skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is always brought up, and the simplest way to have a big impact is restricting these features:

- Infinite scroll

- Autoplay

- Sort by popularity

- Recommender systems

Note that e.g. Facebook had none of these features when it was getting popular, so any suggestions that social networks are impossible without them is revisionism. Suggesting friends based on your stolen phone contact list isn't really a recommender system as by definition they're contacts that you already know.

Remove those, and most of the harm of social media is gone. If you want to go further, you can do away with user-facing popularity metrics (likes/upvotes/friend counts).
so if it's availible for free, it's okay?
The US constitution doesn't constrain French criminal law. But regardless, you're wrong in the US too: the first amendment absolutely does not "protect images", c.f. the fact that you can be prosecuted for distributing CSAM at all. We've already crossed the rubicon where we agree that the "speech" is illegal. The quibble under discussion here is whether or not the justification for the ban applies to synthetic images.
I'm not trying to jab or anything, but I think this is highly due to social media. Some people genuinely have issues and difficult mental problems, this isn't aimed at them, and they do need professional help.

But there is a whole cottage movement of people advising people to go see a therapist to deal with all sorts of (controversially and arguably) benign stuff. Everything from bad breakups, to "toxic traits" they need to address, to family issues, to "issues" they got told is the cause of their dating woes, etc. I haven't been able to put a finger on it definitively, but it's present and is definitely influencing people.

If I were to put my "right wing" hat on, I'd respond and say it's because of all those damn lefties urging people to "talk about their feelings and stuff". That might be a tad too dismissive, but there is something to it behind the pointed accusation; and we all know how heavily pervasive social-media is at driving the behavior of the American populace, aided by the heavily-left-leaning tech companies which actively don't allow the natural immune reaction society has to large-scale gaslighting.

For all we know, people are being gaslight on a large scale, and therapy is trying to put a bandage of it because all these affected people can't reconcile the real world with the craziness of "The Narrative". Some people maybe just need someone to talk to too, you know? Maybe there is more of that in America because they're all forced to self-censor and repress themselves.

</rant> This turned out to be a rant and I let my bias show.

Edit. Now that I think about it, there is arguably even more censorship in the EU so maybe that's not it. Perhaps it's more blatant and people all know it's "forbidden" speech, rather than being forced or gaslight into thinking their thoughts are wrong.
The Via Rail scam card ads have been on facebook for months. You can figure out it's a scam with a 2 second google search:

https://www.facebook.com/viarailcanada/posts/scam-warning-av...

I reported it (like others in this thread), but facebook said it didn't break any rules. I requested another review, and they said the same thing, with no way for me to make any comments or replies.

Perhaps they will remove certain ads if it's instantly obvious that it is illegal, but overall they're pretty terrible at moderation.
The problem with this approach is that it relies on governments accepting your legal arguments. You can say "no, these are separate legal entities and each one requires a court order from a different country" all you want, but you also need to get the courts themselves to agree to that fact.
It probably didn't want to get detained in France.
all of my homepods have that feature turned off. it is a simple toggle and you never have to worry about it again
EU countries prosecuted Assange, the Pirate Bay guys and now Durov. People in countries like Britain appear to frequently get persecuted for political posts. I'm sure that I've said things online that could get me in trouble now or would at some point in the future when the Overton window shifts in some other direction.
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/telegram-gibt-nutzerdat...

> Translated: Contrary to what has been publicly stated so far, the operators of the messenger app Telegram have released user data to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in several cases.

https://torrentfreak.com/telegram-discloses-user-details-of-...

> Telegram has complied with an order from the High Court in Delhi by sharing user details of copyright-infringing users with rightsholders.

Anyways just some examples in which their structure doesn't matter. In the end, user data is still given away. It's also why e2ee should be the sole focus. Everything else is "trust me bro it's safe" levels of security.
This is why I have one giant, enormous text file of all the technical notes I have ever taken.
I have wondered whether one day people might attempt to prove their "realness" by writing in an intentionally stupid way that an LLM could never write.
> they are so much stuck up with their need to "speak french"

But.. ..why would you want to speak anything else? Who settles for the mediocre?
I don't understand.

Nothing in this comment is about the US government funding Signal's encryption.
This is not to be taken as mental health advice (merely an anecdote), but yesterday I was thinking about needing therapy to deal with my issues and I had the thought to use ChatGPT. Wow, it was absolutely incredible in providing me with what I needed.

I think therapy with a professional would be really useful if you have no idea what your problem is, but I think if you're able to put your problem into words then LLMs can be useful.
You are spot on :) - including about potential additional and broader use cases for this kind of UI. Hoping I can explore that more. Thanks for the tip about Exa.ai!

Also, I'm sincerely flattered that you like the design and execution. Thank you for that and for your contribution!
> What's to stop an American cloud hyperscaler from creating a "properly patriated" subsidiary that it simply licenses the tech to?

Nothing. Amazon already does that in China, their subsidiary licenses the tech and support services from the US company.
In C++ in one giant file: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/coreclr/gc/g...
Yes: End-to-end encryption is technically quite difficult, but politically and legally feasible (at least currently, at least in most countries).

Simply not cooperating with law enforcement is technically moderately difficult, but politically and legally impossible.

Between a difficult and an impossible option, the rational decision is to pick the difficult one.
Unfortunately I’m not in a spot where it makes sense to Jailbreak my iPad

If I build the project from scratch in XCode and put it on my iPad from there will JIT work?
This is a silly political statement doomed to fail.

Do I think that LA could go “car-free” for the Olympics? Maybe, but I’m doubtful the political powers that be could pull it off.

I’ve yet to see any concrete plans or budgets proposed to pull this off.

Just a dubious suggestion of “bike lanes” and “3000” new buses.

I think if they are serious about a car free Olympics they should commit to free public transport.

Even if only for just those 17 days.

But, I fear that the quiet part of this goal is actually:

“How can we further monetize this event?”

“Well, 16 million people times $1.75 per bus ticket per ride is a lot of money!!1!”

“Ooo, good idea, let’s force visitors to use our ineffectual public transportation. We’ll pitch it as environmental, we can call it ‘car-free’”

I’ll be amazed if these politicians have enough restraint to avoid raising public transport prices to pay for these “car-free” plans.
As mentioned in a comment to one of your posts, the GNUnet people have probably gone the furthest in the quest to obfuscate metadata. Unfortunately, to this day no usable messenger application has come out of this, partially because GNUnet has largely been a research project.

As for applications in use today that address the metadata problem, have a look at Signal's Sealed Sender feature: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

As for recommending Telegram for secure messages, I side with the sibling comments ("Don't").
I don't know enough about how the market for rhino horns works to say. If putting fake rhino horns on the market encourages a more thriving market for rhino horns that then places a premium on real rhino horns, it can indeed be harmful to supply fake rhino horns: the practice will then have a foreseeable net effect of killing more rhinos.
He's not in fact detained because information is being spread, he's detained for actively refusing to cooperate with law enforcement.
Am I the only one who uses Telegram mainly for p2p e2ee audio calls? It's great for that.
Which government? There has been a lot of mysterious deanons of protesters in Belarus in 2020. You know, the kind of deanon where armed people break down you door and you're going to be beaten and tortured for several days in the very least.
No, and for the same reason.
To do this with any DC battery you add a solar battery charger to accept the panels and an inverter to turn the DC into mains 230V you can use.
In case you haven't heard of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20170409015127/forkthecookbook.c...
Because those are long-term effects, and most companies have literally zero decision makers with any incentive to care about the long term. They all know the game. They're there to parasitize as much value as possible from the company or its common-stock holders in the short term and then fail upward and repeat the cycle. The long-term health of the company is completely irrelevant to everyone who matters.
you can open multiple of those via the 'open' command

open -a 'system settings' -n

> https://ss64.com/mac/open.html
Only 1-1 calls are encrypted, voice chats (group calls) are not
people like you and the others chiming in to agree with you need to get a grip

trust fools to pile in and go "well akshully the olympics are not environmentally friendly because they fly people in from all over the world" bla bla ok

like no one is dumb enough to think the olympics are environmentally friendly

the point is can the host location inspire and serve as not only a vision but actual demonstrated, already existing, already implemented and smooth running proof that cities can function better and be more environmentally friendly for the actual inhabitants who already live and will continue to live there after the olympics

the Paris olympics were very successful on any metric, including how well they showcased the ability to move hundreds of thousands of people through urban spaces where cars have been relegated to undesired intruder status

Paris has made extremely impressive progress especially for people on foot and bike in a very short amount of time (and they're permanent, not just temporary for the olympics)

this should be well deservedly recognized and celebrated
I’ve often wished I could publish a graph of myself, with 10-20+ items of interest, and let search engines and content recommendation engines (and good ad networks) bring me stuff I actually care about..

(especially calendar events, which used to be fun to track but everyone seems to have given up on event listings).

It wouldn’t have to track me, or infer other nefarious dimensions of my online habits, just target the things I’m asking to be targeted for.

I’m guessing that the implicit data dimensions of current tech is aggregating so much additional data about everyone that the recommendations we end up getting aren’t that great.

None of Google, Netflix, or Amazon get me at all, and I keep shoveling my habits right into their gaping data maw.
I feel like ‘exactly’ is doing a lot of work in your comment and I am interested in the reasons that that word may not be quite the right word to describe these situations.
I'm working on a screen reader/narration service for retro games, called groan. https://github.com/JesseTG/groan It's still in development, but I intend to post more about it once I fix some related bugs in RetroArch.
> It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform

As the law places certain responsibilities onto platforms, if you (any platform not just Telegram) say this kind of thing, are you sure you're following the law right, or are you just saying the law is wrong and bad?
> Even so, most messages sent on Telegram are plaintext, they're encrypted only in transport layer, but Telegram's servers see them in full.

you contradict yourself in the same sentence
Read this: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/06/27/telegram-dark-net-blac...

Telegram channels are public, unencrypted web shops for all kinds of illegal goods. I guess the French government alleges that Durov is not doing enough to stop these activities on his platform.

It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with encryption.
Wouldn’t being forced to give up the password and logging in be a violation of the 5th amendment, at least in the US? I think it’s a mixed bag of rulings right now, but it seems like it would make sense for it to fall that way at the end of the day.
An issue I've always had with UUIDs and ULIDs is there isn't a great way to generate one deterministically, as far as I can tell: for a lot of use-cases, being able to reprocess data and generate identical IDs is really useful and there isn't a standard way that I know of to achieve this.
> gathering the data

I've been of the opinion that website content monitoring should be implemented with a browser extension (plus possibly a local agent app)[1]. An extension-based approach would work well and be easy to use IMO.

I've been extremely disappointed by how Chrome in particular likes to forget everything about my browsing history (except for tracking cookies) after three months. I don't see why a link I clicked on a year ago on any given page should turn blue just because computers from 2004 might have performance problems with it.

[1]: Enterprises seem to prefer MITM here instead, but I'd argue it's not truly required, given the overwhelming popularity of agent-based EDR solutions.
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That's the beauty of comments like yours.

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.
As hilarious as it sounds, it's at least partly true.
> EU-US relationship suddenly turning very hostile

The economies are too integrated for this scenario. There are big R&D centers of many American corporations in Europe, doing big part of their tech. They won’t move, instead in a very hypothetical “Russian” scenario they will change owner and continue to operate. I’m sure EU regions of AWS or GCP won’t cease to exist, for example. There are some services that are operated from USA, e.g. CloudFront, but that won’t be too hard to replace.
A lot of busy-work for a lot of highly overpaid bureaucrats.
> While free software licensing (e.g., GNU General Public License) attempts to force freedom on downstream developers, true open source basically says, "Take this software, use it and improve it (or not), and license the resulting product as you wish."

"True open source"

"force freedom on downstream developers"

GPL and BSD style licenses are both "true open source". If you are the upstream you literally aren't contained by any license and if you are downstream you are only constrained to offer exactly what you received and are free to write it yourself if that is too big of an ask.

> For some bizarro reason, open source companies keep trying to monetize software even as the rest of the world has moved on

The bizarro reason is that people literally need to eat. They can't "move on" unless they want to move on into the woods to live like a hobo. We either have to give up entirely on independent devs or find some way to pay them.

> It's the wrong way to treat developers

You aren't being mistreated if you don't like the license something is offered under.

Writer is...gross.
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I am recommending both. The problem is that Signal (which I use along with the other messaging apps) is that it is not feature rich as the other 2 and Signal is not popular so ppl download it just to interact with one person (Me) whereas Telegram has more user base.
Note that the mud puddle test was originally described on Matt's very blog: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/05/icloud-w... :)
> One of the biggest privacy problems in messaging is the availability of loads of meta-data — essentially data about who uses the service, who they talk to, and when they do that talking. […] the same problem exists with virtually every other social media network and private messenger.

Is this true for Signal too? I thought it wasn’t.
I'm a very frequent traveler and have free checked bags. I rarely check, it's a huge hassle.
> You should certainly have a formal process to respond to those countries’ requests

Mere responding is evidently not enough, you need to cooperate.

> you might consider technical architectures that don’t leave you in direct custody and control of that content in the first place.

This rules out the "public channel" feature.

Essentially what you say boils down to a global publishing platform being impossible nowadays without random and contradictive censorship acts.

While this is probably true, I definitely don't share the "yeah throw him to jail" sentiment. On the contrary, I miss very much the truly global Internet of early 2000s. If this was possible back then, it must be, generally speaking, possible? Are we going to see anything like this again in our lifetimes?
i don't see how you could come to that conclusion. first please read my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41350245 and then reread my parent comment, in particular the last paragraph where i talk about "these companies" and "major messaging systems". it's clearly not referring to "all companies" and even less to a custom tool you built for your friends. at best "replace facebook with any other tool" could be interpreted as applying to your tool, but even then it should be pretty obvious that i could not possibly have a problem not being able to access your tool unless at least one of your friends is also my friend.
They did it's called Skype it got bought.

Also, what's that supposed to even solve?
Would you use an image for this? Is there a clever way to do this with text?
They didn't have Computer Class in Elementary/Middle School that taught typing? That's what we had (Millenial).
So it's kind of like a mechanical decoupling capacitor?
Worse than that. I have a Facebook account that is at least 16 years old (yes, from the very first years of Facebook's existence) that I log in a few times a year when I have to use Facebook to do something. I don't post or read anybody's post -- a few years ago I unfollowed everybody (but still remain connected), just like what this article says. I might have actually used this tool but I am not sure. Guess what, my 2-factor auth enabled account got disabled for absolutely no reason. Same login location, same browser. I had to do a stupid video verification to reenable the account, something I refused to do for opening an Instagram account.
WhatsApp doesn't save my history. And secret services of governments of certain counties are not a realistic adversary that I'm trying to defend myself against. The usual scammers which are going to steal my identity are not the people Durov will sell admin access to his server to.
> Surely that would be a good thing if it incentivizes prosecutors to track down the purveyors and distributors instead of just stopping with easily targeted consumers

It would make it harder to prosecute purveyors and distributors. Arguing to some amorphous 'incentive' under some unnamed "metric" is silly since we have much better ways of creating incentives if you think the investigatory or prosecutorial priorties need to shift.

> The alternative enables anyone with physical access to cause anyone else to be guilty of a crime, surely a net negative for society.

No it doesn't as these defenses are unchanged.

> Are you advocating its expansion to a general principle? Maybe Agatha Christie should have faced charges for the crimes committed by her characters.

Work on your reading comprehension instead of making ridiculous claims. I'm not advocating anything. I am describing the current legal state in our country. If you are unfamiliar with the laws about creating fictional porngraphic material with underage characters, then google is your friend.
Please source for this. As far as I know there is zero difference. From within Russia you can access all pro UA channels. Same for in Ukraine.
This is why I have a personalized search engine... miniflux lets me search all my rss feeds, mail is searchable, logseq is searchable, everything is searchable... and you can combine it with 50 lines of python (with plugin support)
I'm not using Cursor, but I'm still using Sonnet 3.5, although with https://aider.chat/ which is basically a TUI program to make the LLM a "pair programmer" - it can replace chunks of code, operate over multiple files, there's a repository map for it to check (for symbols), etc.
If either platform doesn't remove the content after having been made aware of it, yes.
yeah never mind that they (permanently, not just temporarily for the olympics) outright repurposed what used to be urban highways through the center of the city (including along the seine!) and implemented any number of huge environmental improvements
They already have everything Qt has? And the killer feature of Qt being multiplatform will cause an allergic reaction so I'm not sure I see the value (for apple) there.
It looks like a great language to work with.
Signal lost all credibility with their cryptobro bullshit
> Obviously if your phone is compromised your e2ee chat is not safe.

Pretty much, a lot of people think that seeing E2EE means everything is safe, which I believe gives a false sense of security. You can have your phone compromised (especially when I know your phone number, Signal I’m looking at you) or be subject to other means of attacks, exposing everything. I would rather know that this app is not secure so I don’t share anything important, while keeping secure communication to other means.
I feel like this indicates there's a market for traffic-spike insurance
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Or it's just nerds who are stupid and don't understand what matters in real world security for most people.

The fact that you can create a huge group and channels without sharing your phone and contacts is what made Telegram big.

You couldn't do that on WhatsApp until a few months ago. And it has been on Telegram for years. Why Hong Kong protesters used Telegram and not Whatsapp? read this: https://x.com/Pinboard/status/1474096410383421452

The fact that Telegram is massively used in both Ukraine and Russia shows that its model cannot be ignored.
> that the industrial machinery works well with iOS/iPhones/iPads.

> This shall fuel the iPhone and iPad sales as well.

Even if all the industrial machines that go for $100k+ started bundling two iPad Pros to use as their control interfaces, I don't see how that could make a noticeable difference to iPad sales volumes. It definitely wouldn't justify spending tens of billions on acquisitions as part of a strategy that would be heavily opposed by antitrust regulators.