skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> operating in a manner where one of your selling points is that you’ll help anyone out even when their intent is to break the law

is it what happened here?

in my view Durov is the owner renting his apartment and not caring what people do inside it, which is not illegal, someone could go as fare as say that it is morally reprensible, but it's not illegal in any way.

It would be different if Durov knew but did not report it.

Which, again, doesn't seem what happened here and it must be proven in a court anyway, I believe everyone in our western legal systems still has the right to the presumption of innocence.

Telegram not spying on its users is the same thing as Mullvad not spying on its users and not saving the logs. I consider it a feature not a bug, for sure not complicity in any crime whatsoever.
In most jurisdictions yes AFAIK, if those services directly help an illegal activity, and you knew about the illegal activity.
They do it whenever the risk of Apple or Google kicking them out of their respective app stores becomes too great. That's presumably the only entities they take content moderation input from.
> TCP is a simple protocol with no ability to control or monitor content, whereas Telegram holds keys for most data and is capable of content moderation.

What?

And how do governments of the world block websites, services or the entire external web (as in China)?

> Telegram knowingly allowed illegal content to thrive while ignoring legal obligations to assist law enforcement

What? You think Telegram must read and have the means to know the contents of all chats on its platforms?

What an atrocious take.
What about the server? Telegram is not strictly e2e.
How is it an "obvious" difference that it's a "completely" different tool that does a "completely different" job? Both tools generate diagrams from existing databases.
I don't get what's new about this apart from the typical EU related buzzwords. France alone already has OVH and Scaleway, which are actual cloud providers in the "AWS" sense, not just hosting providers.

Like I get that this is part of the platform's marketing but I don't see the sovereignty (which is a rather cringy term imo, as it implies that something as big as the EU isn't sovereign) angles to this.
In fact civil disagreement is the cornerstone of democracy. We talk. We express our concerns about the government might be making decisions that are misaligned with our philosophy and goals. When enough people speak up, policy and practice change. That’s democracy.
Application Without Application
Is Cannabis a Tool for Creativity or a Crutch Against It?
What does your personal daily checklist look like?
You dont have to roll all the pods at the same time - there are built-in controls to avoid doing that and it’s the default. You will have to diy this if you’re using something else so, in fact, tp is wrong that k8s is somehow a bad fit for this use case
> 1) The guy was marketing an open-text messenger as an e2ee messenger

Citations needed.
Does Line offer server based/cross-platform messaging with a similar upload allowance? I’m curious to find telegram alternatives.
That's ridiculous. The interventions put in place during the crisis times of COVID were obviously unsustainable. When restrictions were lifted, the incidence of all other types of respiratory viruses spiked up.

I've had kids in daycare as well. Occasionally you get the sniffles. So what.
Can you convert a video to pure CSS?
I have no reason to doubt that, and evidence supports that statement (i.e. the fact that it got unblocked in Russia, after previously having been blocked).

They could in any case very well be selectively applying that policy. But if they were fully cooperating with French authorities, why would there be a warrant?
Or, generate an SVG from the dot file and pan and zoom like any other SVG file in the browser.
You really should Google Snowden and PRISM at some point.
The European market has always seemed like a tertiary market compared to the US and Asia. I think that's because, despite having some raw number of euros to spend on a product, the European economy has struggled since 2008 compared to the US and Asia, and huge corps which are obsessed with growth don't see an accelerating future for Europe as a customer base.
>Robotics is way too hard and they should look elsewhere IMHO.

>Software has this beautiful property of being magical: if you can imagine it, it can be written, given sufficient effort.

>The physical reality puts constraints that you often can't work around with decades-long, distributed research... which isn't really profitable or timely for a business to do.

I imagine plenty of people thought and said that about phones when Apple was rumored to be getting into that space. Certainly the Motorola ROKR partnership probably put most people off the idea of Apple and the phone space. Obviously prior success doesn't indicate future success, but at the same time Apple's biggest successes have often been in the space of building hardware that breaks though those physical constraints of reality in a way that is finally sufficient to push it towards mass market appeal.
These sovereign clouds generally put the root in trust with a local operator so they physically can't be compelled to release information.
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ublock-origin-custom-fil...
As an European: cloud is someone else computer, sovereign computing means users own their iron, sw and data, as government, so a sovereign computing means a State own hw, sw and data belonging to it.

That's ALMOST the case for most EU states so far, but less and less the case, and more and more with private partnership engendering public IT, which is public information, nervous system, witch is the OPPOSITE of sovereign computing and Gaia-X (a failed project anyway) it's the apex of such disgraced model. Oh BTW to be sovereign ALSO DESKTOP must be FLOSS, witch is almost not the case in any public administration. The hw since it's full of fw to the point of being de facto connected black box, network hw included, mush be open or state-made. Witch is not the case in the 99.9% periodic of the cases.
> If you are directly aiding and abetting without any plausible attempt to minimize bad actors from using your service

isn't this the definition of "criminal lawyer"?
Any HVAC professionals or plumbers know if a mini-split A/C system can be outfitted with UV bulbs?

Have a few Levoit air purifiers that sit flush against the wall. But would be nice to have an extra layer at the source.
More like “beach beast”. “Animal” is “dier”.
Wow I haven’t seen that logo in so long. Love it, thanks for the reminder.
https://youtu.be/rqs9Awx5zgQ?si=Ojawx-oejvcRkopC, will probably not cross a dessert, but pretty cool.
I thought the recommendation was to introduce some peanuts at an early age in order to reduce the risk of getting peanut allergies?
Of all the devices I absolutely would not trust Google/Amazon with, it's a smart speaker.

Not just you. My company's work from home policy requires any Amazon or Google speaker on the same floor as a home office to not be just software disabled, but actually unplugged from the wall. HomePods, on the other hand, are allowed to just have the Siri diagnostics feature turned off.

My company ($1B+) is not exactly known for its technical agility, so I don't think these rules came from in-house testing. Because we're in healthcare, my guess is they are recommendations from a federal agency.
My employer offers therapy solutions like Lyra, so somebody agrees with you. No reason for BCBS to be involved.
What do you mean "look the other way?" Does the phone company "look the other way" when they don't listen in to your calls? Does the post office "look the other way" when they don't read your mail?

That guy who built the hidden compartments should absolutely not have gone to jail. The government needs to be put in check. This has gotten ridiculous.
Rescuing songs that record labels forgot existed
> Sequoia buying UFC is really strange, too.

I'm having trouble finding sources for this. I do see that Sequoia Capital China invested in ONE Championship, but not Sequoia and UFC
In other words, they give the government a cut of the power.
When you say "by hand" do you mean with a pen and paper rather than typing it out? If so, can you say something more about why?
ultimately this fight against unmonitored messaging is going to be a lost one for the developed world. people who want encrypted group chats will get them
Maybe they didn't ask nicely. Or they asked for something else. There's literally zero drawback for service provider to provide secret access to the raw data that they hold to law enforcement. You'd be criminally dumb if you didn't do it. Literally criminally.

I bet that if they really asked, they pretty much asked Telegram to build them one click creator that would print them court ready documents about criminals on their platform so that law enforcement can just click a button and yell "we got one!" to the judge.
I often wonder if therapy is "over prescribed" these days.

I've struggled with various problems and therapy has seemingly always made it worse. We would "explore" things which caused me to dwell and dedicate so much brain power to "untangling" ideas. Eventually, I would always be "cured" after some relentless distractions and not the therapy. I truly believe the therapists wanted to help, and our progress felt real... but looking back, it was probably worse than doing noting.

I bring this up because I believe some people need therapy, but many people are encouraged to seek it out for problems that could be overcome with other methods, causing a "therapist shortage." This has downstream effects, like the one posted here.
> I don’t understand how they’re going to convince French judges that he’s guilty for not being able to decrypt chats that he has no keys for…

That false statement is refutable trivially: Just perform the mud puddle test [1] in front of the judge (and a cryptographer explaining the implications to the judge).

[1] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/05/icloud-w...
Alot!

I have apps that pay my rent such as
YOU-TLDR - Transcribe and Summarize YouTube videos
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Shorts Generator - Text to Automated Shorts In Minutes
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Snoop Hawk - Automated Web adn Reddit Marketing
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You can find all my projects here
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Currently I am exploring the idea of chatting with more than one AI. My assumption is it makes the interaction more life like and less lonely and I think in the future everyone will hav a group of AI friends. I made a quick loom about it here: https://x.com/deepwhitman/status/1826831221554643324
But I mean what is that mentality
> Security robots possess an array of tools that humans lack, making them unique partners to security systems:

> ...

> Detecting motion and physical objects in front of the robot, and avoiding crash

Not impressed. :)
Gaia-X is a place where the hasbeens of the yesteryear can poison any reasonable developent made by saying "We have always done it this way".
This pattern, I think, is called “Sludge content,” and there are papers about how prevalent and effective it is.
The two question FAQ says to email and then provides no email address.
> I would describe it more as a limitation of mmap than a liability.

Except it's a limitation that shows up even if you never make an mmap call. It's just a reality of living with virtual memory (and arguably, with preemptive based kernel scheduling in general as the kernel can decide to context switch from a thread).

> Traditional async I/O engines use direct I/O on locked memory, and if you use async you need to be cognizant of why this is. Half the point of async is to have explicit control and knowledge of when page faults are scheduled. Async is a power tool, not something that should be used lightly for casual tasks nor accidentally pulled in as a dependency.

Cooperative multitasking, to avoid the stalling described in this article, also needs locked memory/explicit control/knowledge of when page faults are scheduled.

> Async is used heavily in some C/C++ domains but it doesn’t seem to cause many issues there, perhaps because dependencies are much more explicit and intentional. Async has also been idiomatic for certain domains in C/C++ for decades so there is an element of maturity around working with it.

It's more that the people in those domains have an understanding of cooperative multitasking's trade-offs, and it is an explicit design choice to employ it.
You are right, Sony didn't go bankrupt because of AIBO or any other failed new product, but Sony never launched another successful product after PlayStation. Sony will probably never go bankrupt, no matter how many failed projects they launch, but Sony is just a legacy company at this point.

Apple, Meta, Tesla, Google, they're all desperate to find the next big thing that will help them grow like stockholders speculate they will. Nobody wants to be the next Sony. Sony is the equivalent of stagnation and lack of (successful) innovation.
The scalpel: From flint to zirconium-coated steel (2018)
By far the number one thing any employer I've worked for has done to reduce my number of sick days and visits to the doctor/pharmacy was remote work. Offices and gathering large numbers of people from over a wide area into a confined space by its nature is a vector for spreading infections. This is before even getting into issues like what a stressful commute does to the body and how it limits one's time that could, though not necessarily will, be used for healthier activities. But just the elimination of picking up colds, flus, and other infections from the office has had a significant impact on the number of sick days I've used. There also have been times when I was sick but not too sick to be productive. In the past I would have had to consider if using up a sick day and having no productivity was a good trade-off for not going into the office and possibly infecting others.
Given that Mars’ atmosphere density is only about one percent of Earth’s, that seems unlikely.
Seeing how they don't even seem to have a terraform module, I would say this will not grow to anything.
I found this book very helpful to understand most cellular process, and viruses, with an intuition of how things works at these scales: https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...
Seems like "beauty" health products and bedroom stuff this week. Monday well drill bits and tools...

Which reminds me that I need to pick up some cheap pliers...
A channel doesn’t do that though. People do that. If I take a megaphone to the street corner and start selling drugs, are you really going to arrest the megaphone I used?
I'm sure University of Neuchâtel would be appreciative if you actually did.
Low salaries to me indicates they believe it is a Germanic ideal to pay subpar wages for highly skilled engineers? I don't think it's a mentality thing, personally, I think it just speaks to the weakness of the European economy for the last 20ish years
Hmmm...this wasn't at all my point, but I understand why I my comment could be read this way (the failure to communicate is mine).

I am not suggesting an equivalency between all efforts at all levels, or that innate talent doesn't exist. I was not at all speculating about the nature of preternatural talent. The expertise-gap I was invoking was more like early undergrad to late grad school levels, not pick-up football to Premier League.

The concept I'm getting at is that of a mental block I have observed in myself, and I suspect resides in others, which is really subtle but ultimately quite limiting. I'd have to think harder than I want to at the moment if I were to try to articulate it more clearly, but I do want to be clear that my comment wasn't about innate talent.
I can confirm this LinkedIn trick works and is great
"The chats instantly appear after login. "

I agree, that is very convenient.
Also for the secret police officer..

I use telegram as social media, but I really would not use it to organize protest somewhere. Then the whole safety depends on whether Durov made a deal with the secret police, or them infiltrating the servers to know everything about anyone involved. What they liked at what time, what pictures they shared, etc.
"Voter ID" has become an issue for the political right in the US despite there being no evidence of a widespread voter fraud problem and the majority of offenders seem to vote Republican [1].

So you need to ask yourself when you see this: why would the Republicans push for Voter ID? Yes, it helps with the fabricated narrative about a "stolen election" but there's a deeper reason and it's not election integrity.

It's voter suppression.

As soon as you require a government-isseud ID to vote, you then get into the questions of which IDs qualify and how hard or expensive are they to get it.

Consider counties in Alabama where the DMV was only open one day a month [2]. Or that voter ID laws disproortionately impact Native Americans [3]. Or that student IDs are often excluded as valid voter IDs [4].

I would support broader election reform that includes:

1. IDs issued by the Federal government at no cost that are easy to get;

2. Expanded access to voting. This means early voting, universal access to voting by mail with no justification required whatsoever and (ideally) moving voting day to a weekend;

3. Mandatory voting. That doesn't mean you have to vote at all. It just means you have to put a ballot into a box, even if empty or spoiled, or to mail one in. This is essentially the system in Australia;

4. Ranked-choice voting;

5. Congressional seats decided by proportional representation rather than FPTP districts; and

6. Senate seats per state being decided in terms of population size, say 1-3 depending on size.

Then sure, let's have voter ID.

[1]: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-vote...

[2]: https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2016/12/feds_alabama_to_e...

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10624504/

[4]: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/202...
15 years ago watching too much Taliban propaganda would have put you in Guantanamo pretty fast
You can start here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/

Edit, and here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068600/
An "open source server"... are you trolling?
What's legal is very malleable with the use of money. Which copyright holders weren't shy about spending.
Nothing. In other news, murder still immoral as always.
Nuance: They're still getting exposed and thus gaining immunity with the environmental filtering, just not so much viral load as to be out of school [as often].

It's a win-win from that perspective and dismissing that serves no one in the end.
He says he uses Vim, which is on the computer.
It's simpler, the US wants to control the narrative everywhere and in everything, just like in the 90s and 00s. Things like Telegram and Tiktok and to some extent RT, stand in the way of that.
I used this for taking notes last semester, and I think it's the best free software option right now. The UI is intuitive and, more importantly, the drawing feels good.

The absolute best might still be Styluslabs Write, which has very nice editing capabilities and I prefer its "pencil case" tool model (you have multiple tools with colour, shape, hardness, etc.). But it's closed source, doesn't run natively under Wayland, and I like Rnote's smoothing more.
Why would KGB would share their toys with western powers? They have their ring of dictatorships to use it as one of most potent propaganda and tracking tools.
Awesome. Now do Musk and Zuck.
I think if you have young kids and in the 40s where the need for healthcare appointments go up there might be a demand for this product.
The real "cry me a river" here is for the FB terms of service - someone violated them to produce a popular product people like!
You don't need a PhD to get a license...
I would delegate the answer to another Russian company: https://www.kaspersky.ru/blog/telegram-why-nobody-uses-secre...

Also it's not really THAT hard to find "the proofs".
Let’s just say I encrypt illegal.content prior to uploading it to Platform A. And share the public key separately via Platform B. Maybe even refer Platform A users to a private forum on Platform B to obtain the keys. Are both platforms now on the wrong side of the law?
There are immune system benefits to vaginal delivery which is primarily about the the transfer microbiota from the mother to the child.

I am not disagreeing with anything you are saying, but often these are often conflated.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=f5pj4u7f9v0y8ri853qmaxg1
Isn't this a consequence of Telegram's actions?

It was their decision to become something bigger than a simple messaging app by adding channels and group chats with tons of participants.
It was also their decision to understaff content moderation team.

Sometimes the consequence is a legal action, like the one we're seeing right now. All this could have been easily avoided if they had E2EE or enough people to review reported content and remove it when necessary.
Kinda weird to say that only Apple stans have them when they are the global marketshare and revenue leader. Sticking to objective facts will make your point more effective.
If you are a criminal lawyer who is providing defense, that is acceptable because everyone is entitled to to a fair trial and defense.

If you are a criminal lawyer who is directly abetting in criminal behavior (eg. a Saul Goodman type) you absolutely will lose your Bar License and open yourself up to criminal penalties.

If you are a criminal lawyer who is in a situation where your client wants you to abet their criminal behavior, then you are expected to drop the client and potentially notify law enforcement.
He is clearly saying that the goal was to help people reap the benefits of facebook usage while limiting the drawbacks. The goal was never to get people to quit altogether.
Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely ma (2016)