skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You seem to have a chip on your shoulder regarding telegram.

You need to understand I don't see messaging apps as living things. I see muscles, bones, nerves and veins. I have no grudge toward any app. That would be silly. My problem is with dangerous implementation of cryptography in general. It's completely agnostic of vendor. I've criticized a myriad of apps in my lifetime from Palringo to Foocrypt to DataGateKeeper to Telegram to TimeAI (lol): bullshit crypto has many forms. I've even criticized apps I now find more or less good, such as Threema and Element (during Riot times).

> all cryptography is “untested” or “unused” at some point

That's not the problem. Telegram's cloud encryption doesn't become "tested" at some point. It's fundamentally broken because by definition the decryption key is with Telegram (the service provider), and NOT your peer.

"Advertising as a secure messenger (or: the most secure) as it is stupid to say “most” and the security is untested."

Yeah I tend to agree. If you want to take a look at how far security design in secure messaging rabbit hole goes, my research might be of interest https://github.com/maqp/tfc

>being of russian origin

No please don't take my comments to infer anything from something being of Russian origin. There isn't "Russians are bad" aspect to my criticism. There is Durov's military training, there is connections to government from VKontakte days, and there is technical deficiencies that are indistinguishable from state sponsored honeypots. I'm not as interested in WHO Durov might give keys to access the servers. I'm interested in the issue of why its dangerous it can happen in the first place: lack of ubiquitous E2EE.

>telegram marketing is so slick

Exactly, they have fantastic social media team that's expert at handling criticism with snide remarks, memes, pop culture references. They really get people. And I find that terrifying. The platform's an orgy of fun, and all I see is by looking at the veins and bones, is another Facebook. Hundreds of millions of people living 90% of their social life through an app they think stands for them, without understanding they're feeding another monster.

Durov should know better what is ethical to build, but he doesn't care. Even if he didn't collect data for the purpose of using it against people, it's his responsibility to know he's not all-powerful, his servers are not hack-proof, and the data that sits there is a tremendous liablity.

Moxie might not be able to pull off the UX, but at least his heart is in the right place, and he's come the closest wrt design that's secure by default. But the most astonishing thing was the v2 group design, that required pushing the boundaries of cryptography as a field. That was incredible achievement. It seems all we can hope now is Signal's features will one day match large enough portion of Telegram's footguns. Lack of usernames, markdown mode, and replying with stickers are the main gripes for me ATM. Or perhaps Threema, Wire, or Element will catch and surpass Signal. Time will tell.
Organize and Index Your Screenshots (OCR) on macOS
At which point.... is a person a person or are we all just computers?

Maybe we already are all just computers in a simulation already. Ghost in the shell thoughts are rapidly coming back.
It's not even funny. I think it's foreign backed and spread for a reason.
Saying Norway is Saudi on north is heavily overrating for Saudi. Check what they do.
I used to use capacitor noises too when i was younger. I could tell other devs when builds were finished by hearing the high pitched noise stop. At the time i thought i could hear the cpu but recently learned it was the capacitors lol
They claim their software cannot be used on us phone numbers, but it’s suspected that Bezos was hacked using NSO’s “Pegasus” by the Saudis.
Colors work well for the 3.5mm audio ports... but those are simpler.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide#Color...
Wish there was an up to date, complete guide for training fonts.
I use it for digits and single digits, and it is not 100% accurate even if the image is best quality and I preprocess it well,
I don't understand how one could look at the current state of affairs regarding rampant misinformation online and say "yeah this is the best we can do without compromising our ideals". Its not good enough.
Make sure you have black text on white background, it turns me crazy after upgrading from 3.0 to 5.0,
This isn't very different from the West selling guns, tanks and police equipment to allied 3rd world countries. You hope they'll be used for good causes(preventing crime and terrorism) but knowing that these governments tend to be corrupt, you acknowledge the risk that these weapons will be used by bad elements too.
I strongly doubt an iphone app can have sufficient access to the phone to do anything useful.

Maybe if the app bundled an exploit. But that's unlikely to be sustainable.
I didn't know that google had stopped maintaining it. Interesting.
> The covid vaccine causes infertility

The bizarre thing with this hoax, is that it looks like the mRNA vaccine increases swimmer motility.[1] Vaccinated folks should have no issues having babies if, for example, they need to improve their 5G reception at home.

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2781360
Yes thanks for clarifying
I'm not that worried about interventions. If FSD was actually "FSD but you have to pay attention" I'd think the name was kinda dumb but significantly less deceptive.

According to Tesla's website (https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot), however, FSD does not come with "Autosteer on city streets" (it's "coming soon"), so in the city it cannot drive itself with the occasional human intervention. And it's not like city driving is some edge case few people will encounter.
The Catholic Church felt the same way about Gutenberg's press.
I don't disagree but how many occasions can you name where a country was being held accountable for weapons getting in the wrong hands?

Or a company for that matter, if we want to keep up the pretense that the NSO group is acting independently.
> Or because they’re working multiple jobs/overtime and do all the chores themselves.

Well, the data indicate that this is not the case. For households in the bottom two quintiles of income, only 18(!)% of householders work full time in the bottom quintile, and 45% work full time in the next-lowest quintile.

source: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/explaining-income-inequality-...
I have 2FA and only need to enter it when I first sign in on a fresh device. This is on both the web UI and the Android app.
You're saying that viewing your csv data via a SQL query is having it in two places. I don't think that's the normal concept of having multiple copies of data.
RDBMS tooling is a long way away from best-in-class, and the data model is extremely awkward in a way that actually distorts your modelling (no collection columns, no sum types...) and there's no real support for keeping track of schema evolution. I agree that recording your schema model explicitly and keeping track of it is very important (using something like Avro's schema registry), but RDBMS tools are not actually that great at it and using an RDBMS brings in a lot of other baggage.
> I don’t accept cabs as an equally good solution since uber and Lyft’s user experience is way better.

And I consider cabs to be a superior user experience in cities with good cab service to Lyft or Uber. Which is most major cities. I know I put no effort into defending my view, but I put in as much effort as you did.

Self-driving won't drive down the prices of Uber and Lyft. They will cause them to stop hemorrhaging money and possibly even become profitable.
Submission statement: starting in October of last year, YouTube conducted what has been called a "massive purge" of channels. The BitBurned directory is an index of such (former) channels, with links to where they can be found on "alt-tech" (in contrast to Big Tech) services, including: Bitchute, Parler, Gab, and Rumble.

Recent relevant articles of interest, showing this is an important topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874527 Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship - eff.org - 2021-07-18 (309 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858032 Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” - support.google.com - 2021-07-16 (1531 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27646686 YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative - Reuters - 2021-06-26 (261 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26215122 Online Speech Is Now an Existential Question for Tech - WSJ - 2021-02-21 (40 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26045088 The war on disinformation is a war on dissent - humanevents.com - 2021-02-06 (437 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25359003 YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud - blog.youtube - 2020-12-09 (3227 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25097145 Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter - npr.org - 2020-11-15 (876 comments)
This is anecdotal quantification, but I lived in northern California for a few years and late June would usually be in the 100s or 110s. By August when California catches on fire, it cools down to 90s (when the smoke was blowing our way).

By contrast, when I lived in Texas (no fires), June and July would be in the low 100s, and the first two weeks of August would be 107 - 112.
I think _autonomous_ weapon systems that pick targets and fire autonomously are obviously scary.

However - and this is probably not going to be popular - I think if robots are remote controlled, it's probably for the best if lawful-violence-monopoly-appliers (i.e. the state) uses them instead of putting humans out there with weapons.

I think a lot of situations escalate to higher echelons of violence when the (e.g.) police officer is faced with a threat to their life and needs to quickly go up the escalation of force ladder to disable the opponent, euphemism for shooting them. If instead a robot is the agent being threatened, the equation would be much different. There would be no need to kill the human opponent, since a robot is not worth sacrificing a human life for.

To me, remote controlled weapon systems are a great way to avoid unnecessary escalation of force. And escalation of force are, in my opinion, what is at the heart of most display of police violence (police cars driving into crowds, police officers shooting someone). Of course there's no denying that there are many cases where force was unjustifiably misused, but I'm an optimist at heart and I think the majority of cases isn't so, and that robotic telepresence would be a good way of defusing a lot of situations that would otherwise have escalated.
So Telegram's ToS conveniently forbids end-to-end encryption plugins. :D That's amazing security design!
Ignore packagers requests for help, then bash them for packaging wrong.

You know, F those guys. I see no excuse for Telegram being so uncooperative. The points in this frankly embarassing little comment don't constitute an excuse to ignore every other perfectly valid attempts to interoperate with them.
It's more often use-after-free or heap buffer overrun bugs, these days.
China Says It Conducted a Successful Suborbital Test of a Reusable Spaceplane
The rest of amazon doesn’t run on aws in its entirety afaik. Also not sure it’s necessarily a good thing either.
> Does pair programming result in junk code?

No, but not because there's a second person writing code, rather because there's a second person to think about it and think through how it works and interacts with the rest of the system.

As I said in another comment, actually writing code is only a small part of my work as a programmer, with pair programming, there is someone else who can do all the other things with me. Copilot cannot help with those things, certainly not in its current form.

The problem with Copilot as a fancy tab completion is that it can generate quite complex code, and, if code reviews are anything to go by, understanding other people's badly documented code is usually harder than writing your own. If its non-trivial, there's a strong urge to just accept it without really understanding all the details, because it appears to work. Or to just get a shallow grasp of it before deciding its good enough. Copilot will not help here, if anything, it makes it worse if it generates subtly broken code that otherwise looks correct and is too complex to really scrutinize and understand.

A better approach, I think, would be if you write unit tests and Copilot were to take them as input and write code to pass them. At least then it would be grounded in tests.

Right now, it seems Copilot shines for boilerplate code, but is possibly a net negative for anything actually complex (which it will still happily attempt to generate without warning you). A disciplined programmer will likely benefit from Copilot, but I shudder to think about what code a lazy, overworked or too-beginner-to-spot-problems one might let slip through (based on this recent article about copilot: https://gist.github.com/0xabad1dea/be18e11beb2e12433d93475d7...)
What are you claiming the purpose of integrity constraints in the database is? If your application doesn't generate data which can't go in the database correctly, what's the observable difference between a database that enforces constraints and a database that doesn't?
I'm reminded of the fact that in Smalltalk, nil accepts any message, does nothing, and returns nil.

The same is true of Objective-C's object semantics, which means that language has two flavors of null pointer, one of which will scream SIGSEGV if you do anything significant with it, the other having more subtle failure modes...
I don't know the answer and see where you are coming from, but I think there is a valid argument too be made that you are wrong
> How long before the thought crime actually is going to be a thing?

My first thoughts as well.

While this iteration requires implants and a conscious effort to function, I bet a year's-worth of salary that future iterations will be able to function without either.

I personally think thought crime is an inevitability at this point. I feel sorry for future generations.
Not particularly raising any red flags from this but there’s still a ton of stuff not mentioned. Some questions the founder should ask themselves: Are they asking for a board seat? Are they going to be able to help out beyond just money? Do they want pro rata for follow on rounds? What’s the liquidation preference? Are there other strategic investors you’d want in on this round?
If they have a shell on the device, they can choose to persist it whenever they like.
Should an ios update be released that patches their exploit, chances are, they can persist the exploit before the device installs the newest version.
Monitor your home's temperature and humidity with Raspberry Pis and Prometheus
I am struggling to see how this relates at all to how I have answered your rhetorical questions from before.

As you are well aware, it is a material thing how the structure of this kind of indoctrination occurs in society and this I have adequately described, albeit very briefly, as it has a long and colorful history.

I would like to answer your question in another fashion: Is Stormfront the KKK?
The Touch Bar makes me so angry. Why? Because it's a less reliable laptop with a worse keyboard that exists for no other reason than to raise the ASP (Average Selling Price) of Macs. That's it.

Go back 5+ years and you had the (2010+) Macbook Air, which was fantastic. A good compromise of size and power at a really low price. Like competitors just couldn't compete. The only problem? By 2015 or so the display was pretty outdated. It needed a thinner bezel and a retina display and it would've been perfect.

But no, Johnny Ive came along with his war of thinness and foisted the butterfly keyboard on us and added the Touch Bar to increase the price. There's no other reason for it to exist.
> For a resort area the people who work the service jobs are essential.

I am the OP the commenter was referring to. I wasn't going to bother responding to a nitpick on my use of the word "essential" but you summed up my meaning perfectly.

If all the bars, restaurants, cafes, dry cleaners, etc. go unstaffed (as they are right now), headlines start being made. We don't need to lump people into brush-fire fighters and bartenders in terms of who is essential.

To top it off I'm not a city person and I used to live in Truckee, CA, where this poster is living.
One would hope they also have a comprehensive water vapor model including con-trails but last I checked it was still a research area.
Yes, but people who take eight hours to get three hours of work done due to the problems with offices aren't the ones you want to do eight hours of quality people/communication work at home. They will either need to be retrained or replaced, they wish neither, so they want employees to return to the office so nothing changes.
Also to be specific, none of the volunteers needed to consult an Oracle. The factors they cite (low N, "newsworthiness") are also the same factors that would give a layperson pause.
What options, if any, are there to reduce the remote attack surface on an ios device?
Throw in better prediction software, and better application support

for example,

https://copilot.github.com/

and those 18 words can turn into a lot more
Glad to see reporting on this, but struggling to understand how it's so much more outrageous than the UK's own behaviour in this regard vis-a-vis Gamma Group and the Finspy / Finfisher products.

For example:

> Despite rules saying the UK should not export security goods to countries that might use them for internal repression, ministers have signed off more than £75m in such exports over the past five years to states rated “not free” by the NGO Freedom House.

> The 17 countries include China, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, as well as the United Arab Emirates, which was the biggest recipient of licences totalling £11.5m alone since 2015.

> Human rights groups said the UK was developing a reputation for not conducting proper checks on who it sold arms to, while Labour called on the government to show it is working to prove that it is complying with its own rules against arming dictators.

- UK selling spyware and wiretaps to 17 repressive regimes including Saudi Arabia and China[1]

Or just search[2] for "gamma" and "privacy international"

1: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-spyware-wi...

2: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gamma%22+%22privacy+inter...
The ability to read your thoughts at some level from the outside is probably already a reality in primitive ways.
I’ve learned something new today. I guess I’ll have to try one of these out.
Water vapor is, indeed, comprehensively included in climate models since the 1970s.
Censorship is like Zeno's dichotomy paradox; today the people promoting Censorship as a solution are happy; give it a long enough timeline and the very same people promoting Censorship will be the ones being censored.
Obviously, to people who choose to pay for it. I produce video news and the Touch Bar is integral to my workflow. Just because something is not useful to you doesn’t mean it’s useless.
What if it becomes widespread? And every restaurant raises wages to attract workers while also raising prices? In other words, we need some people to be paid very little to produce the cheap food for these hire paid food service workers. Where is the bottom?
Google Brain Drive will ban “misleading thought content”.
Just tried to insert 100M KV pairs of the same data format in a KV store. It takes about 26s on a Xeon Silver 4210, including fully writing down the data to the filesystem/SSD.

The source code can be found here: https://github.com/wuxb45/remixdb/blob/master/i100m.c

$ make i100m.out libremixdb.so
$ numactl -N 0 ./i100m.out
insert time without sync: 24.865s, with sync: 25.801s
I'm not intentionally ignoring any evidence, so I invite you to elaborate on what you're alluding to.
One place this is really problematic is serializing structures to JSON. I worked on a JS front-end at a company whose back-end was all Lisp, and I cannot count the number times the app broke with "TypeError: Cannot read property 'map' of null", because every single list that would normally serialize to an array would serialize to `null` when it was empty unless the person writing the service went out of their way to do otherwise.

At some point I wrote an API-validation utility almost entirely to help manage this problem.
Did anyone grock how this is working? I just scanned the code quickly, for WhatsApp It looks like it’s extracting your message backups - basically recreating what a hack would do? I then assume that it compares these extracts to what’s leftover on the device and wasn’t cleaned up?
It actually has the same number of USB-C ports, the M1 MacBook Pros only have 2. But, from the perspective of someone who bought one, I got it for the sustained performance provided via the active cooling and for the extra battery life. Would love the physical keys instead of the touch bar, but I've used a touch bar for the past 5 years so it's whatever.
If you do solve it, do it on a completely offline computer, running MS-DOS with no network cards. Don't ever plug in a USB or other drive. Only write to floppy disks which you've bulk erased then formatted first for your backups. (That should prevent your secret from leaking, if you keep quiet)

Your only safe bet, in my opinion, is to disclose your algorithm widely in such a manner as all copies can't be vacuumed up.

However, know that the disclosure of such a factoring algorithm will have far reaching and unpredictable consequences.

You could try to take advantage of it by breaking some old unused bitcoin wallets, but the money would be tracked to you eventually, and you'd be subjected to physical attack to disclose it (your algorithm) exclusively, then killed. Theoretically you could time it with disclosure, but you're then risking criminal charges for the theft of the bitcoins.
It would be an extremely exciting problem to have. I’d force myself to spend a solid month of full time, long days and late nights devising the safest way to deal with it which improves rather than threatens my life priorities.

It would be entirely possible that my end decision would be to never tell anyone.
At the same time, we are losing disk access LED.
> In theory this would not put any additional requirement on the social network

This falls apart as soon as you examine it though. If the law only required a platform to give competitors access to whatever API they currently have without actually detailing what needs to be accessible then it would be trivially easy for platforms to change/restrict those APIs in ways that make them useless. And as soon as you try to address this you're back at the original problem of how you create a standard model that works for everyone.
They happen a fair bit[0], you probably just glossed over them maybe.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Earning $10M/month with a saas
Ford Hopes Maverick Owners Will 3D Print Their Own Accessories
If you're fine with just dropping that invalid data, you can always just delete it at any point in the future. (Yes, that should horrify you - but so should the idea of just erroring and dropping it when someone first tried to write it, which is what an RDBMS would do). The overall effect is the same either way.

Fixing up data that was written wrongly takes work, there's no getting away from that. But if you have a record of the original write attempt then at least you can do that work and recover the data (if you decide the cost/benefit is worth it). Whereas if you have the datastore reject it at write time then you're SOL before you've even started.