skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(from the indictment link)

> Christina Marie CHAPMAN, a U.S. national, conspired with certain overseas IT workers to affect a scheme to defraud the United States and its agencies. Specifically, CHAPMAN: (i) assisted the overseas IT workers in validating stolen identity information of U.S. citizens so the overseas IT workers could pose as U.S. citizens; (ii) received and hosted laptops issued by U.S. companies to the overseas IT workers in her U.S. residences (a “laptop farm”), so that the companies believed the workers to be located in the United States.

I think if the US govt makes such cases public, puts a few news stories out in popular media, indicating the harsh sentences and such, it might make US citizens think twice about helping NK hackers set up their base here.
> Maybe the Japanese community didn't have any such initial influencing factors, and maybe developed more diverse, less toxic community overall.

I think this would be more to do with individuality being so taboo.
I get what you're saying, but wishing modern sweet apples, grapes etc. to go away because of tooth decay is a bit over the top.

Can we keep Granny Smith apples? They're less than 200 years old. But they're not sweet :)
All this is just wrong. I wonder why HN likes throwing up wrong information about Telegram as fact. Is taking up 5 mins to proof these claims that hard?

> 99.95% of messages on Telegram stored as plain text on their servers and only encrypted between client and telegram server.

Wrong and OP doesn't even mention plain text. The non-E2EE client-server data is stored encrypted sparsed out in various servers to different countries.
https://telegram.org/privacy#3-3-1-cloud-chats

> End-to-end encryption only working for 1on1 chats, not available half of their clients and have terrible UX.

Wrong again. I actually recently checked this for myself their official clients on Android and Linux desktop have support for MTProto 2.0. Feel free to check if other OS don't support this feature. The only clients I know where this is not enabled are the web clients.
Nice post, but

Oringinal text: The woman who accompanied Pavel Durov on his journey that led to his arrest is Juli Vavilova

Your title: Juli Vavilova led to the arrest of Pavel Durov

What are you suggesting?
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Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang album copies
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what you want is a video summarization net possibly followed by an LLM
PaperswithCode or arxiv to the resue just search for pages with open source code
or got directly to github.
Like deepshaswat says inference requires no specialized hardware, but training can be a problem unless you have a PCIE 4 mainboard with an RTX 4090 with 20 GB of RAM I bought this system with core i9 and 64 Gig Mainboard RAM for 5K 3 years ago, you may be able to only pay 2-3K nowadays. Better performance with Radeon and Threadripper is probable from the stats I see on Tom's and overclockers
Good Luck
Are there any telegram/signal alternatives that's E2E with robust bot and application support (other than matrix)?
Furiosa didn’t have the grandiosity and great pacing of Mad Max: Fury Road, but it still had great audio. I’d rewatch with a better sound system.
Discussion (135 points, 6 days ago, 110 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41295957 - CEO of Procreate
> After I picked my jaw up off the floor I realized I simply lacked the scruples I'd need to be "one of them."

This is the reason why I always tell young engineers to treat companies with utmost business-only mentality.

It's not that all managers are bad. It's that the company rewards psychopathic behaviors - that aren't easily apparent to humble people.

Companies are merely out there squeezing and exploring employees. Employees should feel free to return the favor.

In short, Fuck the corporations. They fired the first shot.
I see, thanks. Well, I've had similar problems, though not many. Maybe we just design things more carefully, but whenever we did encounter issues, knowing where the allocation happened was 90% of the investigation. The rest was just using the IDE features to see all possible references to that variable and go through the graph. At least that's my experience.
the thing i like most about these is that, though normally they're executing their machine code from the keyboard like a normal calculator, the 'v', 'w', 'y', and 'z' keys jump to user-defined machine code addresses and start executing code from memory. i think that's an inspiring way to provide an application with programmable function keys on a really extremely limited computer, far too small for even forth
Yep, will be adding that this week.
One could argue this is exactly the prescription that the Gnome project embraced. Remove, simplify, excise. To mixed reviews.
"Every political idea I don't like" is automatically "fascism."
I would like to see that happen, however, the current available guidance from FWC is worded very with a vast deal of of flexibility in it, and is highly open to interpretation. A manager may, in theory, decide any person responsible for any task may be contacted outside of hours. I've not seen anything truly restrictive.
It's also important not to forget other integrations such as that promoted by "the mono guy" ("one of those" or xamarin or even ximian guys if you're that old) himself: https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot
Thank you for the reply. This is my first time having this issue and I'm not quite sure either. I just think that giving credit where credit is due seems more ethical.

I will definitely try to contact them either via the repo issue or their Discord.
Totally different experience here working for FAANG, at least as it pertains to pages. For emails / slack etc I found it easy to ignore while working as an engineer, but much harder now in a management role. Even entirely disconnecting when going on vacation can be tough.

That said it is mostly self imposed. Over the past 2 years it was rarely the expectation to work outside regular hours (but did happen).
It's a temporary and incremental improvement over the previous stylesheet, which was also green (for reasons still unknown): https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/String.html

The goal was to move in the right direction, but make it similar enough that it would get quick approval without rocking the boat much (yet).
Are you implying that there are backdoors in WhatsApp?
>I don't understand why some aloof technical genius needs to automatically be regarded in that way. It looks like the connection is in your mind.

…Or it could just be long experience. I have seen these kind folks sink teams and products. If my goal is to make what I am managing successful, why would I hire personality types that historically have proven to impede success in my experience? Believe me, the type I am referring to usually comes out in interviews.

>Moreover, it obvious to me that your goal is to use up VC funding, not to generate revenue for the company. An average SWE isn't going to do the special work required to generate revenue.

No, my job is to build successful teams and products. To do that i need to find compatible people to get the job done. An asshole rockstar might get me 75% there then prevent me from achieving the final 25% because they can’t work well with others. A cohesive team can get me to 100%. And…not all rockstars are assholes, so I choose to find the wheat and discard the chaff.
Good question, I think there are quite a few different revenue methods which can be done without much disruption to the user. For example companies paying to get more control over their page and profiles.

One of the nice things is that advertising can be in-app rather than external, for example ads for a restaurant/hotel will direct to the product in the app rather than an external link.

Only after getting a solid userbase will I start to actually implement any monetization.

Also planning to put some measures in (if the app gets big) to make it so that fake-looking users or users with just a couple of ratings don't have their ratings count towards averages and predictions.
Pretty much a dirac delta function since Not(x)
x < 0 = 0 >> Not sure about this
x > 0 = 0
x = 0 - 1
There is a model where a driver picks up the uber app and drives a couple times a month because it's a way to earn beer money once in a while. What percentage of trips do we think are driven by drivers like this? I bet a small percentage, maybe less than 1%.

Once a driver starts driving more than 30 hours a week for Uber, they're effectively Uber Drivers, and the employment concept starts to make sense.
Most companies aren't good at tech hiring, and even worse at evaluating engineer output
> I'd much rather keep a normal schedule and get woken up every once in a while than work 5pm-1am or 1am-9am.

It would be in the contract you'd sign when you accept the job. It's not like your current workplace will suddenly change the policy and force you to work at night. The world is already full of places with night shift jobs, and you are not currently working at one of those places.
That seems quite late. Ticketmaster was effectively doing sharing in the late 60s. It was one of the reasons they could scale early on when others couldn't.
What exactly is wrong with drug shops? Providing certain goods to consenting adults is not immoral. Let alone should not be a reason for them to be banned. In half of the U.S. states and European countries, cannabis is either legal or decriminalized in small amounts. In 2024, it's not a big deal, and without these means of communication, potential consumers would have to go back to the streets to purchase something, risking many dangerous situations.

I'm not a 'consumer,' but I consider it a huge advantage of such platforms in terms of increasing safety and clarity.
I suspect most Tor exit nodes are controlled by the US government and/or its allied governments. It doesn't make much sense for anybody else to run an exit node because your IP gets banned by much of the internet and you get unwanted visits from law enforcement.
> It wasn’t until the Japanese made us get involved that we did anything.

Lend-Lease began in 1941 - so we were exporting war materiel and technology years before we got directly involved in WW2.
I think a much favorable law should be that employers must automatically log after hours overtime and pay for such overtime for ALL employees besides the C-Suite.

Aka, any communication sent to employees MUST be billed to the company. The company can figure out if they want to pay ALL employees overtime pay or shut down their communication systems after 5 pm.
that's interesting! what kind of os did you write? it sounds like you didn't think supporting the linux system call interface was a good idea, or perhaps even feasible?
By 2531, everyone in Japan could have the surname 'Sato'
i think of this lesson often (i don't remember who told me) elon building something at spacex and ruthlessly cutting out pieces they initially thought were needed. less complexity meant cheaper and faster construction so = more tests.

i use this in day to day to life: making plans, buying things, managing others - reducing has led to more accomplished.
I wonder which markets these risc-v processors will target. I have a 64 core Milk-V computer i'm testing compatibility with a Java application on. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
American here.

I was under the impression that Canadian healthcare was incredible. At least, that's what I've been told for years by randos online.
> It's the only messaging app where messages are stored on the cloud

Unreal. Please share how you came to this world view.
It isn’t about me picking a lane; I’m just stating things as they are. If you want a feature-rich chat and social app that has a user base too, but you don’t care much about security, go for Telegram. Although some might argue that chats aren’t encrypted, no one known has gotten in trouble because Telegram handed over their data. However, you should never rely on that and don’t trust any cloud-based service in general. Knowing that in advance makes it better so you treat it as you would any social media.

If you want security on the other hand but with fewer features and a smaller user base, go with Matrix. You don’t need an email, by the way; it’s optional (1).

Signal is just in the middle, lacking Telegram's features and Matrix's security, resulting in a weird abomination that I would never recommend to anyone. For a normal non-techie person, I would say go with Telegram, and if you care about security, use Matrix. Recommending Signal might give a false sense of security.

(1) https://ems-docs.element.io/books/element-support/page/creat....
Employees might not get to claim the cost of their car (loan and depreciation), but contractors will. Healthcare doesn't come into it, NZ has government provided healthcare.

While you don't get vacation, you get to claim a lot of expenses.

In New Zealand, it's pretty much "at-will" anyways, with the cost of removing an employee typically being 3-months wages.

Personally, being a contractor was much more profitable than being an employee, even if I was on the same wage.
some weird shit this
This is really good. Quite a lot of 'disruptive' business lately are actually just going around the laws, and sometimes borderline exploiting people.

From my experience, in big cities, Deliveroo and similar apps riders are mostly half legal young immigrants not realizing (at first) that they are being exploited and that they take quite some work risks without any coverage at all. But hey, at least we can have a Big Mac delivered to one's door for almost nothing.
>> I added that this is a natural fit for us, because our co-founders came from the US intelligence community including the CIA. Upon hearing this, one suspected North Korean applicant immediately dropped from the Zoom call and never contacted us again.

A few years ago I was getting scammer calls at the same time every day. I started answering as "Fraud desk, Agent Scully". They would hang up instantly and the calls soon stopped altogether.
Do you think a passport is important to most "commoners"?
Based on the commits, PRs, and issue history, they were all previous issues that exists in OasysDB. They changed the name of the contributors to their own.

For example, this is the PR in OasysDB by one of our contributors compared to theirs:
https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/pull/43
https://github.com/Sahomey-Technologies/sahomedb/pull/9
The technique has existed forever. I think UO called is sharding and the name stuck from them.
> Ticketmaster was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1976

(Wikipedia)
Those people are your bosses.
most software developers let alone military contractors can't build proper chat app. Telegram UI and UX is top notch.
Interesting! How can one remove it then?
This is probably simmilar to what happened with AirBnb - in the beginning it was about renting your house from time to time. Nowadays, it's mostly professionals who own / manage several properties which are exclusively being rented on Airbnb.
I think the developer doing this is: https://github.com/obaraelijah

And it looks like he's done the exact same with a pen-testing project called Kraken: https://github.com/myOmikron/kraken-project

Probably trying to pad out his Github for freelancing.
> What tipped us off
> 5. Background noise during their interview that indicated other people speaking in an interview-like setting

The rest maybe false flags, but this really seals the deal. (or... maybe it's just a recent day in Starbucks. But I don't take the risk)

Also, how dare those people apply jobs for an US based cybersecurity firm? Don't they know what cybersecurity firms do? Go apply a Web3 companies, they also uses Vue/React all front-end kids stuff and some of them still got deep pockets.
My company had an issue like this recently, they just had a smart guy take the interview / handle the paperwork and then a completely different guy show up on their first day.

My company is pretty small, so we caught it within an hour of getting him onboarded. But I can see this being trickier in bigger companies, where the hiring process is more disconnected from the team they get assigned to.
He says all and the spends the entire article talking about off-chain marketplaces and speculators. I understand we're all touching different parts of the elephant but my lived experience is that Bitcoin is a currency. I use it for many things regularly (VPS/servers, domains, etc bills) and purchases of electronics/etc from newegg.

>Similarly, the “crypto as currency” and “crypto as investment” narratives have been thoroughly debunked because the truth value of these statements is predicated on factual claims that are demonstrably falsifiable.

So then demonstrate the falsehood of the first claim. But you'd have to prove I don't exist. Instead he just talks more about the speculators speculating. They'll do it with anything, the technology doesn't matter. It just has to be something people don't understand. Lumping users of currency in with them is disingenuous at best. That said if you've only heard about cryptocurrency post-2015 I can understand the confusion. Pretty much everything created since then has been a scam.
I had the complete opposite experience, never gifted. Bullied by my teachers in middle school for my lack of intelligence. It was always an effort battle. The only way to get the pre-reqs was to literally drill 100s of problems. I remember I did for one math test in college and I studied consistently for hours for weeks only to get an 89. I earned that and my college roommate coasted in and got a 96. Work ethic wasn’t a choice it was the only way. My perspective on gifted students not utilizing their full potential is smallest violin. I wish I had what you had. But I don’t and all I had was motivation and discipline. I struggled all the time in school but work has been easy by comparison.

I’m emotional about this and don’t mean to attack anyone, but all my friends in the same state are all depressed and on SSRIs. It is sad for me to see them. For me the conflict was never being good enough, for them it’s the same but they seemingly chose not to do anything about it. That might be the difference simplistically but life isn’t that simple. There is no conclusion for this antidote or argument. Maybe just find a problem where you get pushed to your absolute limit, might be at academia or startup or something. You find some truths at the end of that.
> you can do an O(log n) binary search

I don't understand, and maybe you can explain if you are willing, why people use this to indicate speed? It gives no practical reference of how fast or slow that search would be without knowing the real factors involved. Right?
Apples actually do not cause dental issues, so they're completely fine by me. I believe this is due to the specific combination of sugars that apples have. Life without apples would not be a happy life.

Modern grapes do however cause dental issues.

Try papayas. They are not too sweet, and have beta-cryptoxantin.
Remote work scammers play the numbers game. Fabricating (stealing) identities and applying to jobs is their full-time job.

When you apply for jobs nonstop and can multiply your efforts by applying under a multitude of different names and resumes, eventually you get bites. Push long enough and you might catch a desperate hiring manager who doesn't know how to interview people but is under pressure to fill headcount immediately to hit their KPIs or whatever.

They play it like a numbers game. They also get better by constantly A/B testing their process and practicing interviews over and over again.
I find people arguing e2ee around telegram missing the point.

e2ee is just the bait. The telegram UI, ease of use and rich functions makes people stay.

In fact I find myself deosn't bother do one-to-one chats in telegram, mostly I just shitpost in groups like Discord channels. Signal is a fine e2ee chat app but that's it.

The use case of encrypted, secritive private one-to-one chats, especially outside work, is pretty limited.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqnzi8IVIgI
The primary "innovation" of Uber is political, not technological. They've managed to circumvent labor protections and at the same time position themselves as the middleman between drivers and riders.

In another Universe, a technology company would develop software that taxi companies can use to provide the same services that Uber does. But that wouldn't be as profitable as there wouldn't be scope for labor exploitation.
> We also noticed vague cover letter language:

Sadly, the examples in the article are as good as, or better, than letters I've received from US-based devs.
"Under-11s we feel should not be given access to smartphones. They don't need the usage of a smartphone and, actually, a feature phone - or a dumb phone, as some people call them - is more suitable."

Who are these nobodies lecturing us how to parent? I could care less how they feel and there's a clear conflict of interest. It's a bad precedent when some policy maker crawls from under the rug to explain what is "suitable"
Why isn't it like that? If my company decided to follow a new rule that nobody can be oncall after hours, wouldn't they have to force at least 2 engineers from each oncall rotation into the new shifts? Even if I escape being one of those 2, shouldn't I expect to have 66% fewer day shift opportunities in the future?
I think I'm probably more interested in the concerns of novel/systematic abuse around this feature (like a decision to send these snapshots to OpenAI for training), less so in the scenario where there's no change from Microsoft (so files are still stored encrypted locally on-disk) but in some one-off event (malware, 0-day exploits, choosing to sync to Google Drive) a user's files are exposed in the same way their browser's password DB could have been.
Yes! And ARR = annual recurring revenue. In addition to other saas metrics like usage revenue that is pure consumption based and sometimes calculated differently
I've used schemes like "concatenate a shared secret, millisecond resolution times, local autoinc ID, and some sort of distributed machine identifier (like ip address or MAC address), then taken a truncated hash of that with as many bits as needed for the desired uniqueness guarantees."

I wouldn't use it for assigning bank account numbers, but for most web or app stuff it's fine.
By the same logic then, those ceiling cameras pointed down at cashiers gotta go too.
The amount of crypto used to buy things is similar in scale to holding a fistful of sand up to the weight of all sand on earth and loudly proclaiming “not ALL sand isn’t in my hand”.
Groqqle: Open-Source Search Engine for AI
I also personally haven't had issues with this in Australia, but have seen it happen to friends who work in legal (many times).
It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. If these succeed, it'll indicate constraint and be a testament to how bureaucratic and broken Intel really is inside.
Which conflict has the UN prevented?
And the amount of M0 US dollar money supply used by normal people to buy things to live and enjoy life is paltry compared to the greater speculation and non-currency US dollar money supplies. It doesn't mean an actual US dollar isn't a currency.
Of course, true gurus can smell use after free.
When an employment fraud seen as SPY activity, and for anyone with whatever reason related to SPY things will finally and definitely be related to CHINA when there's noone involved has any relationship to CHINA.

As a Chinese, OMFG & ROFL.
I know it's not directly related to your question. But great work. Kudos for your project.