skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent many hours under helicopter blades and can assure you that most of the sound comes from the blades, not the engines, when landing, hovering, and taking off. Also, there is going to be a point where you have to transition from an electric powertrain to a fuel powertrain and that handoff has to be absolutely perfect while hundreds of meters in the air. (Think grinding gears in a manual transmission car.) You could do something like a liquid clutch or something, but that is one more thing to fail and introduces inefficiencies. It is honestly probably better to go with traditional jet engine technology, at least at first, to verify the business model. Then, spend some time innovating.

I'm willing to bet that innovation in blade design will get you much further than innovation on the power train itself.
No idea what this is about but sounds like a test with extra steps
Sure, childhood immunization is great but we're not discussing measles here. Measles is a single, relatively stable virus that's easy to vaccinate against. But children in daycare facilities mostly get infected with upper respiratory viruses. There are literally hundreds of such endemic viruses, especially rhinoviruses but also coronaviruses and others. We aren't likely to have effective vaccines against those any time soon. If children aren't exposed to them in daycare then they'll be exposed somewhere else. Those viruses aren't going away and will continue circulating through the population no matter what we do.
Instead of only allowing flags to be passed by an environment variable, consider using sub-commands or passing a double-dash to stop parsing for the main CLI tool. ie:

```
aos --config ./blah.yml -- my_alias -i input.mp4 -o output.gif

# or

aos exec mv $x $y

```

forcing the user to specify a config file each time you run the command is also a bad design. Create a list of acceptable paths (including $PWD), iterate over them looking for a config, and then allow a "--config" flag to have precedence over any default path.

as of now you have to specify an env var in lieu of passing flags to the tool AND you have to specify a config file. At that point it is just easier to use shell functions or scripts.

check out "jessevdk/go-flags" you can do the env var thing, pass with flags and subcmds and honor the double dash to stop parsing. Its real straightforward.
OVH is still in business, even if they had a fire 3 years ago. Both AWS and Google have had rather large fires.
Why not? If I think my employer is doing something unethical, I certainly would. That would be the moral thing to do.

This tells me most of the people implementing this are either too-scared of the consequences, or they think what they're implementing is ethical and/or the right thing to do. Again, both are scary thoughts we should be highly concerned about in a healthy society that talks about these things.

One other potential explanation: FB and these large behemoths have compartmentalized the implementations of these features so much that no one can speak authoritatively about it's encryption.
If telegrams encryption is so bad why is Pavel Durov under arrest?

The arrest cites that he was not cooperating with authorities to crack down on various drug illegal activities on telegram. None of the other social networks have their ceos arrested. Is it simply that telegram is the only one without backdoors for five eyes?

It seems to me the secret chat feature actually works too well?
Amplified by journalists, and most frustratingly to me even some techies that just can't be bothered to properly examine all available facts despite their technical capabilities to examine them.
I hear you! But it went from bumper to bumper traffic before the Olympics to a breezy 80mph drive during.
What's your method of finding true information outside of Telegram?

Telegram is structured like a mix of a social network and a blogging platform. You find people you trust and read them. Sometimes they would repost someone else and if you like what they write you can read them too.
> Been automatically executing playbooks (Ansible) since before you were born.

This made me look up how old Ansible was.

> Initial release: February 20, 2012; 12 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible_(software)
About 10 years ago, I was using an online password manager, but it got hacked. At that time, I created this one: https://github.com/conradkleinespel/rooster

Nowadays, I use a combination of an online password manager (one that hasn't been hacked yet, as far as I'm aware) and Rooster as a backup.
People here hallucinate bullshit all the time. I just came from a thread with some dude saying microwaves all leak dangerous amounts of radiation. Either you read it and reason for yourself or you let jesus take the wheel. OP was not interested in reasoning.
Telegram offers end-to-end encryption in the same way that McDonalds offers salads.
Los Angeles used to have a good streetcar system, a century ago.

What killed the streetcars (car-company conspiracy, or simple economics) is disputed, but makes for good reading.
It’s not encrypted by default, and even if it were encrypted, you should never trust any connected device with anything important. That being said, Telegram is hands down the best communication platform right now. It is feature-rich, with features implemented years ago that are only now being added to other platforms. It has normal chatting/video calls, groups, channels, and unlimited storage in theory, all for free. I just hope it doesn’t go downhill after what happened these last days because there’s no proper replacement that fulfills all Telegram features at once.
Aren't there already European could providers? Scaleway, OVH, hetzner, what are they missing that only digital schwarz can provide?
Just use v7.

Cue the security experts who say otherwise…
Zola Budd was robbed!
Right, I forgot about flopticals… but I guess almost everyone else did too. NeXT boxes had those, didn’t they?
> I take it you haven't ever interacted with the IRS beyond filing the standard deduction? Or interacted with Medicare/Medicaid?

raises hand

I have! I've actually worked a shocking amount with the IRS, not because I'm a criminal but because I'm working class and wasn't educated on how to file taxes more complicated than a 1040-EZ, presumably because it was never expected I would make that much money or own my own business.

Strictly my experience, I would much, much rather deal with the IRS than my insurance company. Yes, they're intimidating at first, but ultimately every person I've worked with both at the IRS and my state agency has been calm, professional, and frankly to a degree I found surprising, extremely understanding about how badly I fucked up my taxes on a number of occasions. I was never treated like a criminal; they explained what I did wrong, how they found out, what I owed, and how to prevent those issues in the future. And I was given interest-free payment plans with a one-time administrative cost to setup, that I now pay monthly. I'll be fully 0'd out in about 2 years.

This contrasts sharply with my experience with my insurance company! My insurance company tries to get out of paying for every last thing they can manage. My dental insurance has a maximum pay out of a measly $5,000 per year, which seems completely backwards to every other insurance I have ever had, but what do I know. You know how fast you can crush 5 grand in dental work? And paradoxically it still has co-pays, so apparently I'm paying so they will cover most of some bills, up to a predetermined maximum. Additionally, since I own my own business, I do have the luxury of choosing my own insurance, which most people can't, and for that luxury I pay simply princely sums each month to insure both myself and my spouse. I've picked the best for my area (at time of comment) and have to spend many many days of unpaid labor every year re-evaluating that choice, both because circumstances and networks change coverages, and because every single year my insurance goes up despite both of us, by and large, being quite healthy, and I get fucking annoyed about it and want to see if I'm getting my money's worth. I wouldn't say I am by a long shot, but the alternatives cover less, and cost more, so I'm still paying.

Frankly, and I don't mean this as a personal attack against you, but I have to assume people who talk like you have never interacted directly with the IRS, and are instead absorbing that opinion through the same cultural osmosis I did, because I too was initially terrified to the bone when I got my first letter from them several years after starting my company, and honestly, they are incredibly over-hyped. The only way to truly get the IRS to take you to to task is to, for years on end, purposely try and weasel out of paying taxes.

I would LOVE, absolutely LOVE, the ability to get my healthcare funded via an organization templated off the IRS.
> And what part of this service is going to break horribly when I disallow it?

I neither allowed it or disallowed it, but left it until it self-terminated. I relaunched it, and it told me to register. Yup, it had wiped my registration.
True enough, the regex was overzealous. This looks better:

time = time.replace( /^0*(0:)+/, '24' );
>> Each jab contained different RNA strands. He will get the vaccine every week for six consecutive weeks, and then every three weeks for 54 weeks.

>> Lee said: “We hope adding this additional treatment will stop the cancer coming back because a lot of time for lung cancer patients, even after surgery and radiation, it does come back.”

>> He added: “I’ve been in lung cancer research for 40 years now. When I started in the 1990s, nobody believed chemotherapy worked.

>> “We now know about 20-30% [of patients] stay alive with stage 4 with immunotherapy and now we want to improve survival rates. So hopefully this mRNA vaccine, on top of immunotherapy, might provide the extra boost.
> The fewer sick days people need, the less burnout causes them to churn

I mean, does more therapy lead to fewer sick days though? Or more sick days?
It is weirdly fascinating that this question has to be answered on a semi-regular basis. I am not sure if it is more of an insight into humans, ephemeral nature of software or concern that something major has changed.
Facebook is also full of drug and malware shops and advertisements for such.
All right. I wish you the best!
I'm not sure I understand the analogy. In your analogy, who are the flat-earthers?
I use an LLM precisely BECAUSE I want to focus on the art. Like Davinci would use apprentices.

LLMs can do mindless drudgery just as well as I can, but in seconds instead of hours. There's nothing about remembering syntax, boilerplate code, forgetting a semicolon, googling the most common way of doing something, or combining some documentation to fill in the gaps that's even remotely "art" to me.

I never ask an LLM for what I'm artfully creating. I ask it for what I know it'll get instantly right, so I can move on to my next thought.
Are there any pointers for work to try to make metadata private (I.e encrypted)?

I was recently very curious about this question and asked similar ones here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41267877

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41270863

On a side note, I was just recommending Telegram as alternative to WhatsApp (but I did mention that we need to enable Private chats for E2E). It is definitely not an ideal UX.

https://barac.at/essays/on-leaving-meta
That’s what I do. But tbh I came to it late and I am still trying to time things a little due to economic turbulence.
The author claims that everyone refers to Telegram as an encrypted messenger, but he only provides a single example to support that. I quickly checked Google News and couldn't find any media on the first page that did the same. It feels like a manipulation.

UPDATE: anyone who downvote, I invite to check for themselves.

Just a few known media:

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/25/telegram-messag...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/25/durov-t...

3. https://www.businessinsider.com/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arr...

4. https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/24/telegr...

However, indeed, I‘ve seen a few media that call it encrypted. This include France24, POLITICO, and The Times.
> The only difference is how you derive the key.

Telegram CEO has access to all keys and therefore all chats. Matrix foundation has no such access. These two examples should explain the difference between "effectively plaintext" and e2ee. The main difference is not how someone derives the key. It's who can do it.
I am null at cryptography but thie following does not sound too bad as a default tbh. And I think it is misleading to focus solely on e2ee and not mention the distributed aspect.

https://telegram.org/faq#q-do-you-process-data-requests

> To protect the data that is not covered by end-to-end encryption, Telegram uses a distributed infrastructure. Cloud chat data is stored in multiple data centers around the globe that are controlled by different legal entities spread across different jurisdictions. The relevant decryption keys are split into parts and are never kept in the same place as the data they protect. As a result, several court orders from different jurisdictions are required to force us to give up any data.

> Thanks to this structure, we can ensure that no single government or block of like-minded countries can intrude on people's privacy and freedom of expression.

> Telegram can be forced to give up data only if an issue is grave and universal enough to pass the scrutiny of several different legal systems around the world.

> To this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.
Don't worry, there will still be plenty of sickness. The article says 1/3 reduction. If you have kids, you'll know that the resulting number of sick days is still huge.
I like the look of this. A nice simple blogroll. I will certainly be trying it out.
How would you approach rebuilding foundational knowledge from the kindergarten level? I have completed all the courses on Khan Academy from kindergarten through 6th grade and have also practiced with more challenging problems beyond those provided on Khan Academy. I'm trying to find the most effective strategies to solidify these fundamental skills.
This is such an old topic. Every time something related to the Telegram happens, somebody starts a discussion about how it's not an e2e-by-default. But the reality is nobody cares. And considering this, it's ridiculous now that Durov is detained on the accusations of being responsible for all kinds of information that's being spread in non e2e-by-default messenger.
Jasse claims Amazon Q saved 4500 years of dev work
You could wear wooden clogs or something. It would be uncomfortable but if you were a robot you wouldn't care. They would still wear out, but sawdust is less permanent than microplastics.
"Other" meaning "flu", which only dropped because they stopped tracking it to give resources to SARS-CoV-2. There was a note on the CDC website that very few people actually noticed, and almost all claims of reduced transmission used the CDC's FluView as their evidence.
It was records and communication that the lawyer made on behalf of his client.

More interesting is why the judge and prosecutors have not been referred to the bar for their illegal actions.
To have all these thoughts, I think you'd have to have never really used an LLM to help you code, or to be almost comically closed-minded when you do. What they feel like when you actually use them is a combination of a better SO and a very prescient auto-completer. It does not at all feel like delegating programming work to a robot. No loss of artistry comes into play, and it's damn useful.

In an ideal world, our abstractions would be so perfect that there would be no mundane boiler-platey parts of a program; you'd use the abstractions to construct software from a high level and leave details be. But our abstractions are very far from perfect: there's all kinds of boring code you just have to write because, well, your program has to work. And generally that code is, if you look, most of your code. This because making good abstractions is really hard and constructing fresh ones is often more work than just typing out the different cases. If you think this is mistaken, I'd gently suggest you take a fresh look at your own code.

Anyway, that's where LLMs come in. They help write the boring code. They're pretty good at it in some cases, and very bad at it in others. When they're good at it, it's because what the code should do is sort of overspecified; it's clear from context what, say, this function has to do to be correct, and the LLM is able to see and understand that context, and thus generate the right code to implement it. This code is boring because it is in some vague sense unnecessary; if it couldn't be otherwise, why do you have to write it at all? Well you do, and the LLM has taken care of it for you.

You can call this work the LLM is displacing "art", but I wouldn't. It's more the detritus of art performed in a specific way, the manual process required to physically make the art given the tools available.

You could object that the LLMs will get better in the sense that not only that they will make fewer mistakes, but they will be able to take on increased scope, pushing closer to what I'd consider the "real" decisions of a program. If this happens -- and I hope it does -- then we should reevaluate our lofty opinions of ourselves as artists, or at least artists whose artistry is genuinely valuable.
I don't ask for legal advice, I ask you how do you imagine the "always remove illegal content, easy" part of your plan to work? There's no common definition of what is legal. E.g do you suggest removing content if it's illegal anywhere in the world?
Op meant LS120.

"Ordinary" floppies peaked in 1988 (yes, before IBM 1990 PS/2 2.88 ED) with 'Triple' or '2TD' format developed and shipped by NEC inside PC-88 VA3. 13MB unformatted, _9,120 kB_ formatted capacity. Triple because it tripled track density from 80 to 240 while reusing ED barium ferrite magnetic media and perpendicular recording head of ED drive, same ~100KB/s speed.

https://necretro.org/PC-88_VA3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats#:~...
> I don't buy that you're actually examining compiled programs. Very few people do

I take it you don't write C, C++, or any language at that level? It is very common to examine compiled programs to ensure the compiler made critical optimizations. I have done that many times, there are plenty of tools to help you do that.
To be fair, falcon 9 also gets refurbished between flights.

But it's way less time/labor intensive than the shuttle.
I'm like 50 levels deep in dependencies/prerequisites/branches of one thing I started trying to get done 5 years ago and I don't even remember what it was anymore
No, you have to specify where it came from. You don't have to say what crime you committed, but you'd list the income under "income from illegal activities".
Oh those ones look much better than the one I brought off AliExpress years ago. Not to mention it was missing a bag of parts and they wanted me to send them a photo of the missing parts…
City and traffic planers of Hamburg and Hannover visited LA in the 50ties and 60ties to bring the "car centric principles" over to German big cities. For example in Hamburg a fully develop tram network was removed to make more space for the car. Neighbourhoods were divided to bring streets with 6 lanes through it. Wider streets is not necessarily less traffic jam.. We know this now. But until today we deal with those decisions, but it is getting better and we already reverted some things to make the city more friendly for people instead of cars.
Kim Dotcom is still harassed because he is very vocal against the US and what is happening in Ukraine. https://x.com/KimDotcom

The US narrative on Ukraine and Israel is getting weaker. Thorns like Kim Dotcom that has a big following, Telegram that is the only social platform to access the Russian side of the events, can break the US narrative.

It is ironic that the US screams Russia did a war crime in Bucha but Israel on Gaza is fine.
You seem to posit that legged vehicles doing 100+ km/h for hundreds of thousands of kilometers do not have as much wear and tear as rubber tires do. What is that based on? And does it have the same or better friction / energy efficiency?

(I know the answers, I'm just trying to provoke you into thinking about your comment)
Lots of people in this thread talking about low salaries in tech in the EU, but maybe it’s the case the US is the outlier? And not even the US as a whole, more like SV?

Are there any other countries where tech engineers are among the best paid workers?
Only the secret chat is e2e encrypted. All the other chat options are not. I think calls are also not encrypted since they appear in the normal chat history not in the e2e chat.

Obviously if your phone is compromised your e2ee chat is not safe.
Figshare
I'd suggest waiting for more details from French officials, they have already said that they'll address it tomorrow. So far claims from the media sound like Durov's being prosecuted due to very little moderation on the platform, not because of E2EE.

Even so, most messages sent on Telegram are plaintext, they're encrypted only in transport layer, but Telegram's servers see them in full. Secret chats (the only E2EE chats on Telegram) are hidden away from the users, hence the original link.
the point is that it doesn't have to be that way. and the examples in other countries show that it is indeed not like that everywhere. it is a fair question to ask which way is better, and looking at other ways to respond to these cases is relevant in my opinion.
I hope I’m wrong, as I didn’t even know who Pavel Durov was until now, but the first thought that came to mind was that it’s a show of power to intimidate Elon Musk.
Perhaps the French authorities have some taste in UI/UX. They're going to keep him in jail until telegram is no longer painful to use.
People probably won't like this, but I want to point out that Recall from Microsoft tries to do a little bit of this. Apparently, the specific implementation of that product is a spectacular privacy disaster. Which actually may not be an accident -- it is probably not simple to handle the privacy well for a personalized search engine (again, even though Microsoft made a lot of obvious mistakes), and you probably want to ensure that the data you aggregate do not end up being sold by a third-party. Still, you need to build a viable business. That's hard.
I still find myself wondering if this is actually "robotics" as most people would think of it, or if it's just an iPad on the Belkin auto-tracking stand [1], which already does full rotation and 90-degree tilt.

[1]: https://www.belkin.com/p/auto-tracking-stand-pro-with-dockki...
I know someone who is in training to be a therapist. It still takes an absurdly long time and a lot of money to get any of those degrees. In New York, for example, there's a mandatory multi-thousand-hour internship that essentially treats you as indentured labor for several years -- and this is after getting a masters, which you usually pay for. The average case ends up substantially in debt, for a field where private practice pays mediocre salaries.

(Hot take: the masters was the truly offensive part of the equation -- most of the content was total bullshit / pseudo-intellectual woo. At least you're getting supervised practical training in the internship, even if your salary is low.)