skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the more detailed news sources I can find about this, it seems he knew the French were looking for him. I don't know if he knew about the contents of the warrant, but it does seem he knew the authorities were planning to arrest him.

From what I can tell the warrant has been out for longer, but he was arrested when the airport police noticed his name was on a list. There's not a lot of information out there, with neither the French authorities nor Telegram providing any official statements to the media.
FWIW this post is ChatGPT generated at least partially.
I'm sure Apple is fiddling around with things in their labs. But I still remember something that someone at IBM told me once about some initiative. Don't focus on the specific number but basically if it isn't a billion dollar opportunity, it's too big a distraction up and down the line to bother with.

You may hate on MBAs but focus is actually something that Apple has been very very good at over the years even before the current management.
> which you were seeming to disagree with.

Yeah, I would still disagree because everything is effectively plaintext in the end. The only difference is how you derive the key. There are levels of encryption, that is true but I think calling an actual encryption as 'effectively plaintext' is wrong.

> Have a good rest of your day.

Thank you! You too :D
> In the sense that I've read most of their papers, I've even reviewed several of them.

Which means you.... Read the papers...

So what was the point of your comments
Indeed, that's how they map the inside of a shopping mall or subway stop.
"which is way more expensive than 1 model."

In this case "way more" means exactly 2x the cost.
if its not not end-to-end encrypted, what does that mean? whats the method that govts access these messages?
> the warrant was issued because of his alleged failure to cooperate with the French authorities.

That would seem to be the key bit. Makes one wonder what level of cooperation is required to not be charged with a slew of the worst crimes imaginable. Is there a French law requiring that messaging providers give up encryption keys that he is known to be in violation of?
This is absolutely true, all of it. The insurance companies do not have the incentive to do what is best for the patient. I've been shocked at how little they were willing to cover, with very little justification, even when extreme depression and suicide was a possibility. Just think, they are willing to spent north of $1 million on a patient for complex cancer surgery, but are unwilling to spend 20k to pay for therapy that is proven to prevent a suicide.
I'm sure the US government would have been real keen on you reading Kremlin news source 40 year ago...
I found this airplane trickery amusing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/son-el-chapo-another-si...
Telegram is not E2E encrypted.
The US is on it’s way to becoming a dystopia so not the best argument…
Our current and our previous major insurance companies both have covered therapists listed along side other types of doctors on their website.

Made it super easy for us to find one. My wife saw one literally in walking distance from our house.
frankly, even with unencrypted chats, any law/precedent requiring that platform providers have to scale moderation linearly with the number of users (which is effectively what this is saying) sounds like really bad policy (and probably further prevents the EU from building actual competitors to American tech companies)
Year Coder vs. In-Browswer AI Code-Gen [video]
What do y'all think of the idea of using code-gen in the browser?
Now I am imagining a mars rover that works like one of these. Stampeding over the rocky landscape, powered by martian wind.
As far as I can see. CP is probably the fastest way to get a channel and related account wiped on telegram in a very short time. As a telegram group manager. I often see automated purge of CP related ad/contents, or auto lockout for managers to clear up the channel/group. Saying telegram isn't managing CP problems is just absurd. I really feel like they just created the reason for other purpose.
Smart speaker, car, VR, and now robots... it's crazy how much money can be burned when a few of your other products are successful and mature, while those mostly just receive incremental updates.
It's not the street-level police who sign the warrants for seizing computer hardware.

Yes, the risk is quite low, but it's a risk shared by any occupant of an INTERPOL member state.
Do not get it. This is not JavaScript free. The browser interprets JavaScript in the end.
That's not the case here though. Most of the communication on Telegram is not E2E Encrypted.

Even E2EE messaging service providers have to cooperate in terms of providing communication metadata and responding to takedown requests. Ignoring law enforcement lands you in a lot of shit everywhere, in Russia you'll just be landing out of a window.

These laws have applied for decades in some shape or form in pretty much all countries, so it shouldn't come as a surprise.
"sick days reduced by a third" does not seem to be a level of reduction that could induce a problematic rebound.
The link is blocked in India....is it?
Tata Play is the ISP
so i should be liable if it is a plain text messaging github side project?
A sane comment in the slew of conspiracy theories, "service provider" apologists and misdirection of encryption being the issue.
Without much thought regarding cost. Calm down lol
Browsers should be interacting with the OS to require something (like your system password, Touch ID, etc.) to have unlocked the vault before being allowed to auto complete.
I find it funny that they claim to be “end-to-end” at least once they have censored one of my messages.
Or even seasonal allergies to like pollen too, right? There’s just much more pressing breathing related issues to be concerned with (AQI etc)
Radon decays into other longer lived radioactive elements, mostly isotopes of lead, which then condense down as dust and cause more problems than radon itself. So it might happen that these cumulate in the attic if circulation is just right.
Telegram also doesn't consider Sweden and Germany to be democracies for some reason and refuse to collaborate with either.
As far as I've heard, they did that only under threat of getting kicked out of the Apple and Google app stores. Supposedly, the non-app-store versions don't have these blocks.

In other words, Apple and Google are the only authorities they recognize (see also [1]). I'm not surprised this doesn't sit well with many governments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348666
Nope! All 3 of those movies are very different.

The 2nd has more CGI and more esoteric monologues than the 1st.

The 3rd is more about solving an interesting mystery. The ending doesn't have as big of a wow factor unless you've seen the two installments of of the Stand Alone Complex series. It also builds upon the implications of the first move's ending.
That's how most law works. I have to give up my right to murder someone in order to enjoy a society where it's illegal for everyone.

If you believe privacy not inspectable by law enforcement is wrong the prerequisite is saying that you're willing to have the the law apply to you as well.
for that flat price, i bet they are already working on ffmpeg via webassembly. otherwise they will go under or dishonor those early clients pretty fast.
Huawei already has a new chip to rival Nvidia GPUs – Ascend 910C
"unpopular"

If we feed all the comments say to chatgpt and ask it (or just count by hand pro/against tg posts) what result do you expect?
Applications are now open for female,* Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous founders and developers (*Apple believes that gender expression is a fundamental right. We welcome all women to apply to this program.)

Now turn this around: Applications are now open for male, White or Asian founders and developers*. The reactions from the media would be swift, the condemnations of racism and misogyny would be manifold and the company would be called upon to publicly humiliate itself due to their grievous misjudgement. What's good for the goose is good for the gander so Apple should be called out for this blatantly discriminatory practice which also happens to go against a number of laws.
there were multiple Kremlin propaganda outlets you could read in the US 40 years ago, although it is true that (IIRC) there were restrictions on broadcast television
Probably Astro can do what you want, or Grav CMS or Tina or Ghost etc. There are also a bunch of hosted commercial "headless" CMSes (disclaimer: I work for one) that let you more cleanly separate content and presentation with easy to use editor experiences and good devex for static builds. They often have free plans, but IMO you don't really need something like that, just a simpler Markdown based system with some minor custom coding for embeds and such that you can self-host.
While there are only a few movies that I have seen in their entirety several times (5+); there are several scenes from certain movies that I have probably seen more than a dozen times.

1) Court scene from 'My Cousin Vinny'
2) Court scene from 'A Few Good Men'
3) Last 20 minutes from 'The Shining'
4) Escape sequence from 'Shawshank Redemption'
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Keep in mind that it speaks more about Unity-specific behavior of C# rather than the way it performs outside of it, like in Stride3D or Godot. There is an absolutely massive performance rift between Unity's Mono and .NET 8's CoreCLR. Unity fixes this by using a subset of C# as DSL for its Burst compiler which is LLVM-based for specific hot paths, but it's something you don't need to do with "vanilla" .NET where all code has good codegen or offers really good SIMD API.

Also if your application is bottlenecked by allocation and collection throughput, you might see even greater difference in performance.
Even those who farm accounts know the simple answer to your question. You have to spend a little time being civil in other subreddits before you reveal the real you. Just takes a few weeks.
Most likely but nobody will allow you to suggest that.
Good luck! I am happy to know that you don’t do crowd work, which has become fashionable now. I remember Big Jay Oakerson’s roast where someone pointed out that crowd work is what you do when you don’t have any material :)

Crowd work almost always comes down to race or profession of the audience. It can be funny only in so many ways.
In the cases I remember there was no such recourse. It was just autodeleted by a bot.
You mean if you’re also running servers for it that store all the data in a format you can read and refuse law enforcement requests in your jurisdiction.
Do you mean far-UVC, around 222nm? It seemed like the major issues were the sources being expensive, the sources being from dubious vendors with no standard certification (I would be concerned that my “222nm” source might have a lot of inadvertent emission at other wavelengths), and possible damage over time to whatever you aim it at.
maybe, but i don't think sealed warrants are the reason
The difference is that this is not an isolated case on telegram(you said it yourself: "some amount", which implies "limited"). At the same time, you can literally open up the app and with 0 effort find everything they are accusing them of - drugs, terrorist organizations, public decapitations, you name it. They also provide the ability to search for people and groups around you, and I am literally seeing a channel where people are buying and selling groups "800 meters away" from me and another one for prostitution, which is also illegal in my country. Meanwhile, see their TOS[1]. They have not complied with any of the reports or requests from users (and governments by the looks of it) to crack down on them. While 1:1 chats are theoretically private and encrypted(full disclosure, I do not trust Telegram or any of the people behind it), telegram's security for public channels and groups is absolutely appalling and they are well aware of it - they just chose to look the other way and hope they'd get away with it. You could have given them the benefit of the doubt if those are isolated("some") instances, sure. But just as in the case of Kim Dot-I-support-genocide-com, those are not isolated cases and saying that they had no idea is an obvious lie.

2000/31/EC[2], states that providers are generally not liable for the content they host IF they do not have actual knowledge of illegal activity or content AND upon obtaining such knowledge, they take action and remove and disable access to that content(telegram has been ignoring those). Service providers have no general obligation to monitor but they need to provide notice and take down mechanisms. Assuming that their statement are correct, and they had no idea, they should be in the clear. Telegram provides a notice and take down mechanism. But saying that there are channels with +500k subscribers filled with people celebrating a 4 year old girl with a blown off leg in Ukraine and no one has reported it in 2 and a half years after it was created is indeed naive.

[1] https://telegram.org/tos/eu

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2000/31/oj
> get shown reports of CSAM and then turn a blind eye to it and do nothing about it.

How do you know this is the case?
Maybe there is still exposure, but at a lower viral load?
I've had COVID multiple times and each time my immune system takes a bigger and bigger battering, leading to many other issues.

Are the benefits of this theory meant to start appearing any time soon...?
But that would mean killing E2EE completely.

There's a difference between breaking the encryption of a single target after a warrant or handing over previous data which would need some kind of backdoor in the encryption.
The Carp Language – If Rust and Clojure Had a Baby [video]
It basically means "trust, but not too much."
Yup, in the best case you have a truly secure container of keys somewhere. That takes things away from being effectively plaintext.
This is all on top of the fact that these settlements—even without expansion—are unambiguously breaking international law. Popular support against it—real or not—does not make this more complicated. A politician who does not support dismantling these settlements, return the land to Palestinians, and pay reparations, is obviously wrong. This describes almost all Israeli politicians, and is not fringe, nor complicated. The existence of politicians who go further only complicates matter in making things worse by providing a possibility for illegal policy not only maintained, but also expanded.

That said, I agree with you, I don’t believe this is only a fringe position that has no relevance on current or future policy which breaks international law.
> The "off by one" predilection of LLMs is going to lead to this massive erosion of trust in whatever "Truth" is supposed to be, and it's terrifying and going to make for a bumpy couple of years.

This sounds like searching for truth is a bad thing, but instead is what has triggered every philosophical enquiry in history.

I'm quiet bullish, and think that LLMs will lead to a Renaissance in the concept of truth. Similar to what Wittgenstein did, Plato's cavern or late middle age empiricists.
Yes, that is my position. E2EE back-doors might not affect my communications or yours, but have serious and undesirable repercussions for some journalists and whistleblowers. The thing is, regular people aren't going to tolerate a sustained parade of news stories in which E2EE helps the world's worst people to evade justice.
I'd expect not many people here will be interested, and of those who are interested I expect not many people will actually have a go at this.

But for that small minority, this could prove entertaining and educational.
Seems like other platforms without E2EE are managing to do that without any issues whatsoever (e.g. Discord)
Kim Dotcom being extradited and this one now coming out of left field...Shit just got real.

I suspect this is just the beginning. Western governments are losing control of their "narratives" and no one is buying the propaganda. This is deeply unsettling for those in authority, so it is only logical that they would go after social media that they cannot directly coerce/control for their agenda. But not just the companies, their owners in particular.

Also likely this is a message for Elon and others - comply or go to jail.

Its hard to argue this is tinfoil nonsense when Meta has been accused of child exploitation [1] yet Zuckerberg never went to jail - bc he complied. [2]

Its time to get our collective heads out of the sand and acknowledge that governments are NOT democratic anymore - they serve only to preserve themselves, not us!

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/06/facebook-content-enabled-chi...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532
I came here to say this -- OP seems to be reacting not to the work itself, but to the framing. It reminds me of how my friends used to jump down my throat when I said 'AI' instead of 'Machine Learning' -- they had a point; 'Artificial Intelligence', as a coinage, is tendentiously animistic (just like Jensen's 'new forms of life'.)

Yet, of course, that's exactly how we encounter LLMs! The whole _point_ of ChatGPT isn't to do a "mechanical learning" (whatever that might be,) it's to create an experience that is more reminiscent of talking to another human being. An 'intelligence', if you will, but artificial.

At some point, we will need to tease out why engineering culture is so huffy about articulating its own goals; I have this mental image of a magician standing on stage, berating his audience for ever believing that rabbits could ever be made to come out of hats, all the while collecting a tidy sum for doing just that.
> I don't think it's a crime not to report a crime

That heavily depends on the jurisdiction. It's explicitly a crime in Germany, for example: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__138.html

On top of that, if you can be shown to benefit from the crime (e.g. by knowingly taking payment for providing services to those that commit it), that presumably makes you more than just a bystander in most jurisdictions anyway.
For centuries snail mail was used to facilitate organized crime, yet nobody prosecutes post offices.
...there's an "about" link at the top...
It's also the least private one (compared to whatsapp and signal.)
> with "business account", which are another way to say "e2e you->meta and then meta relays

actually its a nominated end point, and then from there its up to the business. It works out better for meta, because they aren't liable for the content if something goes wrong. (ie a secret is leaked, or PII gets out.) Great for GDPR because as they aren't acting as processor of PII they are less likley to be taken to court.

Whatsapp has about the same level of practical "privacy" (encryption is a loaded word here) as iMessage. The difference is, there are many more easy ways to report nasty content in whatsapp, which reported ~1 million cases of CSAM a year vs apples' 267. (not 200k, just 267. Thats the whole of apple. https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/202...)

Getting the content of normal messages is pretty hard, getting the content of a link, much easier.

Its not signal, but then its never meant to be.
MMC was a hidden star of Windows. You could write your own extensions for your application that it would host for you, and you'd get a standard look + feel that sysadmins would feel right at home with.

I have given up a couple of times on writing a Powershell extension. My searches return all sorts of hits on how to use it, but none on how to add objects to it so that modern sysadmins can administer my application. Links to official docs and authoritative blogs welcome.
He claims that Signal got so good that the government abandoned funding. I shall now assume the opposite and believe that the government can read all messages.

All mentions of the Open Technology Fund are true. It is also true that Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe have CIA connections:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...

German government funded radio:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/propaganda-im-auftrag-der-cia...
Plan it out, much of case law is happenstance that has little to do with modern realities, in a court system less bound to another court system they’ll take a fresh look

Your ability to plan it out most likely it won’t be on your first venture
> It also told me that it had permanently disabled my Facebook account—an account that I’d had for more than 15 years, and that was my primary way of staying in touch with family and friends around the world.

You don't need Facebook for that. Write down a list of the people you care about and contact them with some frequency, at least on their birthday.
> Your solution is not an exact solution to the knapsack problem, but a (relatively well known) greedy heuristic approach towards the problem.

can point me to where to find more about this.

> For a counterexample, imagine you have a ton of items that have a weight of 10^-20 and value of 1, and a single item that has the weight of whatever is the capacity of the knapsack (so it’s only thing that fits if it’s inserted to the knapsack) and the value of +infinity.

that is rather an extreme example. i do not see the how it affects the validity of the solution in most cases.

> I would recommend finding an open course on algorithm design and analysis and going through the lessons while trying to extrapolate approaches to problems instead of just solutions to them.

implementing solutions is the concrete result of extrapolating approaches and choosing the best one to implement. and that is the pragmatic approach.
This comment can itself be said to take for granted the naive view of what law it exposes.

Law is a way to enforce a policy on massive scale, sure. But there is no guarantee that it enforces things that are aiming the best equilibrium of everyone flourishing in society. And even when it does, laws are done by humans, so unless they results from a highly dynamic process that gather feedback from those on which it applies and strive to improve over time, there is almost no chance laws can meet such an ambitious goal.

What if Napster was a symptom, but not of ill behavior? Supposing that unconditional sharing cultural heritage is basically the sane way to go can be backed on solid anthropological evidences, over several hundred millennia.

What if information monopolies is the massive ethical atrocity, enforced by corrupted governments which were hijacked by various sociopaths whose chief goal is to parasite as much as possible resources from societies?

Horrendous crimes, yes there are many out there, often commissioned by governments who will shamelessly throw outrageous lies at there citizens to transform them into cannon fodders and other atrocities.

Regarding fair retribution of most artists out there, we would certainly be better served with universal unconditional net revenue for everyone. The current fame lottery is just as fair as a national bingo as a way to make a decent career.
do you really feel this is a good faith analogy? how is a side project in any way similar to a company with billions of users?
In the extreme there is evidence that no exposure to pathogens might weaken immunity, but that is not going to be a problem unless someone is living in a bubble or on a space station.
Maybe. But in the list of lucrative applications I think bug-fixing is near the top. I think it's lucrative enough to attract at least a decent chunk of engineering talent.
As a suspect. At least in court, as a completely non-involved bystander you have no right of refusal to testify in most jurisdictions.

Not sure whether that extends to police questioning though.
So long as you are far enough from a major freeway, major road, major airport, or major port. With those requirements the number of californian daycares or schools that meet that criteria shortens significantly.