skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many countries criminalize the distribution of child porn, irrespective of whether it's real, drawn, sculpted, or sometimes even written.

If you are caught with loli hentai manga in New Zealand, expect the law to treat you like the chomo you are.

The reason why blanket bans are implemented is not just to punish actual harm, but to avoid creating a demand for material that harms children.

In the USA this kind of blanket ban, though desired by a majority of citizens, has historically not been feasible due to "that pesky First Amendment". So we say it's not about banning speech, it's about banning the abuse of children. And then we say that children get re-abused every time someone procures, distributes, or views this material. (Except when the FBI does it.) And then we're into semantic hair splitting of when exactly child abuse has occured: what if it's Bart Simpson? What if it's an AI deepfake? A photorealistic render of a fictional child? A Shadman cartoon drawing of a real minor e-celeb?

Other countries have eliminated this problem by banning the material altogether irrespective of whether it depicts real or fictional persons, whether photographed, drawn, or computer synthesized. Before 1969, this would even have been possible in the United States. The PROTECT Act gets us closer by criminalizing any material that flunks a Miller obscenity test, which the Supreme Court has ruled is NOT protected under the First Amendment.
>basic human rights

- selling drugs

- selling hacking/ddossing services

- posting beheading videos, latest one had Ukrainian soldiers head on a spike

- sending cruise missile targeting coordinates to military units

According to outraged russians those all among the things French prosecutors mentioned in arrest warrant.
the 'data' used is pretty suspicious in this article
obviously, international founders moving to america will have a better time raising money
and if you're selling B2B SaaS and 90% of your customers are physically headquartered in SF, you're handicapping yourself living elsewhere.. at some level people will just ignore your sales motion if they don't see a san francisco headquarters on the website

i've lived in both SF and NYC and worked on my own startup in both

NYC has a pretty vibrant startup ecosystem but doesn't compare with SF, except for some reason there's way more healthcare founders in NYC (prob bc bay area healthcare scene is dominated by large hospital systems that are impossible to sell to)

but SF is such a disgusting city overrun with homeless people and crime
NYC isn't exactly the prettiest either but pick your poison i guess

i personally prefer south bay over SF
hope SF gets its act together since I don't feel safe living there
Trust me, it feels like anything but discipline. XD

But yes, having regulators breathing down our necks does free up some appetite to go the extra mile.
Windows 10 Start Menu will soon display ads for Microsoft 365
Thanks for sharing, thoroughly enjoyed that read
You must have already answered that question if you choose to scan your brain. Otherwise, you wouldn't get your brain scanned in the first place.
> The headline here ("Telegram Is Not Encrypted") is misleading...

To an audience of laypersons, it's definitely much more accurate than saying "Telegram is encrypted".

Maybe a better way of phrasing it would be "Telegram can read your messages if they choose to, or if anybody is able to force them".
It actually was a lot of fun. I could see myself exploring some more worlds in the future.
Why do the servers always want to take our cutlery and plates and glasses away?
One of the first books that seem very interesting to read, coming from a recently graduated student. Will give this a go
They probably shouldn't, what unique value does anyone bring? Which is also why I am not even going to entertain the idea in earnest. This is just some creative rephrasing of the countless books out about being the best performer, the rockstar, the person to aspire to be.

BORING!

The work I do is appreciated by those around me. It isn't world changing, it doesn't need to be. I am happy doing my work, other people are happy with the work I do. When I am done with work I am done with work and do the mediocore stuff that also makes me happy. When the time comes, I'll shut down and that will be enough. Thank you very much.
> when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation"

That's not what disinformation means. Disinformation is a polite way of saying lies [1].

[1] https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/schwerpunkte/EN/disinform...
Great point.

All it would take is some evidence of bias in the follow up questions to invalidate that approach completely.
A linode vm + dokku has supported my personal projects (for profit and otherwise) for years.
Fun fact: The impact of "Millionaire" needs to be adjusted for inflation. When the term was popular in 1905 [0], it meant people over 15 times wealthier than today.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=millionaire&ye...
Thanks for sharing; it looks like this has trouble with certain kinds of images. Here's likely the most representative example:

Original: https://imgur.com/a/NrEXfua

BG removed: https://imgur.com/a/JWKHVGE

Much of the background was untouched, and almost all of the actual data (the axis and bars) were removed instead.
I think this is the doc, saw it on Twitter 1h ago: https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files...

relevant:

> So it appears that Pavel Durov has been using cryptography without a license.

Direct link to image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GV7S_fMaoAAf3w3?format=jpg&name=...

https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/1828130491805192226
Show HN: Video Embeddings with Weaviate and Mixpeek
Also, remember in 2022 Snowden swore allegiance to Russia when he became a citizen so we can't just assume he is neutral.

* https://www.opb.org/article/2023/06/04/a-decade-on-edward-sn...
I'd guess so.
i guess it depends if the authorization process reaches the other participants in some way or another ( such as a key derivation mechanism that can be verified by everyone) or if it's just a security feature to strengthen the login process.
"Do you want to be alive" is, for most people, not all that complicated a question.
Same. Using adblock, ublock, privacy badger, and a vpn
PaperWM https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM is very neat and I've been using it for a while
I might be misremembering it, huh! Yeah, it's pretty much the same as Swarm then (any odd number of manager nodes is valid, and if more than a half go down you only lose the management ability and everything else stays up).
Let's not swallow a cat to chase a fly. I'm sure LLMs could help police by for instance, providing a semantic search capability in a document retrieval system. I could see that working a lot better than fuzzy search in some cases (instead of searching for "Robert," "Rob," "Bob," etc, maybe you could identify messages about Robert. With enough context, maybe you could even do this with a message where they weren't mentioned by name.).

But writing police reports is a nuts and bolts idea liable to introduce way worse problems than what it purports to solve.

Even if this did free up an officer's time, it's not guaranteed that would go to better policing. The department might see it as license to create heavier processes and more paperwork. These reporting requirements don't come out of nowhere, there are strong incentives to create visibility and accountability and they won't disappear if you make paperwork cheaper.
Exactly my point. It was pretty bad in many ways. I also have very few bad memories using it. Quite the contrary.
ok, so if someone is hosting a public xmpp server or a forum, they should check their emails.
How does it allow me to access all my chats from a new device then, without providing any encryption key?
Because we're juuust about to become an interstellar species, right? Right?
Even Instagram/Youtube's recommendation algorithms, which I find decent, tend to have a lot of recency bias.

This is probably not a bug but rather an optimization to ensure I spend more time on screen. (chances are higher I like the stuff I most recently watched)

Which goes toward the skewed incentives problem - what they want to happen is not what I want to happen.

I find value in being reminded of old content I've been interested in.
I like it how it is on Windows 11, with 6 zones (tl-l-bl and tr-r-br, where t=top, l=left, and top and bottom target that quarter of the monitor while the middle targets the entire height of that side) and maximize/unmaximize windows by dragging the title bar to the center top of the monitor.

Then, in addition to this, with Actual Window Manager, map two layouts (2|2, 3|3, so 4 "panes" or 6 panes) via shortcuts where the dragging of the title bar shows these panes as targets for the window to pull it in when pressing shift at the same time. And with Ctrl-Shift Z or X I select one of the two layouts.

The 2|2 and 3|3 layouts are useful if I want a grid of terminal windows on the monitor while Windows's native features are good to move windows around quickly.

The benefit of having multiple terminal windows in a grid vs one tiled terminal is that I can pin selected terminals to the foreground.

I wouldn't want a desktop environment to generate layouts automatically for me, unless it can see what I'm doing and ask me if it should switched to a layout it proposes to me through a preview image on the display.
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Really? How convenient for you to just blame the USA and list France as an affiliate. If the USA wanted him (Durov), they could have arrested him a long time ago.

Why doesn't Snowden speak about the horrors of the Russian war in Ukraine where woman and children are raped and shot?

He only speaks when it is beneficial for his masters.
> And that's great. But Telegram promotes itself as a secure messenger. And that's a big lie.

But until someone actually published any hard evidence demonstrating weaknesses (ideally with a PoC), do we have anything else to go by?

I wouldn't say I know for sure Telegram is 100% secure against government interception, but I also wouldn't claim the opposite, because neither ends/claims have been demonstrated and proven in a verifiably way.
The US doesn't make much consumer electronics. How can it remain in ICs?

Someday, Foxconn will figure out that it doesn't need Apple any more.
assume anything posted on a chat app will or can be public. someone can literally take a screenshot of the conversation even if encrypted.
I have two PackedPixels and when I was still running around with a 14" laptop , it was great to have a little extra screen real estate without needing a backpack large enough to house a 16" laptop. Which is what I use now. With much regret I sold my ThinkPad 25 because the hardware is no longer adequate and I am using the ThinkPad X1 Gen 4 for the time being, I will upgrade next year again. Luckily the Greenroom136 Rainmaker M can house the X1E4 if barely while still being personal item sized.
He didn't have much choice, since the USA wanted to Epstein him.
The decision you face is not about continuing or quitting. It's about being true to yourself. True creation comes not from a desire for success or recognition but from a place of authenticity. The fear is rooted in the need for external approval. The only real waste of time is living a life that is not your own.
JS standard library is very limited.
So, pulling in third party dependencies to even left pad a string is normal.
What keeps an employee from impersonating a user by registering a new device and intercepting the confirmation code? The code must be somewhere in their systems for the time being, so at least one employee must be able to get it. Then they can see everything the user can see.

(Assuming the user has the default setting of no 2FA.)

There are probably more ways to get to the data.

Splitting keys in different jurisdictions seems like security theater.
This seems to be designed for left-handed people. To use this like a desktop you need enough space on the left of the laptop for the second screen and enough on the right for your mouse. Something like this with the second screen on the right would provide more utility in cramped spaces (for the majority).
Apple seems to be just as much a player as Intel.
>Any evidence for that?

at this point he is at the mercy of his FSB handler, either he posts what he is told/expected to or he loses usefulness and joins Russell 'Texas' Bentley as a cautionary tale.
... and OpenGL
FuriosaAI unveils RNGD inference NPU: 512 TOPS (FP8) 150W TDP
Agreed it's the future.

It's a pretty obvious problem to make use of all the personalized data you have in an ecosystem and slap an AI to start answering questions.

I tried something similar with Google's Gemini. I have a gmail account I use exclusively for newsletter subscriptions. I found out I could ask Gemini questions about the content there.

It was atrociously bad.
Telegram's founder/CEO got arrested in France yesterday.
2. To laugh at you

You're giving me Allied Mastercomputer vibes here...

I cringe even thinking about it.
unless he personally did all of those, this is a separate issue. by the same logic you dont sue gun manufacturers for all the deaths caused by these guns.
You may have already tried this and not found success but in case you haven't: Nearly all of my biggest career advancements have been the result of a job change not a promotion internally.

I don't know your personal situation, however, I do think more people are capable of finding themselves a better position with more opportunity than they think they are. If you think you are stuck and that's stopping you from looking for better opportunities elsewhere maybe you are have more opportunities than you think you do.
In this case it really wasn't worth it, but I've done it in other cases
Then we can say with my comment the traffic between you and Hacker News is encrypted. See, its using TLS.
heh, TOR devs should probably not visit France. But probably "nobody cares until there is some political benifit".
Thank you. Echoing the original comment about "anyone coming down at the extreme of either side of this... greatly simplifying a very complex issue," (a) very few people with strong feelings about this case had this document when they came to a conclusion and (b) this document is not enough to make an informed decision about what's going on.
Signal's larger problem is the lack of a web client.

Telegram (like everyone else) has a great, responsive web client.

What's even more frustrating is that Signals desktop app is just an electron app, meaning it's generally designed for the browser.
It's not really hard to deploy these things in isolation but Coolify makes it very easy to do it all on the same server. From Git integration with CI/CD in just a few clicks to just random services that you might need for business purposes (Email marketing, Analytics, Nextcloud).

30 minutes honestly sounds like a long time compared to the time it takes to do this with a PaaS.

Some other stuff that's nice: multiple environments (staging, production, you name it), Multiple deploy targets if you're running many servers (via Docker Swarm), support for Teams (in case you need multiple people to handle something, update environment variables, etc). There's lots.

Maybe you should give it a whirl? I don't know your exact use-cases
In the sense that SSL in 2024 is the bare minimum and goes without saying, so when talking about encryption we mean e2ee.
Lots of assumptions here about humans in 1000 years.

I suspect if we can recreate a human based on data, we also can learn them pretty quickly. Take a language course?

Also brains are complex systems in action, with vast quantum data and momentum that would be infeasible to measure let alone store or recreate.

A brain scan no matter how detailed is unlikely to provide the information necessary reproduce a mental state.
I don't think this is a very compelling argument. The main argument I can see against GrapheneOS on Pixel is that Pixels are just damn expensive phones.

I don't mind giving Google, or any other company, my money. Especially not in exchange for something like hardware. What I object to is giving Google (or any other entity) my data.
"On our way out"!? If you believe this, why? Who told you this? Do you actually think 8 billion people are about to drop dead?

On the other hand, if you're deliberately spreading hyperbole to get people to act, please stop - it's backfiring.
The thing that will surprise a lot of people is how low Intel pay is in the USA.

Just look up Hardware Engineer Intel on Payscale or other wage comparison site. Other companies are paying 50% more for the equivalent level. Eg. "Intel Bay Area Hardware Engineer salary" level 5 vs entry level "Google/Meta/Nvidia/AMD/Apple hardware engineer salary". On a direct, with no PPP or similar conversion comparison they do pay more for Bay Area talent than TSMC does for talent in Taiwan but Taiwan has significantly lower costs of living so you really wouldn't be better off even as talent in Taiwan migrating for an Intel job.

There's no way Intel is getting the best talent nor has it been for a long time. They do not compete in the slightest and they haven't in a long time. They do not even come close. Oh and they are doing layoffs of the cheapest hardware engineering workforce in the USA right now. Lets see how this pans out for them.
Drugs are sold on every platform, including Instagram. The other parts are just as likely to end up on Facebook as they are Telegram too, there really is no point in trying to make this sound like the USA-based platforms aren't utterly rife with the things you mentioned too. The only difference here is that Telegram isn't USA-owned and doesn't need to bow down to the USA Govt.
Funny thing about time. Trace back long enough and find folk that think what you are doing is magic. Trace forward far enough and it becomes "common sense".
I think others in this thread gave a few compelling answers to the "why". Another interesting, to me, follow-up question is: how do you stay "booted" after the first boot? Conversely, how do you make sure you are never booted it the first place?
> Any evidence for that?

No. But it's reasonable to presume he's a compromised source. That doesn't mean he wants to be, nor that everything he's saying has been dictated to him. But his public communications would be, at the very least, monitored and vetted.
This is why stats that purport a low clearance rate for murders in the US are misleading. Cases never expire until either someone is convicted or the perp can be presumed dead. The file is always open, someone is always investigating.
Why do people think that version is "you". Or rather "me". Even if it is indistinguishable to an outside observer, it's not "you".

The way easy to verify this is remove the death condition. Do you think you are suddenly experiencing both realities? The computer version can clone itself too. It need not experience the realities simultaneously and almost certainly won't. Though that isn't to say it couldn't recombine the knowledge (or even upload to the human). But none of that is "you".

But to the article I'm sure random people would be booted back up. Though I'm pretty sure if it's an accurate representation of me it wouldn't want to exist as just a tool for historians (to proxy interviewing people of the past). So maybe by careful booting "me" back up
> And for public channels, E2E is pointless - everyone can see it anyway.

Shouldn't it at least provide some guarantee that what you receive is what was sent?
This is a great idea. I use claude for my most of my unknown K8s bugs and it's impressive how useful it is (far more than my coding bugs).
Our legacy "computer industry" was a lend/lease styled business model industry. Our legacy "computer companies" were financing companies. Not "computing" companies. That lends/lease financing business model justified the sales forces operating on commissions. All that is over now.

Everything has changed now. Computer automation (CPU, RAM, Storage, I/O) is now priced in the mere 100's of dollars. That signifies "stuff" you can buy at Best Buy or even 7/11. Stuff you can "buy" signifies "stuff" that cannot be sold on commission. There is no more role for financing (lend/lease). There are no roles for sales forces operating on commissions.

I love bits and bytes. So what? Follow the money.
An Introduction to Matching Engines
Who were teenagers when they started that stuff
Line advertise itself as end-to-end. This is why most people just get a new account and lose their history when they get a new phone.

https://linecorp.com/en/security/encryption/2021h1
Does he have a choice now not to look like a clown? It's an interesting question.
negligence: failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances.

Most companies are negligent. Many of those are also deliberately negligent
Apple designs chips, but does not print them as Intel does (both)
No, they had an administrator. I filed the appeal through HR, though, which was the recommended process at the time. Probably not the right process in retrospect, especially because I accepted the appeal denial at face value and just paid out of my own pocket.
If those developers offer a platform while simultaneously not sufficiently moderating activities, then probably.
This is the plot of "The Freshman", which is an excellent movie. Starring Matthew Broderick, and featuring Marlon Brando parodying himself in The Godfather!
> Does he have a choice now not to look like a clown?

Probably not. I doubt, for example, that he could surrender himself to the West if he wanted to.
Having tried to start a company and fell flat on my face, it was one of the best learning experiences in my life. I’m back at big corps now and I feel like my scars are a wealth of knowledge. I’ll probably try again some day, blessed with the experience of failure.

I’d go for it. You are better off embarrassed and learning than safe and stagnating.
Sure, but the author talks about it as if the same thing wasn't already possible with Photoshop and some effort decades ago (anyone remembers Worth1000?).

Of course, having the machine do it in seconds is a huge achievement.

But it doesn't bring us into the Brave New World the author is describing where Yelp has to be "afraid" of fake images of food with bugs.

Faking photos was a thing since photography was invented. As was faking text - aka lying.

Yet here we are, talking and stuff.
> from the same Singer House in Saint Petersburg where VK headquarters are situated.

And so? Durov happens to be the founder of VK...
"The same encryption as your bank"
HR is not your friend. Corporate Confidential by Cynthia Shapiro is a recommended read.

My advice; get a better offer elsewhere, then see if HR wants to pay you your worth.
Except Dokku doesn't do those things. Dokku doesn't scale your app automatically and it doesn't shut it off when it's not being used. It runs your web server process continuously, handles some 12 factor config, and does some nginx stuff for you. Until this year it didn't support managing a cluster at all and was entirely focused on single box deploys. The scale command just runs more processes on the same machine which if you're not using Node is probably not even a good idea to do.
sure. folding. $6B in investments in H1 2024. more than in h1 or H2 2023
https://www.vccafe.com/2024/07/18/israeli-tech-defies-the-od...
> love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation"

I thought and still think that Snowden is a brave and righteous man for airing the US government's dirty laundry.

Not him becoming a Russian citizen, but rather his silence on the bloody war of Putin, however, makes me think that I should take Snowden's words with a pinch of salt.
If Snowden is concerned about human rights, why posting on Twitter? Is it really Snowden posting from that account or “Snowden”.