MegaUpload, etc, would never have existed.
if you prefer the macintosh version: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/mecc/oregon-trail.html
I love reading about this. I hope one day we will understand what happened back then.

In Hawaiian mythology, there is a creation chant[1] that includes names of the purported parents of 800 generations; after those 800 generations, there is an interesting interim passage describing an event:

Line 1530:
"Born was Polaʻa/
Born was rough weather, born the current/
Born the roaring, advancing, and receding of waves, the rumbling sound, the earthquake/
The sea rages, rises over the beach/
Rises silently to the inhabited places/
Rises gradually up over the land/"

It's notable because the previous 800 lines are nothing but names of husband and wife; it must have been a big event to get mentioned as such. I'm sure there are other similar stories in the oral tradition. I wonder if anyone has ever compared them all. I hope one day more geological and archeological evidence can connect all these threads.

[1]http://www.ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?e=d-0beckwit2-000...
People are still routinely tricked to enter their iCloud credentials into fraudlent websites designed to look just like iCloud, allowing thieves to wipe the device.

I've had this happen to three people I know. Works like this: they contact you via your contacts, pretending to be apple care specialists, ship a link, then social engineer you into entering credentials, then they disappear.

(I don't really know how they get to contacts, but this was the case in all three instances)
> Whenever I develop for JavaScript, if I find a module that just has weird undefined and undocumented behavior, I get rid of it no matter how powerful.

`rm -rf Chrome.app`

The equivalent between native development and web is not the quirks of a library, it's the quirks of browsers. That's the metal you're running on.
Also, because these rigs were apparently using stolen electricity, chances are that the only reason it was profitable for the owners to operate was that they weren't paying market rates for electricity. So there's no way to legalize the operation and make it profitable (either because local electricity costs are higher than world average, or because these particular miners were inefficient, or whatever).
It is currently unknown how it reconciles with the security guide, but the fact remains that you can set up a M1 Mac without any internet.
Fluent Builder part 2/3
Ask Vietnam or Afghanistan if you can fight off the American military with rifles.
mostly reporting about an interview with another site, original source already discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27850652
> Having drones patrol large areas, running plates and face-matching against a warrant database is much quicker and cheaper than having people doing it.

Why would it be cheaper than metal poles with cameras attached to them? Surely stationary devices will be cheaper and safer.
Rust and the JVM, Stronger Together
Nope.

Have been a developer for windows applications for 20 and some years. Software I build back then still runs fine.

Have been a developer for macOS since 2013, since around 2019 I need to bring out patches for changes in the core OS multiple times per year. macOS is not a pleasant OS for a developer. Documentation is pretty shitty and the rugs that get pulled from under you all the time are frustrating.
The logic board on my M1 failed after 2 months of very light use. Was also surprised when it wouldn't let me use an external webcam while connected to an external monitor.
They already pivoted from “Autopilot” to “Full Self Driving”, I imagine they’ll “deliver” FSD and milk people for “Autonomous driving” or whatever next.
RPN calculators are still being sold by HP. This includes financial, scientific, and graphing calculators.

The current RPN HP graphing calculators leave a lot left to be desired, and aren’t as good as the old ones. I have an HP 50g RPN graphing calculator which is amazing. But, there are even better ones that are no longer in production.

Swiss Micros makes remakes of such amazing HP calculators: https://www.swissmicros.com/products

At some point I will purchase the DM41X from there.
previously (article around that video instead the direct link): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27850652
Ironic that you mention this, since the fact that the Modi government’s name is on the list attests to their anti-privacy way of ruling.
The conspiracy theorists I know, and most of r/Conspiracy, went from distrusting the government to generally converging on Qanon conspiracy theories, and Qanon adjacent conspiracy theories like #SaveTheChildren.

They use the term "the good guys", literally those words, to describe those in the federal government who are supposedly fighting a secret war against a pedophile cabal that will culminate in a military coup.

Interestingly enough, even those conspiracy theorists who haven't fallen down the far right conspiracy rabbithole are also assuming the federal government and military are on their side. A popular conspiracy theory is that the government is gearing up to disclose that UAP reports are actually evidence of alien contact. In those that hold this view, there's a widespread reverence for military members' testimony, and an almost implicit assumption that they are nearly infallible because of their military training. Instead of distrusting the government, they're eagerly awaiting for it agree with them and confirm their personal feelings towards reports of UAPs.
Sale of these technologies is heavily regulated. If this kind of technology is deployed in your home country, State of Israel gave permission to sell it and your own state have permission to buy and deploy it.
Governments might consider that journalists can often do more damage to a government than car bombs.
Is it forbidden? Then it is likely legal.

I am not defending NSO here, but I just want to provide a sample of a simple defense of this. In practical sense, there is very little regulation in this space. And if you add to it some of the territories involved in that race, you will quickly notice that it may be hard to force them to do anything. They are sovereign after all.
Git 2.32.0: .gitignore files that are symbolic links are ignored
Can I use this during my leetcode tests. I feel like it would be the perfect use-case