skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the advice. I sense that there has been dirty politics going on behind the scenes. I quit a few years ago after the leaders of the project I worked for basically stopped caring. It was a relatively sudden change, as though they had been corrupted to run their own project into the ground. My sense of the space was that it was mostly honest, well-meaning people who were forced to discredit themselves and turn into scams as part of some coercive deal with various powerful entities. I can only speculate as to which entities might be at the root of the corruption but it's unfortunate that the entire space couldn't stop itself from becoming a scam.
Yes, their app and UX is absolutely delightful.
Blog post in question: https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/
>What are those employees doing for upwards of 10 hours per day?

Hypothetically there could be a very important deadline to meet. I absolutely do not believe that you can consistently do high quality mental work for 8+ hours a day, but certainly I have worked productively for 10+ hours in a single day on occasion, that was during University though.

To be clear this is in a startup context, an organization which is highly informal and tries to be extremely productive in a short amount of time to create some viable product.
Because it's not worth the support and complaints. A business account paying $$$ is more likely to see the benefit and the money goes out from preallocated budget.
Heh - 'core 2 duo' .. that's about 2005 vintage isn't it? Should be nice and smooth on modern hardware.
> And the rest of the world is increasingly asking why, if you can always get a Granny Smith apple in New York, can't you get one in Beijing or London?

Can't you? Not sure about Beijing, but here in Germany you can get most types of apples year round (although they taste a bit better when they're actually fresh than after being shipped halfway around the world and/or spending a few months in cold storage). So I bet that's the case in London too...
The non-standard crypto was also problematic, at least initially. Furthermore, as outlined, the claims on reproducible builds vis-a-vis Signal are debatable - both provide them on Android, neither satisfactorily on iOS.
You can download Telegram and many forked clients from F-Droid. All the builds are from source code, so you know the source code is up-to-date.

Any distro can have Telegram clients, both official and third-party, in their repository.

Compared to this

1. You cannot download Signal from F-Droid. You need to download it from the Google Play Store. The released source code has lagged behind the version on the Google Play store by long periods of time many times. One example was when they implemented cryptocurrency payments, pushed the update to everyone but no one could inspect the source code.

2. Signal has sent legal threats to repositories that package Signal. The repos either need to confuse users by offering the client under other package names or remove it.

3. They also send baseless threats to forks that use their server. Combined with their lack of federation, this results in people having to use multiple apps from different sources with a much larger attack surface.

4. They beg for donations in the app even though they made an app with payments and cryptocurrency integration with an obscure coin (which they were involved with and had ample opportunity to hoard before ever announcing it as a feature in Signal).

5. They claim to have privacy features that other messengers lack, but these features are based on known-to-be-broken technologies like Intel SGX.
It’s been a constant since 2016.

Tho the article has some interesting ideas and historical insights.
Another thing that wasn't pointed out: Du Rove said "Signal messages have been exploited against them in US courts or media."

This would be the same case for Telegram as well, if someone has your phone. I believe that Signal can have a lock on the client, and the database is encrypted.

The other part that Du Rove conveniently left out: Signal went against the US courts and won [0]. When subpoenaed to give all user information they gave them all that had: the unix timestamp of when the account was created, and the last date you connected to the signal service. That was in late 2021. I'm really curious as to what Telegram has told the FSB.

[0]: https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/
> NE2000

Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time
Forking Rio to create a Twm clone would be nice.
Real engineers refer to people doing engineering.

Programmers/software 'engineers' refer to people doing some sort of coding.

There is basically 0 engineering in programming, its just a word to supplement pay.
If I understand this correctly, it seems similar to one use-case for NanoJSX.
> If one's Calendar is so scheduled like the one seen in the picture in the article, one need re-think their life

You might be missing the point of the article.

Instead of them creating “to do” lists, they simply create it as an entry in their calendar.

If you look at the calendar, there’s very few actual meetings (blue).

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*5rka...

The picture is deceiving. Their calendar is in fact very open (since blue is only their true meetings).

Green is just blocks of time that are needless entrees on their calendar (like sleep).

And the bulk of their calendar is just todos they have scheduled to do for themselves.
Signal has "Scheduled Messages, Spoiler Messages, Reply to Message, message formatting (bold, monospace, etc)". I don't know what Saved Messages are, maybe it doesn't have those.

Oh, and it's end-to-end encrypted by default.
You're scared, likely to die face down in the mud. Would a little higher chance of death be worth completely cutting yourself of from your family?
This post was on front page recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315274
Could we create a vacuum tube and accelerate macroscopic objects in this tube close to the speed of light?
I'm in France and don't know anyone using it.

Except the government, as reported in the news.

Actually the only time I used it it's because I needed to chat with a Russian SaaS personnel.
You can opt in to something and then have it enabled by default. Not so with e2ee in Telegram.
I wish there was a light theme. Dark theme is so hard to read
Not sure if metadata is more important but ok. Signal has launched support to use nicknames instead of phone numbers although it's true this took a long time.

I think Telegram is very wide-spread for running large group chats and communities, a use case that Signal is not interested in. Personally, I want my chats end to end encrypted and I'm grateful to Signal for pioneering this and inspiring Whatsapp, facebook messenger and others to adopt the same.
I'd guess telegram can be secure if used correctly but the fact that their desktop client doesn't support secret chats at all feels weird. It has been one of the most requested features but they seem to have no interest in implementing it and have closed the issue on github.
No free country.
Can say the same for Viber and to a lesser extent Whatsapp. Not to mention Signal. I'd guess popular IRC servers have more real users than Signal.
Addressing only one point, not your main one which I agree with:

> And also more likely, someone they talk to will forget to switch it on and just blab everything into cleartext anyway.

I expect that if you enable a Telegram Secret Chat with Bob, Bob cannot unilaterally un-secret it. I would be very surprised if that was the case.

Of course Bob can then share the contents with Carol via an un-encrypted channel. But every encrypted channel has that weakness.
"The Internet, birthed as it was in the idealism of California tech"

The moment CERN is transmogrified to California. One could argue the internet pre-WWW existed (I joined the internet myself on IRC and NEWS) but then, who today was on the internet pre-WWW?
To quote one comment (Phillip.png):

"With assistance from Elon Musk" is a pretty big accusation. I held off replying until I read your whole thread, and then you didn't mention that at all. What the hell?"

Seriously, what the heck has Elon Musk to do with this? Unless we also want to debate what we all think of Elon Musk when we talk about chat protocols?
This is an interesting perspective. I almost agree, in that many or most companies out there will be more or less fine with mid-tier talent. Not every company or product requires the best talent out there. But I still think there will be downstream effects to driving out strong performers, and time will be the judge there.
Do use Telegram as a news source, to subscribe to channels
Do not, for the love of all that is holy, use it for any communications.
It is not secure and most likely has been hacked up the wazoo by the FSB.
Telegram is a cesspit full of spammy bots & scams. Easy pass…
Implementing the IO monad in Java for questionable fun and less profit
Telegram were claiming they were more secure even when they had their own home-rolled crypto. Security is not Telegram's strong point and it never was.
Tweetlio from Side Project to Game Changer: Twitter After Elon's Takeover
That makes sense, AFAIK Telegram is most popular in the post-Soviet countries.
French digital industry braces for crackdown on kids' screentime
That is not capitalism that is state socialism aka fascism , as a state is required to enforce a monopoly. Being rich does not make him smart or correct.
What friction? do you have concrete examples? I’m curious.
> To me Telegram is going after WhatsApp, not Signal.

yeah exactly so what is actually going on here?
You can both not kill people and have people engage in more risky economic activities. This is just a false dichotomy.
How did your parents hurt you?
Either way a crook who wants easy money, no real distinction.

But it doesn't mean you can't trace what exact crook did by correlating various signs. Plus, nation state crooks have more capability usually.
On Signal vs Telegram:

Telegrams Encryption is off most of the time. They have serverside access to messages. The optional E2E is annoying to use and isnt even available on every platform. For example Tdesktop afaik still has no E2E support. (And has a very brittle software architecture.) You can't register Telegram accounts with the open source client anymore.
This should be a non-Discussion.

MG implying that just because other messengers like Whatsapp use Signals encryption scheme does not make them more more trustworthy.

Yes you can verify in a binary if the stuff is implemented well. But if a vendor has control over the update channel or beta rollout features its kinda easy to hide targeted features. Wasn't Whatsapp caught exfiltrating chats in ways that don't involve the normal channel bypassing E2E?

Btw there is no Signal in Fdroid but nowadays there is an accepted by upstream third party implementation.
You could separate software and infra vendor. Look at Molly.im

Better to bring non tech folk to Signal than to other messengers that do the same but less protected.

Matrix? Lol!
Would make more sense if it is reproducible builds. Shouldn't we just all switch to matrix clients which use Olm and Megolm cryptographic ratchets and it doesn't rely on one server/one entity.

And looks like it is implemented in Rust:

https://github.com/matrix-org/vodozemac/
That's certainly the easiest route. Depending on circumstances, you might have to live with that for the rest of your life. Also, if you have kids, you'll be teaching them through example of how they should take care of you as well.

Taking care of elderly parents is one of the toughest things in life that nobody talks about.
Jerry Seinfeld – Duke's 2024 Commencement Address [video]
> This is a brief statement on behalf or the R Core Team on the serialization bug recently reported by the cybersecurity form HiddenLayer.

Cybersecurity firm, surely? Of all the things not to proofread … a press release.
We reverse-engineered the GitHub Actions cache
20 odd years ago I worked for a bank.

We were doing a focus group that went slightly off the rails and a room full of people all agreed that the bank must still have paper records.

The bank had not had paper records for decades.

Im not sure that "nostalgia" is the right word...
It’s the past and present, what do you think will change if nothing changes?
Agreed; this criticism comes from the POV of "the US is richer, so let's do what the US does". Instead, we should see that the US is struggling across many, many dimensions and the inordinate success of American Big Tech / Big Business has a lot to do with it. It's like looking at Dubai and saying "oh they are doing great, let's start drilling".

Instead Europe should focus on what's stopping EU companies from scaling and leveraging their strengths: lower costs, better infrastructure, more diverse customers and employees.

As a founder on both sides of the Atlantic, I would keep it simple:

1. The EU needs a common credit rating system, similar to Duns & Bradstreet in the US (which is a private company mind you, so very possible) and more competition between banks that should be allowed to do business anywhere in the EU. The EU banking system is much better than the US one, but the above stop it from scaling across the continent.

2. EU needs to give higher incentives to EU companies to do business with EU startups. The fragmented EU market means that most valuable European companies end up being very conservative in how they spend their money (because competition is weak / settled). Therefore they are much less likely to do business with startups for normal business risk reasons. That's a chilling effect for B2B companies who are more likely to get traction in the US rather than the EU. A simple insurance or tax credit scheme would go a long way to reduce risk --and would help the EU get their money back from many startup / VC programs they are subsidizing anyway.
For example 2023q1 vs 2024q1: 7,015 vs 8,697 [1].

https://www.cve.org/About/Metrics
Replace https://twitter.com with https://twiiit.com (3 i's), it will automatically redirect a Twtr link to a working instance.
Marvel Rivals apologises after banning negative reviews
Many thanks! Appreciate it. If only to prove I'm not wasting my time (or, wasting it in the best way)
Stating that Telegram is unencrypted is incorrect. It offers optional end-to-end encryption; however, by default, it uses encryption in transit. Of course, there is a trade-off between convenience and encryption, and having access to all messages on all devices is beneficial.

However, technicalities are not the point: both Ukrainians and Russians trust Telegram—despite being at war. Telegram has managed to distribute its servers and legal presence across multiple countries, making it challenging for courts to track. This provides a level of security that American-based entities cannot offer.

There is a great discussion by Pinboard on why telegram is more safe, and it is preferred by activists in Hong Kong: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1474096410383421452 "There's a disconnect between critiques of Telegram and its practical use that have made me uneasy about joining technical pile-ons around how it's not really encrypted messaging. Let me use the example of Telegram use in the Hong Kong protests..."

If anything, all this animosity toward telegram has always been a bit suspicious to me. But anyway, assume your cellphone to be extremely unsafe.
It’s an age of marvels
It's more than just nostalgia.

The ad visibly destroys items associated with creativity and culture, celebrates such destruction, and replaces it with an iPad. It reminded me of that scene in Pinocchio where the boys trash the mansion and the piano in it, it reminded me of book burnings. It could easily be understood as "screw the old world, it's all in our product now."

And to a demographic of Apple buyers who actually tend to like culture, who are more likely than the average to attend actual concerts, visit a gallery or enjoy their vinyl collection, that was highly, highly offensive.

Contrast that with Steve Jobs "It is a music player, it is a computer, it is a phone" skid from the iPhone introduction: Back then, it was not about replacing music players, it was a music player. The product was a tool, not the end. With the ad, the product is the end, not the tool.
When I worked at a company with a gym, people would finesse their workout into their working day, so they weren't spending additional time in their day working out. That's the perk imo, the time savings and convenience, not saving on a gym membership.
See also:

https://youtu.be/9kaIXkImCAM

“Interview with ffmpeg enthusiast”
I have a similar take. As yet I'm unconvinced by claims that using an LLM and correcting the output is faster than just writing the code. What happened to "reading code is harder than writing it"? With an intern or very junior developer you have hope that in a few months/years time they'll be reducing rather than adding to your workload. With an LLM, either you're using it for really rote or boilerplate tasks (fair enough) or you spend so much time looking for subtle errors that it's not worth it. Plus, much less fun than actually crafting something yourself.
Though I have never used CoPIlot myself, I have used Chat GPT for writing emails, adding doc strings, helping with basic boilerplate part like reading a file, generating JSON in a certain structure that the business needs, I can say it has helped but I still don't really trust these models.
No single method suits everyone - it's why books like GTD help a little but only for some. My child has about 10 things to do every week, so her memory is mostly enough. I have about 20 things to do every day, so I use a combo of list and schedule.

This book is my bible - it teaches you how to create your own ideal time management system based on your brain, your life's demands and so on: Perfect Time-based Productivity by Francis Wade[1]

[1] https://perfect.mytimedesign.com/
Signal has got Usernames now.

You can block number discovery.

You can't resolve username to number.

Your main account ID internally is not your number anymore.

If 2 users add you using 2 different links or usernames.
Its now harder to confirm its the same account.
> An alarming number of important people I’ve spoken to remarked that their “private” Signal messages had been exploited against them in US courts or media.

Any sources for this except the private testimony of a Signal competitor talking about his important friends? (ETA: Or is it when the court/media obtains your unlocked phone, in which case Telegram won't protect you either...)
Thanks, this is the kind of debate that we need

There's a whole nuance being lost on most of these discussions.
Why is home-rolled crypto inherently insecure?
> Whenever I see comments about people trying to reinvent make, my conclusion is that make "as a tool" is inevitably far superior, but people are mostly familiar with a small subset of its functionality, which makes it appear clunky.

If you're looking for a task runner, not a build tool, then make is not "far superior" in any sense and there are much better alternatives, the most prominent probably being "just". Even something as basic as accepting parameters to a task (make fetch <arg1> <arg2>) is awkward because make doesn't understand this syntax and interprets the arguments as targets. The only way to make it work is either through named arguments or empty target hacks and in both cases you need to write the validation logic yourself. In just it's simply:

fetch PACKAGE VER:
@echo fetching {{PACKAGE}} at version {{VER}}

$ just fetch foo
error: Recipe `fetch` got 1 argument but takes 2
usage:
just fetch PACKAGE VER

$ just fetch foo 1.2.3
fetching foo at version 1.2.3

https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_1.html
You can just query for all the image elements and then read any svg using the document model.

This is trivial to overcome for most basic scrapers and not much harder even if you try to obfuscate with paths for more sophisticated ones.
That is what I usually do, I don't find very interesting to just load pre-existing models and feed data into them. But sometimes it is a necessity, if the network is too large (like Stable Diffusion, ResNet and its variants, ...).
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1787908190799278360

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1787589564917490059

Keep in mind that X/Twitter's "For You" algo boosts posts to which Elon replies in his followers' feeds.
I'll say Factor, maybe red-lang.

(parens are great though ;) structural editing, no-brainer syntax, easy to extend the language. Once you pop parens, you can't stop)
> Signal has launched support to use nicknames instead of phone numbers

You will still need a phone number to sign up for Signal. Signal still knows your phone number, you just hide it from your contacts. To me this only makes it even more suspicious.
I am a complete lay person, so I feel a bit silly challenging someone who is clearly an expert, but the idea that a physical process that has had countless trillions of generations of mutation and change, "figuring out" how to use an underlying feature of the universe to optimise, isn't far fetched at all.

It seems that the most powerful force in the universe is simply, survival of the fittest.
It does, in Signal it's called "Note to Self". I am saying that in general, Telegram is the first to offer such new feautres.
Dumb question: wouldn't the USA have the same issue with state taxes varying across the country? Or are state taxes collected from where the company is headquartered and not from where customers are purchasing from?
Their point is that Headspace seems to sell meditation a bit more as a means to optimizing one’s life, while Waking Up sells meditation more abstractly, as a means to more fully live one’s life.

The app is free (or heavily discounted) for those that can’t pay. Nor do they seem to optimize conversion flows, run ads, or pursue growth as aggressively as Headspace has.
People has been killed based on metadata https://www.nybooks.com/online/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-bas...
Given that it’s the world reserve currency I don’t think there is anyone that doesn’t use USD at least indirectly. Eg usd denominated oil purchases
Ah so that's how Telegram got reproducible iOS builds:

> you need a jailbroken (old) iPhone. And at the end you still can’t verify the whole app. Some files stay encrypted

So basically, it works you just have to bend over backwards to verify that it's truly reproducible.
I'm aware of some places where you might be financially obligated to support parents (Pennsylvania, for example has a filial support law). Is there any place where you literally have to care for them?
All true. But where are the sources of Telegram server? They are not open source, simply! What are they actually doing with our messages? Only they know. And they can read them because by default there's no E2E encryption.
I've found myself missing classic OS X a lot more and more recently too. It was productive in a way that current macOS is not. Why? All the same elements are there -- screen-top menu bar, same UI controls, etc. What's the difference?

I was so uncertain it was just nostalgia that I bought an old lampshade iMac on eBay (because I love the design) and used it for a while. It was running 10.4 Tiger. And I can see the same ingredients but... wow... Tiger was beautiful. It was just so simple to use.

Why? What's actually different?

I haven't answered this myself yet.

But I feel a lot more ambivalent about Apple products than I used to. The article touches on this, but states it's because they have mature products with minor updates. I think, maybe, they have mature products which are worse than their earlier products.
> Altman didn't elaborate on how his so-called "universal basic compute" would work

and neither does this farticle.