skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A non-American’s take on Telegram:

1. Everyone I know uses it in plain-text, very few dare to (gasp) initiate secret chats (and they tend to lose chat histories every now and then).

2. At one point it had been banned by Russian authorities with a demand to disclose the E2E encryption keys. The ban was quietly lifted with a single report I could find vaguely mentioning some cooperation promises by Telegram’s leadership. What is happening beneath the curtain is anyone’s guess.

3. Last time I checked, the company that runs the servers has undisclosed structure and is liable to be manipulated by whichever entity that gains a hold of them (not even through legal mechanisms, but through direct or indirect fear for personal safety).

4. According to what I heard from friends, solvency/debt issues from the failed ICO attempt made them desperate for money.

It’s not a safe private messenger, period. Even Telegram’s own advocates are switching from their old stance “Telegram is secure” to “Telegram is just best for messaging, who cares about e2e or privacy anyway” (which, incidentally, I don’t know if true in Android land, but at least on iOS Apple Messages has way superior stickers, built-in apps, etc. for those who don’t care that much about privacy).
No, it's in the fine print of some (though not all) of the media reporting - most of the "wasted" billions that made the news headlines in the UK was from the decrease in the market price of the stockpile: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60176283 The next highest was items "unusable in the NHS", which is to say they're functional PPE but don't meet normal NHS standards - most countries ended up intentionally buying a lot of this because medical PPE was in massive short supply and there were similar non-medical items that were a lot better than nothing.

Really, the UK PPE acquistion was unremarkable aside from its speed - the government ended up buying PPE from basically everyone who could sell it to them, just like every other government that was taking Covid seriously. Some of those contracts inevitably went to friends of people in government (they're the party of big business after all) but there's no evidence that played any role in them being awarded the contracts, those people weren't the ones deciding who to award the contracts to, and those contracts don't seem to have fared any worse than any of the other PPE contracts. The speed was also impossible to disentangle from the perception of corruption, a lot of which came from not putting the contracts out to bid as usual.

(There was a really weird - and as it turns out probably illegal - VIP fast lane where people who got referred via an MPs got priority for being evaluated for PPE contracts. The weird thing is that the effective criteria to get onto the fast lane just seem to have been phoning or emailing your MP and pestering them, and that the politicians doing the referrals don't seem to have known about the fast lane. The one friend and donor of a senior member of government who got on the fast lane was also somehow referred by someone else entirely...)
I would be critical of that article (and others) by any "Evolutionary Psychologist" (the author is one).

Many do not consider "Evolutionary Psychology" as a proper Science (i subscribe to this camp) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psyc...

Critics argue that many hypotheses put forward to explain the adaptive nature of human behavioural traits are "just-so stories"; neat adaptive explanations for the evolution of given traits that do not rest on any evidence beyond their own internal logic. They allege that evolutionary psychology can predict many, or even all, behaviours for a given situation, including contradictory ones. Therefore, many human behaviours will always fit some hypotheses. Noam Chomsky argued:

"You find that people cooperate, you say, 'Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.' You find that they fight, you say, ‘Sure, that's obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it."

As an example the same author has an article on the "Truthiness" of "Stereotypes" : https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-funda.... Applying it to "Blonde Bimbos", the Stereotype says "Blond Bimbos are dumb", while the other explanation says "Beautiful people (Blonde Bimbos are a subset) are more Intelligent" which is a direct contradiction!
I think that's all true, but also doesn't contradict anything I said in my original comment unfortunately. You have good reasons for saying/doing these things, but the impression you give off is still the impression you give off. If you want it to be a good impression, the trick is to ignore slightly rude comments, avoid mentioning that you "didn't care" initially, avoid talking about how little effort you put into the project, etc. People are going to (correctly?) assume this is defensiveness.
Lets at least try to keep this offtopic, inflamatory subject at bay. Please?
Programming language/etc. is typically not a huge factor for high paying jobs. If I’m giving you a lot of money, you’ll learn whatever you need to ASAP.
My questions are

Why so loud?
How do people sign up?
What is the added value you bring?

Feel free to contact me on linkedin. (can not find your username myself)
Well, in the first place we were listening to radio in 90s, not podcast(RSS 0.91 is 1999).
Exactly, the songs are an absolute hit with my daughter and her friends.

Just take a look at the UK top 10, three Encanto songs with "We don't talk about Bruno" at number one for last three weeks:

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/uk-top-40-singles-char...

Literal definition of a hit.

Somewhere I read that Disney had to make submissions to the Academy Awards before finishing screenings of Encanto and weren't sure which song to submit (if they submit multiple songs it risks splitting the vote), so they submitted "Dos Oruguitas" and haven't had it nominated. Clearly picked the wrong song, should have gone with "We don't talk about Bruno", would have had a very good chance of getting an Oscar.
You can contrast the odds of getting injured with the health benefits. The cardiovascular benefits would seem to outweigh the risks of getting injured from a mathematical point of view.

See e.g.
https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2018/12/12/pedal-power-the-health...
It's a laptop chip. You can run linux and non-app store applications on it. If you don't want to use it - fine - but others are getting a lot of value out of it.
I had similar feelings when I was diagnosed. It takes time for something like this to sink in. It's also worth remembering that you don't have a point of comparison because you've always been like this.

You can try therapy. Or not. You can try medication. Or not. The diagnosis is simply more information about your situation. Talk to professionals, explore your options, reflect back on what works for you.
Fwiw there’s a limited workaround for the issue: if you open things in new tabs twitter does not quora the content you were trying to access.

It’s a pain in the ass though.
Yes those matter to selecting any company, but equity % does as well
None based on the EEG itself, I was referred to a psychologist who did a questionnaire with me + attention tests - I was building patterns out of small bricks based on images, repeating numerical series forwards and backwards, listening to a story and talking about it, etc. I got a much more final conclusion (the report says "ADHD confirmed") there and now I'm supposed to go to a psychiatrist with that.
I'm Italian, I toured regularly with an Italian band here and with some small-to-medium band from USA around Europe (the festival season in spring-summer is actually pretty great).
They were mainly from the so called "stoner" scene, such as Farflung, Fatso Jetson, Naam, White Hills etc.
It's not the fact that you can read what the important people are posting. It's the lottery-like hope that they might read your reply.
> It seems you do not code in the open air, and you should change habits and perspective on that.

Not the OP, but when I started coding this morning, the temperature of "open air" was 4°C. Now it's 10°C. Still, typing (without mittens) would be hard on the body. Some jobs are inherently more in the "open air" and much less static.
The summer solstice around 20th June will always be mid-summer in the northern hemisphere even if it's freezing cold for the 45 days before and after. It's all about daylight and darkness. Nothing else.
It's great that you can read a small comment and reach that conclusion. As I've mentioned to another person in the thread I had an ex that was convinced that I had it and that it had a negative effect on me, something I disagreed on though.

It is my opinion that it hasn't affected me in a negative way since I am satisfied with my life and I have had other issues that have had a much greater negative affect on my life.

I don't think you should chose a company or career based on a disease or a disorder. If you can live with it, which I think most can that have diagnosed ADHD, you could overcome whatever issues come up and still be successful.

I'll even give one practical example, I am usually all over the place and in the tech field I've used that to read up and learn a lot of different languages, tools etc making my skillset in tech very broad which have helped me tremendously in my career. I have a hard time to stick with one programming language and is never satisfied with one thing and switch back and forth on everything. That is both a negative thing and a positive one. I have a (really) hard time sticking to one thing and seeing it through but with tools like todolists and communities like WIP it makes it just a bit easier even if I always have the urge to pick up something else and restarting everything.
Been using this as for more than year. Super impressed and highly recommend.

On rare occasions there's an issue with finding online instances where you reach deadlinks but that's so rare and otherwise it's all perfect.
Thank you for you answer. What effects does untreated ADHD have on relationships?
As someone who's never studied real math (only Physics math), I found the book "Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications" extremely interesting, in part because it leads you to understand asymmetric cryptography and error-correcting codes. Also the SAGE exercises are neat.

http://abstract.ups.edu/aata/aata-toc.html
With all due respect, I have done my research on ADHD and still couldn’t come to a conclusion.

The opioid crisis was a manufactured crisis by the greedy big pharma, right? Looking at how anyone and everyone is being prescribed stimulant medicines these days, I have my reservations about this disorder
This vision doesn't require blockchain whatsoever.

Mastodon[0] is a successful decentralized social media without the use of blockchain. Because of federation, users can like and reply to posts from other instances, and other people will be able to see it.

I can even follow a PeerTube channel and have recent videos show up in my feed, because of the ActivityPub federation protocol (a W3C standard).

Best of all, it doesn't require the linking of a crypto wallet and the payment of cryptocurrency to interact with people.

[0] https://joinmastodon.org/
Sounds like the same system as in my Subaru. I don't even know how you can design a system to emit audio and and not be volume controllable for like millions of CPU cycles. And you'd think with like about two dozen buttons on the steering wheel, one of them would allow you to mute control the phone mic when your are on a conference call.
Brain stimulation improves cognitive performance in long-Covid
Ethical Computing – Green Cloud Computing
People see servers with multi Gbps and think it’s a requirement for high traffic websites. Unless you’re serving videos, bandwidth is almost never the bottleneck.
> Garage has advanced functionnality to control how much data is stored on each node,

Are nodes assumed to all be the same or similar size?
One of my friends fixed his adhd with cannabis. It somehow acts paradoxically just as stimulants.
Maybe fallacies could be renamed "logical hazards" or something like that. Arguments that are at high risk of being false and require extra care, but not automatically false.
I like it and even the promoted content is quite often relevant (unlike facebook where I had literally 0% ads about anything I cared about in the decade+ I was on it; they can have to best AI people on earth, on paper, but they really seem to know nothing at all about me even though they know everything about me so i'm not sure what those people are doing /rant). I often see interesting stuff, but I do curate who I follow (more and more); I am interested in retro computers, startups and programming language theory/formal verification (including the math). I hardly get stuff that is not relevant to those things. During Covid people talked about the politics (polarised vaxxer/anti vaxxer shouting matches from generally very, very smart people) which I ignored and even unfollowed some who just went to far, but generally it's good content. I really hate the format it has; I wish it would auto-aggregate threads, but I know why it is the way it is and changing it would probably hurt it.

What does happen to every platform including twitter (and those are the people I unfollow the most) is that the 'internet marketing' people take over and use every opportunity to push in some affiliate link or product. Sometimes these products are good and welcome, but mostly they are just uninspired rehashes of other get-rich-quick drivel.
> might read your reply

Or better reply
Ah yeah, I get that. I guess the optician's comment just struck me as deep in an abstract sense. It's like he pointed at some truism about specialization in contemporary society. That's completely counter to the extremely-online punk/hacker DIY ethos that resonates with me, so the effect was like getting my spine realigned.
You can run your own instance. It's probably not easy to do with Mastodon, but there's other server software aiming to be lightweight and easy to set up. Though I guess it will probably not be the normal way to use the fediverse in the near future.
> Is it just...English from 1900 or so?

Not at all; I've no interest in preserving some historic or literary register in aspic. And incidentally, I don't think the writings of an Elizabethan poet are a good guide to contemporary usage.

Shakespeare wrote "hoist by his own petard", a phrase that's widely quoted. But I wonder if Shakespeare actually knew what a petard is; it's a bomb placed against a door or gate, to blow it open. It's not obviously the kind of thing you could hoist someone by.
Depends who you ask. The insurance company would reimburse your family, for your death, for rather less than the replacement cost of the bird.
Compound interest? Exponential decay? Both apply here.

Probability of surviving a night under a tree is (1-1/5000).

15 years of hunting is roughly 5000 nights. The chances of never getting hit by a tree over that period are (1-1/5000) for each night, which compounds to

(1-1/5000)^5000 ≈ 1/e ≈ 1/2.7 < 0.4

That's to say, the odds are 3:2 (at least!) that you'd get killed by a tree in 15 years.

Make it at least 5:1 for 30 years.

That's to say, at least 5 out of 6 hunters who sleep under a tree every day wouldn't survive doing it for 30 years.

And that, children, is why credit cards are a scary thing.
Just goddamn board from back to front already.
For that reason, I'd prefer an architecture, where the users don't belong to individual servers, but a transparent fediverse, where a few thousand servers disappearing won't even get noticed.

It would be important to ensure the integrity of the software running on such servers, though, perhaps via regular check of the binaries also at runtime.
It is actually trivially cut off at the app store level (both apple and google), just like the free-speech-loving Germany is proposing right now (1), and the Russian government chose not to do that. The "telegram blocked" story is 2 years old, currently 52% of Russian Internet users rely on Telegram every day (2) All charges against Durov personally were dropped, and he is (admittedly) rumored to visit Spb now and then, but there is no official beef with him or any of his services currently.

1. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/politician-says-germany...
2. https://www.vedomosti.ru/media/articles/2021/09/28/888523-au...
I despise Donald Trump but I think this was a mistake. The failure of January 6 removed any short-term danger Trump presented, so there was no immediate need to ban the guy. At the same time, the use of a dodgy ban to censor an unpopular, failed public figure normalized the concept of private companies deplatforming people for political reasons--something they will use against the left more than the right, going forward--and also gave the world the sense of leftists and liberals (whom most of the country conflates) as cancelistas.

Social media is a huge liability for us on the left, as well as for society at large. Its structure and dynamics serve the far-right, who are far more adept at using it than anyone else, but it is associated with its public-facing apparent liberalism, which means that blowback against its failures and heavy-handed actions will diminish our reputation rather than the right's.
Literally the whole point of this thread is that it’s not known because (this) data doesn’t include it.
Paul's Online Notes on Mathematics
> Among the conditions that were very strongly found to be dimensional only were depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

which makes sense if those are abnormal levels of neuromodulators like serotonin, cortisol, and dopamine.
Most of them will, and the odds of FSD coming to Europe are zero to none. The EU has already been putting rules out on the topic of FSD, and honestly I doubt Teslas will meet the bar, with or without dual steering systems.

I agree that Tesla are lying about the idea their cars have all the hardware needed for FSD. But that was true (at least in EU cars) before this change.
It has been argued that it’s prevalence has risen in the digital age, with increased (and easy) access to stimulation right in your pocket - it’s difficult to ascertain whether it’s a cause or a symptom though.

The term ‘variable attention stimulation trait’ (VAST) has also been proposed by Hallowel to describe this theory, and may more accurately describe the condition than the term ‘ADHD’.
To be fair, whenever you pay 1-2€/Month for something, you cannot really expect human/timely interaction. Paying a single support employee to look into your case for 10minutes already erases all revenue from the past years from you.
We all want the biggest amount of people have something that improves their life.

However, I am yet to see a single service or product or improvement that all humanity took at the same instant. It simply does not or won't ever exist.

These things need work, feedback, improvement. It is literally impossible to deliver things at the same time to everyone. Besides that, if that happened, but cannot, you would also make exactly the same mistakes with almost everyone. So tak e for granted that people that come later are granted to take improved versions of these techniques.

Economy in the sense of scarcity and availability, was, is and will be always like this. If you wanted everyone to have this at the same time the only reality is these people would have to wait until general availability, things would probably be slower bc of the loop feedback and noone would get this benefit, just these three people would not get ir. So noone wins this way, except your feeling of fairness. But it is notba rational choice.

What we need is massification and learning of these tecniques as they are certified as safe and to lower its price as much as it is possible to spread its availability.

I think your negativity comes from the frustration that you cannot accept reality as it is. We all want what you say. It is just not how things work, unfortunately.
great, so a story from 4 years ago? the ban was removed in 2020, although they could have easily choked Telegram at the appstore level. Yet, it's officially alive and well.
You may attract lot more robbers if anyone can easily know there is no security guard but just a stone.
None of these commenters are talking about the positives of this for you. Now that you have a "label", for good or bad, you can start to understand a bit more about yourself, why you tick the way you do and you can build systems to help you more in your life.

You'll also discover that you have innate strengths and creativity that will be way above your peers who do not have ADHD and you should and can harness those strengths and creativity to further your career or passions in life.

Now that you know a bit more about yourself, you have an exciting journey ahead of you to discover your true potential.

I'm not downplaying how hard having ADHD can be with regards to certain aspects of your life, but try not to focus on the negatives that people are posting; you'll have a great road ahead!
Boarding doesn’t really need to be made quicker, just not a free for all.
Right on. I hope you quickly find something that helps. Kick some ass.
How is it not E2EE? Are you going by a stricter definition than commonly used?

> End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages. [..] End-to-end encryption is intended to prevent data being read or secretly modified, other than by the true sender and recipient(s). The messages are encrypted by the sender but the third party does not have a means to decrypt them, and stores them encrypted. The recipients retrieve the encrypted data and decrypt it themselves.

Which requirement do you believe is failed by such a system?
Exercise more often, I had same issue days when I do not exercise I trend to sleep less
yeah, I've been thinking about this for a while. You can do a kind of tomographic reconstruction of neural impulses in the spinal column. By the same token you can induce electric fields within the spinal column.

You need an incredibly high density of electrodes arranged around the spinal column. Then you need to construct in real time an image of the internal spinal column down to the level of fibre bundles, in real time. Then when you want to stimulate something you can apply the correct voltages to the huge numbers of electrodes and induce firing in the target neuron bundles.

Oh and you need to understand how neurons relay information - not actually a solved problem.

It's all possible. Just good luck getting this to work before the year 2100.

But in the back of my mind I have a plan involving flex pcbs...
I don't think oauth 2 would give the required privacy protection.

How would the flow go? Click on an age verification link on a site. It redirects to the gov site, where you authenticate and it returns a signed claim.

Now the government knows what sites you are visiting. Not something I suspect most people will want when accessing porn sites...
So does the second. It shows you almost immediately that about half the precipitation falls on the weekend, validating the claim, which is not at all clear from the bar chart.
Not a consequence of modern life. It's more probable that it's a condition which has always existed but which is particularly badly-suited to modern school and worklife, where attention and directed focus and scheduled productivity are demanded and ADHD-presenting traits are punished.
Federal law in the US considers backup cameras critical enough to mandate them in all new vehicles since 2018, with penalty for non-compliance.

I think that take precedence over your idiosyncratic definition of what is critical.
Yeah, always bridge the ISP box if possible. Get an EdgeRouter or run a decent router with OpenWRT or run pfSense/OPNSense on a spare x86 machine, those should be plenty fast for moderate usage.