skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because Telegram is marketing itself as a secure messaging app, and because journalists continuously present it as such while discussing the arrest of its CEO.
There’s rarely, if ever, a _need_ for containerisation. Even for a single static binary though, there are benefits like network and filesystem segregation, resource allocation, …
> It's so weird that you automatically assume everyone shares your values about what a "good" company is.

The person you were replying to was sharing their opinion on what a "good" company is. I didn't see any assumption that this was objective truth.

And then you shared your opinion. Which you could have done without calling them weird. Which is why you got downvoted.
How long did it take Apple to make their ARM-based CPUs that totally outperform Intel CPUs in laptops? This group could very well do the same. The main problem, of course, is x86 compatibility, since most laptop users run Windows and not Linux and Windows only works on x86. They might be targeting a different market where x86 compatibility isn't important but power efficiency (or maybe some other metric that x86 sucks at) is: non-Windows mobile devices of some kind, for instance.

I do really wonder what their business strategy is here.
I meant the article, not you :)
Interesting, I replaced my android (with Lineage and without even microg) with iPhone and all the hyper-targeted ads stopped.
I embrace statistics.

Two whistleblowers, two premature deaths.
No because HP printers *do* print tracking marks to allow law enforcement to match a printout to a printer if they find abuse material that's been printed.
> But the original work had taken me maybe an hour. And the cost of keeping the data around was approximately zero. It seemed he didn’t consider that.

i guess this is very illuminating - you have to predict the cost of adding YAGNI, before doing it. A low cost YAGNI feature might actually serendipidously become useful.

I feel this is the same principle as random side projects, not done out of necessity but out of curiosity and/or exploration.
This suggests that management is a strict superset of programming, which is a notion I imagine many of us would strongly push back against.
Do you have some info about Durov being arrested for not letting law enforcement see encrypted messages? The public info says he was arrested for "...lack of moderation, ...[and] failing to take steps to curb criminal uses of Telegram."

I don't see anywhere saying he's been arrested for anything to do with encryption or cooperating with investigations.

eg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg2kz9kn93o but pretty much all the sources I have read say the same
This is a rather strong claim not supported by real-world data on how Go’s GC behaves under load. Which, in fact, isn’t the first time for your account as search across the discussion history indicates so you do you.

Sustaining very small allocations with median period of say 66ns (and I’m going to be charitable here) is not that difficult with single-threaded workload. Things get interesting as it becomes multithreaded and object graph becomes more complex.

As I said before, on any microbenchmark that is meant to evaluate allocation+collection throughput Go performs worse than the competition and there is no workaround to this because that’s just how its GC is designed: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... And this is without even involving any sort of cross-thread data sharing between the allocations.

It’s okay to praise things you like and criticize those you don’t, but it can be kept within the realm of actual pros and cons of a particular technology.
> private comment

Critically, you need to inform them that your support is contingent on their action on the matter. Even better if you can get a handful of friends to do the same. Politicians may care about issues but they care more about keeping their jobs.
Thanks for the link, product looks good. Maybe you should work a bit on the website, this is how it looks at my pixel phone on Firefox: https://photos.app.goo.gl/txpxvDQAMYQWRSmi7
Pretty amusing/scary/insane the number of times you see a chain of languages (automake, perl, python, etc) where you need version X-1 to compile X. The dangers of dog fooding new features into the core tooling.

Which is how I think Rust works? So to bootstrap Rust requires building every version since the language was self hosted.
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because telegram and it’s users heavily insinuate it’s comparable to Signal rather than Tiktok.

right on their front page in giant font they declare “private” and “secure” when they’re neither. it’s telegram’s own fault they receive this criticism repeatedly—and they strangely constantly complain every time they’re publicly spanked and taken to task. theyre heavily insinuating (i call it it lying) to their users and then over and over crying because they get called out.

if they don’t want to be called out then they should quit insinuating those things, it’s dangerous af. they know they’re lying though, obviously they won’t stop. but omg i wish their users would run fast and run far—it’s like watching an abused person who keeps going back to their abusive partner “oh they mean well”… pffft, no, they really dont.
I think it would be a mistake to classify an LLM as a level of abstraction. You cannot use it as a stable black-box foundation to build on top of.
The only reason I immagine people might not be happy with elisp is when they reach a point and wish their emacs was their operating system - ie they wish elisp was a systems language - and dont want to learn C
What is the library used to profile the program?
>I work for FAANG and have had one page

literally a page? with a pager?
I am not sure the job of the EU should even be to make technical standards in this case. The point is to develop strategy and to convince an endless amount of non-technical stakeholders on value, and that is something the EU usually does well.
Your complaints, while being understandable can be addressed with simply reading of the manual and source code. There are various lips out there and as soon as I know Emacs has its own, I would seek the manual for that. There are wealth of documentation on emacs and its ecosystem, and it predates a lot of standards. The terminology can be strange, but you can readily find some glossary.
Life is essentially always that complicated. I have never really had a case where something was less complicated than I thought
If they agree it's not the Navy's fault, there's not much point in writing the article at all. As the parent pointed out, the Navy is not "the government", the Navy is "the Navy" and has absolutely nothing to do with how gig work sucks.
> see project
> excited to try it
> code (coming soon)
> bookmark project
> forget about project

Barring the obvious deepfake implications though, I'd be excited to see a new era of SFM-style content made with this
This has been widely known already, it just takes pop history decades to catch up with what professional historians know and do.

And there is also the fact that a lot of people prefer myths to history, especially myths about sacred homelands unspoiled by people traveling and moving (i.e. migrants).
Back in the 80s, having their typewriters allowing you to delete the last 4 characters was cutting-edge material. Then a tiny screen was a 'wow moment'.
As a note, non-competes are for the most part illegal in California, from my understanding.
There actually is a guy doing fake wedding photos for people who lost theirs (in fire, didn't have backups, etc) or didn't have the nice wedding they hoped for, and it's quite a successful business.

Another case, it's very popular in Asian cultures to go on a trip around Europe and get "wedding" photos in wedding dress in front of famous castles. There's no reason why these photos couldn't be generated with AI since the moment is fake already - and it's all about the photo. I worked for a company that was driving these people around, they spent max. 10 minutes at each location.
> They've got good labor prices but almost no legitimate IP.

They don't care about your IP. If it can be manufactured and sold, they will do it. And that's how it should be.
Container ships are definitely worse, but also sadly not feasible to electrify. Power plants are a good start. Short range commercial vehicles as well.
After Iran Steals Sensitive Israeli Data, Israel Tries to Censor the Internet
This is a black-and-white reasoning bug that people often have when thinking about this. The vast majority of targets aren't worth top resources or a risk of exposure.
> Then on top of that I have to go look up what let* is and why it is presumably different from let. One more thing I don't want to do. Emacs lisp sucks.

Don't modern languages require you to also look up definitions of functions. Learning peculiarities like this in Common Lisp (eg equality) really opened my eyes to how much "magic" there is modern high level languages. Personally I dont like magic and lisps tend to be the most magic free high level languages
> We had a free plan, and most users who signed up never made a single API request.

That doesn't sound like a signup problem; what was the goal behind the free plan? Drive more paying users? Raise company profile? Lock in more users?
Non-paywalled

https://archive.ph/C31xl
infinitely easier to read with https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1825472703223992323

I don't know what that scrolly thing is, but it's horrible for this kind of messages.

It'd be even better if it didn't start on X in the first place, but at this point it's a lost battle...
Storks
I've only heard telegram presented as a messenger for criminals in western media.
If pg_dump is not a backup tool, what is?
For me, that I can just do apt install telegram-desktop
I was going to ask about a KFC counterpart since they are similarly secretive; but it turns out this is publicly known, at least according to some sources.

> KFC Accidentally Revealed the Top-Secret Recipe for Its Fried Chicken

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/food-cocktails/news/a63288/kfc-...
Derived a SOTA method that finds the proven optimal solution to the multiperiod blending problem.

This is a problem that every refiner solvea to select raw msterials. They traditionally solve with local optimization methods (LPs) that rely on initial guesses and return suboptimal solutions.

For the same refinery we can find raw material acquisition solutions with 2-5% higher profits.

We made a cloud platform for it and hoping to change the landscape.

(https://www.prometheusenergy.ai/)
The wiki has instructions for setting up different providers including local.
In Russia too?
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I think it's mainly Telegram's native feel (and it is native on every platform it supports afaik). It's even in little trivial things like the rubber band effect on Apple's platforms, then in how smooth the loading of missing stuff from the network is, and finally it's in the design: Telegram is slick.

All those little things combined and when you switch from Telegram to Signal or WhatsApp it feels like going a couple of decades back, or something like that.

Honestly I don't know how much I can trust Telegram and its founder Pavel Durov (I probably shouldn't), but in terms of the quality of software it's unmatched.
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Welch was an addict (addicted to growth for himself) that made his problems everyone else's problems.
Please could whoever downvoted this explain why? There's plenty of evidence of this. Access to Telegram would be like cracking Enigma
> A mismatch between the name displayed on the resume or networking site, and the candidate’s command of English (e.g. Chris Smith with a B.A. from a large US research university who can barely speak interview-level English is surprising).

IANAL, but this sounds 100% illegal to me. From https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices:

> An employer may not base hiring decisions on stereotypes and assumptions about a person's race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
I think when you have a mindset of removing the useless (which your columns were at at the time) you have to be prepared to sometimes add things back in. Yes, it is painful, but it is not a signal that the process didn't work. You should expect to sometimes have to add things back in.

We cannot perfectly predict the future, so when removing things there will always be false positives. The only way to get a false positive rate of zero is to never remove anything at all.

The real question is what level of false positives we find acceptable. If you can only cite this one case where it was painful, then I'd say that's evidence your colleagues approach worked very well!

(I think Elon Musk recommends a deletion false positive rate of 10 % as appropriate in general, but it will vary with industry.)
Now if they would just open the windows :)
The big difference here is something the user sees versus the developers as in your example. For users I think the answer is almost always, less is better. For the developers also, but there’s a bit more leeway.
A better analogy is its like a society that uses steam trains attempting to industrially compete with a society that uses bullet trains (literally similar by factor of improvement). The UK built its last steam train for national use in 1960, four years later the Shinkansen was in use in Japan. Which of those two nations has a strong international industrial base in 2024?
I'm probably dumb, but why would that be proof?

I upload encrypted backups to a cloud service provider (AWS, Google Cloud). I go to another computer, download them, use a key/password to decrypt them.

Sure, I get it, you're typing in something that decrypts the data into their app. That's true of all apps including WhatsApp, etc... The only way this could really be secure is if you used a different app to the encryption that you wrote/audited such that the messaging app never has access to your password/private key. Otherwise, at some point, you're trusting their app to do what they claim.
Usually via a Pager app these days, not a physical device.
Related to the recent events of Telegram:

Telegram has proved a massive challenge for Israel since the start of the war. While many tech firms have streamlined mechanisms through which states can reach out to them, Telegram is considered the least cooperative of them all.
More than that, while many social media platforms have invested heavily in moderation, allowing people and organizations to help monitor content – for example, the removal of antisemitic content or posts inciting terrorism or even the removal of videos from the October 7 massacre – Telegram has not. States and users alike have a single email address to which they can send their grievances
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Telegram emerged at the start of the war as a key platform utilized by Hamas' information warfare against Israel, one Israel was unable to properly address, lacking both monitoring capabilities and an understanding of the platform.
Concerned by the wave of pro-Hamas content, which included videos from the actual attack as well as a constant stream of propaganda materials, Israelis in the high-tech industry tried late in 2023 to reach Telegram's founder, Pavel Durov.
Though they successfully contacted Durov, who lives in the UAE, he was unreceptive to these private requests to improve moderation on the platform. Though a few pages linked directly to Hamas' military wing were locally blocked at a later stage, the private initiative failed to gain any real traction with the app's founder.
Durov is in jail because he is not doing moderation of public chat channels, as far as has been shared. It has exactly nothing to do with encryption or privacy, in both directions (that is, it doesn't in the slightest prove that Telegram doesn't share private data with various states; and E2EE of private chats would not have done one iota to keep him out of jail).
I will. This is the app I wanted for a long time.

I am using an iPad connected to my MBP with the sidecar feature. It is somewhat buggy currently(1). I am updating my iPad to see if that is the issue. Do note that I have an iPad 9th gen and an Apple pencil 1st gen.

(1) The tap (left click simulation) does not seem to work which stops me from changing from writing to erasing. So I have to use my mouse instead of the pencil

edit:
The issue seems to be from sidecar that does not allow tap as left click anymore
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597
> map typically is functional and allocates memory, for does not. But for is more likely to have side-effects.

If / when memory is low, allocating memory can itself be a side-effect...
Do the explosive compounds decompose into more or less volatile things with time? Or are they relatively shelf stable and the bulk material has roughly the same potential as when it was dropped?
> They probably should implement E2EE for everything

Certainly not because then Telegram would lose alot of its functionality that makes it great. One thing that I really enjoy about Telegram is that I can have it open and synched across many independent devices. Telegram also has e2e as an option on some clients which cant be synched
This isn't really very interesting or innovative compared to other comments here, but lately I've decided I want to build a home server to do a few tasks: Jellyfin server, photo server (probably using Immich which looks like a nice clone of Google Photos, where I'm almost out of space), automated device backups, etc., so I've been doing a lot of research into this. I've built computers in the past many times, but I got out of it a while ago so a lot of things have changed.

I looked into pre-built systems like Synology and QNAP, but they seem too proprietary and limited, and somewhat expensive for the hardware they have, so I decided to build my own, but trying to decide on all the HW and SW is a real task: btrfs vs ZFS, Intel vs AMD, RAID levels, etc.
Main issue with adding something you might need in the future is that people leave, people forget, and then, one year later, there's some metadata column but no one remembers whether it was already used for something. Can we use it? Should we delete it? Someone remembers Knight Capital and spectacular failure when old field was reused. So it's always safer to keep existing field and then you end up with metadata and metadata_1. Next year no one remembers why there are two metadata fields and is very confused on which one should be used.
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It took Apple ten years. Apple A4 was released in 2010, M1 in 2020.
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Indeed. In the author's case, the slow pipe is moving data at 17 GB/s which is over 130 gbps.

I've used pipes for a lot of stuff over 10+ years, and never noticed being limited by the speed of the pipe, I'm almost certain to be limited by tar, gzip, find, grep, nc ... (even though these also tend to be pretty fast for what they do).
Why is he in jail anyway? Certainly he's not a pedo drug dealing terrorist… So there is another reason. As to what that is, we can only speculate.

My speculation is that he set a too high price to share the private data with france or USA.
Honest question - is Linux Mint the Ferrari of linix?
Much worse are cluster munitions. In Laos alone there are tens of millions of the 'bomblets', dropped in the 60s and 70s - without any war declared on Laos, still regularly killing and maiming thousands of people, primarily children. [1]

[1] - https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1186949348/us-cluster-munitio...
Nui is a wide spread plugin in Neovim ecosystem, it’s use to have high quality UI widgets.

Probably it also use Plenary for I/O as well.

Not reinventing the wheel is a good thing, don’t see the problem with the dependencies.
[raspberrypi-k8s] Part 1: Hardware
Post 1 of my Kubernetes on Raspberry series. Explaining the hardware used for the nodes, the cluster's node configuration and costs.
They are making up ground in terms of IP even if it is things like Loongsuns LAA64 which is basically just MIPS and RISC V slammed together. China is hungry and their goverment is throwing a lot of investment behind that hunger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
apt install signal

Error: Unable to find the package signal
The original from Financial Times is much better: https://www.ft.com/content/08eb1b45-91c2-4312-9d3c-ac5e4e557...