skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the blog post, now I finally have a good resource I can point people to next time they claim Telegramm is secure.

> I am not specifically calling out Telegram for this, since the same problem [with metadata] exists with virtually every other social media network and private messenger.

Notably, Signal offers a feature called Sealed Sender[0]. While it doesn't solve the metadata problem entirely, it does at least reduce it a bit.

[0]: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
I'm of the opposite opinion: I've started enjoying programming much more after embracing LLMs.

* They are great for overcoming procrastination. As soon as I don't feel like doing something or a task feels tedious I can just delegate it to an LLM. If it doesn't solve it outright it at least makes me overcome the initial feeling of dread for the task.

* They give me better solutions than I initially had in mind. LLMs have no problem adding laborious safeguards against edge-cases that I either didn't think of or that I assessed wouldn't be worth it if I did it manually. E.g. something that is unlikely and would normally go to the backlog instead. I've found that my post-LLM code is much more robust from the get go.

* They let me try out different approaches easily. They have no problem rewriting the whole solution using another paradigm, again and again. They are tireless.

* They let me focus on the creative parts that I enjoy. This surprised me since I've always thought of myself as someone who loves programming but it turns out that it is only a small subset of programming I love. The rest I'm happy to delegate away.
You cannot audit the system/service logs for those servers, neither can you audit the hardware running those servers, nor the internet providers who can snoop on the traffic et al... That's the argument behind "Open source server" in case it wasn't clear.
I doubt anyone who was ever customer of their detail telecom services would free-willingly use any services from Telekom ever again.
It’s called handpicking
Amazon licenses the technology to the other company and finances their related infrastructure, in exchange for most of the profit they make from it, or something along those lines, I would guess. It’s a contractual agreement.
Beautiful video with an update on the evolutionary development (up to 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C97kMKwZ2-g
Telegram is being partially punished for allowing non main stream media flourish: German #RKIfiles today proof that vaccination pressure and lock downs where politically motivated, but criticized by RKI’s scientific personal. I learned this already 4 years ago, from Telegram channels where scientists and journalists where not censored! Now Durov has to pay that bill. But maybe Durov should have also cooperated with crime investigations! But we all know that this power to read chats would have been abused by governments! What’s poor Durov going to do???
I love the comparison, stealing it.
>I think the most surprising thing I've realized as I've gotten older is the way in which these cultural and legalistic norms, even 100 years+ bygone, still have considerable influence on modern cultures.

Oh yeah, definitely. I've noticed similar patterns

Anyway, and I know this is completely random, but I think you'd enjoy reading Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland. It gives a nice overview of the influence of Christianity on modern Western civilization; though, after reading Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy (which does, of course, have flaws of its own), I do think Hollnad places a bit too much importance on the influence of Christianity, as it is not the only thing that has influenced modern Western civilization, nor did Christianity develop in a vacuum - completely uninfluenced by the societal pressures of the time it found itself existing in - which I think Holland forgets to mention as you continue reading the book deeper and deeper. Nonetheless, both are great books and I recommend them
lol. I used to think the same when I lived in the US.

Now, I walk 5 mins to a bus to the train station, another 5 mins to my train, wait 5 minutes, then enjoy the half-hour ride (while reading a book) to the next train station, and finally hop on a bus that takes me 5 minutes from work. Total commute time: 45 + 15 minutes walk.

By car: 70-90 minutes.

Why? The train goes 180 km/h while cars only go 120, and there is usually a traffic jam during rush hour.

If you put bus stops where people actually live and work, you can get pretty good coverage.
this title is editorialized! it doesn't match the title of the paper, which is: "The Effects of Generative AI on Design Fixation and Divergent Thinking"

also, I have personal experience that suggests the ability to execute ideas increases creativity. or at least, the inability to execute ideas decreases it
Depends on who your adversary is and how much you trust their protocol (some weird homegrown thing with clever/questionable cryptographic choices, the last time I checked) and implementation. Your texts don't generally run through Telegram's infrastructure, for example.
Air-powered logic circuits for error detection in pneumatic systems
Not for people in the UK where it matters. Yes I understand hypotheticals and navel gazing at Germany’s data laws. That doesn’t make them more real or possible for this incident.

Sounds nice but the UK doesn’t benefit in regards to laws from another country.
The current bus network alone is more comprehensive and far reaching, with better frequency on many lines. However most people aren’t aware of this as the bulk of la metro riders are working class and therefore invisible in mass media.
Has anyone first hand experience with gaia-x? Has anyone interacted with the association? On a very first look it seems like a public fund black hole, more and more money gets in nothing comes out, can anyone confirm/deny?
We do have a large number of wealthy people who are all about that and I find it mind boggling. What kind of idiot decides that the most important thing to them after they already have over a billion dollars is to get more? Why not try to do new risky things that are unlocked by that money? How're they really just all about a "number go up" game?

Fortunately it seems that we also have quite a few wealthy people that actually want to use their money to fund and do new and innovative stuff.
Look into Bleem. It was sued, but it won. Though the legal costs did hurt the company， it reaffirmed that emulators are legal and you can sell them. In fact, there currently are nintendo emulators for sale to this day (3dSen)
I do wonder if this would hold up though, if telegram stored each character of your chat in a different country, would a single country not be able to force them to hand over the data and either fine them or force them to stop operating if they wouldn't share the full chat? It seems like a loophole but I don't know what the precedent is.
The changes into industry definitely coming. But AI will affect not only programming. And handmade products will cost more than autogenerated ones.

Programming started sucks before when companies started to orient on fast income and preferred pure quality templated projects over well-made efficient ones.

This world changes. Many people have nothing to do and with AI amount of them will grow. It scare.
Do you have access to an employee assistance program through work? We have made use of the therapy multiple times and it’s been great. Totally free, 8 sessions per person per incident. You can kick off another set of sessions if there’s another incident you need to discuss. It’s not a long term solution but it’s good to fill in the gaps and get you seen soon.
Possibly so, but I doubt that that's why he's currently being held.

It's probably not enough for French authorities to know that some other country's equivalent is getting a copy of all messages and metadata when they want it themselves.
This is a joke. AI will accelerate the top 1% of society to levels we have never seen. It is the ultimate tool, and the ultimate lever. A lever greater than programming, which was the greatest lever. The intellectually lazy will stagnate.
Less creativity is likely a plus for most jobs and not a negative.
Like if you want your frontend to write to both Sqlite and RocksDB?
Yeah but don't count on more. Belarusians are quite desperate with current geopolitics, can easily push them below 40k.
"According to a paper that evaluated the performance of 60 participants using MJ V4"
The elementary school I went to operated somewhat as a petri dish for psychiatric experiments, as I realized later, with class sizes around 15 students and extremely personalized teaching. My 8-12 grades were at a private prep school. Both could be scalable models, but it would require a moonshot level of public funding to go into hiring potential teachers away from more lucrative jobs. (Personally, I'd love it if my taxes went to that).

But I don't credit those schools for my success. Nor do I credit native intelligence. My two elder brothers are lawyers whose names you likely know; think of the largest case in recent history. One is severely dyslexic and the other I'd wager is mildly autistic. I'm a college dropout. Oddly, I earn more per hour designing databases than the famous one does taking down large companies. What we had in common was a pattern of learning how to think, how to be curious and ask questions, and how to separate wheat from chaff. All of which came from our grandfather, who was forced to leave a yeshiva at 12 years old, and his father, and his grandfather.

I truly believe that almost all formal education is bunk. It's a useless plaster on a gaping social wound, namely that parents don't have the toolset to teach children a love of learning throughout their lives, along with the methods and skills to do so for themselves. All the information taught in K-12 schools is readily available, yet most adults can't remember a thing about the most basic aspects of history, math or science. The reason being, they weren't interested when they learned it the first time, and they weren't raised to be curious enough to answer their own questions or (re)fill holes in their own knowledge. This is why most people can't utter the words, "I don't know, let's look it up." Moreover, most people don't believe it's their obligation as a person to be as well-rounded as they can make themselves, because no one ever told them that was important, even crucial to their survival.

Learning itself should be taught. And it can be taught at home. The major obstacle would be how to overcome, obliterate and shame the intellectual laziness of most people that's built into most cultures - including those of most who go to college. Everything else, all concepts and facts, can be learned later, and are ephemeral.
It's an unfortunate reminder in that propaganda sometimes works very well.
Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Schneier on Security
On quite a few systems I've seen /usr/bin is a symlink to /bin or /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin (and /sbin is a symlink to /bin).
I used to work for a company that gets Gaia-X money. I will not mention concrete names, so you'll have to believe this anonymous source, me, choosing to remain vague to not be identified.

All we did for Gaia-X was the paperwork to get the money. It had zero impact on anything we actually did. Somebody I know who knew what other firms receiving Gaia-X funds did told me the others did even less than us. We certainly did not take it very seriously, apart from it being a great source of free money, and I say that as someone who reported quite a few developer hours for Gaia-X.

I think at most this project is about sending some money to some European firms, with little regard for actual outcomes, kind of as a concealed subsidy. I'm not sure if those who started the project actually wanted that outcome in the first place? A lot of these things are just ways to use the current system to achieve goals that the system does not directly allow. It could just be incompetence, but it could also be the case that somebody knows exactly what they created with Gaia-X and is perfectly okay with the outcome.
TIL. How do they check that the sum you specified is correct though?
Interesting. In Germany government uses the word cloud . Not Wolke. TIL something new.
True. Best source to get info from the war are on Telegram. Both Ukrainian and Russian ones. Some channels have millions of users and provide daily map updates, information about enemy positions and even information about locations where equipement is stored in EU countries.
>Of course wood isnt eco friendly, do you think that stuff grows on trees? Its better to take that wood, process it into a pulp, add some industrial solvents, and then turn it into cardboard.

Have you think that they maybe are smart and the good wood is made into planks and the bad parts of the wood and the remains is recycled like that ? Maybe I am wrong and you have information that the people that made the furniture for France are stupid, then show me a credible source.
That’s Telegram's CEO saying how he and his employees were “persuaded and pressured” by US FBI agents to integrate open-source libraries into Telegram (1).. There are a lot of questions to ask, like if the open-source libraries are indeed compromised, among other things. I take it as this arrest was the final straw to pressure him to give up and hand over some “needed” data, as all the accusations I read are laughable. Instagram is full of human trafficking and minor exploitation, drug dealers, and worse. The same goes with other social media, and I don’t see Elon or Zuck getting arrested. I am confident that this arrest is to obtain specific information, and after that, he will be released, or spend 20 years if he doesn’t comply.

(1) https://youtu.be/1Ut6RouSs0w?t=1082
Meta will take down those ads if reported.

What is important when it comes to regulators is not whether you fail to comply or not. It is whether you take your responsibility to comply seriously e.g. timely responses to information requests, continuous process improvement etc.
When we didn't have UUIDv7, ULID was great. But now that we have v7 it's the more widely supported alternative. And apart from v7 setting the UUID version bits and having a different default representation they are not that different.
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Does that justify it then?
I can remember first seeing these in Theo’s 2007 Ted Talk. I must have drawn than linkage about 10,000 times over the next few years. I always had big dreams of raiding dad’s plumbing supplies to make a version of one.
i was impressed with the features which kdenlive provides; had a small learning curve for some of the basics but went in expecting that
Looks useful and thanks to it I now know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferase is a thing
If it’s not yours, it’s not a Show HN. You can still submit it like any other post, just remove the “Show HN” from the title.
Oh, I didn't realize v7 was newer than ULID, thanks.
You can do that with AWS regions though.
Among power users there would be immediate cries of privacy violation, on display with Microsoft's recent debacle with the screenshooting AI thing (the name is escaping me).

And among 95% of normal users there's no demand for it because what most people do is google restaurants, cinemas, dancing videos on TikTok or they just add "reddit" to their search for anything more complicated. Most people haven't bought any reading material on the internet and don't have notes.
> But don't write off DACH: there are plenty of companies in DACH that run circles around their competitors by blending typically DACH traits with agility.

For future career possibilities worth investigating, would you care to name a few good examples/companies you are aware of?
But it will cause a reduction in wages and the quality compared to hand crafted fabrics will be inferior when automated.
I'm wondering whether there's also going to be a large-scale operation a few months ahead of the games of deporting homeless people from the city as we have seen in Paris. (also, I heard they have already quite rolled back on that "car-free" goal. Don't have the source available, but google is your friend.)
Fascinating. I might have missed it, but I don't think the author mentioned the possibility of steganography. Just code the encrypted text such that it resembles a normal conversation.
Can't the EU make their own messaging app?
The real deal channels are still accessible. I follow them every day. Its the only way of getting a clear picture of the situation in Ukraine. Both sides are heavily using it. Also during combat operations.
The beautiful part is that our powertrains are completely separate. You fly up/down using rotor. You fly forward using turboprop. The only transition that occurs is change in pitch of rotor blades to go from “powered” state into “passive autogyro” state. No complex clutches, no rotating mounts (like on Osprey). Completely separate independent systems. It also provides some measure of redundancy.

You are right that most of the noise comes from blades. And yes, there is some awesome blade design progress, especially for auto-gyros. Also there are a lot of specific things like low rotational speed, lack of tilt and other stuff that plays well into less noise in our specific application. But no, we won’t be as quiet as multicopters, especially those with ducted fans. That’s ok, this is a reasonable trade-off - manageable noise levels, a lot less complexity, lots of lift.
The key here to see if they can pull this off is the addition of 3000 buses.

LA Metro currently only runs 2000 buses, and that’s for the entire service area, I’m guessing the new buses are going to be concentrated in the Olympic areas.

I used to rely on the bus back in college. It was not convenient. The bus schedule controlled your schedule. My bus to school ran every hour.

If I wanted to travel from the San Gabriel valley to downtown LA, it was over two hours.

An early job I had, 20 mile commute, combined riding and walking (job was a mile from the bus stop) meant a 5:30am bus trip to get there by 8.

It’s functional but hardly convenient. It’s a far cry from a 10m wait for a subway train. One mistake in the chain, and it was quite punishing.

One year, the last bus from campus (at 8:05pm, which i really hated — just too early for a college student) was late. It was caught in LA traffic because of the World Series at Dodger Stadium. Which was 30 miles away.

And the riders that night were trapped. Last bus, had to sit and wait for it. Couldn’t pop back into the library and come back in an hour for the next one. Hour and a half late.

LA is huge. As busy as downtown is, it’s busy everywhere. Buses are the most scalable and flexible solution. All you need for a new bus route is a bus and a sign.

But as a user, all I can say is they beat walking, but just barely.
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Near flawless is an unreasonable expectation. SpaceX had the advantage of running years of cargo missions. The error was simply not using the same successful model with any new vehicle.
You can coherently argue that encryption doesn't matter, but you can't reasonably argue that Telegram is a serious encrypted messaging app (it's not an encrypted messaging app at all for group chats), which is the point of the article. The general attitude among practitioners in the field is: if you have to reason about how the operator will handle legal threats, you shouldn't bother reasoning about the messenger at all.
The article is still complying with Betteridge's law of headlines, though :)
That's not public transportation."Mass transportation", maybe. Shuttling athletes and their minders from the Olympic village to the venues is a different set of challenges from delivering a city's residents to their places of work, school and recreation day in, day out.
That totally works if it is rare for you! The last 2 months I've had a few things I've added to my personal calendar that synced with work calendar: lunch with a family member, dropping off or picking up car from service, haircuts, contractor stopping by, dentist, vet appointment, etc. It's nice to not worry about it since it marks me as Busy right when I create the event.
Why didn't you recommend signal?
Wait a minute, the universe as we know it, is a model of a universe, the way we humans understand it today.

That model is flawed, this is in fact the basis of science.

The latest scientific finding is considered true until... a more advanced model proves that there are cases where it is not true. A thrown object on earth follows a parabole? ... no it follows a straight line, the space around it is bent by a force that is known as the gravitational field.

What about math itself, no universe considered?

Math itself follows axioms which cannot be proven. Since we found no contradictions in the maths built upon those axioms, we consider those axioms to be true. You can think however of axioms on which you can build equations that are true and untrue at the same time.

My point being, whether we like it or not, the Truth with a capital T does not exist or at least cannot be proven.
simple, some people just make a religion out of it. it's a way of life for them. the same way some people obsess over the bible

for some people, it's about finding solutions to specific problems, the scope is well defined, nothing wrong here

for others, it's this monolithic worldview that asserts itself as an authority on problems and solutions
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Any plans to support ActivityPub?
No. See Sony v. Connectix or Google v. Oracle if you want to know more, but basically, it is fair use to copy interface features such as APIs for the purpose of interoperability or developer convenience.

Nintendo's counterargument to those cases has to do with DMCA 1201, an extremely broadly drafted law that has to do with copy protection. A lot of console emulators have to implement decryption functions in the emulator because people are bringing in ROM images or ISO dumps that are encrypted. Console emulation has a habit of just grabbing whatever format the piracy scene is using and going from there, which is a bad idea and what enables Nintendo to, say, sue the shit out of Yuzu.

At the same time, however, this isn't a critical flaw that makes all emulation illegal. Yuzu was also extremely sketchy in ways that let Nintendo connect the dots and say "this is infringement". There are plenty of emulators out there written by people who have good copyright hygiene that don't have this problem. e.g. WINE, Ruffle, PCem, DOSBox, etc. And none of this has to do with whether or not the emulator is being sold for money, is licensed as a Free Software project, developed by a community, etc.