skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some other options

https://cwtch.im/ (has better UX and security than Briar)
https://onionshare.org/ chat feature

Also https://github.com/maqp/tfc by yours truly if you need hardware-enforced endpoint security for your keys.
I think CF is trash, at least in the free version.

Why you should never use Cloudflare. It causes problems, is bad for SEO and a Spyware tool.

https://expatcircle.com/cms/why-you-should-never-use-cloudfl...

If it is free, then you are the product. If you need a CDN, there are cheap solutions out there. And Pics should always be delivered from your domain, not from CF.
What’s the source for your “LITERALLY REFUSES” claim?

The study you linked names instagram as “the most important platform”…
> ($5K+ paper weight, at best).

You know the price of the Vision Pro is public, readily-available information, right? What do you hope to accomplish by lying about its price?
Among other strategies for better quality: Inspect, record, make a root cause analysis and understand the supply chain.
The masses do not care much if ones do not do agains bad actors what are in their power just their pretty platform shall keep running, they will keep this one alive too and argue for it to the death, don't worry, the masses could argue for any malicious thing that they find pretty or nice or like for some reason. Can organize some protest or even riot too in a - unencrypted by nature - group channel, there will be scores to participate, as recent example show in other precious matters, maybe can loot some good scores too on the side of the big party about a dear matter for the heart! Paris deserve the revenge! : /
Telegram does not refuse take down content. I have reported scams, phishing, selling stolen credit cards and such to Telegram and they have all taken down. Maybe not in 24h, but still taken down.

Also from your study: “Our investigation finds that large networks of accounts, purportedly operated by minors, are openly advertising SG-CSAM for sale on social media. Instagram has emerged as the primary platform for such networks, providing features that facilitate connections between buyers and sellers. Instagram's popularity and user-friendly interface make it a preferred option for these activities.”
> This was sad. I built a tool for people who knew what harmonic patterns were. People who had an investment strategy and only needed a tool to automate the drawing of the charts that they would normally draw by hand. Not some gung-ho investors whose entire investment strategy consists of "this random script I found five minutes ago says that stock X will go up, so I buy."

Technical analysis is pretty much magical thinking, so, no, you pretty much built a sales funnel for "people who believe investing money is magic and can be easily parted with it." The customer support story seems pretty predictable as a result.

Well, I guess you're mostly piggybacking on TradingView's funnel.

> Sometimes, I would get a job offer. Yay! For writing PineScript for a living. Nay!

Reasonable, but then why bother with a hobby project like this?
Manbang (DPRK IPTV Service)
NASA's X-59 Progresses Through Tests on the Path to Flight
You never know what may suddenly become illegal.
Yeah. Somehow the Hobbit movies have all of the ingredients but just don’t come together.
Then you look at the assembly for the old Cray-1 computers (octal opcodes) and the IBM System/360 computers (word opcodes), and you realize, they made it so amazingly simple you can mostly just write the opcode bytes and assemble by hand if you like.

Then x86 came along, without the giant budgets or the big purchasers, and so they made that assembly as efficient and densely packed as is possible; unfortunately, you lose what you might otherwise conveniently have on other machines.
Any idea if there is a way to take pcb pictures and automatically convert them into a schematic? Obviously you would have to fill in the equipment in.
Ok good, thanks. I just wanted to clarify that point for other readers.

As an aside, as someone who works in the life sciences field, I’m a bit conflicted about advertising new therapeutics. I see why it is an often necessary practice in order to raise awareness among potential patients. On the other hand, in an ideal world, primary care physicians would be up on the latest therapies and recommend them to their patients as appropriate. Sadly, that is not always the case.
It’s very loose. You can just say cash and that’s fine.
There must be a pain point beyond which insurance companies are willing to actually provide the services they promise. Perhaps jail time for execs might move the needle?
Not a good start if they start shouting about the Digital Services Act, which of course has nothing to do with their CEO being arrested at an airport.
Smaller? Yes. Faster? Almost certainly not.

It really doesn't make sense to optimize anything in a bootstrapping compiler. Usually the only code that will ever be compiled by this compiler will be rustc itself. And rustc doesn't need to run fast - just fast enough to recompile itself. So, the output also probably won't have any optimisations applied either.
> This is the issue. Web platforms DO NOT have that kind of legal protection - be it Telegram, Instagram, or Hacker News.

e2e encryption cannot be broken though

> Safe Harbor from liability in return for Content Moderation is expected from all internet platforms as part of Section 230 (USA), Directive 2000/31/EC (EU), Defamation Act 2023 (UK), etc.

I have no sympathy for Durov and I don't care if they throw away the keys, but what about Mullvad then?

I guess that a service whose main feature is secrecy and anonymity should at least provide anonymity and secrecy.

> CP, Illicit Drug Transactions, Threats of Violence, and other felonies

you understand better than me that the request is absurd all of this is in theory, in practice nobody can actually do it for real, the vast majority of illicit clear text content are honeypots created by agents of various agencies to threaten the platforms and force them to cooperate. nothing's new here, but let's not pretend that this is to prevent crimes.

also: the allegations against Telegram are that they do not cooperate, but we don't actually know if they really crack down on CP or other illegal activities or not, because if they don't, the reasonable thing to do would be to shut down the platform, what does arresting the CEO accomplish? (rhetorical question: they - I don't want to throw names, but i think that the usual suspects are involved - want access to and control of the content, closing the platform would only deny them access and would create uproar among the population - remember when Russia blocked Telegram?)

also 2: AFAIK Telegram requires a phone number to create an account, it's the responsibility of the provider to KYC when selling a phone number, not Telegram's.

also 3: safe deposit boxes are not necessarily linked to bank accounts. I pay for a safety deposit box in Switzerland but have no Swiss bank account.

So my guess is EU wants in some way control the narrative in Telegram channels where the vast majority of the news regarding the war in Ukraine spread from the war front to the continent.

> First, it's Pinkman BIATCH not Pinkam.

Sorry. I'm dyslexic and English is not my mother tongue, but the 4th language I've learned, when I was already a teenager.

> was previously suspended by the NM Bar Association

that was the point. TV dramas need good characters and a criminal lawyer who's also a criminal is more interesting than a criminal lawyer who's just a plain boring lawyer that indulges in no criminal activity whatsoever.
Oh sick so I could just ask my friends who took it earlier in the year for the answers?
I keep coming back to this one too. It’s just a really well done movie, and I still sometimes notice new details when re-watching it.
Code, unless you count the abacus etc
(The code, of course; the code drove music boxes and looms centuries before computers. Same for chicken and egg: eggs are maybe a billion years older.)
I really miss reading new blog posts and series from Shamus :(
And it only works because a corporation likely would want to offer this to its users as a convenient feature. If they were actively trying to hide this, they can rig the test and keep access to themselves.
Thanks!

Lee Mack has a great anecdote about his beginnings that he told on the Graham Norton show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbpagijVkk
It’s more nuanced than that.

A lot of VCs aren’t incentivized to see their portfolio company ipo. They are incentivized to see their portfolio company get a higher valuation and raise more.

So it would seem that attractiveness leading to a higher chance of fundraising is aligned with their interest.
Right, but what sort of taxes? If the answer is "just an overall tax on everything", then that's basically the status quo, with all the accompanying "socializing the costs and privatizing the profits" (eg. [1]). If it's tax on the industry in question specifically, then that's something that's not usually done. For instance, you mention "Taxes pay for the basic physics research that keeps Moore's Law on track", but to my knowledge there's no semiconductor tax to attempt to recoup the cost of that research. The same goes for agriculture. You might have a point for roads since they're financed via a fuel excise tax, but it doesn't generalize to ocean/air freight.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41351872
Because a business context is not seperate from the personal context. If it were, then sales wouldn't exist.
As the saying goes, because common sense is neither common nor sensible. ;)
Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off
Agree with this; I forgot to include in my post that the directionality isn't necessarily guaranteed!
Thanks! I really need to get around to making my Wordpress installation email about new stuff.

Right now the best way's either to follow it on Patreon (no money needed) or to follow me on Mastodon (@anthracite@dragon.style). Or fire up your RSS reader and point it at the site.
Y Combinator Launches – The Launchpad for YC Startups
>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.

Knowing someone's phone number doesn't automatically let you compromise their device. This is such a ridiculous argument.

>I would rather know that this app is not secure so I don’t share anything important, while keeping secure communication to other means.

This is nirvana fallacy. It's essentially saying "We should not talk about Telegram lying about its security, when in reality nothing is 100% secure". Yeah, nothing is, there's always an attack. That doesn't contribute anything of interest to the topic, it just tries to kill the criticism. And I'm saying this as someone who has worked on this exact topic for ten years: https://github.com/maqp/tfc
Even if it is true that it is not a solvable problem, striving toward an unattainable perfection is still a worthy goal.
>Way to dismiss a solid argument based on an anecdote.

We'll have to agree to disagree that it's a solid argument. I think it's weak and specious.
Run that with a Feather blade, and buddy, you will be facesturbating all day.
But how would you know about this illegal activity, if the product can be used by anyone? Only if you were eavesdropping on your users...
Car, food manufacturers etc... operate in mostly free market - pharma, insurance, hospitals operate in highly regulated markes and 'somehow' for all of them is better if the price goes up, because 1% of 10mio is more than 1% of 1mio.
And what is maybe also important, when buying car you pay for it directly, and know the price in advance and there is no urge to buy it just to stay alive...
keeping ahead oF
OIG resulting from bad coding. Once cleared, will share my dumb ass error here & at gh
Yeah, I’m more worried about the middle ground that would make software quality (even) worse than it is today.
I usually generate N bits of randomness and base58 encode it. Choose N to your liking. You loose the benefits of monotonic sorting that is present in some UUID versions. Base58 is url safe and does not contain any special characters. And you can still store values as binary (eg. bytea in Postgres instead of a text column).
I think the idea is that by maintaining a strong military presence, thus preventing us from being directly attacked on our soil (in theory), affects many more people’s lives indirectly, since they aren’t living in fear that they could be taken out at any moment.

The same is not true for many countries without a strong military presence.

And then there’s places like Costa Rica, where they somehow make it work.
Real-world uplift modelling with significance-based uplift trees [pdf]
Programming is not art, problem solving is.

Programming is just a mean to an end, please stop this cringe romantic rhetoric. If you really love programming you don’t care about the medium, the fact that a program is represented as text is just a transient phase in the history due to the current tech we have available in this specific moment in time. Programming (today) is expressed as text, LLMs auto complete boring text, so that us “the artists” can write more of it faster, end of story.
If you had evidence showing that it seems to work, then whether the mechanism of action was understood yet or not, they shouldn't be perceiving it as crazy or insulting; they should be doing it, and in parallel seeking to understand it.

(It's also possible for a study to be flawed, but even then, the reaction should be to do better, not to react with "crazy and insulting".)
This is one of the charges (according to French press): refusing to give French police unfettered access to Telegram user data and moderation.

It’s French national law, not EU (though the EU will copy for sure).

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/whats-going-frances-onl...

Also now they have added “because people watch football matches illegally on Telegram”. So they are going to throw everything at kitchen sink at Durov, probably also national security issues because anti-French political groups use Telegram in Africa.

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1827767824858931319
Indeterminism is not always bad. A probabilistic Turing machine is more powerful than a Turing machine, for example (BPP complexity class is a superset of P).
Not really surprising at all when you see the ridership numbers is it?
I like the rule about loser paying attorney fees and such, but it should be capped at whatever the loser paid for their fees. That way, if you hire a local lawyer to sue a trillion dollar international corporation, sure, you might lose, but they will have to eat the cost for whatever legal fees they spend above “local lawyer rates” are. If they hire a local lawyer too, then by all means, loser has to pay for that attorney.
Just make it a V.
Why insist on making enemies? Even if it is Elon Musk. How hard is it to just ignore the question?
Wikipedia has:

Shard (database architecture) > Etymology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_(database_architecture)#...

Partition > Horizontal partitioning --> Sharding:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(database)

Database scalability > Techniques > Partitioning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_scalability

Network partition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_partition
Durov was robbed from his previous startup at a gunpoint by Putin’s thugs, and then he had to escape, so it is unlikely Durov co-operates with Russia:

https://x.com/moo9000/status/1827651335476461813
Yeah, that - and also managed Kubernetes. Hetzner could seize a lot of potentially lucrative opportunities, but for some reason they choose not to and pretty much stagnate in their offerings. I have been asking the support about both K8s and object storage since close to five years now, but no.
San Francisco has been saying good riddance to a lot of good companies for a while now. Maybe not out loud, but certainly through their policies have they driven away a lot of business. Downtown is a ghost town now.
Cool site, although I found my own bug too

https://files.catbox.moe/j08300.png
This was an incredible interesting read, thanks for sharing. I actually fear that this is a generalized problem with subjects in school, it's not math alone that suffers from this. I remember being asked to learn by hearth poems that I didn't even like, making me hating poetry in general. Or even art, just a bunch of names and artworks to learn and memorize characteristics and whatnot. I enjoyed math and physics, but I realize now it was because I was good with algebraic manipulation rather than proper understanding. And I rather struggled later at University studying physics indeed.
> so must those recruiters, right? I'm sure the recruiters would agree

I don't understand. Are you suggesting that the corporation that sets these rules actually measures, and cares about refining these processes?

Because they absolutely don't care about the quality of the process as long as the quantity targets are met.
> Do some people's brains "just not like reading?

yes, certainly. pretty common - outside of a disability, we can all learn to read, but it's hard and not enjoyable for many.

> Do some people's brains "just not like music?

yes. (when i say "like" btw. i meant roughly "natural ability", not "enjoy") of course most people love to listen to music, but many people do not have much of a musical ability - and you can't work, learn, or practice your way into it beyond a certain point, either.

> There's nothing special about math here

yes.

some people are terrible at dealing with socialization and others are brilliant. we are NOT all wired the same way. we all have different abilities. what justifies that claim is several billion examples.
Pavel Durov and the Blackberry Ratchet
All this flagging seems to be more for "cover your *ss" reasons, because the real criminals continue doing their business everyday.
This has been my view for a while. Basically health-care != health-insurance.

People I've talked to can't quite to wrap their heads around that idea. Not sure why.
You seem to be living on this weird balance of having no threat model. This is what your post implies

1. Signal is bad and insecure because registering user account requires giving a phone number.
2. Matrix is better, it fixes this by registering with emails (although emails also have zero click vulnerabilities)
3. Telegram is better than Matrix, it's more usable (even though it also requires a phone number like Signal)

So pick a lane, is requiring a phone-number a litmus-test for you or not. Is zero-click vulnerability something that needs to be addressed? How do you deal with malicious contacts or people in public groups sending zero-click links?
I would suggest Astro or Eleventy connected to a CMS. There are a lot of options there, and both projects have a list of ways to set them up. Simple git-based CMSes have worked great for me in the past this way, with a GitHub action to build for my hosting provider.
It's about having a shorter auditable bootstrap process much more than it is about supporting new architectures.
Any sources on this? Personally as a man I don't have a definition of male attractiveness. And it seems even many women don't have it being more attracted by behavior. And women's reaction to women coworkers' beauty is let's say very much non-linear if to judge by my experience
Couldn't this essentially be used as a training data generator?

E.g. have humans + LLMs generate a bunch of prompts that goes into this system, and it spits out a bunch of fully-fledged applications, which can be used to train an even bigger model.
Like many a disease with an old name, Psoriasis refers to a localized cutaneous autoimmune disease usually treated by dermatologists, and a severe family of Rheumatic (autoimmune) diseases, part of the Spondyloarthropathy family, that happens to have a cutaneous element which is the same (and often is the first symptom). This treats the latter, debilitating and possibly life-threatening variety.
I just +1ed for the mix of automata + beat :)
Too bad I can't send a secure text from my Telegram desktop client. Lucky for me, there's Signal.
This is what we did for Mozart/Oz [1]. We have a compiler for "proto-Oz" written in Scala. We use it to compile the real compiler, which is written in Oz. Since the Scala compiler produces inefficient code, we then recompile the real compiler with itself. This way we finally have an efficient real compiler producing good code. This is all part of the standard build of the language.

[1] https://github.com/mozart/mozart2
If you were not being sarcastic, it's not a fair comparison. Those 66k EU bureaucrats only deal with some of the stuff. You'll have to add some of the public administration employees from each of the countries that deal with things that in US would be considered "federal".
funded != built ?
Yep. LLM’s don’t guarantee any interesting mathematical properties. That’s up to you.

This why you should write good tests, review the code, and don’t approve anything you don’t understand.

It’s not a reason to reject pretty good autocomplete, though.
I wonder if this move is also a "hidden layoff", that is where he will say "Move to TX or quit, your choice".

Also if an employee moves to TX, will they get moving expenses ?
This is like Saudi Arabia pretending to say 'good riddance' to oil. What are you going to do when it's all gone?
Who would watch an interview being held by a crazy person and take it at face value? Anyone with half a brain would avoid watching or listening to Tucker Carlson like the plague.
Taxes do pay for pharmaceutical research though private funding makes up the majority of the funding. For example, NIH, DoD and CDC all provide funding.

NIH has an annual budget of $45 billion - all taxes.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/grants-funding
[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2775400
> might theoretically benefit the customer.

As with any for-profit business, benefit to the customer is not a goal in and of itself, but rather an incidental side-effect of obtaining money from the customer, in that it is how the customer is convinced to give up their money.

I would caution against assuming systems such as what you described are intended to help the customer. It sounds like instead, it is intended to help the company, by causing you to have to spend your (not their) time and potentially miss an appointment, saving the insurance company money.

After all, what are you going to do, leave your employer for another one with a different insurance company over an insurance paperwork headache?
Bet he wishes he added those back doors now.
Hey, would love to see a visualization of this / how you made it :)
Depending on the jurisdiction and the crime and the circumstances an act of omission (like ignoring a murder) would be suspicious and may get you charged with aiding and abetting.
Good, I thought we were about to have a flame war there. People are so accustomed to everything having an ideological point that they infer one if you don't say it.

Putting myself in the place of the doctor: if I say "hey, there's this new drug Bimzelx!" and then I have to tell the patient what it costs, I can imagine being happy to wait until THEY bring it up. Of course, if they just ask "are there any drugs for this?" I'd be duty-bound to answer.
taykh? (Q. what do you call a strawberry from Bretagne? A. Une freizh)

Right now I'm going down the rabbit hole of expander graphs (aha, these also have a spectral gap?), but soon I shall have some bandwidth for coarse-graining coffee automata.

(I doubt you have my public key, but I fear that were you to take the inference closure of our convos and some gumshoe work, you could easily have 33 bits worth of identity)

Lagniappe: https://blogs.ethz.ch/kowalski/zazie-au-pot-de-these/ (I hope Zazie's ultimate commentary has not given her uncle a complex)
Twitter already laid off 80-90% of staff. It was already almost all gone, from SF's perspective.