skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
App can have internal keyword check that could open backdoor to law enforcement when certain terms are said. *fbi enters the conversation* probably won't be in your chat log anytime soon but you can't argue telegram, signal and whatsapp can't do it. Whatsapp being fbs darling almost certainly does already and signal servers anti spam folder is smelling mighty like a five eyes backdoor.

Tbh given both those apps company's have dealings with gov in aus I'm gonna say signals probably already got a backdoor into em. If you don't think so you don't know aus law well enough or who signals are.

Also the owners of the apps aren't liable for the content of the conversations. Their liable for providing a platform for the conversation to take place and for not knowingly taking available efforts to curb criminal activity on that platfor/service. It's like hey I'm gonna rent you a store house to hide all your illegal drugs in Mr gang member. I'm not doing the hiding or anything but I'm assisting the activity by providing the store house. I could make efforts to curb such activity like you know doing a rental inspection once every six months but I choose not to and turn a blind eye. Am I assisting a crime or am I completely innocent? Now repeat this but telegram is the store house.
This was a bug that was fixed right after it was reported. The author of the article praised Telegram for the speed of reaction.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France
That is absolutely not how it works. If you offer a platform for public discourse you are required by law to moderate it or face the consequences. Telegram group chats are technically open to moderation, yet the company has done nothing to put any kind of moderation in place.

This is in contrast to Facebook or Twitter. Those platforms will absolutely take down content that is offensive or criminal in nature.
Yes you’re correct.
Computer! Turn off the second monitor! Boss is coming!

Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
Note that America has been caught spying on EU countries politicians and manufacturers so many times and nobody got ever punished for this. While the backdoor talks are purely hypothetical, and Telegram's client and protocol are open source: you can just study the code.
Edit: Oops it was already posted, sorry. I should have known. I checked but I forgot to check the 'new' page :( My apologies.

FWIW I really like Telegram, I hope it will get cleared up soon.
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> You never know if that spot in Florida will be part of America/New_York next year.

The example really threw me; in the case where you assume that Florida stops observing DST, Florida is definitely not going to be part of America/New_York, so that example is guaranteed to have the same problem as the UTC timestamp.
The post was about self-hosting, not about the subscription. I do think the subscription is a good way to do it though!
Why does it matter whether their caring about whether their prediction is correct, is done at the time that their prediction is about?
Do you have a link in english?
A most likely outcome now is that a deal will be made to avoid jail time and he'll let EU do the backdoors or whatever they were asking politely first.

Telegram has also tried to distance itself from TON crypto token, but it is so obvious how it still serves the original Durov's vision and controlled by a team of founders (aka initial token holders), now proofing their stakes for a supposedly decentralized blockchain to operate.

It's not a wise idea to run "uncensored" messenger where a lot of shit happens and also offer it's users built-in non-government-surveilled payment methods.
Another reason not to go to France. It was once such a beautiful country
Airlines do not search people's baggage for drugs. Postage services do not search people's packages for drugs.
(Even though "legally, no one has ever decided whether a journey into space technically counts as leaving the United States.")

At least the customs requirement has been resolved: https://www.flexport.com/blog/apollo-11-astronauts-cleared-m...
Yeah Reuters has it too: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-...

No source on what the warrant is about though.

FWIW I really like Telegram and pay for it, I hope it will get cleared up soon.
I was wondering if you could go the other way, could the statistical knowledge of what most people want when they type XYZ mean we could use it to design more powerful languages that are even less verbose.

I don't really know but I hope someone answers this question!
I want to call my bank and take Boeing out of the composition of my personalized synthetic index fond. Sadly, nobody offers that.
Since it came from the organisation which decides how those astronauts will be brought back to earth. It is more legit than the Guardian since they are not the ones who get to decide how they make it back.
> The pipe operator is a semantic execution barrier:everything before the `|>` is assumed to have executed and returned a table before what follows begins

I already think about SQL like this (as operation on lists/sets), however thinking of it like that, and having previous operations feed into the next, which is conceptually nice, seems to make it hard to do, and think about:

> *(the query engine is free to optimize the execution plan as long as the semantics are preserved)

since logically each part between the pipes doesn't know about the others, so global optimizations, such as use of indexes to restrict the result of a join based on the where clause can't be done/is more difficult.
We are many professionals that share Karpathy's opinion on this and know for a fact that it provides a very meaningful productivity boost. It may not be for everyone but I can absolutely not imagine going back, and can confidently say it's not just junior developers that love these tools.
Why isn't there a single screencast (un-edited, un-cherry-picked) of anyone showing off their 10x productivity boost in a full "typical" coding session?
Many of you might assume that Starliner is a cost-plus contract. Cost-plus contracts are common for large capital projects but they often end up running way over budget because the provider is essentially incentivized for budget overruns because they get paid more.

It turns out Starliner is a fixed-price contract (for $4.2 billion). So when Starliner had an issue a couple of years ago Boeing was forced to do another test and eat the launch cost. We ened more of this.

SLS (and Artemis?), for example, is largely done by cost-plus contracts.

It's common for companies and governments to want to have more than one supplier so they can't so easily be price-gouged (which doesn't really work but that's a separate topic). SpaceX got a $2.6 billion contract for Crew Dragon and its launch cost has to be substantially lower than Starliner's.

So NASA will still push Starliner for this reason. But this whole debacle is deeply embarrasing for Boeing, so much so that people at the top may actually get fired. That's really rare for the executives responsible for a strategy to be held accountable for its failures.

Boeing is just not in a great place and I honestly don't know how you right the ship at this point. A fish rots from the head and I imagine Boeing has descended into warring fiefdoms where some VPs just try and increase their head counts so they can get promoted to SVP.
There are plenty of “multicultures” out there that don’t have the problems the US has.
> I don't think calling the ISP was actually what they didn't feel like doing. It is more the call itself. Being put on queue with wait music, dealing with first line customer support who have no clue what you are asking, waiting to be connected to the right support, being connected to the wrong support, being put on hold again, suddenly being hung up on, rinse, repeat.

Exactly this... we have enough issues with our internet I didn't want to add this into the mix - especially as if they decide to not really give me a static IP, then I have to change it everywhere :/

I trust my VPS provider far more than my ISP
I'd love to see this operationalised as concrete predictions, as one might find on a prediction market! Do you have any specific predictions about programming next year?

I ask (for example) because I suspect shitting out CRUD apps is cheaper via LLM than via human now, and I guess probably most programming work is of that nature, but there are programmers out there whose job is not shitting out CRUD apps, and it's not clear from your statement whether you intend the sentiment to cover those programmers too.
In which countries are the vendors of anonymous numbers located?
> It's not hard to figure out why it was unblocked.

If you're implying it's backdoored, that's a wild mental gymnastics you made there.

No hate, but your comment is speculative in nature.
And my intuition is that Telegram is going to become banned in Russia soon, as Youtube is being banned now and Telegram is the last popular application where you can find the content about war, protests or elections that govt doesn't like.
Prepaid sim cards, bought with cash by mules, make the phone number requirement completely inefficient.
Millions of acres of public lands are off-limits. How to fix that
It's interesting that using JSON encoding for all messages eliminates many of the problems.

ambiguous encoding? Nothing ambiguous about JSON, you don't even need any separator. Or merge them into json array.

length-extension attacks? appending non-whitespace to json makes it invalid (for sane decoders at least)
To slightly mis-quote the only good Soviet joke that came out after the fall of the USSR:

The Communists lied to us about Communism, unfortunately they didn't lie about the West.
It was unblocked because of the backlash from people, incl. Russian politicians who are heavy Telegram users. FSB has nothing to do with it.
Someone recently asked this on Twitter; Simon Willison responded with https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/21/search-based-rag/ which I have not yet watched but which he claimed was a good example of this genre.
If happiness is, e.g., log(money), then you can just adjust the game to have the payout be $2^2^n after the nth step. This cancels out the logarithm and recovers the paradox. The only way to get out of it with diminishing returns is to have happiness reach a finite asymptote.
Makes so much sense
Please record a screencast and educate everyone.
Yeah, diffs are unreliable.

A couple of interesting things to read:

1. This reverse-engineering of VS Code GitHub Copilot - it's a bit old but still very relevant to understanding what's going on under the hood: https://thakkarparth007.github.io/copilot-explorer/posts/cop...

2. This post from Aider (a very sophisticated CLI-based coding assistant tool) talking about how the benchmarked different editing formats: https://aider.chat/2023/07/02/benchmarks.html#edit-formats - and this later post as well, about how diffs without line numbers can work well: https://aider.chat/2023/12/21/unified-diffs.html#unified-dif...

This whole field is still very much under active development, so I'm sure there are lots of other interesting techniques out there.
There are many parts to government but the French are actually sponsors of matrix. So one would have believed that they agreed with secure communications.

https://element.io/case-studies/tchap
Already deleted... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341353
Exactly this. You can hear it directly from the SpaceX employees who developed the suits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMwKwcMdIg
My parents are going to retire on the Gold coast for this reason. Quieter life but several big hospitals and Brisbane nearby
Yes, incredibly wacky.

Somebody posted the spec as a reply, and looks like the standard can be read in a way that mandates exactly that.
Usually courts are a lot more lenient with foreign citizens. Try to get jailed in Mexico as an French citizen - pretty hard unless you do obvious bad stuff.
I apologise that it wasn't as clear as it could've been! What I was trying to get at is that for my requirements Pi-hole simply can't do it all without faff (DoH being the main one).
So you don’t think that there a chance this could be cleverly staged?
Scraping LinkedIn URLs is hard. I recommend that you either use a third party API like Scraper API or get domestic IPs with IP rotation. We are gonna launch our product in this week and you can test it out yourself. We would love to have your feedback on the product.
Can't have people talking to eachother, they might find out something they shouldnt.
Boeings choice to not sufficiently invest in its core products while pumping its stock through buybacks belongs solely to Boeing and Boeing’s board. The impact to their reputation was a predictable and ignored consequence.

In Boeing’s case it has very little to do with coronavirus, which was just a related example: some businesses set aside enough seed corn to survive without help, and others didn’t.
Your characterization fits basically any encryption program, including PGP and SSL connections by a web browser.
And now this story has disappeared from the HN home page
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-vrai-du-faux/le-...
There was no need, Russia did try by banning a lot of IP ranges but Telegram at the end was still running.
Hey I'm the author of compact_str, thanks for the kind words!

Fun fact, it was this fasterthanlime post that originally inspired me to play around with small strings and led to the creation of compact_str.
Governments want control and intelligence. Im not saying the did this legally or valid like but I can see exactly why they did it. Same with Assange... The government was tired of dealing with his bs, legal or not.
You can report any post in public or private groups to moderators.
That's the C&O canal towpath which, uh, there's definitely pedestrians there in places (I've done several hikes on portions of it). True about no cars, though.
They're taking the entire mean over the summertime, which isn't a useful metric IMO. If your days are 90, and your nights 60, you mean out around 75, despite it never really being 75 during the day where you can enjoy it. The average high in July is in the high 80s, which I think matches the entire region pretty closely.
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> There is no info about why exactly he was arrested but it looks like that French police had a warrant for him.

> But it looks like it is because that he is accused of being an accessory of a lot of things like traffic, drugs, pedopornography, anything bad you can image because he would not have done anything to combat that on Telegram.

This very article says that it's because Telegram doesn't cooperate with authorities in handling illegal content (which it is legally obligated to, to operate in France) and provides services to facilitate illegal activities (crypto or throwaway numbers).

It's in the "why was he arrested" section.
This has been my experience with the chat models (and yes, I'm talking about SOTA, both Claude and GPT), but I've found Copilot autocomplete to be an improvement that is worth the cost.

That's not a huge endorsement given that it's not especially expensive, but it definitely decreases the burden of creating a large amount of new code quickly, which makes bootstrapping a new personal project much easier than before. The key is to give it discrete chunks to generate—small helpers, single lines, or test cases—and not expect it to come up with a reasonable architecture or to even generate a single class.

But I wholeheartedly agree about the chat models. Every time I've tried them I've wished I hadn't. The experience of interacting with them is similar to interacting with a junior developer, and it's not worth pairing with a junior if it's not an investment in their training.
Show HN: DadLAN – reducing isolation for Dads with LAN gaming
Hi HN!

I help run DadLAN Australia (https://dadlan.au), a mental health charity dedicated to reducing isolation and increasing support for Dads across Australia by playing LAN games every month.

ABC just did a great write-up and I'd be happy to answer questions about it, including how to get started in your own country.
Telegram wasn't fully blocked in Russia even for a single day. They tried to block it and failed miserably. The team actively circumvented the blocking by deploying to new IPs faster than they were blocked, and in addition to that every IT guy in Russia had a tgproxy instance running for family and friends.

After a while they just stopped trying and decided that it's less reputational damage to just let it be.
> What do you mean a "single mission", Apollo put astronauts on the moon 6 times and orbited it another 2 times.

Possible bad wording on my part. I meant that the cost was hardly sustainable in a long run, so that once it was clear that the US had won the race to the Moon, the lack of significant incentives doomed the project because of high cost compared to the return. Back then there was no or very little interest in placing commercial satellites in orbit and nobody cared about Mars. The shuttle was different as it served as a lab and carrier to put satellites in orbit, and more importantly (replying also to avar here) disasters aside one would still have the shuttle returning after each launch, while every single Saturn V had to be rebuilt. I believe the move to a reusable carrier was obligatory to make short term launches feasible economically, which is what the Shuttle started and now SpaceX is continuing.
I haven't gotten this deep into it yet, but I hope to! It's very interesting - will try to be clearer next time :D /gen
I sincerely hope the next game is rocket league
On the other hand, the chatbots let enthusiasts like these guys write code. There are millions of them. And each of them, even if they are 1/2 as good as you rustman123, for starters they will learn the right names for things, that’s not challenging, and secondly, they have more time than you have for this problem, which you have zero.

The chatbots are the Zero to One for programming.

So listen I agree with you. I’m not going to use this. But hundreds of thousands of smart people with time, like these guys, can now author stuff that will get better over time faster than you personally will solve any one particular problem for anyone. So something something, log in your own eye before the thorn in the other.
Plebs are needed.
Oh, i see. I was wondering if it was a common occurrence that the workers noticed a leak and said nothing.
"There is no up-skilling needed to use LLMs. They are very basic to use."

Hard disagree on that. Using LLMs effectively is deceptively deep. Sure, anyone can throw a prompt at a chatbot - but I've been using them on an almost daily basis for over two years at this point and I still feel like I'm finding out new ways to improve my prompting several times a week.

I talked more about how hard they are to use here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/27/ai-worlds-fair/#slide....

"Many of us have used them for a while now and can speak from experience that they aren't providing a meaningful productivity boost."

I'm getting a meaningful productivity boost, which gets more meaningful the more time I spend learning how best to apply them.
This is pure FUD. They're still trying to block it, the latest three attempts happened this week. Two of them were done in the middle of the night as training exercise, maybe for 3-4 hours each, and the last one then happened in the middle of the day. All three broke large parts of the internet and were quickly reverted.

When something newsworthy happens in some region, all messengers get blocked in that region for days, Telegram included. They don't care about collateral damage to other websites then.
> "As a rule," - in the main but I have some fabulously sarcastic American mates.

Sure, me too. They are my favourite kind of American mate. :-D I stand by the point though.

Parallel example: Lobste.rs bans Reg links being posted as stories, at all, 100%.

The mods said it is "snarky" and mean and mocking and feel it is not worth sharing.

> There are some very dodgy commentards on el Reg.

I said nothing about commentards, and I'm not now.

> As you say, it is thriving but I do think it has lost some of its edge (as I said we are all a little flabbier).

Please note: I am a writer, not an editor. I have zero editorial control and in the context of the Reg I don't want to be an editor again. I've done it, for a much smaller site, and it's very hard work indeed. I do not fancy the job of doing it on such a high-profile high-traffic site, not one bit.

All I will say is this: the change in style is conscious and intentional.

> I often think that el Reg and Private Eye are in a similar space in the hyper-dimensional space of reporting (yes, I said that without blushing).

Fair. Aspirational, I'd say. I like and respect Lord Gnome's mighty organ.

> "are not native English speakers and struggle with wordplay" - hard disagree

Ha!

This again is a policy decision, but at coming up on 3Y full-time there now, they are right. You would be amazed how little people understand. I was.

And the ones who understand least do not know it.

General reading comprehension on the Internet at large is extremely poor.

> English is the French language, as you know well.

You mean, "lingua Franca"?

You know the Franks spoke an ancestor of German, right?

But yes, it is.

I also note I lived in Czechia for nearly a decade, speak poor intermediate-level Czech as a second (er, 6th) language, and in that time I had to totally redefine my understanding of "fluent English speaker".

I stand by what I said.

Globish is a thing. It is not the same as standard English, and British English is, sadly, not the standard form: that is American English.

> enough machine translation to get a good idea of what is going on.

Which is precisely an example of an area where idiom and slang and elliptical figurative speech goes wrong the worst.

The decisions were made, and made knowingly. It's not my place to question them, but anyway, the reasoning was sound.
Doesn't have an entry on https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ yet, but give @xena time…
> UX/UI in general is the largest issue that FOSS projects have

Couldn't agree more! As a FOSS developer[1] that tries to strive for good UX/UI in my apps.

[1] https://www.notes-foss.com/
Acceptable loss of crew event is like 1 in 250 (can't remember the exact number). They can't quantify the probability of failure, so not putting them in Starliner is the right call.
thanks, what brand, if any, do you recommend?
How is this even relevant? Telegram doesn’t have E2EE enabled by default. Group chats aren’t encrypted at all.
Not directly related to the arrest, but to Durov:

His Telegram channel is somewhat odd. It's a mix of what you'd expect (updates / general stuff about Telegram), some slightly weird stuff (highly praising countries he visited or talking about his oh-so-high-quality sperm and how he's the biological father of "over 100" kids), and then there's just shilling for some random watch-ads-to-get-coins things or whatever that totally aren't scams built on Telegram's new mini-app thing and TON (which is Telegram's cryptocurrency that they can't legally sell as theirs).
You can take a look for yourself here: https://t.me/s/durov
I hate the way Telegram always gets flak for crime when WhatsApp and Signal can be used for it just as well and they are even harder to track things down on because they have E2EE. Telegram by default doesn't and it doesn't even support it in group chats!

So if these things happen in WhatsApp or Signal we simply don't know about it.