skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. I’m not well informed enough to say one way or the other, but it seems doubtful to me. Regardless, the end result is that it doesn’t. Nobody speaks English without loanwords, and someone has already demonstrated that doing that leads to such wonders as ‘uncleftish beholding’.
Because some things like terrorism and child sex abuse are harms to society as a whole, and even private individuals have an obligation to help combat them. Durov has a service where by design it's hard to filter out that kind of activity, and he's effectively (if not explicitly) helping protect that activity.
Writing a small compiler in C and a big compiler in Rust is simpler than writing a big compiler in C.
You don't want to use that argument, because that's the same argument that has been and will be used for a lot of things, like gay relationships, transsexualism, any and all drugs, violence in media, etc.
The blog post is about the name "sharding", as opposed to the concept of partitioning. True, this is not obvious from the title alone, but the post is pretty clear.
This is why the aforementioned ABI (of the latter language in the title of this post) won't die for a long time. The name of the game is compatibility, not performance/security. Bell Labs was first.
You overestimate the comprehensiveness of C standard with half the things being optional. It's not given that python will compile on a minimal comforming C compiler.
NextDoor where I live is overrun by advertisements for gutters and 1 day shower replacements.

Maybe I live in a boring area?
Capturing the Zeitgeist (2020)
Yup, in a browser you can. In my terminal or my text editor or Slack, I can't.
I don't think there is. I've seen data suggesting correlation but no causal studies.
A bicycle can do stairs just fine. They're tricky, but not much more than a similarly-steep hill would be. (Of course, that's ignoring wear on the tyres from going over the edges of the steps.)
Leaders Can Avoid the Insidious Knowledge Trap (2021)
Also true for male founders. Perusing many of the companies in any YC batch, the founders, especially the nontechnical ones, appear to be far more attractive than average.

It's a mixture of beauty bias (even the smart YC evaluators are not immune), the fact that more attractive people are more willing to take risks because they have a higher chance of ending up on their feet in the event of failure, and the eugenic "smart thus rich/high status dad/mom can marry hotter spouse" effect compounding over generations. Often YC founders come from privilege and physical appearance is certainly a correlate.
I know a bit about this topic.

For metadata you first want to remove the obvious identifiers, phone numbers, names. You'd want to use something like anonymous@jabbim.pl for your IM account.

Next, you'd want to eliminate the IP-addresses from server, so you'd want to connect exclusively through Tor. So you'd set the IM client proxy settings to SOCKS5 localhost:9150 and run Tor client to force your client to connect that way. This is error-prone and stupid but let's roll with it for a second.

Now jabbim.pl won't be able to know who you are, but unless you registered your XMPP account without Tor Browser, you're SoL, they already know your IP.

A better strategy is to use a Tor Onion Service based XMPP server, say
4sci35xrhp2d45gbm3qpta7ogfedonuw2mucmc36jxemucd7fmgzj3ad.onion (not a real one), and you'd register to it via IM client. Now you can't connect to the domain without Tor, so misconfiguring can't really hurt.

So that covers name and IP. We'll assume the content was already end-to-end encypted so that leaks no data.

Next, we want to hide the social graph, and that requires getting rid of the server. After all, a server requires you to always route your messages through it and the service can see this account talks to this account, then to these ten accounts, and ten minutes later, those ten accounts talk to ten accounts. That sounds like a command structure.

So for that you want to get rid of the server entirely, which means going peer-to-peer. Stuff like Tox isn't Tor-only so you shouldn't use them.

For Tor-only p2p messaging, there's a few options

https://cwtch.im/ by Sarah Jamie Lewis (great, really usable, beautiful)

https://briarproject.org/ (almost as great, lots of interesting features like forums and blogs inside Tor)

https://onionshare.org/ by Micah Lee. Also has chats between user and hoster

https://github.com/maqp/tfc by yours truly, crude UX but the security is unparalleled.

>On a side note, I was just recommending Telegram as alternative to WhatsApp

Don't. Telegram and WhatsApp both leak meatadata, but WhatsApp is always end-to-end encrypted. Telegram is practically never end-to-end encrypted. I'd use WhatsApp over Telegram any day. But given that unlike WhatsApp, Signal is open source so you know the encryption works as advertised, it's the best everyday platform. The metadata free ones I listed above are for people in more precarious situations, but I'm sure a whistleblower is mostly safe when contacting journalists over Signal. Dissidents and activists might find Cwtch the best option however.
Some years ago I was arguing with an otherwise intelligent[1] friend who doesn’t believe in global warming.

I said that the theory behind global warming is very simple and then… I failed to explain it in simple terms to a sufficiently intelligent critic like him.

A bit sheepishly I went and did some proper research, digging through actual science papers like this one.

Turns out: global warming is actually surprisingly complicated at every level!

This paper references the absorption and emission spectrum of CO2. That’s not a simple curve!! That’s just a sketch, a cartoon in undergraduate text books. The real spectrum looks like a complicated comb. Worse, these narrow lines interact with the similarly narrow lines of other molecules, exchanging energy through both collisions and photons. Then, it’s also important to model every isotopic combination and every excited state, especially in the upper atmosphere.

It turns out that the largest contribution to the observed warming is from some particularly hard-to-model scenario of a rare isotope in an excited molecule high in the atmosphere at a grazing angle in the Arctic region!

What reassured me was that the more I dug into the research the more I saw how earnest and hard working everyone involved was. Even when the science started to get above my level of comprehension I got the distinct impression that no stone was left unturned and every I was dotted and every t was crossed.

If you look hard enough you will eventually end up on a weirdly 90s looking site hosted on nasa.gov where some underpaid scientists have been patiently collating high resolution spectra matched to high-altitude balloon measurements. It’s a database that along with many others is used as the input into supercomputer simulations based on numerical codes also patiently developed by armies of scientists. It’s mind blowing how much science has accumulated and how little of it ever makes it into public discourse.

[1] Day traders read news sources that are very right-leaning, pro-big-business, etc… He’s a quant and book-smart, but it goes to show that we’re all products of our environments and not as self-determined as we’d like to believe.
well, when Matrix was founded, UK was still part of the EU
why is every social media network now just "post something with varying levels of correctness because it farms engagement"

it's so exhausting needing to just read comments to get the actual, real truth
That's not the definition of "gross receipts". Perhaps Elon thinks he's too smart to ask an actual accountant, or perhaps he's mad about the "Overpaid Executive" surcharge on the gross receipts tax. [0]

[0] https://sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/overpaid-executi...
First, one thing to keep in mind: "Big Pharma" is the medical equivalent of "venture capital" in technology. They buy up a lot of patents and very early stage startups in the hope that 1 or 2 of 100 investments actually strike it big, and that explains a part of why new medical innovations cost so much - all the loss has to be distributed.

> It is a harrowing proposition: that in trying to control drug prices for 67 million Medicare patients now, we might inadvertently prevent the development of future drugs that could save lives. Implied, if not stated outright, is that we’re putting a cure for cancer or Alzheimer’s or some other intractable disease in jeopardy.

Well... given that a lot of the fundamental research in pharmaceuticals happens at universities and/or on taxpayer grants, what exactly is preventing the US government from taking over the later stages of development and the associated risk itself, and only use external providers for manufacturing at scale?

Of course, it's a rhetorical question. The answer is two-fold here - primarily the obvious: large parts of the US (and most Western nations facing similar questions) prefer a "small state", preferably as small as possible. But there's also a second answer... the US' very dark history in government-run medicine. The Tuskeegee syphilis study, the consistent discrimination against PoC and women in medical research, MKULTRA or the US just about permanently burning all of its trust across the world by using "vaccination drives" as a pretext to verify Bin Laden's presence in that compound in Pakistan [1] - antivaxxers, Covid deniers and their ilk didn't sprout up from nothing, they have very fertile soil.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/1034631928/the-cias-hunt-for-...
French AI Startup H Loses Most Co-Founders Months After Forming
Because company behaviour is a reflection of the laws in the places it operates.
Your insurance has a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) that has a formulary (the list of drugs they cover). Multiple insurers might use the same PBM. New drugs aren't automatically covered, as they haven't necessarily made the calculation that the cost of it justifies using it versus the alternatives.

It's intentionally complicated in order to fracture responsibility, avoid paying out claims and extract payment from publicly funded insurers.
They're millions of dollars in the hole already, and the problem was that low information voters read "police department budget: 2020, 100 million. 2021, 80 million" and no farther.
People not in the Ruby unity probably don’t realize Ruby takes a very liberal approach to its docs.

Most people just use rubyapi.org because it’s modern and looks good. It’s backed by the Ruby foundation.

These docs are just the “official docs” which I almost never even use anyways. Glad they don’t look like they’re from 2001 anymore but I’m likely to keep using rubyapi.org as it’s just way out ahead in looks and mobile support.
It is white text on black background by default. Do you have some browser plugins that mess with the website content?
UUID 4 also sets 4 bits to fixed values to indicate it's version 4. You can argue whether creating different namespaces between the different methods of creating UUIDs is useful. But your plain random number generator has only a 1/16 chance of generating a valid UUIDv4. (setting the bits correctly is however trivial if you do want to roll your own uuid generator)
To be pedantic, that is only true until/if the Supreme Court rules that it is a violation of the first amendment. That is to say, it is simply the status quo and not a hard fact that the first amendment doesn't cover images and text/speech equivalently.
San Francisco needs to get its act together. Richest, smartest city in the US, perhaps the planet, and its downtown is barely habitable, and development/improvement is relegated to very exclusive rich areas.
This is a significant factor in overmedicalization in America I think. Therapy catches a lot of it since it is both broad in scope and difficult to objectify. It is a shame that so much money is wasted to provide worse outcomes in some cases: eg overprescription or overuse of inpatient stays.
Yes, I did mean parking, oops.
Party like it’s 2011 agian, before the dumb supes gave them a tax break not to move and it all went to crap.
> That includes all your iCloud encryption keys and plaintext messages.

Are these stored encrypted or in the clear? If the latter, please cite your source.
Mainly because the slicing motion separates fibers in the fresh, it's more effective than blunt force. Same with a knife.

It's interesting, however, that this post is much higher on the front page than the post about Durov's arrest by the French ever was, despite having 1/10th the number of comments during a similar time period.
If you were the one hosting it on your own server and storing CSAM that people were sending, yeah, you should be arrested. Nobody cares if you upload a messenger to github, there's scores of them.
There are also valid reasons the other way, like consulting an attorney to challenge the warrant or prepare a defense before it gets executed, disrupts your life and prevents you from clearing your name because you're being incarcerated without bail. It's hard to investigate the charges against you from a cell.

Or the ability of journalists to inform the public of what the government is getting on with in their name. If the government is investigating their critics they have no right to keep it a secret.
Ha re: audio cues for debugging… your pc speaker is truly an underused tool when debugging something infrequent… for example our system processes a lot of xml data and usually it’s fine but for our test suite hearing beeps and knowing there are server side issues immediately is a great thing
If the medication is on the formulary the max out of pocket is usually somewhere around $12K. It's not capped if it's not on the formulary. And fancy new drugs are often off the list.
right, replacing millions of trips by car through the center of the city with on foot or bike or transit instead is not an environmental improvement

thanks for being transparent about not being serious
Ask HN: What Is the Derivative of Not(x)?
This post by Stephen Wolfram was on the home page recently: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/whats-really-going-on-in-machine-learning-some-minimal-models/. It says the partial derivative of Not(x) is False. I don't understand why. Help appreciated.
Where are you getting state counts, and what do they mean here?

As far as I know, most states have procedures for licensing several of these categories, and a couple more besides (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, for example).
Canada: Sure you will never see a doctor, but, when you do it is free!
> Anyone can join these channels.

Doesn't mean that the server operators could. Think Mega (the new version of MegaUpload): they have these hash/fragment parts in the URL which aren't sent to the server and so you can send links around but Mega can claim they can't read anything because nobody gave them the "join" link to the data they host

But that's not what Telegram does and so they might reasonably have to implement automatic scans if there are an oddly high number of crimes being coordinated on the platform. (Sarcasm coming up:) It's really strange this would happen after they said it's for privacy nerds and then never implemented encryption for any of the useful/standard features
I’m sure I’ll give away my age on this.

Boomers were raised by the first consumer generation in America: the theory of consumerism to escape a permanent Great Depression. It went unquestioned that the value proposition for physical possessions might be so high that it verges on patriotic. Boomers are by far the biggest spenders.

But the important young people today are overseas. This is a statement about numbers and it’s a statement about young people in USA prioritizing sustainability. The value proposition to young Americans is reasonable for health care and nutrition/food stamps, and perhaps unreasonable for cable TV and corporate bailouts.

The original Green New Deal, the 2006 package of single-payer health care, job guarantees, free college paid by a carbon tax; that’s hard for me to call materialistic. Huge spending to offset the next generation’s collapsing consumerism.
Regardless, the process is so long that it seems inauditable in practise.

Like i guess i can see the appeal of starting from nothing as a kind of cool achievement, but i dont think it helps with auditing code.
"The North has said it is retaliating to a propaganda campaign by activists in the South, who regularly send inflatables in the other direction, loaded with anti-Pyongyang leaflets along with food, medicine, money and USB sticks carrying K-pop videos and dramas."
Yes, I think rust made a big mistake for not going for a stable (or at least mostly stable like C++) ABI (other than the C one). The "staticly link everything" is fine for desktops and servers, but not for e.g. embedded Linux applications with limited storage. It's too bad because things like routers are some of the most security sensitive devices.
They already do that. Seattle at least is populated by expensive cars with rounded semi-transparent plastic covers over the plate that are intended to block camera capture.
I got new insurance this year through my state's insurance marketplace. They said my existing therapist was in-network. This was news to her. I called and spoke to them. They insisted. She called and spoke to them. They insisted.

So they've been paying her $150 a week for me instead this year. She doesn't know how she ended up being considered in their network as she practices solo, but here we are.

The system is vastly more convoluted than I think anybody on any side actually realizes it is.
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In... and move on.
Yeah but the server can correlate it to all messages sent by you, and law enforcement can link server logs to your real identity thrpugh your telco.
Generally in the US, you must be proven guilty, not proven innocent. The prosecution must prove that the defendant actually committed the crime. The defendant absolutely can claim plausible deniability.

Although currently it is not entirely clear whether mere possession should continue to constitute a crime by itself, or it should require actual child abuse (because the former used to imply the latter).
My experience, and also what I’ve seen from a few YT videos as well, is that the local LLMs just aren’t as good as Claude and chatGPT. They don’t seem to understand or follow instructions as well as C and C.
Most of Telegram clients except initial mobile apps was actually open source projects that was choosen by company to become "offcial" ones.

They just dont implement E2EE since almost no one uses it on Telegram.
Data Marketplaces in a LLM World
Not dismissing the usefulness of the project at all, but curious what the concrete benefits of that are -- is it mainly to have a smaller, more auditable bootstrap process to make it easier to avoid "Reflections on Trusting Trust"-type attacks?

It seems like you'd need to trust a C compiler anyway, but I guess the idea is that there are a lot of small C compiler designs that are fairly easy to port?
This is madness. I love it.
Given that we're this far along, bootstrapping is purely an aesthetic exercise (and a cool one, to be sure -- I love aesthetic exercises). If it were an actual practical concern, presumably it would be much easier to use the current rustc toolchain to compile rustc to RISC-V and write a RISC-V emulator in C suitable for TinyC. Unless it's a trust exercise and you don't trust any rustc version.
Developers Hate Documentation
True, but Lua probably will :)
https://osintteam.blog/ai-powered-osint-mastering-data-colle...
I envy your blind optimism.
ntoday’s digital age, the sheer volume of available information can be overwhelming. For journalists, investigators, and analysts, sifting through vast amounts of data to find relevant insights is a daunting task. This is where AI-powered OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) comes into play. By leveraging artificial intelligence, professionals can streamline the process of data collection, making it faster, more efficient, and more accurate. https://osintteam.blog/ai-powered-osint-mastering-data-colle...
I've installed HRV myself too. I have a reasonably easy to access roof space, but for a large guy still took over half a day. Cost 1.5k NZD, but not mosquito free, it's warmer indoors plus when neighbours fire up their fireplaces I only get an occasional little whiff of it.

Best thing I did for my house so far!
That feels on-brand for an organization that's still selling to each customer rather than providing a self service offering. If you need to talk to a person to get their services they'll surely be helping you understand your pricing.
We had a client who wanted us to do a security audit and communicate the results—unpatched vulnerabilities mind you—via Discord. They could not be dissuaded.
and it's useful for tradecraft. I think NSA uses Tor to some degree, for example.
Rewrite it in C. Great idea. Just do not tell it to rust community...

I like to see that programmers like you still exist and belive in what they do.

Remembered this article...
https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-repl...
So is France going to arrest the owners of HP, because their printers can't filter out CSAM?
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35479553 (90 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438399 (172 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=425765 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17926566 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16343939 (1 comment)

And related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848605
I think you can sum up almost all of SF's instituional issues with the fact that as of June this year, they'd approved 16 new housing units, total, for the entire city (https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco-only-agreed-build-16-...).
Telegram clients are open source. Anyone can verify that the client does the end-to-end encryption correctly.

Telegram has had its own history of really weird issues with its encryption protocol, like the IGE, 2^64 complexity pre-computation attacks, IND-CCA vulnerability and whatever the hell this was https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/

But these are not the big issues here. The issues Green's blog post highlighted were

* Telegram doesn't default to end-to-end encryption.

* It makes enabling end-to-end encryption unnecessarily hard

* It has no end-to-end encryption for groups

Those matter gazillion times more than e.g. a slightly older primitive would.

End-to-end encryption matters because Telegram is not just a social media or Twitter wall. It's used for purposes that deserve privacy, and Telegram isn't providing.
> Because in your eyes it is so gradual the difference between it's happening slowly and not happening at all is imperceptible and impossible to prove.

It's extremely straightforward to prove. You look at the laws that have been passed and the court opinions issued in the last 30-60 years.
"to beg the question" means "to dodge the question". You mean "prompts the question".
That's like telling a builder never to use nails but turn to adhesives instead. He will look at his hammer and his nails as well as a stack of 2x4s, grin and in no time slap together a box into which he will stuff you with a bottle of glue with the advice to now go and play while the grown-ups take care of business.

Sure, you could build that box with glue and clamps and ample time, sure it would look neater and weigh less than the version that's currently holding you imprisoned and if done right it will even be stronger but it takes more time and effort as well as those glue clamps and other specialised tools to create perfect matching surfaces while the builder just wielded that hammer and those nails and now is building yet another utilitarian piece of work with the same hammer and nails.

Sometimes all you need is a hammer and some nails. Or pipes.