skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, even a single UV bulb in the cold air return might be effective. This is well known in hiking circles where UV is used to sanitize water.

I might hook one up now that I have the idea.
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341353 (964 comments)
I don't personally understand some of these tech companies with such enormous hoards of cash. Apple could go on a massive acquisition spree in the space and buy Boston Dynamics, iRobot, all kinds of stuff and become a gigantic brand in home robotic automation with their well-functioning interoperable ecosystem. Are they afraid of antitrust?
Not with direct control from the US - with AWS there is no privacy or sovereignity difference between EU-CENTRAL-1 or US-EAST-1 - you might tick a compliancy checkbox though. But sooner or later there will be more pressure and AWS and Azure will create legally independent companies in the EU to manage clouds in the EU.
Law enforcement totally could see all those plaintext messages, if Telegram would honor their requests. But they don't, hence their CEO is being detained.

That's a position he knowingly and willingly maneuvered himself into. Compare that with e.g. the way Signal answers subpoenas: https://signal.org/bigbrother/

> Besides the protocol used by Telegram being publicly available so you can easily confirm in 5 minutes that what you're saying is completely wrong

There's absolutely no need to analyzse the protocol, since you can just perform a high-level mud puddle test [1], and Telegram fails it. I've tried this myself.

[1] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/05/icloud-w...
A: different genes, B: Different reporting standards, C: different access to healthcare for it to be reported
> Not perfect, but multiple legal jurisdictions would have to be subpoenad for Telegram to read your non-secret chats.

Thats not how legal works.

for example if I am an EU based judge and I issue a warrant for getting data from a company in a case related to something important (your values may vary, but lets say its not about parking fines) then if your company wants to continue to operate in the EU, you need to pony up the data, or tell them why your can't comply, rather than won't

Having your data stored with keys that you control isn't an excuse.
Even if you don't agree with intellectual property, adding provenance to LLMs is a problem worth solving. A solution is likely part of solving "hallucinations" and probably reasoning about truth in the world.
The vomit-green color is my favorite part. Like, they didn’t even try for a forest-green, or lime-green, nope. went straight for vomit
We do have Signal. People prefer not encrypted Telegram to it.
"Ad nominem" is saying "this argument is wrong because this person is bad". Here, what I'm saying is that the arguments are wrong because they are simplistic, looks unbalanced and don't correspond to what people who work on the subject have observed.

I've brought new information: in the professional sector, including pro-nuclear actors, France situation is presented as "the example to not follow", and the reasons are way more diverse and unbiased than "it's because of the bad anti-nuclear". You can check if it's the case if you don't trust me.

It's a bit like if someone says "python is never used to do ML stuff", and I answer "but I see plenty of people using it, it looks like it's not really an educated argument: the person seems to not know the community who do ML stuffs". Is that an ad nominem? If yes, does it mean that the first person argument cannot be criticized?
It's still uncontroversial in the US, where RT remains widely available, although their local TV operations folded after a boycott by cable providers.
If AWS gets a letter from an American 3-letter agency to plz turn over this and that data and don't tell anyone, they're going to comply, no matter what kind of paper "privacy shield" agreement the politicians negotiated this time around.
The problem is that people could be impressed and use it for things where 0.01% could lead to people getting hurt or even get killed.
There are some protectionist-like tendencies in europe and that’s fine. Both laws trying to push for as much local parts as possible and buying agencies preference for local providers by tweaking purchasing terms here and there.
Yet here you are posting on HN which does the exact same thing.
i think the ios and centos people are putting on airs because they wish they were ken thompson
Looking forward to cloud week at my local Lidl store.
I know a bunch of people with some apple watch at this point but I never met anyone who pays for cellular for it
> Some will do rocm but I don’t know if the AMD iGPUs are guaranteed to support it?

If you only care about inference, llama.cpp supports Vulkan on any iGPU with Vulkan drivers. On my laptop with crap bios that does not allow changing any video ram settings, reserved "vram" is 2GB, but llama.cpp-vulkan can access 16GB of "vram" (half of physical ram). 16GB vram is sufficient to run any model that has even remotely practical execution speed on my bottom-of-the-line ryzen 3 3250U (Picasso/Raven 2); you can always offload some layers to CPU to run even larger.

(on Debian stable) Vulkan support:

apt install libvulkan1 mesa-vulkan-drivers vulkan-tools

Build deps for llama.cpp:

apt install libshaderc-dev glslang-dev libvulkan-dev

Build llama.cpp with vulkan back-end:

make clean (I added this, in case you previously built with a diff back-end)

make LLAMA_VULKAN=1

If more than one GPU:
When running, you have to set GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES to the indices of the devices you want e.g.,

export GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2

The indices correspond to the device order in

vulkaninfo --summary.

By default llama.cpp will only use the first device it finds.

llama.cpp-vulkan has worked really well, for me. But, per benchmarks from back when Vulkan support was first released, using the CUDA back-end was faster than the Vulkan back-end on NVIDIA GPUs. Probably same Rocm vs Vulkan on AMD too. But, zero non-free / binary blobs required for Vulkan, and Vulkan supports more devices (e.g., my iGPU is not supported by Rocm)-- haven't tried, but you can probably mix GPUs from diff manufacturers using Vulkan.
Off and on, I’ve been working on something similar. How can I learn more about what you are doing?
not sure if you realize how idiotic this sounds
Well yeah the problem is that we took it from way way way under ground and put them in your blood stream...

Uranium isn't a problem if it's 100m underground somewhere in Africa, it's a much bigger problem if you have a refined chunk of it under your pillow
The MBAs wont let them. They already cancelled the iphone mini because it was selling but not selling enough.
No, end-to-end encrypted systems are not effectively plaintext. That's a distinction anyone familiar with cryptography is well aware of, but Telegram has been gaslighting their user/fanbase and many journalists about it for years.
All right, what about logless VPN providers like Mullvad?

> do not find operation of unmonitorable services acceptable.

Sounds like something straight out of a dystopian surveillance state novel, very bad outlook if true.
because they were state run and had well practised interception systems.
or: the EU is serious about citizen privacy and addressing the flagrant disregard for it that the major adtech players have shown. If LIDL can compete on price/features/performance _and_ comply with the laws, then good luck to them. Equally, if the big US companies comply, then there's nothing excluding them from the market. They're already present as you note.
> You can't simultaneously claim that the user makes the choice and that they can delegate the choice.

The user can still delegate the choice, they can withdraw that delegation which is a new capability users now have. Being able to sell yourself to forever slavery is bad, but being able to temporarily sell your work is good.
The bigger insult is the idea that anyone beholden to Apple's distribution terms could be considered an "entrepreneur" in the first place.

Yeah bud, keep telling yourself that you're headed down the road to success. Surely one day Apple will elevate you to competition with Big Tech... or Sherlock your business and shut you down next month.

Maybe Apple feels the need to prey on under-represented groups that have a harder time turning down their gracious "help".
Good. Time to build.
> He refuses to implement backdoors as well.

We have no way to know this, and (unlike Signal), Telegram doesn't give us best-effort assurances by doing things like open-sourcing its code.
I'd like to do something similar to the "personal basket" as a way of comparing "value" at different vendors. Thinking of using $/100g of common sandwich ingredients to demonstrate how much "making the same sandwich" at different stores would cost you. I'm not aiming to use this data for a product/commercial endeavour, though.
isn't UV light dangerous for people?

perhaps there's certain wavelengths that kill viruses/bacteria but don't increase cancer risk?
Being a European, I’d love to try this. Many businesses operate completely local. I think there is a market for a Europe-only cloud provider.

How do I try this? Do they have a free tier?
Masks have directly contributed to a speech development epidemic amongst youth who were deprived of their ability to see and mimic mouth movements during their prime developmental stages. This has hit underprivileged kids who do not have english spoken at home especially hard. Masks aren’t free.
I'm more disturbed by the fact that on HN we have 0 devs confirming or denying this thing about FBs internals wrt encryption. We know there are many devs that work there that are also HN users. But I've yet to see one of them chime in on this discussion.

That should scare a lot of us.
Can you share your math? Radon does indeed have extremely nasty decay products, but they are very short lived (which is why they’re so nasty). They’re not accumulating in your attic.

I would suspect fly ash as a possible source if the house ever had a coal-burning furnace. Or maybe someone had a watch-painting operation or mixed radioactive glazes or paints there. Someone with appropriate equipment could do a much better job identifying the source.
Mods simply ignore any such messages, especially from new or low karma accounts. Entreaties into the void.
Perhaps there is some evidence that people do get excited about free school lunches: Governor Tim Walz’s lunch policy in Minnesota has been a part of the buzz surrounding his recent Vice Presidential nomination.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/19/universal-free-school-lunche...
Don't get me wrong, if you really want to watch it, I think you should be allowed to.

Personally I'm undecided about whether these channels should be publicly available on e.g. free TV channels, but that's getting off topic.
I don't like these takes of "innovation is stagnating", as a lot of this is just a function of what is possible at any given moment.

For example, I think the iPhone was a revolutionary, innovative device at the time, but the need was obvious: it was pretty clear even back then that things like separate mp3 players, phones, and mobile browsers would converge - Apple was just the one that did it best early on.

Even with Apple Watch, while a smart watch form factor was pretty obvious, in the early days the "reason for existence" wasn't as clear until Apple Watch (and pretty much all smart watches) started laser focusing on being fitness trackers and providing health monitoring functionality.

So now we're at a point where you have either things like Vision Pro, which is an amazing piece of tech but which solves problems nobody really has, or you have ideas ("I want a robotic housekeeper!") that are eons from being technically feasible. So for anyone saying "Apple isn't innovating", I'd challenge you to think of areas where it could even begin to innovate in the first place (and where people would actually pay money for whatever they built). The answer to that question isn't as obvious as it was in 2007.

Final thought, I think Apple has been doing a ton of innovation. Their chips are now state of the art leaders, and take a look at just Airpod revenue alone compared to total revenue of other major companies: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/15z558o/oc...
AWS does not yet have a sovereign cloud in Europe, they're planning to launch in 2025: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-plans-to-invest-e7... (linked in the article)
The Chinese guys are way beyond Boston Dynamics.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/unitrees-robot...
It says these are made of plastic pipe. Doesn't the pipe wear down where it contacts (or even slides in the video) the ground, creating microplastics?

Also, it already slides some of the time in the videos. Not sure what the advantage is over a simple slide dragged by a sail.
At least they had the balls to back out
The ability to convert it to any human-readable time is actually the problem: without additional information you don't know which one to pick, and are forced to make certain assumptions, such as using the user's local time zone or defaulting to UTC. That's the point of the section of the article I quoted above.

For example, given just a timestamp, you don't even know what day it was. Was the user in New York? That 3:50am was actually 11:50pm on March 15th.
Made a post down below. I scroll for like two minutes before seeing anything local in my town. I only use it to volunteer at places in my town, and it literally showed over 100+ suggested/Follow/sponsored things, the addon I used collapses it all.

Dead internet theory. AI generated stuff. Busted algorithms, and attention-soul sucking 'pull me in' psychological warfare ad induced stuff. We need to reclaim our sanity from doom scroll/infinite scrolling.

I have it in my /etc/hosts file to be blocked unless I'm at a computer that requires me to log in.
Thanks I only use mobile so now I understand
I have my dead creepy uncle's phone in my drawer right now, and can give you soft core child porn from his instagram. His algorithm was even tuned to keep giving endless supply of children dancing in lingerie, naked women breastfeeding children while said children play with her private part, prostitutes of unknown age sharing their number on the screen, and porn frames hidden in videos.

Nobody's arresting Zuckerberg for that.
In this instance (RT being banned), it's Russia's quite candid strategy to undermine social cohesion in their enemies' societies, using disinformation. Margarita Simonyan and Vladislav Surkov have each bragged about its success. So yes, for social cohesion, when there's a malign external actor poisoning public discourse with the intention of splitting societies, a responsible government ought to tackle it.
Focus on the plate in front of you. Your home. The people you know in real life. Your job. Knowledge of an airstrike half a world away doesn’t mean anything actionable to you, so don’t fixate on that sort of information.
With my experience around poorer schools in the USA I would worry that the filter wouldn’t get replaced for decades and itself become a breeding ground for molds.
PRIVATE universities maybe. I graduated at a public university.

companies need to educate you on the job. that will never change and it is unreasonable to demand you already have all skills ready to go. but that is where we are in the US….

it is also crazy that you need to copy paste job requirements into your CV role per role. a resume or CV is something you make ONCE. but i guess HR drones are too dumb to read so that is where we are.
I strongly suspect there's more to it than just running a chat system used by criminals. If that were the issue then tons of services would be under indictment.

We'll have to wait and see, but I suspect some kind of more direct participation or explicit provable look-the-other-way at CSAM etc.
I tried this in ChatGPT 3.5 times and it repeatedly said "I am a language model and can't do that". Good to know it can do it now.
what's in the "middle of lidl" this week? Drill bits, car shampoo and a kubernetes cluster. Nice.
These companies lose money, so it would hurt their ongoing margins.
It's both. Privacy and sovereignty are big issues in Europe, specifically because of the jurisdiction issues. The fact that it provides some protection for European businesses means they'll lean into it all the more. That said, I think the Europeans would be joyous if the rest of the world would eliminate their protectionist boundaries by adopting Europe's privacy laws.
discord has hundreds of content moderators, telegram is made by a team of 30 people

i don’t think messaging startups should be required to employ hundreds of people to read messages
not untrue, but only part of the story.

certainly your math skill level neither makes you "smart" or "dumb" (which really aren't opposites, either).

prerequisites are (ahem) required. not having them does imply having a bad time.

what's missing is that different people's brains work differently and people have different talents.

if you learn differently, that can factor into that lack of prerequisite knowledge - perhaps the way it was taught didn't work for you.

but some people's brains just don't like math. other's are gifted at it. you can have all the prerequisite knowledge needed, be the best most diligent student, be wildly intelligent in general, and still not just "get" math.

so this article was about someone who actually did have a decent proclivity to math, but was robbed of it because of some missing foundation. and then said "ah ha!" there's the problem! but that doesn't mean that's the case for everyone else - far from it.

it smacks of the "affirming the consequent" fallacy:

("dumb" => !math) !=> (!math => "dumb")
(!prereq => !math) !=> (prereq => math)
Memory B and T cells would disagree with you. This is the basic knowledge for how vaccines work.
Everyone knows why and you’re not being naive
All countries do that where strategically sensible - or beneficial to "friends" of the government. 300% import tax on Bombardier CSeries anyone? CHIPS act? Silicon Valley getting started with military contracts?
It looks like this isn't open to the public but is just for internal use by Schwartz Group.
Exactly. We enjoy different activities. For math oriented kids it's not a grind, it's interesting and fun. For me, reading novels was much more of a grind, as I just wasn't that interested in people and their conflicts and condition.

It took until my twenties that I could realize the value in humanities and "social" topics.

Similarly most people will naturally learn about countless types of fashions and connotations of liking various music bands etc which is actually quite a lot of information to memorize. But it's fun and feels relevant while math feels disembodied and irrelevant to their social goals in life.
simple process manager for linux https://github.com/rprtr258/pm
it is inspired by pm2, but much simpler without any js and js integrations
It is a fun project to build for yourself, but I could not figure out a viable monetization path.
I have a FB account with no friends and a pseudonym that I just use for being able to check the pages of local businesses (it’s usually the only way to see hours because nobody has normal websites anymore)

The garbage that they serve up on my feed is astounding. When they don’t have any info from “friends” to populate it, it looks exactly like a collection of chumbox ads
> Java is one of the most backward compatible languages period - other than hashmap iteration order a while back

I want to know more about this. What were the behaviors before and after the change? In what year or versions did this happen? Are there any write-ups I can read?
To what jurisdiction are you referring?
Depends on what you do. But when I’m at events rather constantly (not big conferences) and people remember me, but I don’t remember them, it comes off as insulting.

VCs are a good example—founders will remember who they are for obvious reasons. But the ratio is way off—many more founders meet the same VC.

There are other industries where this happens as well.

Also, some people have problems recognizing faces in general.
This makes sense from a governance perspective.

I would worry that it becomes a mandated / feature poor service whose customers are guaranteed not by competitiveness, but by government requiring it.
Apple is desperate to stay relevant, just like Sony was a few decades ago when they were launching robot dogs (AIBO) and other useless gadgets.
In your comparison, we follow 11:00 PM with 12:00 PM, not 12:00 AM.
Open source is irrelevant as the protocol is plain text.
None of that stuff seems useful to me in anything like its current form and I'm sort of an early adopter of a lot of things.

My brother has a (newly built) house that's more or less optimal for a Roomba-type thing. It's very single level. They also have dogs. I looked at and a much better solution was a Dyson stick vac I could spend a few minutes running now and then.

I'm just not sure where the big home automation wins are. Not sure the last time I've even heard Nest thermostats mentioned in print.
Rights don't give you super power to ignore laws. He failed to follow judicial orders. If he doesn't want to follow French justice orders, then leave France for good.
I honestly can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not, so forgive me if it is. But no, I don’t really see how it would translate to being a high performing employee. Probably most of all, I don’t have the relevant context to know what sort of an achievement or skill any ranking could represent. I’ve never heard of this before this comment, so if you were like… 6th in the world or something, it’s hard to consider it impressive when 99.999% of the population has never even considered competing in it.
> This is something AWS is scrambling to address with its recent announcement of a €7.8 billion investment in an AWS European Sovereign Cloud, expected to launch its first region in Germany by the end of 2025. But will that be enough to regain the trust of European corporations

Given the CLOUD Act and FISA, no it should not be enough to regain the trust of those European corporations that look for data sovereignty. As long as those exist, all proposed "sovereignty" guarantees by vendors that have their (or their parent company's) HQ in the US are entirely worthless and should be ignored.
Yea this is so gonna work with them paying 50-60k/pa for engineers. Seriously DACH mentality and influence has been devastating on serious tech development in Europe
Gaia-X is a disaster. The article misrepresents it. Gaia-X is not a framework for what a European cloud should look like. This would be useful.

In beautiful EU bureaucratic style It's a framework for how to talk about how a European Cloud could look like.

It's not about technical standards. It's about how we can talk about how we can think of maybe eventually deciding on how we can come up with standards that might one day lead to talk about implementations.

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.
What? Literally all Telegram clients are open source.
I haven't got access to the timelines, but I'd be surprised if his arrest wasn't negotiated with his lawyers. He had no reason to go there, but chose to do so.
Why don’t they arrest telecom CEOs for allowing terrorists to have uncensored phone calls with each other?
This sounds fun! Every now and then I re-start a similar project, but where you just write 3 words at a time in a story :)
Pranksters obscuring their identity?