skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal evidence, so take this with a grain of salt - I work with a bunch of people from Ukraine and almost all of them exclusively use Telegram to keep up with the news and family back home. From talking to them for a while, it's mostly because it's free, has excellent support for sync across multiple devices (including audio, video and other media), has support for proxies to circumvent any kind of blocking, public channels for news updates.

Honestly it would be better if Telegram dropped the facade of having E2EE. It's generally very low on the priority list of most people anyway, as much as it would hurt anyone reading this, but that's the truth. People are not using it for secure messaging, but for a better UX and reliability.

EDIT: Telegram does require a phone number to sign up.
No we haven't- these problems aren't only reducible to a few categories (i.e., free market vs government operated). The shortage of therapists indicates at least an awareness of discontent among many people, and a desire for help (whether just listening, coaching, or deeper interventions). Those relationships used to involve family and friends, but we understand that a therapist is better suited because of better training and less conflict of interest. We don't need trained psychologists for all of those relationships, and much of it could be solved through other relationships that provide comraderie and fraternity- even in a racquet club, finding other people to help you understand the world and support you. That provides an alternative role for government to intervene, instead of the government-operated medicine boogieman. In this case, the government insuring that more people have leisure time to join clubs, go hiking, spend less pressured time with family and friends, would go a long way to improve the problem. That is a different approach from the financialization of cultural life that pervades most government approaches, but it would be much less costly and reap greater rewards
Unlike with all of the human-coded software which is all bug-free and "well-designed" (whatever that means).

Maybe the author should have had the LLM write the article while they wrote software instead. Play each to their strengths.
Not for free, but for negligible cost.
World population was 2.5bil in 1950.

Cars would be far less of a problem if that was still the case.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/64229385
I really hope the US doesn't become like Europe (Europe in general, as I know it's not an actual untied enough polity at the moment) when it comes to free speech, and, come to think of it, in many, many other aspects as well.

It may sound funny to read, especially if you're an American, but I do still see America as the city upon the hill. I've lived in America, and I'm currently in (sigh) Europe, but I wish to return to that shining city in the future. It may also sound even funnier to read, but I probably love America more than a surprising amount of Americans (not a dig directed to any obvious or non-obvious group within the country currently), even though I wasn't born there. The US has just left a huge impression on me.
Yet another "Hey, this reminds me of a similar thing" contribution: Sean Barrett (of the STB header-only libraries fame) has a series of coding livestreams going over his OpenGL voxel rendering library and sort of turning it into a game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD93nsghj9A&list=PLMkT-w6m06...
I have been thinking. Should we actually move towards reducing people involved? Like ban all spectators, just stream televise them. Journalist can get their interviews over Teams meetings. No need for dignitaries to be present either. Basically you need only athletes, maybe coaches and support staff. For catering, well develop some efficient meals that don't need heating and produce them off-site.

All this would save lot on very many things, both in emissions and in costs.
losing access to a number of customers is a real harm and actually quite easy to prove. the service being free has nothing to do with it.
Or make all the LEO companies pay into a fund to build radio telescope on the far side of the moon.

NASA already has a very clever plan to build one out of a crater with lightweight cable fired out from a probe.

https://www.nasa.gov/general/lunar-crater-radio-telescope-lc...

It's like selling (licensing) radio spectrum, if all these companies are going to destroy the sky with tens of thousands of devices in LEO, then they need to fund the moon radio telescope.

The stupid thing is though, radio telescopes were the one telescope that works well on earth and doesn't care about clouds, etc. But now that is ruined.
I have good news to share about how DNS over HTTPS, archive.is and/or Tor works.
Oh, wonderfully simple, might use it for recording voiceovers. Might be useful to add some kind of syntax for pauses, like a blank line between paragraphs.
Fair enough, though this is probably useful people for most non tech people, who might forget their passwords / lose keys, and don’t want to lose all access and data.

Personally, a few months ago I enabled Advanced Data Protection (ADP) which afaik does make iCloud backups (including messages), Photos, iCloud Drive and few other things inaccessible to Apple.

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
- https://support.apple.com/guide/security/advanced-data-prote...

Whether you trust that Apple actually did throw away their keys after enabling the feature is a different story, but it’s good enough for me.

When enabling ADP there’s multiple warnings about how you’ll end up completely locked out if you lose all your devices / lose recovery keys / lose all hardware authenticators. Iirc I was also forced to register at least 2 yubikeys.
For anyone tech savvy you should enable ADP.
Avoiding any metadata leaks without generating tons of cover traffic (to frustrate timing correlation attacks) is very hard.

Signal does indeed use an architecture (at least for chats with contacts, or optionally everyone when you enable the "sealed sender" option that makes you a bit more prone to receiving spam) where Signal doesn't know who's sending a given message from a given IP address, and only which account it's destined for.

But any entity in position to globally correlate traffic flows into and out of Signal's servers can just make correlations like "whenever Alice, as identified by her phone's IP, sends traffic to Signal, Bob seems to be getting a push notification from Apple or Google, and then his phone connects to Signal, so I think they're talking".
That's besides the point. They are offering ML solutions. I believe pytorch and most other stuff works decently well on their datacenter/hpc GPUs these days. They just haven't managed to offer something attractive to small scale enterprises and hobbyists, which costs them a lot of midshare in discussions like these.

But they're definitely aware of AI/ML stuff, pitching it to their investors, acquiring other companies in the field and so on.
Fermi Resonance and the Quantum Mechanical Basis of Global Warming
Someone who has killed themselves is no longer paying you a monthly premium.
>The smog in that region was awful.

That was the concern in 1984. I believe the air quality in 1984 generally was far worse, and the Olympics did fine.
Only among people who pay attention to cryptobro bullshit. They remain the gold standard among cryptography engineers.
Pretty early after kids learn about numbers and computations, they learn about sets, units, lengths, surfaces, weights etc.

Where i live, mathematical formulas are already thought to 7-8 year olds. Also real world questions are asked for which they need to find a solution, and where they need to explain how they found it.

> grow up thinking that 'math' is boring

How can it be thought in a less boring way, i do not immediately see it.
Not in the short term, I'm working alone on this and don't know much about decentralized protocols so I can't work on it yet. Also, Weavus is not a social media: there are no posts, just events, groups and their content. So not sure it's as relevant.
The solution to that is linkers need to generate those permissions and create a manifest section in the elf file so the OS can handle it transparently.
In other words, you have fully reserved compute. That's the way to avoid surprises, but certainly not the way to minimize costs for a large company.
I'm curious about your experience - what specific LLMs and tools did you try? And what's your main programming language?
There are several jurisdictions in the world where the government has the power to force a provider to keep logs, and actively lie about it. We simply have no way to know if mullvad or any other logless provider is actually logless, because they can be legally forced to lie about it.

Aside, warrant canaries have never been actually tested in court and the common consensus is that they wouldn't fly in reality if they were ever contested.
I basically have the same commute here in LA as you. ~50 mins between walking, waiting, and taking transit to get to work. However its simply faster to drive straight there. I can do it in 35 mins, but I opt for the transit to read a book and not pay to park at work (free parking you pay in time looking for it). Most peoples car commute in LA is only about 30 mins because of how polycentric the job network is in LA county (which makes it hard to create extremely in demand transit routes if everyone is going everywhere all the time vs a centralized hub and spoke city).
Just another future dead project like Apple Car. VR is also already nearing its death knell as well ($5K+ paper weight, at best).

Apple is way behind the curve and has been playing catch up since change in leadership from Jobs to Cook. Historically, iPhone innovation has slowed to a crawl. There has been some life with Apple Silicon, but unfortunately like everything with Apple it’s locked off behind the wall. Trying to use it without macOS is an absolute pain in the ass (yes, I have tried asahi but there’s a massive feature parity, and endlessly waiting for upstream support sucks).
Same for me with OVH and Scaleway.

Way cheaper than AWS and friends, and they just work.
The medical establishment for years told everyone that viruses were spread by contact and not by air.
For the VIA thing, I have legitimately earned VIA Preference Points for surveys [0] and have heard of them being offered as survey rewards at my alma mater of Queen’s University (where VIA use is pretty heavy).

[0] https://campaign.askingcanadians.com/faq/via

So I can see some of those offers being legitimate.
Their "censorship czar" tried to hype up some app as a "safer alternative" to X on one of Elon's tweets. Can't remember the app's name.
Yeah he has become a Russian shill and likes to boot lick Elon Musk now that he is as well. (Hell Elon is funded by Russia now!)
I don’t use an LLM largely because my current codebase has a massive amount of bespoke internal APIs. So LLMs are just useless and wrong for almost any task I use.

But this has led me to wonder if there will be gradual pressure to build on top of LLMs, which, in turn, will really only be useful with the tried and true. Like, we’re going to be heading towards an era where innovation means “we can ask the LLM about it”. Given the high capital costs required to train, I wouldn’t be shocked to see LLMs ignoring new unique approaches and biasing to whatever the big corps want you to do. For “accuracy”.

I just sense were about to hit an era of software causing massive problems and costs, because LLMs are rapidly accelerating the pace of accidental complexity, and nobody knows really how to make money off them yet.
Why are you dismissive of security-related issues?
So what do you do when the LLM creates a bug in a multi-million CPU instruction program it generated and you can't prompt it to fix the bug?
Perhaps it was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistaPro ?
It's also country specific. HMRC in the UK are pieces of shit I wouldn't scrape off my shoe
The difference between telegram and others is that in telegram you can type "<city> drugs" to global search and find groups with drug dealers and buyers near you instantly. I don't think his arrest has anything to do with the level of encryption at all.

Personally I find Telegram kind of refreshing in nowadays internet landscape where everything is so sanitized. You can discover all kinds of niches you never knew existed.
Lockheed CL-1201 nuclear-powered transport aircraft concept
Practical "LLM" systems often incorporate things like Reinforcement Learning From Humans (RFLH) to steer towards more useful answers, and Retrival-Augmented Generation (RAG) to lookup relevant information. External "tool use" is also just starting to be adopted.
Such systems are not just next token predictors, there is quite a bit more complexity to it.

Not that I am claiming they are great for post mortem analysis, I not really have an opinion about that.
If we're going to have LLM's writing code that we depend on, then we for damn well sure better have both typechecking and unit tests also in place. Hell, make it do TDD since humans don't seem very keen on that despite its empirical advantages
Sure, there are workarounds in various languages, but it would nice to have a standardized hash-based UUID or ULID
Indeed. Even being charitable and assuming that they're not lying (they say elsewhere that they've shared zero bytes with law enforcement, despite this being demonstrably false), in reality if say, they were to arrest the founder in an EU country (France, perhaps), all they need to do is threaten him with twenty years in prison and I'm sure he'll gladly give up the keys from all the different locations they supposedly have.
Payers (insurance companies) do compete aggressively, but they mainly compete on issues relevant to benefits administrators who make the decisions at large employers about which health plans to offer to employees. Those administrators need to hold down costs for self-insured employers, and having larger provider networks means higher costs.
But telegram also launched a cryptocurrency: toncoin

So why recommend telegram over signal?
So what, population in Hamburg in the 50ties was 1.7mil now it is 1.8mil.
I am talking about cities, not the country side.
Are you looking for something other than just a custom seed in the RNG?
OP's article is from a crypto blog and I think it misses the big picture.
The Spectator [0] is imho more enlightening:

There has been speculation that Durov’s arrest is linked to his most recent
trip to Baku, Azerbaijan, where he reportedly attempted to meet with Vladimir
Putin during a state visit last week. In recent weeks the Kremlin has begun
suppressing access to Youtube and WhatsApp in Russia in the wake of Ukraine’s
Kursk incursion. There is speculation that Durov may have been attempting to
persuade Putin to leave Telegram alone – but the Russian leader refused to meet
him. The fact that Durov flew from Baku to Paris in his private plane, knowing
that the French had a longstanding warrant out for his arrest, is one of the
unanswered mysteries of this story.

So it seems the mystery has a reasonable explanation. There are lots of accidents in Russia, and Pavel probably chose France as the safest option.

There are now also rumors that Russian officials got instruction from above to delete all their communication from the platform.

We will have to wait for more information.

EDIT: I will add that Pavel already lost control over VKontakte in 2014 to the state. By then he had already started Telegram, and so he left Russia back then. (Being denied a meeting with Putin gives Prigozhin saga vibes.) I think he knew the net is closing.

___

0. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-arrest-of-pavel-duro...
We pay one group to teach us and expect a different group to pay us and teach us?

Reality for the many might be somewhere in the middle, off to one side.. there’s academic organizations with billions not pushing it off into organizations with millions to deliver what students paid tuition for.. relatively speaking?

Companies don’t always have to hire graduates to educate them on the job. Profession and career development so important but a part of the work.

It’s a skewed tech reality distortion field where tech companies compete by playing defence to tie up labour so others can’t grow… that results in those pesky mass layoffs. Repeatedly.

Organizations very well may take over educating the workforce and leverage it like salarymen in Japan, low pay for lots of hours and stability. Not sure if I like that either.

Or maybe they’ll just take the demands for remote work locally and let it be a global market.

In the scenarios where a company is paying to educate you .. for free .. in addition to paying you a salary.. to learn? That you’ll become more valuable with, not necessarily give back or create value greater than what you’ve been paid, in addition to you paying an academic institution money to learn.. often under debt is.. sound?

The gap between academic degrees and the workforce is generally increasing without cherry picking small groups as exceptions.

Historically, Universities that taught you how to think didn’t have STEM. They consciously moved from liberal arts into into stem for the funding opportunities.

Most of all I believe everyone has a right to learn and access opportunities to improve their life. The above doesn’t sound like it’s meant to speed that up.

Happy to learn from other perspectives.
Population growth: totally unforeseeable in 1950?
Does being pushed sideways matter? If the knowArt test was on a small scale it might not have had the inertia of the full size.
agree that the assumptions for the writer are large and undisclosed in this rant-article.

>> Apache-style open-source licensing has clearly won out over the GPL

this is telling.. neither license "won out" .. the world of software, use of software, and economics of software, are all expanding dramatically in real time. Define "win" in that context ? too many assumptions, too much tirade..

> We either have to give up entirely on independent devs or find some way to pay them.

yes
Usually a “losing access to customers” argument is tied to loss of capital to make the argument stick. It is harder to tie a customer to loss of capital in a free service. Especially a free service that isn’t the only offering.
If you ban the non-E2EE services unless they ban criminals, then dumb criminals will end up using E2EE services anyways
Total Commander was the original inspiration for thefile.ninja, but over time the context has moved more and more. The program should be easy to handle if you have used total commander., same keys, etc. However, the program has a much more modern interface and it is above all much faster in searches. It is so fast in searches that you can use searches as your own folders in the program.
why wouldn't you use some sort of collision resistant hashing function on the data to achieve this instead?
Indeed and this is the other thing - even if Telegram don't themselves co-operate with law enforcement, it'd be fairly easy for law enforcement to request access to the phone number from the carrier, then use it to sign into the Telegram account in question and access all of the messages.
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> I have to wonder if people are just that bad at programming or if they have a financial incentive here.

I have similar feelings to you, but I want to be careful about making assumptions. That being said, I see so many people making hyperbolic claims about the productivity gains of llms and a huge amount (though not all) of the time, they are doing low value work that betrays their inexperience and/or lack of ability.

I have yet to see a good example of where an llm invented a novel solution to an important problem in programming. Until that happens -- and I'm not saying it won't -- I remain extremely skeptical about the grandiose claims. This is particularly true of the companies selling llm products who make vague claims about productivity benefits. Who is more productive, the person who solves the most leet code problems in a month or the person who implements a new compiler in the same time frame? The former will almost surely have the most lines of code, but they have done nothing of direct value. I point this out because of how often productivity is measured in lines of code and/or time to complete a problem with a known solution.

So for me, when people brag about how much more productive they are with llms, I wonder, ok, well what are you building? I feel like llms are as likely going to make people build fragile bridges to nowhere at scale as anything truly revolutionary.
I’m not interested in having a publisher vs platform debate. You know what I mean.
I suggest not using any of the MAC based versions. In theory that could be anything other than v4 and v7, but v1 is the worst. As well as v3, MD5 is horribly broken.
this person doesn't benefit, but the country does. people could demand a change based on the german example. i don't know how likely that is to happen now, but some time ago the UK used to be part of the EU, which means there was a time when such a change would have been quite likely actually.
The idea of a screen that follows you around is somewhere between creepy and useless. Remember the Amazon home drone, the Ring Always Home Cam?[1]

Robots have to do something useful. For homes, that's mostly clean, cook, or launder. Those are hard, unstructured tasks. Robot vacuums are at last semi-useful, though expensive.

Automated laundry machinery exists, but the amount of machinery you need is way too much for the home.
Robotic soiled-side sorting.[2] Robotic wash and dry, including load and unload [3]. Robotic clean-side sorting and folding.[4] Hospitals and hotels buy such systems. There were Foldimate and Laundroid for the home, but they cost too much.

Robotics woks are a thing in China. They add ingredients at specified points in the cycle. There's a home version that takes a plastic container with multiple compartments and a bar code with the instructions.
But they're just another kitchen appliance.

[1] https://ring.com/always-home-cam-flying-camera

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-03OAHvn54

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9s4HiaRDaA

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpTuwKu5fY0
There was/is also Wire: https://wire.com/en
For the context, this from September 6, 2013.
Ability to write at a very high level (and macros), incredibly fast when compiled, ability to use the repl on a live server for diagnosis and patching functions, language design choices work extremely well for parallel recursive hierarchical inference.
Since you seem to focus on decentralized protocols, I should add: In practice, while we all like federated and p2p apps for the freedoms & this warm fuzzy feeling they provide us with, by default they tend to have a much greater attack surface when it comes to metadata. This is because, compared to a centralized approach, metadata is openly available to far more parties. As a result, 3-letter agencies often won't even need a warrant to get their hands on the metadata: They can simply run traffic analysis and/or participate in the network themselves.
> doesn't require any personal identifier

Do they still not require ID when you buy a SIM card in Ukraine?
They used to have a page wittily named "feature matrix", which made it apparent that only Element was really kept up to date, with other clients missing features ranging from channel search to embedding images. I don't know if this situation has improved and whether the original page still exists somewhere.
Adding 3000 buses won't do anything if they don't also add bus priority lanes and lights. Otherwise they just sit in traffic and at red lights like everyone else.
My dad had those for most of his career. He worked at nuclear plants but lived in the nearest kind of big town, which was always at least 60 miles away from the plant. I can’t imagine what that did to his mental health, the nuclear power industry isn’t something I recommend anyone getting into.