skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the thing: Durov lies.

There is no law in Russia which forces him to ban that channel, and no concept of “silent days” anymore.

Russian authorities has NEVER asked Telegram to remove anything. They pushed Google and Apple to remove links to Navalny application from search and from Apple Store (and Apple removes it only for Russia users, btw, unlike Telegram removes it for everyone), and Telegram was absolutely never in the picture and never asked to do a thing publicly. Just search Russian authorities speakers. They never bring Telegram into the picture.

Durov shamelessly lies. He pretends his application is a speech freedom, but it is not.

When there was a Telegram channel posting information about Belarus policemen who torture their own people — they ban it. When there is still a channel where white men posting personal details of women and attack them — no action.

Why Durov lies?

Because after SEC issued a claim that TON is a security and killed TON as a project, he owed ton of money to investors, including American. He had a real risk of being sued.

Where did he find money to pay investors back? He found them in Dubai, Qatar and Russia. He issued Telegram bonds and buyers of those bonds are affiliated with Russia structures like VTB Capital bank or Russian Government investment fund named “Russian Fund of Direct Investments”.

Moreover, few years ago, Russian authorities tried to ban Telegram. There was a massive campaign against the application, but then all things I mentioned happened, and SURPRISE Russia officially removed Telegram from the list of inappropriate applications and stoped attempts to ban it. Even now after the election, Russia published a list of websites whom they are going to ban because they didn’t stop spread of Navalny information. There WhatsApp and Viber in the list. But no Telegram.

For me it sounds very very directly: Durov lies. He takes money from Russia government to cover his costs from TON failure and in return he, for example, bans Navalny Telegram Bot even while he a) wasn’t asked; b) Apple and Google wasn’t asked to ask Telegram; c) law he mentioned doesn’t exist anymore.

There is no more free Telegram. Remove it now and stay safe
Redox + Health Gorilla both do this
Presumably many if not most systems with PCIe5 will also have DDR5 though, so thats an odd comparison.
Native apps aren't a cross platform standard, when the truth is that they should be. They do the same things on all platforms.

They're also tightly controlled and taxed, which they shouldn't be.
A website which would get blocked instantaneously. Russia has an extensive censorship toolset available. They've blanket blocked a whole range of Cloudflare IPs at some point because they wanted a certain website behind Cloudflare shut down and didn't care about the collateral damage.

Of course, such a block is easy to circumvent with a VPN, but if you need a VPN to access it then the service is essentially unavailable to non-techs, greatly reducing its effectiveness.

There is a website[0] and I don't know why they didn't just launch a similar web app. Running on Google's appspot.com, the website would probably be dealt with the same way the apps were dealt with. No big hosting company (Amazon, Google, OVH, you name it) wants to risk being banned from the Russian internet, after all. A TOR hidden service would probably survive attempts at censorship, but at that point the whole effort is probably not worth the effort because you're not reaching many people locking the information behind TOR.

[0]: https://votesmart.appspot.com/
Why women should always do what we think we are not good at
I've been told opening multiple locations is the most feasible way to be profitable so you can amortize many costs and get better deals ordering in bulk. Restaurants are also a notoriously tough business with thin margins.
Toast built a $30B business by defying Silicon Valley
Emphasis on odds. It's still a small-ish probability. That said, getting to what my firm calls executive-level from where I am right now is attainable if I play my cards right.
The Things You May Not Realize Facebook Knows About You
The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document presented to the American Congress.
They include tracking mouse movements; logging battery levels and monitoring devices close to a user that are on the same network.
The service economy is about specialization. You let someone else cook because that person is a better or cheaper cook. You then get to do your own job instead of cooking for yourself. Electricians don't manufacture wires yet they provide more "value" than the wire manufacturer to me because I don't know how to utilize the wires myself.
This is silly. There is a battery in every Ferrari road car already, to operate the starter motor. Ferrari made exactly 0 of those.
Brutal logic even if true. “This newborn is unlikely to become economically valuable enough to worth caring for now.”
Is this related to the ongoing Extortion DDoS against voip.ms ?
This really sounds like a hardware issue. I have had a Lenovo Carbon X1 for 3.5 years and have never had this issue with it.
I would like to point out that key management is hard when, like telegram, you can seamlessly access your account on multiple devices. See Signal or WhatsApp asking you to be on the same network with your phone etc. This is the only reason I didn't move to Signal yet and I don't think there's (yet) a clear solution.
Your comment is basically "have you tried not doing that?"

You can't get out of a serotonin issue with chamomile tea and a blue light filter.

"Having trouble sleeping? Just go to sleep earlier!"

I can't even.
I'd much rather have it as a building material... baby steps I guess. The reason is, it's unlikely to be burned about put back into the atmosphere if someone is living in it.
Yes, evolution is taught in schools. But that doesn’t mean the average person can explain how evolutionary theory works beyond a few sentences, in the same way that the average person cannot tell you more than 2 or 3 of the amendments to the Constitution.
It is good there is more data being collected, so we can discuss actual facts with evidence, as opposed to pure speculations 'I believe it is a lab leak' vs 'I believe it is natural'.
> it's "objective" from telegrams perspective.

that's another way to say subjective if you aren't willing to admit it. the whole point of objective/subjective is that its supposed to be POV neutral.
Maybe but at some point, at least in my country, anything that wasn't a rigid bunch of classes, interfaces and what not following all that Java EE / Designer pattern/ Solid / OOP stuff was deemed "spaghetti code" and it made you "a bad developer", regardless of the language used. Granted this was in the mid 2000 before people "rediscovering" the merits of functional programming. Today, procedural C style coding or functional programming is more accepted in dev shops. I don't think I've heard about UML in the last 5 years anywhere I worked for instance. Young programmers are lucky they avoided that era...
A large Canadian VOIP provider has been under a serious DDoS attack for the past week [0], I wonder if the group responsible is branching out.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/canadian-voip-provid...
It's an obscure concept because most people either did away with pets when they adopted containers or they run pet workloads in VMs.
I’m talking about the actual negotiation. Asking for a range is good when deciding if I’m even going to bother spending my time interviewing but when the the actual offer is being made - always make them go first.
I know we're not golfing, but it pains me to see that repetition in the middle. Mightn't we write

if (!validateURL(url)) {
url = "http://" + url;
if (!validateURL(url)) {
url = null;
}
}
return url;

to snip a small probability of a bug?
It’s not something you can paper over with the theme. Basic things like copy/paste are broken depending on how you use them, changing brush size is surprisingly clunky, etc. The GIMP UI has been awful for at least 20 years. I have a long list of complaints about the GIMP, but at least it does some of the basics and it doesn’t crash very often.
The applicant recorded his AI as the inventor for some reason (*). Had the applicant recorded himself as the inventor having used the AI as a tool to invent, then the application probably would have been allowed.

Using a mechanical process to search a large possibility space to find a patentable subspace is not new. For example, testing chemical compounds to find a mixture with optimal properties or testing drug dosages to find the most effective treatment is common. The resulting narrow range of mixtures or dosages is patentable so long as it is new (not done before), non-obvious (inventive), useful, etc. Also, if I hire other people to do the lab work at my direction, then I am still the inventor, not the lab technicians. Similarly, AI is just another tool.

Edit: (*) After looking into this more, the applicant here is on a crusade to have an AI recognized as an inventor. https://artificialinventor.com/patent-applications/. That web site contains nonsense like the following:

> Arguably, DABUS may be considered “sentient” in that any chain-based concept launches a series of memories (i.e., affect chains) that sometimes terminate in critical recollections, thereby launching a tide of artificial molecules. It is these associated memory sequences, and the accompanying simulated neurotransmitter rush, that are considered equivalent to subjective feelings in humans (i.e., sentience). In this way, DABUS has an emotional appreciation for what it conceives.
The biggest inefficiency is that a child care facility occupies real estate that parent care does not.
I have a small mailing list for a few selected friends running on heroku (hosting a small website and then using the scheduler plugin to fire emails) + sendgrid free tier.

I also have a dynamic website using a python CMS running on free heroku which the admin uses to update the website. An heroku scheduler run a netlify job every 6 hours which download the dynamic website and publishes it as a static website.
Would you consider revising this opinion if I showed you it was based on incorrect information?

>Nothing is less attractive to a user than opening an app to find the ugly Adwaita interface instead of their distro's choice

This is by design and is not fixable in any distro with any packaging system and highlights an underlying problem with any theming. Avoiding flatpak sadly will not fix it :( The only choices really are to disable themes, or patch/remove the package when it breaks with some theme. The first is what flatpak apps will do because they want to work on any distro regardless if the user has a broken theme, the second it seems is what distributions usually do.

>Does your app use MPRIS? Good luck getting it working!

This should be really easy to fix, all you have to do is white list the d-bus path for it. You should consider reporting that as a bug to the flatpak packager also.

>You want configuration files in sane locations? How about we make it a pain in the ass to access your own files instead.

Huh? The config files are just stored in ~/.var/app/. It's not a pain in the ass to access them at all.
HN has a time limit on how long you can edit posts after they go up - its not special its for everyone. You'd know about it but HN also has terrible design in terms of telling users what the heck is going on.
Great explanation thank you!
If your adversary is happy to block arbitrary network requests, why do they need to get the app removed from the app store? Can't they just block all requests it makes?
If malware has that level of access on your machine, chances are your browser is already fully compromised.
The server stuff is a bit nonsense. Waitstaff in big cities make good wages, $50K+.
Deliveries are fine but I find the selection in the UK is going downhill. For commodity items – cables, some consumables, undifferentiated products, it's great. For brand names though it's not very good, either lacking selection or with uncompetitive prices.
I felt the correct temperatures in all fingers.

I'm starting to think this whole concept is bogus or at least very variable across people.
The post was less than five minutes old. I can still edit other posts which are older.

Right now it's 19 minutes old (and uneditable), yet I can still edit a different 27 minute old comment.

I crafted an edit URL for the post using its id, and I still can't edit it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=28656231
That story isn't backed up by any numbers I've seen.
foobar2000 is what I use on Windows, but Audacious is what I use on Linux. Is that good enough?
Sure, but the people making long term decisions in corporations are generally not the ones making the product. I would say in a way everyone cares about their own personal objectives and goals. Someone making a product cares about the joy they get from seeing it released and running and people using it. They want to minimize their own annoyance down the line. Those higher up care about the money they get in their bank account from their bonus. Neither particularly cares about the success of the corporation.
> all of these is possible with the same exact tool

This sounds nice, but it's the opposite of the Unix philosophy, which will always rub me the wrong way. I thought of systemd this way at first, but then I saw how it was composed of a bunch of different, optional services that can be swapped out for other things fairly easily while still allowing systemd proper to manage and interact with them.
> Another thing I feel would be a flaw is the inability to increase and decrease the money supply - something central banks often do with fiat money to stimulate the economy.

Preventing that type of manipulation might actually be the motivation for Bitcoin's creation. Satoshi embedded the text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" into the first coinbase in the blockchain¹.
Inflation is a tax on savings that similarly benefits the money manipulators at the expense of common people with less control of the currency.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Creation
But why do you think any justification is needed in the first place?

It's basically the same law as in many other countries. The only difference is that citizens of most other countries don't dare to do these tricks, because there are severe consequences for playing with election integrity in the Western world. For example, look at what happened with Dinesh D'Souza when he tried donating to a campaign of a friend more than what the law allowed, using another friend as a lame duck to make the donation to avoid personal limits.
I cancelled Prime membership a few years ago for these reasons, but ended up re-subscribing mostly for the video content. It's amazing how diversified the Prime offering is now.
Theoretically the value is being enjoyed by the people moving near you who cared so much about their location that they drove up prices.

In practice I’m less sure. Regardless, it’s a process that sucks for those already living there. Location/land/home stability are hard values to stamp out of humans.
In a nutshell: you can live off IOUs when those IOUs are needed to buy oil!

People remember Nixon for Watergate, but his legacy is really the Petrodollar Recycling
What a bizarre misquote... busy beaver programs are a specific type of algorithm, in the sense that you want to extract the most possible output, barring infinitely generating functions. It makes a lot of sense that the programs be as complicated as you possibly can make them, from the conceptual level to the explicit coding, because the problem space is densely complex and most of the simple stuff has been iterated over.

It's a statement about number theory, not general software design best practice.
I think it’s time to recognize that many of the things you list as bad have a purpose as well and benefits. Remember, organized religion developed in harsh societies were people were always struggling to survive. If you think about a village in Bangladesh, where there is no government with unlimited resources to come save you, imposition of strict rules, suppression of individual preferences, etc., makes sense.

What’s soured me on secular humanism is how the liberal revolution hasn’t made a big chunk of the population better off: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-bir.... I don’t think that’s just economic, I think it’s social as well.

> According to the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, 60 years ago just 20 percent of children born to parents with a high-school education or less lived in a single-parent household; now that figure is nearly 70 percent. Among college-educated households, by contrast, the single-parent rate remains less than 10 percent. Since the 1970s, the divorce rate has declined significantly among college-educated couples, while it has risen dramatically among couples with only a high-school education—even as marriage itself has become less common.

If you think about the marshmallow test of impulse control, a lot of us are those kids at the far right of the bell curve who could wait forever for future rewards. But what about everyone else? What if a lot of people need the threat of exclusion or intolerance to, for example, to not walk away from their parental obligations.

My in laws live in rural Oregon, and what’s striking to me is how dysfunctional their communities are. People might putatively religious, but liberalism has won insofar as organized religion has no power to police public morals. And what’s been the result? Not a social libertarian utopia, but dysfunction. My mother in law has teenagers just flocking to her house because it’s an island of stability in a world of mom’s boyfriends coming and going, divorces over trifles, etc.

My dad in the other hand comes from a village in Bangladesh, and they don’t have a fraction of the material comfort of folks in rural America. But what they have is Islam, and tight regulation of social behaviors, intact families, etc. They have social structures that help them make the most of what little they have, which is why I think they thrive when they immigrate to America.
Here’s a polyfill for the JS URL() interface which should give you a taste: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/272ac1b4515c5cfbf34... (I tried finding the one in Firefox but I couldn’t actually work out where it started, this one is much easier to follow)

TLDR: it’s a traditional parser—a big state machine that steps through the URL character by character and tokenizes it into the relevant pieces.
> Every known sentient being is a finite state machine.

I know this is just a cutesy slogan, but how could you possibly know whether a living creature is a finite state machine? What would it even mean? I know I don't respond identically to identical stimuli presented on different occasions ….
It is my understanding that they are to be found in larger numbers in older companies (Cisco comes to mind), and in defense companies. Having worked for a while in SV in a variety of companies, I have seen a small number of people in this age group.

There is also the fact that the profession itself is quite young, so it's possible that there isn't going to be a large enough cohort of programmers to notice, even if ageism were completely absent.

However, your assertion that there are loads is also based on just the exact same thing as my assertion is: anecdata. Where do you see large numbers of older programmers? Outside SV, perhaps?
I think its supposed to be 2 hours.
For me, a huge part of it is the mingling of direct manufacturer sales (or authorized distributors) with random third parties. That makes it impossible to trust that a received item is actually what it's claimed to be in he listing.

In addition, there's zero barrier to entry for sellers including basic stuff like safety certifications, so you see constantly about a billion entries of the same rebranded cheap AliExpress crap over and over.
Similar experience. And it wasn't foolproof, I could feel the conflicting sensations, and detect that it was not quite right.
What you’re finding is the CIE “color matching functions”, which is closely related but not the same thing as the raw physical response of the cones. Here is a paper describing the difference, and more current research than what you found: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01565649/document

Look specifically at page 2, and the linear relationship between the color matching functions (where red has a left-bump), and the “fundamental sensitivity” plot, which is attempting to find raw physiological cone response to different wavelengths, rather than what the observer perceives.
I think you're talking about Krita [1] perhaps

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/280680/Krita/
Around 5 years ago I shifted from ibanking to tech, I was in my forties, middle management. Everyone thought I was crazy.

Took one year off to deep dive into programming and analytics, same year my first kid was born.

Already had previous programming experience as a quant. Quant experience plus data and ai tailwinds were huge contributors go get into where I am today. Headwinds: I’m based in Southern Europe, relocation not an option for family.

I’m at clevel in a Fortune 500. Not planning to move up as risk of eroding tech skills is high. I’m not programming anymore but working at engineering management and leadership.

If your plan to shift career do it by connecting the dots between what you do today and how can you bring value to tech thru your combined experience.
Taxes are probably the wrong way to think about it. More important question is does lower class people produce net positive effect on economy in general. If they do then subsidising them producing enough lower class people to replace ones producing values will likely make sense.

Now if they are net negative, we get in much murkier waters...
It's good you are testing their experimental Wayland support, but there might be reasons it is not default yet.

> Xorg is definitely going away

Are you sure about that? I mean Xorg is going away, but XWayland is not. I've heard alsa is going away too for decades. Pipewire still implements support for it's API.

I don't think XWayland is going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
You see this with COVID too. Many people are only accidentally on the right side with respect to “the science.”
The 'many ends' are really needed to make E2E viable IMO. It's the #1 reason I rarely use the secret chats in Telegram.

And if a security feature has so many drawbacks that nobody uses it, you end up with less security. I'd rather have a flawed E2E implementation than one that is not used at all. For example I recently sent passwords to our Makerspace users in secret chats but half of them didn't see them because they were either on another device or they weren't online (also seems to be a requirement for secret chats). So many of them asked to 'stop being difficult' and send them in a normal chat. This is what I mean. And those people are mostly geeks. If they give up on it, what will normal people do?

If it's not seamless enough, only us crypto geeks will use it and the rest will roll their eyes. It has to work for grandma just as easy as it does for us. And Signal and WhatsApp do really pull that off.

I agree that backups were WhatsApp's weak spot but they are making some good modifications that allow users to store the key themselves.

It would help if the key management could be checked though.. I totally agree with you there. Right now it's not transparent enough, even for those of us who know what they're doing it's not really possible to check with WhatsApp. Signal is another story as it's open source.
Gotta check that out, thanks for the tip!
FYI the WARP VPN is _not anonymizing_ and doesn’t claim to be. If you connect through WARP to a website behind Cloudflare, they will include your real IP in a header.

The main point of WARP is to circumvent ISP traffic shaping (which works quite well btw).