skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm writing a book. A novel. By hand (this is, no AI involved, just me and vim).

Sometimes I feel I'm loosing the time, because nowadays there is a lot of AI generated content and even more competence in self-published books.

After a long walk against myself, of about 10 months, it's nearly finished (in my native language, Spanish). It still needs a few more reviews and retouching.

I got recently unemployed after +20 years as Linux sysadmin, and my wife is now unemployed too (after +20 years in HHRR), fortunately we have still a few savings.

I dream that it will (economically) work, but most of the time I intuit there will be less than a few sales from family and friends.

Depending on how it goes, I've already the script for the second and third parts.

In parallel I'm researching different ways to generate cash flow without working for another person. I would like to avoid going to search for a job in the current market of cloud, docker and kubernetes, as I'm more a hardware/colocation guy, and 99,9% of job offers request for docker/kubernetes.
This seems to be a blatant lie. In russia telegram is wdidely used to prosecute people and crack down on descent. KGB (today know as FSB) seem to have free access to anything not encrypted on the platform.
There are some obvious areas that are not easy but could develop into a very good value proposition such as certifying a variant of Apple Watch for medical use, more sustainable tech (their products are basically throwaway when finished), integrate better across ecosystems such as Android, and improved battery technology / investment.
Yeah, you can also do this with a custom filter if you already have an ad blocker like UBlock Origin
Actually, HN has a much better system. Comments from new accounts, like your throwaway, are dead by default, but any user can opt in to seeing dead posts, and any user with a small amount of karma can vouch those posts, reviving them. Like I just did to your post.
How is it not just a neutral enforcement action against the Telegram platform? The Telegram platform knowingly hosts illegal content in unencrypted format and does little to moderate that, which is illegal in many countries. The CEO is accountable for how the company operates and what happens on the platform.

If Telegram breaks the law - which it does - it’s completely logical that the CEO is held accountable for that and is arrested
> We have no way to know this

Well, other than his arrest ;-)
You can go ahead and encrypt messages yourself, without explicit E2E support on the platform. In fact, choosing your own secure channel for communicating the key would probably be more secure than anything in-band.
Unfollowing doesn't work for me. It will just suggest random people and spew their nonsense in your feed and still show ads too.

Strange that it does work for you, but not for me! I'll try that extension though mentioned in the other reply, thanks for the tip?
The bulbs only last maybe 1000 hours as well which combined with their price narrows their usage.
I'm not sure that the homepod belongs in this list as by most accounts it's a financial success. Nothing will be as profitable as the iPhone but the homepod enhances the Apple eco-system. Of all the devices I absolutely would not trust Google/Amazon with, it's a smart speaker. With homepods all over the house, it just makes it that much harder to switch to a non-iphone.
> FYI, this is a totally misleading and false claim.

No, you seem to have have in fact fallen for Telegram's continuous intentional misinformation.

The only thing that matters for whether we can call something "encrypted" or "plaintext" (or more precisely, "end-to-end encrypted" vs. "storage encrypted at rest" or "encrypted in transit" etc.) is whether they, the service providers, can access it themselves.

Would you argue they can't? And if so, how come can I log in to my Telegram account using only SMS verification and access my old messages?
Ideas:

- A "vibe shift" has occurred at work. Separately, my own thoughts have been more unkind/uncharitable towards others. Recently I realized that the two are connected. Isn't it funny how the vibe-shift trickled down to affect my own mindset without me even noticing?

- I think that Google is going to fall apart soon. Before they do, they'll cut money-losing boondoggles like, oh, Google Maps, Google Books, Google Groups... Who will step in to save all that data? And what does a post-Google world look like in general, anyways?

- AI is incapable of the kind of impact that is being promised. But we are still going to have a period of ~2 years until corporations realize it (it sounds like AI companies will run out of cash at that point). Until then, we're going to have a lot of layoffs because Mike-the-MBA thinks AI can do people's jobs. What should normal people do? Sit tight and sit out the game for 2 years until things stabilize?

- All of the above is part of a crisis of meaning that people - and esp. tech workers - are having. There's an enormous opportunity for Government jobs to become prestigious again. It used to be a mark of pride to work for the Government. You don't need to burn out and become a woodworker to "do real things": your local city government has plenty of "real things" for you to do in a real community.
DACH = Deutschland (D) - Austria (A) - Switzerland (CH)

but DACH mentality? Perhaps hard-working like people in Germany, Austria and Switzerland? Or overengineering or being stubborn and old-fashioned?
You can sign up on their website: https://www.stackit.de/en/

While there are no free credits the services are priced pay per use to the minute with a much simpler pricing model than the large hyperscalers like AWS. See prices for EC2 here: https://www.stackit.de/en/pricing/cloud-services/iaas/stacki...

You can find the docs here: https://docs.stackit.cloud/stackit/en/knowledge-base-8530170...
End-to-end encrypted means that the server doesn’t have access to the keys. When server does have access, they could read messages to filter them or give law enforcement access.
> It represents to me everything that is wrong with the EU today. A bureaucratic monster that can't decide how to talk about things or come to any form of alignment.

I think that the EU can very well find a consensus when it wants to, going so far to push for legislature that will be clearly thrown out by the ECJ or HUDOC (see Chat Control for great example).

It's just that we also have a lot of "token projects" which serve for virtual signaling for topics where there is a lack of domestic competence. Gaia-X is one of these things, the idea of a "european cloud" as laughable to begin with, due to dependence on foreign technologies to facilitate it.
Musk and Durov share views on privacy. If the West did the same to Musk, he'd move SpaceX to Russia in the blink of an eye and Tesla to China. Musk is safe because he is the embodiment of the American dream of American superiority. NASA and Boeing: yesterday's heros. This action is not 'rule of law' - don't bother trying to figure it out - it is just politically motivated. No discussion required. .. in my opinion.
I believe real world friends or colleagues are your alternative family. (Online friends, not so much). In any case, its so critical to have your eyes open to other traditions and creeds and ways people live their lives. Without that, we would just judge without knowing why people did things.

The person you need to show mercy to most is yourself. And to do that you have to understad how everyone else lives.
Invasive ads are psychological manipulation? Which part is the psychological manipulation, the ads you chose (by not paying, but still using the service)? So the ads aren't really there to sell you something, they're there to punish you for not paying?

I have so many more questions but this is a good start.
It’s more of a prisoners dilemma than “it works when implemented correctly.”

In general, all parties do better in freer markets and all parties do poorly in restricted markets. However, when one party in a trading system implements restrictions and the others don’t that party can gain outsized benefits versus others.

The world spent almost 50 years liberalizing trade systems, mostly with benefits at the national scale. It took 10-15 years for most of leaders to realize that China was successfully subverting the liberal system.

“it works when implemented correctly” is the wrong lessons and will lead us to widespread protectionism and make us all poorer.

The right lesson is that “bad actors need to be dealt with and excluded from the system.”
Siri can be disabled on the HomePod.
254nm is used as part of GUV and it's not good for people and black out blinds are used in hospitals where they are installed when sanitising. Far UV 222nm is not damaging to humans that we know of but it's a peak of destruction for viruses, bacteria and fungus.
If you use temp tables you're subverting the optimizer. Sometimes that's what you want but often it's not.
What is Dach mentality? I've googled the definition but can't seem anything that fits in this context.
> I mailed a bunch of bills to my insurer, and requested reimbursement (…) Anyway, they mailed me a check

This is not what I’d describe as “fighting your insurance”.
"Lol, are we just calling everything ChatGPT now whenever something is remotely coherent? Unless you're sitting on some actual proof, that claim feels like a lazy handwave. Like, maybe it's just... a person? Not everything well-written is AI-generated, you know"

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Write a witty, hackernews comment responding to this post from a user:

"FWIW this post is ChatGPT generated at least partially."

Avoid using all language choices characteristic of text which was generated by ChatGPT. Call the user out for having no evidence. Add a few spelling errors characteristic of folks typing on their phone
Try filming an airplane at night and be amazed at how shitty the footage of that is from your modern smartphone. Even during the day its a tall order without actual optical zoom and stabilization.
A straightforward legal responsibility should be shirked because scaling moderation is hard? How many other difficult things do you propose moving outside the law?
> assassinating their enemies

Well, Google no longer has a mandate of “don’t be evil” and Microsoft never did…
The chats are encrypted but the backup saved in the cloud isn't. So if someone gets access to your Google Drive he can read your WhatsApp chats. You can opt-in to encrypt the backup but it doesn't work well.
Germany, Austria, Swiss (swiss-german) mentality

In a nutshell: German speakers mentality
Security robots are starting to join the ranks of human guards
Yes.

If you are directly aiding and abetting without any plausible attempt to minimize bad actors from using your services then absolutely.

For example, CP absolutely exists on platforms like FB or IG, but Meta will absolutely try to moderate it away to the best of their ability and cooperate with law enforcement when it is brought to their attention.

And like I have mentioned a couple times before, Telegram was only allowed to exist because the UAE allowed them to, and both the UAE and Russia gained ownership stakes in Telegram by 2021. Also, messaging apps can only legally operate in the UAE if they provide decryption keys to the UAE govt because all instant messaging apps are treated as VoIP under their Telco regulation laws.

There have been plenty of cases where anti-Russian govt content was moderated away during the 2021 protests - https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat...
I don’t have a personal calendar and my work calendar ends at 5. I think your market is a lot smaller than you think. The kind of people who ask friends to book time on their calendar are considered freaks anywhere outside of tech hubs
i love that tool:

- i only see posts from people/organisations i friended/followed

- those posts are in chronological order

- and i don't see what people liked/commented somewhere else

- on top of that, i don't see "reels" or whatever this feature is called

- and when a contact change their name/deactivate/unfriend i receive a notification
What's trending on GitHub – August 25th
We can agree on the statement "Telegram does not cooperate with law enforcement authorities".

This is however something completely different from and largely orthogonal to "Telegram does not have access to their users' message contents".

The fact that they are consistently claiming the former and the latter makes them seem extremely untrustworthy to me.

Gaining my trust requires truthfulness and transparencies about the capabilities and limits of a service provider's technology (but of course is in no way sufficient).
Note that you need to be Incorporated in Germany, Austria or Switzerland to use it. And they dont allow individuals to open accounts. Only companies.

"The European cloud" that doesn't allow sign ups from Europe is extremely ironic.

I don't know how they keep getting all this press without actually delivering anything
Yup https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/gaia-x-is-an-expensive-dis...
I also enjoyed his similar series on generating a procedural city: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940
iPad OS/MacOS Notebook like a Microsoft Surface but with an actually usable User Interface would be the obvious next step to me.
Kids of daycare age probably can't wear masks effectively enough to make a difference, and if they can, it's not obvious that it's worth the effort.

Adults could probably reduce how many colds they get by wearing masks everywhere, but most people don't think it's worth the effort.
> FYI, this is a totally misleading and false claim.

> Telegram uses the MTProto 2.0 Cloud algorithm for non-secret chats[1][2].

FYI you don't understand encryption and are spewing pristine BS.

Only p2p secret chats use e2e encryption and are invisible to Telegram employees.

Everything else is stored in plain text on Telegram servers.

The OP was correct and your counter argument is void and null.
I work in Go. My company keeps trying to push us onto their VSCode based remote environment. “Find all references” doesn’t, “go to definition” works maybe 30% of the time, and the Go LSP daemon needs to force killed dozens of times in a working session, taking several minutes to recover each time. The autocomplete suggestions are about 3x as likely to be from the VSCode fuzzy matching thing or Copilot slop as actually existing symbols that type check in context.

JetBrains Projector and Gateway meanwhile lock up or outright crash several times an hour; text input and scrolling are not smooth.
CSAM is different - in the US, as well as france, the law designates the service provider as a mandatory reporter. If you find CSAM and don't report the user who posted it to authorities (and Telegram have phone numbers of users) then they are breaking the law.

https://www.icmec.org/csam-model-legislation/
Law enforcement is so ill equipped in this digital age. It’s embarrassing. Instead of evolving, they are punishing the people creating services that benefit everybody.

Reminds me of the Tornado Cash service. Used by normal citizens to anonymize transactions on the blockchain; and used by a smaller percentage of criminals. Law enforcement is inept in this digital age. So instead of catching the actual criminals they pursue the people making the service.

It’s all for nothing of course. People were apparently brought up on charges. None of them actual criminals as I recall. Just got thrown the book at them. US government even issued “sanctions”, but they were useless.
I imagine at least some part of it is that acquisitions are difficult, time consuming and rarely work 100%. There are almost always seams after the fact and problems with culture integration. Cash on hand also gives you the option to respond to market swings and changes. It allows you to invest in new opportunities, and to build a space organically from your own internal visions. Would the iPhone been what it was if Apple had just bought Nokia, or Ericson or any other phone vendor at the time? Maybe, but I strongly suspect not. And at least for Apple especially, the point isn't just to have the product, it's to have a well and tightly integrated product, and existing product lines might need to be so heavily re-worked any value in buying it as is would be lost in having to scrap so much of what's where.
They have no choice though
Logitech recently released a pen for this kind of purpose.

It's meant to be used with virtual reality headsets, I'm not sure if their pen can be made to work outside VR.

Do you need help with integrating your app into blender as a plugin? If so, please do reach out. I'd love to help. mail@laura.fm
> Or overengineering or being stubborn and old-fashioned?

Exactly this
We have created our own internal system to do that.
The dog has a runtime of 4hr unburdened. Great for walks to the grocery store but not as great for long hikes.
VPNs don't pose an obstacle to monitoring any specific activity, and as many VPN-using criminals have found, even their ability to stop law enforcement from identifying you is limited. So they've been less of an issue. Having said that, I would note that Mullavad was forced to remove port forwarding in response to law enforcement interest, and I don't think it would be too surprising (or too dystopian) if in the future "connection laundering" is a crime just like money laundering.
I've been working on https://65words.com by myself for 6 months.

65 Words is an anonymous challenge to write 65+ words daily in the language you're learning.

The real focus isn't just on improving your writing but on having the opportunity to think about how you'd express something without the pressure of the moment.

There's no hidden science behind choosing 65 words. I found it’s achievable even on a very busy day.

The goal is to help learners practice daily and build confidence through consistent effort.
Yep. At this point, it's clear to me that Discord is acting with malice. On top of banning people for reporting abuse on their platform, which is by itself insanity, they changed their report system [0] so it's longer possible to report servers/channel/users at all, only specific messages, with no way to report messages in bulk being provided.

Reddit isn't much better. [1]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/14sx8fz/discord...

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/25/22399306/reddit-lawsuit-c...
I have noticed a phenomenon where people I am connected to on FB rarely post anymore. I have a ton of history on there but I mostly use it for the groups which is a very useful feature since I am in a few ham radio groups, my local HOA and community groups. I can’t stand Nextdoor so I don’t use it for similar purposes.

Anyways, it appears FB is on a slow decline.
It would be awesome if they were IKEA purifiers. Cheap media and excellent CADR/W.
> One cannot legally run a hosted, unmoderated content platform in the developed world, one will always be required to remove illegal materials and turn over materials in cooperation with law enforcement.

Just would like to clarify, Telegram does take down channels/bots in some cases including copyright infringement. The only bots I’ve dealt with were music downloaders so I don’t know much about other kinds of takedowns, but it’s wrong to say that telegram doesn’t/didn’t take down material. Perhaps not enough or frequently enough, and I certainly don’t condone immoral activities- but they do do it sometimes.
To be fair 4chan skews millennial/gen x
The miniature in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9CENC972pY
Firstly, while IAMs often offer some level of authorization capabilities, they are not as flexible or fine-grained as dedicated authorization systems like Permify.

Therefore, customizing complex permission logic (such as hierarchical relationships, user group, etc.) can be challenging in IAMs. As an example, Keycloak's Authorization Service supports RBAC and ABAC it does not support ReBAC.

Another point is that authorization as a service solutions are focused entirely on authorization. This means they provide not only fine-grained permissions but also tooling and functionality to ease testing and observability of the authorization system.

Also Permify leveraging Google’s Zanzibar scalable data model and unified ACL (Access Control List) approach, enables the creation of a centralized authorization service capable of handling high volumes of data and access checks across your microservices stack.

Still, it's worth mentioning that if you have a basic authorization system or need, it makes total sense to use the solutions you mentioned for handling the authorization part as well. However, if you want to scale your authorization, especially in a microservices environment, I would suggest trying one of the authz providers instead.
Ideally, their own mother's milk.
Link to the paper itself: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1501.pdf
N95/FFP2 Masks are even higher effectiveness. Even just one wearer can often avoid infections for years if the mask is used and fitted well. If most people are wearing them we would wipe out most respiratory disease spread. They are ridiculously effective and it's why they have been used in hospitals for decades when dealing high contagious conditions.
AWS and Azure's "sovereign clouds" still effectively fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA, rendering them as sovereign as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.
A startup wouldn't need hundreds of people, they don't have millions of daily messages yet. Only successful businesses like Telegram would.
How do you do this with Ublock Origin? Thanks!
Previous discussion, 900+ comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341353
I run a European cloud service, 80% of our customers are basically looking for a European alternative to the big clouds. The market is huge and in my opinion underserved.

What makes it very exciting is that there not too much innovation required to compete
Really embarrassing being European nowadays.
One option would be to employ a two-phase commit mechanism that keeps track of all "sub-transactions" and considers a global transaction to be completed when all datastores report back that they are very, very certain that they can commit the changes on their end without any issues. Then it asks each local transaction to actually commit.

XA is such a standard that pops up often when data sources support such a mechanism:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open_XA

- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/xa.html

- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/xa-transactions/
What exactly are they ahead in? only thing that stood out was price
Why? He seems to be happily providing information to KGB (sorry, FSB), russian security service or ignoring backdoors they already have.
In fact, telegram is one of the most powerful disinformation tool employed by russia.
None of sane and savvy person who stands up to autority would use telegram.
I’m learning freeCAD by making a radiator fan shroud for my 1990 Mazda MX-5. I have no idea what I’m doing.

If anyone wants to help out a n00b, I will be forever grateful.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, one can be exposed (and have an immune response) to a viral load below what's normally considered symptomatic. Then the immune system learns, but doesn't have to go into over-drive which taxes the rest of the body more destructively.

In other words: Filtering part of it from the air can make exposure more like vaccination than full blown infection, which is great.
I don't think you can pick and choose what you comply with.