skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you read other news sites that mention Telegram or is this an N=1 situation?

Today, on the same topic, another tech site which generally gets a lot of things right (but whoever is responsible for writing about Telegram, or maybe their internal KB, is consistently wrong and doesn't care about feedback) wrote that it is an encrypted chats service: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/225750/ceo-en-oprichter-telegram... ("versleutelde-chatdienst" means that for those fact checking at home)
Bootstrap a Linux system from a 512 byte binary seed with 170 steps
It doesn't help in other tools, but there is a css rule to help with this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/user-select
> You can double-click-to-highlight a ULID; the standard UUID representation doesn't like this.

You can control this behavior in CSS with `user-select`. Peep my fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/gLyph5km/
I found it interesting that I haven't really seen the UV sterilisation to be popular at healthcare points at large. Where I grew up, the local surgery had the UV on in the whole building after hours, and that was in early 90s EE. None of the places I've seen since then used it (as far as I'm aware), across many countries.
> Ultimately, we, as a people, don't want pedophiles, we don't want children abused, etc.

We could say the same about violence and its presence in media.
Comparing X, which is one company (with a far reduced headcount and much smaller revenues compared to pre-Elon) in a tech hub city to an entire oil industry in an oil-rich state seems beyond hyperbolic.
>If telegrams encryption is so bad why is Pavel Durov under arrest?

Because it was so bad he had access to all that content, and because he had access to it, he should have moderated it, and because he didn't he's now arrested.

>Is it simply that telegram is the only one without backdoors for five eyes?

Telegram doesn't have a backdoor. Its open source client can be used to verify it leaks every group message, and every desktop message you ever send, to the service provider without ever applying secret-chat grade encryption

>It seems to me the secret chat feature actually works too well?

Well, Signal can be used to verify its end-to-end encryption is actually used everywhere, but nobody's calling for arresting Moxie or Meredith. So maybe playing 5D-chess over the news isn't working, unless you're here just to amplify this ridiculously fallacious line of thinking.
Is there anything noteworthy about this documentation?
> Horrendous crimes, yes there are
many out there, often commissioned by governments who will shamelessly throw outrageous lies at there citizens to transform them into cannon fodders and other atrocities.

Yes, this happened, is happening and will happen.

I wonder however if the word "often" may perhaps be misleading or even completely wrong.

If you pick one random victim of a horrendous crime today in a western society. Feel free to pick the minority most hated by that society. What is the likelihood that that crime was commissioned by the government? It's more likely domestic violence, trafficking etc done by fellow community members.

Sure there are examples of governments shooting civilian planes in the sky or ferries in the and covering up. And it's perfectly sensible to be outraged when that happens. But jumping to the conclusion that "the government" just does those things as a matter of routine doesn't sound right to me. I don't buy it. It smells conspiratorial thinking and requires extraordinary proof.
I'd expect it to be harder. I used to work on a large embedded device that ran some Java code, and there was a specialist vendor providing Java for the offbeat processor platform.

After a little digging, I found a blog post about it, and it does sound denser than the poster's plans to bootstrap Rust: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/fully-bootstrapping-jav...
So is Python, but I'm still gonna use it lol
I hope they do go extinct. They go bad really fast, and have become too sweet, harming dental health. They're good only in their soon-to-ripe green state, for only a day or two.

In fact I hope that all fruits that have been made oversweet go extinct, to be replaced by their heirloom varieties going back a couple of centuries. As it is, I avoid the oversweet fruits that require me to brush my teeth after eating them.
i have found mostly you can reset password to get away from google sso on many sites. no empirical evidence of course, and all sites are different.
I know that XBOW is working on offensive security using LLMs [1]. Backed by Sequoia Capital.

[1] https://xbow.com/
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Are they starting to move people on now in San Francisco ?

With the Grants Pass vs Johnson decision ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Grants_Pass_v._Johnson ) it seems like it is now possible.

Is there any change in other places under the jurisdiction of the ninth circuit court ?
The US government can (and for many years did) tap the phone calls of the German chancellor; I don't think getting to data held by European cloud providers is really a big challenge for them.
Well, Matrix is incorporated in the UK, not a member state of the EU, and Switzerland also isn’t a member state of the EU.
So now you're writing two compilers.

What did you actually gain from this, outside of more work?
like they did with Cambridge Analytica I guess...
I can give you some insight into why EU law enforcement and politicians dislike telegram. It’s not because they can’t snoop on you, it’s because Telegram fails to comply with moderation requests for channels where illegal content is shared.

We had a nice scandal of sorts here in Denmark where a bunch of young men shared pictures of young women without consent. If you’re old enough to remember those old “rate this girl” web pages from the 90ies you’ll know what the pictures were used for. Basically it was a huge database on hot girls in Denmark and where they went to school. Today around 1000 young men have that on their permanent record as Facebook worked with law enforcement to catch the criminals. Telegram doesn’t do that. This was even a little more innocent that it may sound, considering the men were at least aged similar to the women they were sharing pictures of. Disgusting and illegal, but Telegram houses far worse and refuses to deal with it.

I know a lot of tech minded people are up in arms over this, but it’s really mainly about not wanting an unmoderated social network. Not because big brother is angry, but because people use it to organise bullying, share revenge porn, sell drugs and far, far, worse. There is also political factions within the EU who rants to kill encryption (though they were severely weakened when the brits left), but the anger against SoMe platforms is much more “European”. In that we (and I say this as the EU culture in general, not as in 100% of us) tend to view the people who enable bad behaviour as being participating in that behaviour. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have been sort of protected by being early movers with mass adoption. Being American companies probably helps as well considering EU / US relations. Telegram never had such advantages, and is further disadvantaged by how its almost exclusively used for crime in Western Europe.

Obviously banning the platform won’t help. There will just be another platform. But then, we’ve also been losing a drug war for 50+ years even though we can’t even keep drugs out of our prisons.
Hmmm... I vaguely recall the term "shards" when referring to DB/2 running on S36, S38, and later newfangled AS/400 across the world. When presenting the data in a single pane, some "shards" would come in late, or be broken, and require reconnecting.
People used to say this about the energy infrastructure of Russia and Germany too, now see how that went. Or Chinese supply chains during Covid. Change comes rapidly sometimes. It just takes one lunatic president…
> Convicting the megaupload people would've been a LOT harder if they hadn't been uploading and curating illegal content on their platform themselves.

This is just a gimmick to bamboozle judges and the public. The ploy is to claim that someone is guilty of serious offense A because you proved they committed less serious offense B, even though the offenses have different elements and penalties.

They use the ploy because any large organization by definition has a lot of people in it and copyright infringement is pretty common, so by the law of large numbers somebody in the company is probably doing it even if the company doesn't want them to and then the prosecutors want to claim that the company as a whole is doing something wrong and has to be shut down. Which doesn't make any sense when another company is just going to provide the same perfectly legal service and the users are going to use it for the exact same thing.

Moreover, the obvious way for companies to prevent this -- indeed, the thing Megaupload's replacement started doing after the original was shut down -- is to encrypt everything so their employees have no access to it. Which I have no objection to, but if courts and prosecutors like to be able to issue a subpoena and actually get something back, they might want to reconsider turning the ability of a company to access data into a liability.
Deepfakes of real children aren’t mentioned here, so you know. The discussion is more general.
I'm failing at understanding what is the purpose of having uuid2. I didn't even know that more type existed till now. I had only encountered uuid2 when asking xandr to remove my personal data from its database. (discussion about xandr being asked to be investigated in Europe by noyb here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40913915)

By reading the Wikipedia page I'm failing at understanding why we invented something called universally unique identifier and have different types of it, some of which can be traced back to the original pc. Is it because mixing some Mac codes increase the chance of the uuid2 being randomic or does it have a different reason? For privacy reason, could we just not have a very long identifier with many different chars to choose from so that we have so many combinations that we're almost guaranteed we're using non duplicated uuids?
> no one in this big world of control freaks can or will do anything about any of that

Many sovereign citizens(1) have in fact been prevented from doing things society deems illegal despite their attestations to the law’s applicability to them.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement
Half-joking, half-serious counter: why not socialize the costs and socialize the profits, too? Think big!
And if you're really willing to DIY, easier to make in your body than in your garage.
I am not sure about SF, but there is tension in LA now because Newsom is doing sweeps on state owned land and has pressured LA officials to do sweeps, which they are against.
You're asking the wrong question. How can you prove that children were involved? In most developed jurisdictions, you must be proven guilty, not innocent.

> How does the model generate CSAM without it either being in the training material or fed to the model as an input?

How can a skilled artist (when forced to) draw CSAM without ever having seen CSAM? How can they draw something without having seen the exact thing before? Both humans and LLMs are able to extrapolate information.
Realistic Synthetic UGC: A Scaffolding Approach to Generating Online Discussions
I'll counter you here.

I'm starting to think that the people that moan the most about LLMs being terrible, might just be terrible at writing good queries.

Like everything else: garbage in, garbage out.

EDIT: I was not aiming this comment directly at you. But I've had a couple of devs try to convince me that tools like ChatGPT or Claude is garbage, and then use extremely short queries as proof.

"Write me a website with [list of specs]", and then when it either fails or spits out half-baked results, they go "See? It's garbage!"

On the other hand I've seen non-coders create usable tools, by breaking up the problem and inputting good queries for each of those sub-tasks.
I'm not from the US. What if you choose not to quit but not to move either? Would they have to fire you so you can get unemployment benefits?
Standards Are Awesome
The residual damage from large companies moving out of downtown cores seem to be lost on the local politicians. They will say everything is fine as the service industry meant to sustain companies evaporate.
Well, 'somebody' might be forcing you, the illness itself, because the generic drug might not be good enough in your case.
Are you saying that Elon Musk is oily?
"you mean to tell me AI can't just replace a human?"
>feels weird to target C

he's not targeting C, he's targeting rust; he's using C

it's an important distinction, because he's not writing the C compilers involved, he's leveraging them to compile his target rust compiler which will be used to compile a rust-on-rust compiler. The C compiler is the compiler he has available, any other solution he would have to write that compiler, but his target is rust.
That is incorrect. Some do just depends on qualifications
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BS. Vast majority of non-tech users do not, for a simple reason that they can't know it even if they cared, and they do not. Even tech users can't be bothered to read links to the faq on tg site.

There is so much misinformation around telegram that alone made me trust it more (if a known liar tries to discredit something, it increases chances of it being good--it is about comments here on HN).
The rest of the world has governments that negotiate directly the Pharma companies and strike up deals that subsidize the first X doses per year per Y number of people. Once the limit is passed it's the same for everyone - pay the price or find an alternative. NB that this doesn't happen only with US companies, e.g. Roche is very profitable selling Million-dollar-per-course cancer treatments.
But in general, the fact that Pharma companies can sell at "full price" in the US subsidizes the drugs for the rest of the world.
>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.

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

In fact, https://simplex.chat/ is the only messenger with the least amount of metadata.
Look for companies that are funded as part of long, multi-year projects. I have been funded by institutions like the NSF, NIH, and a bunch of smaller philanthropic foundations. After leaving SaaS-world, I just went to LinkedIn and looked for a non-profit doing work I can stand behind.

The thing that makes it so chill is that we work on very long time scales, based on the length of whatever NIH (or similar) grant we're on. If you're used to building things in the private sector, the comparison I make is that what took us 3 months at my previous YC startup would take us 3 years at the non-profit where I work now. A lot of that is because there are many moving pieces to coordinate, and because you have to be careful when dealing with sensitive data and research ethics. Blah blah blah, at least part of it is also because the breakneck pace of VC-funded software hasn't got its fingers into this pie, at least not yet.

Downside: pay cut. I make $18k less than I did 4 years ago, despite having gotten promoted in this new spot. Also, it can be frustrating trying to actually produce software at a company with no culture for it. You find out that software delivery practices are something people have to learn, and at places that aren't software-oriented, they don't know about them.
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Same is true for interviews. As a woman who isn't super attractive, nor do I really try to be, some interviewers just have a weird expression when they meet me, and I know it's over from there. Just had this happen last week interviewing for a job where I've done PRs on the tools they were using and have been using the tools they were using for years. By the end of the interview he said he enjoyed talking with me but they won't be moving forward. He said I would struggle in the job due to technology but did not ask any technical questions.

It is what it is I guess. But I also wouldn't want to work for such shallow people either. Note, the person was found on the HN who's hiring, so it's not just random people but also what I'd consider more thoughtful people who should know better as well.
Right, but once you have C it's fairly straightforward to use an interpreted language implemented in C (python, perl, guile, lua, whatever).

Obviously such a compiler would likely be unusably slow, but that's not important here.
This is quite a MRAZN take.
Definitely something investors should be aware of so that they can further optimize their decision making.

However, scores of physical attractiveness are going to be strongly influenced by the character & charisma of the speaker. And I think it’s undeniable that a highly charismatic and compelling speaker should have a better chance of success in leadership, public relations, and sales.

I would prefer to see independent readings of attractiveness based on photographs alone, so that the attractiveness score is purely visual. Still visual attractiveness may count for something in later success but I would agree with the authors that in an ideal world, we’d be blind to someone’s physical characteristics because that is something you’re born with.
One explanation is missing: the angle of the edge.

If the blade edge has been sharpened to 20 degree angle, it has the same 20 degree cutting angle when used diagonally. The effective cutting angle decreases in the direction of the cut when you rotate it. The smaller the angle, the sharper the knife.
Neither me, nor a significant number of the population, would call those "environmental improvements".
X isn’t moving to Texas.

They’re relocating to San Jose and Palo Alto, which is 40 - 60 mins or so south of San Francisco. https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/x-closing-san-francisco-hq-re...
> Who pays for the hosting of ActivityPub and Matrix instances?

And

> What if one instance abuses other instances too much? How do you prevent it?

Simple, they get blocked by other instances?

How cryptos change anything to these three questions?

> Oh, look at that, Nextcloud and Sia announce "cloud storage in the blockchain"

That just means Sia wrote a Nextcloud integration for their stuff and somehow nextcloud decided to showcase this integration. That doesn't mean Nexctloud has much to do with blockchain stuff. Nextcloud integrates with anything and its dog.

> What if some spammer abuses Nexcloud?

What kind of spam are you imagining and how do you think crypto coins are going to solve this? You don't use cryptos for this, you use good old system administration and in particular antispam systems, which don't use coins.

> You are totally ignoring the part that people need to get paid for storing stuff, and at the same time the payment needs to happen automatically.

We're not.

First, they don't always need to, some people run stuff out of advocacy for instance.

Second, getting paid with regular money is not an unsolved problem, there are plenty of options, many of which also coming with some builtin guaranties against fraud. It's literally how the whole world works. Now, I can't say I'm a huge fan of our financial system but that's a social issue in need for a social solution, not a technical one.

I'm stopping here, it's pretty clear that I won't get a solid, reasonable argument in favor of cryptos here. And that since your top comment is flagged to death, nobody reads us anyway.
Publishing server code provides no assurance of anything (although it is still nice, for other reasons) since nobody can know if what they (for any "they") run in production is the same as the public source.

Open client code and documented protoccols are much more important. If you can compile your own client from open source code and it works fine, then you can know for sure what you're sending to the server.
Yeah, but that's probably not your own calendar reminders...
This is part of what I love about Mastodon: if you PM someone, very often you're talking between two random servers and odds are good that the admin is a friend of a friend. No dragnet statistical analysis stuff, just friends running some software that normal people can also use. Distributed systems at their best
Am I summarizing this article right?

* The US premium paid is 150% of R&D costs, therefore cutting it will only cut spending on the costs that aren't R&D

* M&A did not drop in the first year of the program, which covered 10 drugs, therefore the program will have no effect once phased in

* We think AI might develop new drugs for us someday, so it's safe to throw away the existing system today

Not very solid reasons to go after the golden goose!
If you are fine with creating IDs in a centralized way (as you would do in 99% of cases anyways) you can just use a normal incrementing integer primary key. Then encrypt it with XTEA (either at your API boundary or in the database) to get non-sequential unguessable 64 bit keys. [1] has example code for postgres. If the original key don't have duplicates then the XTEA encrypted keys don't have duplicates either.

Then just encode it in a format of your choosing. Youtube uses a modified base64 encoding (no padding, and + and / are replaced by - and _). And youtube video ids seem to also be 64 bits, just like xtea output.

1: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/XTEA_(crypt_64_bits)
Two simpler pieces of work as opposed to one complex one. Even if the two parts might be more volume, they're both easier to write and debug.
OT ScholarlyArticle: "Divergent recruitment of developmentally defined neuronal ensembles supports memory dynamics" (2024)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk0997

"Our Brains Instantly Make Two Copies of Each Memory" (2017) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/our-brains-instantly-m... :

> We might be wrong. New research suggests that our brains make two copies of each memory in the moment they are formed. One is filed away in the hippocampus, the center of short-term memories, while the other is stored in cortex, where our long-term memories reside.

From https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201... :

> Surprisingly, the researchers found that long-term memories remain "silent" in the prefrontal cortex for about two weeks before maturing and becoming consolidated into permanent long-term memories.

ScholarlyArticle: "Engrams and circuits crucial for systems consolidation of a memory" (2017)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aam6808

So that makes four (4) copies of each memory in the brain if you include the engram cells in the prefrontal cortex.

What is the survival advantage to redundant, resilient recall; why do brains with such traits survive and where and when in our evolutionary lineage did such complexity arise?
Then we agree, both LLMs and hackernews commenters hallucinate all the time. You can see my point in my original reply to OP. Not interested in arguing further.
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This isn't my niche but this makes sense at face value. I couldn't find any sales data for either processor but maybe the DIY market is bigger than I know.
The point is that they cut at an angle.
For any San Francisco person moving to Texas, the coldest winter will not be a summer here.
Do you still need HEPA/air purifier if you have decent ERV/HRV?
I call that problem "Doctor, doctor! It hurts when I do this!"

If the risk exists with AI processing this kind of data, it exists with a human processing the data. The fail-safe processes in place for the human output need to be used for the AI output too, obviously - using the AI speeds up the initial process enormously though