skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really compatible with your comment about the US. By your own description, you do exactly the same thing that the US does,† but it's only strange when the US does it?

† That is, you follow 11:00 PM with 12:00 AM, and you don't actually refer to "AM" or "PM". Both of those are normal US practice. You are different in the use of 24-hour formats in writing, but that has no bearing on the question of whether the hour following 11 PM is 12 AM; you just assured me that that's true in both countries.
Hardly anyone even thinks about peanut allergies in a nation of 1.4 billion people (India) and kids don't drop dead like flies here.

But sure, let's just call the hygiene hypothesis tenuous.
Apple needs to create more iPod nano type fun products. Instead they are trying to create category defining products like vision pro because I think apple too has fallen for the MBAs running the show instead of the pirates. They need more risk, more fun, smaller bets to figure out the next wave.
My point was that management has a history of rolling out shiny things to production and then having egg on their face. See Microsoft's racist bot, Google's AI making up stuff in their adverts, etc.

Your original wager was that it would be in production, not that it would work.
Lets say I open up a grocery store. Criminals start buying their food and bookkeeping supplies there. The police discover this. Should I be held liable for fueling and enabling these criminals?
In a number of ways, and probably all the ways that are required by law in your jurisdiction.

Learn more: https://about.meta.com/actions/safety/audiences/law/guidelin...

Yes, WA messages are supposed to be e2e encrypted. Unless end-to-end encryption is prohibited by law in your jurisdiction, I don't see how that question is relevant in this context.
Good article, meh headline.
What is stopping Telegram from signing in as you and reading all of your past messages by changing how the authentication logic is handled for specific targeted users? Not saying they have done this, but they obviously could.
you comment strikes me as naive in the same lines as "i have nothing to hide"
i live in germany, cannot access Sci-hub via ISP's DNS
You are free to disagree with them. For what it's worth I think they are genuine. But either way they have been very clearly and explicitly communicated, and are anything but "ulterior".
Have you done the risk calculations? Are you assuming LNT? Really, at the construction costs now you could probably pay someone to do it and have that be profitable.
One of those was @rtnews which is definitely state-sponsored propaganda and remains inaccessible to this day.

They cooperated to some degree, but I'll go out on a limb to say that the authorities wanted Telegram to be fully subservient to western government interests.
The creator is a veteran of both Elixir and Ocaml worlds, and is actively building community around the project too[0]. There are also development streams that are pretty educating[1][2]. As a fan of Erlang runtime, but also wanting static types in my code, I've been trying this out and fairly enjoying so far.

There is also Gleam[3] for static types on BEAM, and as beautiful and simple as the language is, its a bit too barebones and the ecosystem is fairly lacking (as expected of a young language). Ocaml has much better story in both, so I naturally found this more fun.

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/bob11-2024-erlang-ocaml-same-thing-os...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@leostera_/videos

[2] https://www.twitch.tv/leostera/

[3] https://gleam.run/
Exactly. Another case of a business hijacking a term and abusing it to describe something else.
Ah yes, memories of my laptop, an Orinoco card, and Netstumbler cruising down the highway during my day-job. Shortly after that I added an X-10 video receiver and a USB Hauppauge WinTV adapter to capture video transmitters too. I'd reach over and trigger a screen-shot whenever live video came into view. Once in a while I'd even capture myself driving through a parking lot or something on the feed.
Head coverings are not banned. Anyone who's ever been to Paris or any french cities in the past few years can confirm.
I was fully expecting him to be arrested by a third world dictatorship somewhere but, no it's my home country, France. I'm ashamed of my country.

Most of the traffic on Telegram is not even encrypted...

EDIT: Yes, reading more about it, nothing to see here, it's not about encryption...
One of my family members rarely lets her daughter watch TV, and when that kid is in front of a set, she's so catatonic she can't remember her name. I can't imagine if she was an iPad kid with TikTok in front of her, kids especially eat up these splitscreen videos. Educated, working, adult HN readers aren't the target audience for these sorts of things, but even I got caught in the TikTok trap for a year and still watch hours of YT and FB shorts in a stupor. I'm glad HN hasn't introduced short-form video content yet ;)
Show HN: Worker-bindings; CF Workers wrangler.toml bindings to Rust struct
For Couldflare Workers development in Rust, #[bindings] automatically bind bindings in your wrangler.toml into a Rust struct.
Price seems decent for lifetime which is 20$. Also it's processing on server side rather than client machine so user can do it from mobile, old laptop and don't need to use any other software.
> Napster had zero ethical responsibility for the mass piracy it enabled

How could they have any moral responsibility for ethically neutral thing other people were doing?
Bullish situation, Durov is being targeted mainly because it's not explicitly and collaboratively affiliated with the NATO block.

Terrorism, fraud and child porn are as present on Whatsapp, Facebook and other platforms, Facebook even instrumental in the Myanmar genocide (2017) and yet I haven't seen Zuck ever being detained anywhere at any time.

As a Telegram user, however, Telegram is just great as a chat app. It's lightyears ahead of everything else.
That's not at all the same thing.
Isn't this what Section 230 was supposed to protect against?
don’t you have an answer now?
I'm an old man and the simplicity of Go is for me.
I noticed that. It's like Reddit staff delusionally believe that Reddit accounts have any value any more - when they get banned for any random "offense" (e.g. refusal to support Israel) and you just make a new one, they have no value to you. Moderators know this too, which is why they immediately jump to permanent bans - anything less isn't strong enough since you can just make a new account.
Because of llm Internet we have today, I already do go out of my way to find books and information that I can audit were written by a human before GPT.
Like your article states, there’s some evidence for exposure to benign microbes reducing allergies, but that is completely different than pathogens strengthening the immune system. Unfortunately some people seem to have remembered the hygiene hypothesis as meaning that microbes of all kinds are actually good.

There’s also a concept of immunity debt, although that’s more of an explanation for certain diseases being especially bad the year following COVID restrictions than an argument for exposure.
Clinical trial set to begin in Japan for medicine to help grow teeth
Because of the nature of the encryption, it allows more convenience compared to WhatsApp and Signal. For example, on Telegram you can (and we do) have a million people in a group without exposing their phone numbers. This has proven itself to be extremely useful to protestors. Signal failed massively, you couldn't add too many people and you always had the risk of exposing the phone numbers.

Along with that, you can use Telegram on as many devices as you want. The chats instantly appear after login. WhatsApp and Signal both are lacking here.

So there are always tradeoffs when it comes to encryption and convenience.

Telegram's focus has been on the convenience side and providing assurance using a clean record of protecting user-data from governments, which is why Telegram was created in the first place.

Can the encryption be improved? Of course yes! I'd love to! but I think much of the criticism by the WhatsApp loving crowd is not only disingenuous, but also harmful.
Even better (where weather allows) is fully outdoor daycare. We were fortunate to have only the briefest of shut downs during COVID.

Obviously impractical in many areas but it's part of the California dividend
Even greater democracies prefer 'thermorectal cryptoanalysys'
So what if it is state sponsored propaganda? Most media is biased in some way. It shouldn’t be censored. I want to hear their side of the story too.
The ban against protests was stated by the courts to have to be done case by case.

The headscarf ban is part of all religious symbols in public areas like schools and hospitals.
good on France.

more billionaire CEOs should be arrested.
Unless I’m missing something, your mproto link only covers transport level encryption not storage.

It doesn’t include E2E encryption in the scheme only client to server.

Whether the server stores it as plaintext or not, is moot to the point of having telegram itself be able to see the chats because they hold the encryption keys of the server and therefore can be made to comply with legal requests.

The person you replied to may be incorrect on the aspect of plain text but imho they’re right that it’s not really relevant in this context.

Encrypted storage would be relevant for the case where a server is compromised by a hacker.
> What is their usual motivation for this? Do they find they are running into regular work or life situations that require it?

I have a chip on my shoulder. In university I was depressed and didn't even bother attending lectures let alone doing the work in the first couple of years, couple that with professors who when contested were off by a 20-40% bc they cba to care for a secondary course in another department...

When looking for thesis advisors, I found one interested in the things I was. They made a comment asking whether I had an issue with mathematics. Over the year I learned enough mathematics to get to what I was interested in and understand the bleeding-edge literature (calc, linalg, vec calc, prob theory, etc). I corrected some of his proofs in his classes by the end of the thesis.

Still, my early grades haunt me, and parts of me wants to get a math degree just to prove that it is not a skill (read, intellect) issue.
what is your approach? please elaborate
What is the legal precedent behind shutting down Minecraft migration
basing your assurance that whatsapp is secure because meta didn't care about a Brazilian judge misconstrued wiretap request is wild.
That’s really dark and dystopian
> Durov landed in a country that had an arrest warrant out for him.

And of which he’s a citizen, fwiw
> Isn't Whatsapp supposed to be end-to-end encrypted?

It is supposedly end-to-end encrypted. And in a shallow way. Also the app is closed source and you can't develop your own.

It's basically end-to-end-trust-me-bro-level encrypted.
author here: yeah, as someone pointed out already, I could not find a way to make them async. PHP only has Fibers, and they are not sufficient for that.
After 3 years my Apple Watch needed a battery replacement. I went a week without it. There were times I missed an important call or text because I don’t have any habit of checking my phone and I refuse to use audible alerts.

Overall, the Apple watch is less distracting because you can quickly glance and ignore most notifications, or filter notifications based on who it is, time, etc.

But if I had to think harder … another reason I love the Apple Watch is getting stripe sales notifications. Someone halfway around the world buys a thing of yours and you get a tap on the wrist as a reward. I’m not sure I’ll ever turn that off.
I went ahead with a prostitute who wrote to me on tg.

She first asked where I was and was very coincidentally there as well. A sure sign of a scam.

Then asked me to buy a steam card and take a photo of the code before "meeting".
But it's not ad absurdum, it's a degree of visceral discomfort for tolerating either the most shallow of discomforts, or the least shallow such as experiencing the vulnerability of navigating a culture without knowing exactly where you are at all times.

A laptop is just a marginally different tech choice according to whether I like a bit of variety in my office setting. I don't have a printer or scanner at home, I walk down to the library, but if I no use for laptop over a desktop I'd pick that, which I do for my gaming pc. If I couldn't pick a laptop, that one could argue I've adapted to having, I'd just adapt to not, it's not a big deal.
Yes, the messaging apps. They suck big-time. By far the worst communication app I’ve ever used. So many bugs…

Telegram is indeed the best like others are saying, and WhatsApp is a distant second.
Yes, but that’s an American law
Not much has changed, I see.
Alternate title:

"Black hole in orbit around planet could be a sign that physics in that section of the universe is very similar or even identical to ours"
Please explain how a US law affects an arrest in France.
Yeah, I don't doubt that it can be improved. I hope it does because Telegram is not a fringe messenger anymore. There can be improvements made to the infrastructure, so that they don't keep facing these issues again and again.
Think of my comment as a prediction, rather than a value judgement.
It's better not the Kim Dotcom situation, that would mean Durov encouraged the illegal use of Telegram like Megaupload rewarded file uploads which generated heavy download traffic.

If that would be the case he would be at least a accomplice if not even the Initiator of criminal activities.

Otherwise it would be just an abuse of his service by criminals.
This should be obvious to everyone here, but it's pretty much inevitable that if a backdoor exists, criminals will eventually find their way through it. Not to mention the "legitimate" access by corrupt and oppressive governments that can put people in mortal danger for daring to disagree.
> having it follow people as they walk past

That reminds me of this amusing project [1] from 13 years ago. An artist had a sidewalk right next to his window. He put a curtain on the window that was only wide enough to cover about 20% of the window, with a motorized system to move the curtain side to side. A camera and software would recognize when someone was passing by and rapidly move the curtain to block their view in and then move it with them as the passed by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhbUjVyKIc
That's a popular lie, Telegram uses the MTProto 2.0 Cloud algorithm for non-secret chats, which is audited and verified by multiple independent parties. For example WhatsApp claims it uses EE2E encrypted chats, how ever these claims are unverified and not audited. Also their chief executives are not in jail, coincidentally.

You can consult these links if you want to read more about it:

https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/AJiEAwIYFoAsBGJBjZwYoQIwFM...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.03141

https://github.com/miculan/telegram-mtproto2-verification
> Why should I think that LLMs would be good at the task of analyzing a cloud incident and determining root cause?

Because it would be extremely profitable if they could. That’s how we’ve ended up in this mess, the promise is just so tantalizing even if it’s not based in reality.
It's worse than this. The author argues that backdoors are necessary rather than simply being willing to share his/her data for inspection.
> Why are these service providers being punished for what their users do? Specifically, these service providers? Because Google, Discord, Reddit, etc. all contain some amount of CSAM (and other illegal content), yet I don't see Pichai, Citron, or Huffman getting indicted for anything.

WORSE, you get banned for reporting CSAM to Discord, and I guarantee if you report it to the proper authorities (FBI) they tell them to bug off and get a warrant. Can we please be consistent? If we're going to hold these companies liable for anything, let's be much more consistent. Worse yet, Discord doesnt even have End to End encryption, and the number of child abuse scandals on that platform are insane. People build up communities, where the admins (users, not Discord employees) have perceived power, users (children) want to partake in such things. Its essentially the Roblox issue all over again, devs taking advantage of easily impressionable minors.
> Yeah, I don't doubt that it can be improved.

There was no discussion of whether it can be improved. I was just telling you that it meets the established understanding of the term "effectively plaintext," which you were seeming to disagree with.

Have a good rest of your day.
It was a big thing in the early 1900s too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_air_school
Why are you assuming tech savy people care primarily about end-to-end encryption?
Judges and authorities complaining is not a proof that encryption is good. Not cooperating with court will have the same effect, which is exactly what Durov is allegedly accused of.
People often, but not always, lack the prerequisites because they weren't able to learn them when it was taught in school. And that was because they lacked the pre-pre-requisites because they in turn didn't pick those up when that was the material being taught.

In math, things build upon previous things to much greater degree than in other subjects. If you get off track once, it's hard to catch up.

But if you lack prerequisites because it was never taught in high svhool etc, that's a failure of the curriculum.
Yes, but walking on rough terrain would still keep it a rough terrain.
Surely we could have gotten a better source for this story than a sketchy crypto news site.

Here is some coverage from some more reputable sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2kz9kn93o

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/25/telegram-messaging-...
That is so 2009.

RAM can be XOR'd with little latency with hardware acceleration with a key in a slightly - separated secure enclave that will degrade if upset too rapidly, similar to a virtual da Vinci cryptex.

radio/bluetooth/em/sensitive/proximity warning switches to unmount virtualized volumes all in a quasi-state-sanctioned-"contact center" in middle Ukraine.

They are trying their best to prevent the inevitable; the ungovernable, untaxable, uncensorable, un-surveillable commerce and communication platform that will eventually arise from the amalgamation of human's pesky technology and its crossroads with the human condition.

The hate for all things labeled "crypto" (convenient poising the well/doublespeak) was a (partially) government sigh op astro-fabri-exagerated to sway public opinion against anything "crypto" so that an ungovernable, decentralized, general trust-less computation protocol/escrow/rep using zkp+ and hormophic encryption was not able to be realized before the alfabit bois got a chance to mole into the development pipeline and backdoor the inevitable Merchanti Ultimatum; anything less would be a massive national security threat globally.
How I was able to read without sign-in: https://threadreaderapp.com/scrolly/1825472703223992323
Section 230 does not apply as law in France.
This is a good argument for, "why do I need to learn math/science? I'll never use it."

Maybe you won't need to factor polynomials daily, but knowing how to solve that kind of problem can be applied to other scenarios outside of Algebra II.

Great post!
From the linked article:

"Almost no virus is protective against allergic disease or other immune diseases. In fact, infections with viruses mostly either contribute to the development of those diseases or worsen them.

The opposite is true of bacteria. There are good bacteria and there are bad bacteria. The good bacteria we call commensals. Our bodies actually have more bacterial cells than human cells. What we’ve learned over the years is that the association with family life and the environment probably has more to do with the microbiome. So one thing I would say is sanitizing every surface in your home to an extreme is probably not a good thing. Our research team showed in animals that sterile environments don’t allow the immune system to develop at all. We don’t want that."
Near UV seems really promising for preventing indoor disease transmission as well. Has there been any more research on it lately?
Can you give an example?

Never had any problem with Signal.
Forcing people to de anonymize speech and enforce state censorship (“moderation”) is not an appropriate baseline and says more about the corruption of France than about Telegram. At this point how are they any different than the CCP? Each wants to paint their censorship and authoritarian tactics as moral and legal and justified.
How do you propose jurisdiction to work without judging the truth?
I love simulation theory because it keeps me from going insane when I think of something randomly and it's on the front page of HN the next day (for the first time in 7 months).

Anyway these would be cool if they could actually move humans. Imagine crossing a vast desert with some friends on one of these bad boys.
I get your concern, but large effect sizes make up for a multitude of sins.
Show HN: Prank app that creates confetti
I created this fun little app for pranking family, friends, co-workers. It replaces the desktop with a screenshot that creates confetti when you click.
This is exactly how you filter out careful thinkers. Put them under some arbitrary time pressure. They'll fail time and time again. Then you'll be stuck with clever yes men who can't see the big picture.
If law enforcement asked them nicely for access I bet they wouldn't refuse. Why take responsibility for something if you can just offload it to law enforcement?

The issue is law enforcement doesn't want that kind of access. Because they have no manpower to go after criminals. This would increase their caseload hundredfold within a month. So they prefer to punish the entity that created this honeypot. So it goes away and along with it the crime will go back underground where police can pretend it doesn't happen.

Telegram is basically punished for existing and not doing law enforcement job for them.
There are some good suggestions here. It's easy to feel powerless and paranoid about all the crap going on but a balanced approach that focuses on mindful living and ethical choices is a better way. By transforming anxiety into positive action we can contribute to systemic change while maintaining personal well-being.
If you’re allowed to query the data you could use the column name/data type to come up with lots of good candidates, and then if then verify by checking whether the actual values correspond (assuming that it’s something like a uuid or username column and not a serial/int column)
#!/bin/bash
function csv_to_parquet() {
file_path="$1"
duckdb -c "COPY (SELECT * FROM read_csv_auto('$file_path')) TO '${file_path%.*}.parquet' (FORMAT PARQUET);" }
Seems like in that case, you could just use cogwheels and racks, and avoid the complexity of legs.
YouTube ignored reports for CSAM links in comments of "family videos" of children bathing for years until a channel that made a large report on it went viral.

Who you are definitely determines how the law handles you. If you're Google execs, you don't have to worry about the courts of the peasantry.
First builds from Haiku R1/beta5 branch available for testing
The Vision would be uninteresting to me at anything beyond pocket change prices. I have an SF concept of the type of augmented reality that could be interesting but we're nowhere near there.

Really, I'm an Apple fan but MacBooks and iPhones are the only devices I'm genuinely attached to. I haven't replaced a broken old iPad (at least not yet) and my Apple Watch is something I basically use for hiking.
And russian...