skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know there are some extreme cases reported where antidepressants were associated with seizures, but from what I understand that's extraordinarily rare. I don't just mean it's rare in clinical trials and research. None of the physicians I've worked with have seen changes in seizure activity following years of SSRI use. The research in that area has also seemed to have petered out without an obvious mechanism or associated population to further explore.

The closest thing I can think of is high dose stimulants causing tonic clinic seizures, but I'd be curious if the unintentional hyperactivity of neurons in stimulants is physiologically similar to increasing oscillatory activity.

I'm not an expert in antiepileptics though so it'd be nice to get some more perspectives here
Is “Asia” a well-defined market? Honestly curious.
If they copy then do things to help take down the initial thing. They've done more than just copy. And that's what I believe many places did.

You get your copy. Then send out fake dmca noticed or buy out places. Then sell your copy after everyone else's copies aren't available anymore.

It's a very standard practice in all walks of life. You gain access to a device then improve security and fix issues so that others can't get in anymore. That's a bad person approach. The legal way is to pull up the proverbial ladder or legal loopholes behind you. Good, bad, or whatever. Tons of people and places do it.

It's far more nefarious than just so innocently copying
Was there an argument? Lots of places in the world have state-backed top-notch free education, without the guns and violence.
I guess we are currently in the special situation, that we as human programmers can understand the output of a coding LLM. That's because programming languages are designed to be human readable. And we had an incentive to learn those languages.

I imagine that machine learning powered coding will evolve to an even blacker box, than it is today: It will transform requirements to CPU instructions (or GPU instructions, netlists, ...). Why bother to follow those indirections, that are just convenience layers for those weak carbon units (urgh)?

Simultaneously, automation will likely lead to fewer skilled programmers in the future, because there will be fewer incentives to become one.

Together those effects could lead to a situation where we are condemned to just watch.
> If telegrams encryption is so bad why is Pavel Durov under arrest?

He's under arrest precisely because it is bad enough that Telegram is in a position to share data with law enforcement, but it chooses not to.
Well yes, but actually no.
This reminds me of NeHe’s OpenGL tuts. That, and a little earlier Denthor’s mode13h tut, changed my life. Good times.
I used to live in Santa Monica and work in El Segundo. My commute by bike was 55 minutes and joyous, mostly. By car it was 50 minutes and horrible. The funny thing is that the only reason I took the car for a few months was because of injuries from getting hit by a car while biking.

It’s not like cars have exactly been working well for LA. They’re slower than biking for a lot of trips. With a bike and the bus or train I often beat traffic during rush hour.

Fortunately, LA has wide roads with many lanes and can repurpose them for other uses, if they want to.

If you’re ever in the city for critical mass or CicLAvia I can’t recommend it enough. Best way to see the city.
I'm sure they could, but they'd need a different design to carry the extra load; at the moment it only carries its own lightweight construction.

That said, for personal transport in windy / flat conditions, a kart with a parachute kite works as well, you see those on the beach on occasion too.
> Telegram can be forced to give up data

That's all you need to know. Matrix and Signal can't be forced in any way.
Roughly speaking, I'd conjecture that it is because America has always been an idealistic country.

As the Declaration of Independence says, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." This is not a uniquely American sentiment, indeed the phrase was largely borrowed from the writings of John Locke, an Englishman -- but it does feel very American to me. (Moreover, the fact that about half the signers of the Declaration were slaveholders puts an odd twist on it, which also feels quite American.)

If some aspects of your life are going well, and not others? It feels American to me to believe that you can have it all, that if you're experiencing problems then you should not grin and bear it, but rather that you can and should solve them.

This is my personal conjecture, and of course is highly debatable.
They're not manually generated or anything, it's just a setting. Too few and the model doesn't have enough flexibility to capture complex patterns. Too many and the model can just memorize the data you train it on rather than capturing the patterns driving it.
No, the other way around. I am saying it is not a smart take to say ”a safe airplane cannot be built if LLMs were used in the process in any way, because reasons”. The safety of the airplane (or more generally the outcome of any venture) can be measured in other ways than leaning on some rule that you cannot use an LLM for help at any stage because they are not always correct
When you said 3D printed, I wanted expecting that scale. That was cool
Subjectively and qualitatively, roughly half of all news articles on Telegram I read contain the word "encrypted" or at least "secure" somewhere.
>Amiga uses a variable drive speed

Amiga uses standard PC drives with slight tweaked pinout https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2020/12/05/converting-a-pc-floppy-dr...
If time travel is invented in your lifetime, you should go back a thousand years or so and have a talk with King Cnut — he of the legend of showing his courtiers just how much control he had over the tide [0] — about your views on immigration.

Immigration comes because migrants are dissatisfied enough with the status quo to take risks to do something about it. That ingrained tendency is a major part of human progress.

The accompanying disruption can be uncomfortable. But it plays a big role in how humanity's learning things we didn't know about reality — and in figuring out how to deal with it. Some familiar examples: The amount of life-improving technology that came from WWII, the Cold War, and the Space Race. Advances in vaccine research instigated by the global spread of covid-19. And so on, and so forth.

(Back in the 1980s, Jared Diamond argued that humanity was better off millennia ago, when people were hunter-gatherers, and that the invention of agriculture was the worst mistake in human history [1]. Shockingly, his argument didn't seem to get any traction.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut#The_story_of_Cnut_and_the...

[1] https://www.livinganthropologically.com/archaeology/agricult...
Just today, every French newspaper and hundreds around the world. Two examples:

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/pavel-durov-te...
“Chief executive of the encrypted messaging app reportedly detained at an airport near Paris over alleged failure to stop criminal activity on the platform”

https://www.tf1info.fr/high-tech/telegram-qui-est-pavel-duro... (one of the largest French newspaper)
“Qui est Pavel Durov, le fondateur de la messagerie cryptée Telegram arrêté samedi en France ?”
Perhaps in a different reality or in 10-15 years time things will change

germany is neither a different reality, nor does it live in the future. but it provides a real example of a place where things already changed.
> why are there so many parameters in the first place?

Because parsing and writing human language in a natural way is extremely complex.

> and was it humans who generated so many?

No, it is generated using an algorithm that tries to predict the next word in human written text using the words that comes before it. It ingests basically all the text on the internet to do this, without that much text the LLM performs horribly.
Interesting fact, it seems that their price catalog is a PDF https://www.stackit.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/240814_STA... and not the usual price calculator other providers offer
Car free or not. There will be tons of public transportation extraordinary options running during the Olympics. There is simply no other option to move all these people around - athletes and their crew, service people for the venues, journalists, etc. etc. Not to mention the spectators.
It's not that hard. PURLs and DOIs have been around for a long time.
Use v4 if creation date could conceivably be sensitive information of if you depend on your uuids being completely unguessable. Otherwise use v7
The Open Telekom Cloud was at least in the beginning running on Huawei hardware and software.

Here is a press release from 2020:
https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/de/blog/vorteile/die-sich...

Title: Open Telekom Cloud – die sichere Cloud made in Europe

> Im Rahmen der Innovationspartnerschaft liefert Huawei mit dem Cloud-Betriebssystem Huawei OpenStack Distribution eine zentrale Softwarekomponente der Open Telekom Cloud.

English translation:
Title: Open Telekom Cloud – the secure cloud made in Europe.

> As part of the innovation partnership, Huawei provides a central software component of the Open Telekom Cloud with its cloud operating system, Huawei OpenStack Distribution.
Because loosing something to theft is bad but being stalked is worse.
> It seems like the author's definition of successful software is closed source software.

I think they mean MIT-style licenses, rather than GNU-style. That's how I read it, at least. You wouldn't be able to improve closed-source software.
> I can’t believe LA was picked as the spot to showcase on an international level.

It’s because they’ve done it relatively recently and efficiently, and no other city wants the hassle.

They have the 2028 slot because Boston pulled out, after half the city’s politicians revolted against the idea
I remember a Lenovo Android 2-in-1 with a built-in touch keyboard (later upgraded, IIRC, to e-ink) that used a hinge of similar design.
Problem with this claim is that it's hardly verifiable. Telegram's backend is closed source, and the only thing you can be sure of is that their backend sees every message in plaintext.
The argument against this is usually “oh yeah are you going to write your own compiler? Or better yet build your own CPU and motherboard?” but some people do because it’s fun and educational. Ignorance isn’t a valuable skill set.
I think it's a proxy between your software and SQLite with a new database API. I guess "multiplexing" is a big word for saying you can someday swap SQLite for something else.

The CLI shows key-value store features.

I don't know if this software has real world savings in performance. I don't think I would ever use this software.
That's a bonus!
I prefer it because of the bot API.
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> LLMs are deterministic if you force a seed or disable sampling

Not with todays GPU's, you would need to run it locally with special GPU settings or run it on your CPU to ensure it is deterministic.
Thanks for the kind words! The app only has private events and groups for now, but public ones like on Meetup are definitely the next big step.
You'll know because they'll inform you with a paper leaflet.
You could sell these displays probably. I certainly wouldn't mind having and playing with one through python etc
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North Korean balloons have dropped tonnes of waste on the South
I am wondering if there was any incident that disproved the “we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.” statement.
There's a long list of things I dislike about Telegram, but UI/UX is really not on it.
> Is it simply that telegram is the only one without backdoors for five eyes?

Do you honestly think that any backdoor would be used for such mundane crimes? Even more so, it being in any way acknowledged that there might be a backdoor?

On that topic, it's highly likely Telegram is cooperating with Russian LE. Services and people that don't get thrown out quickly in Russia.

> The arrest cites that he was not cooperating with authorities to crack down on various drug illegal activities on telegram. [...] None of the other social networks have their ceos arrested.

Because if you want to operate in any country, you're either cooperating with the authorities or you'll get shut down or arrested. Hiding evidence you have is not tolerated anywhere.
Ah, no, I didn't even remember this, but it's close.
Apple should buy ARM while it has cash. And then software stack such as Qt. And then start industrial automation division (or subsidiary) could be one possible way that supplies whole stack (the chip, the software stack on top) that the industrial machinery works well with iOS/iPhones/iPads.

This shall fuel the iPhone and iPad sales as well.

It is far cheaper bet then a robotics division.
This is excellent news. Hopefully the employment situation will follow.. people using GenAI in their jobs will be fired for not being creative enough, and non-GenAI people will be hired to replace them.
The reason he was arrested was because he created privacy for non-US citizens. Certain Intelligence Agencies won't allow that lol
Telegram is the comms system for the Russian military.
Would be interested to learn more about how and why this was coded in Common Lisp, in particular which value it provides specific to the problem being solved compared to other languages.
Piggybacking on this to share my BIL's company https://www.meetnirvana.com/. It helps therapists look up patients' insurance details quickly and easily.

Not just a shameless plug, either: I really believe in their mission, and did a short stint with them.
>> delegating it to a black box

> I take it you're not using a compiler to generate machine code, then?

An LLM is much, much closer to a "black box" than a compiler ...

In fact, an LLM is pretty much a black box even to the people who created it.
While thats true its still a place thats increasingly favoring transit or biking investment. Ballot initiatives are popular. More rail is being built here as we speak than anywhere else in the US with a few concurrent projects in varying states of planning or construction. Say what you will about south pasadena and the 710, theres a metro rail stop in their downtown and new bike lanes going up.
Paris and LA were the only two cities who bid for the Olympics in 2017. They got the 2024 and 2028 Olympics respectively. I'm not sure any other city in the US wants to host the Olympics.

I'm not sure there's many cities in the entire world that want to host it at this point...
They can and I bet they will declare victory on this by moving the goal posts.
Like measuring only during the Olympics and for a subset of area or subset of travels, etc.
Calls seem tm be e2e encrypted: https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end/video-calls

No idea how secure the encryption is, but calling someone on Telegram is safer than sending texts.
Things constructivist mathematics cannot do:

1) Prove Addition of natural numbers.

2) Prove two real numbers are equal.

RNNs are only TC with infinite precision and unlimited resources, once you have finite precision they are very limited.

LLMs do not have recursion at all and can't even emulate finite automations. In fact soft attention can only emulate TC_0

Feed forward networks are effectively DAGs and with soft attention, DAGs built with AND,OR, NOT, and threshold circuits.

One of the state of the art inference in code methods is bi-abduction, probably best described here.

https://fbinfer.com/docs/separation-logic-and-bi-abduction/

But this localization makes it computationally possible, and has limits.

The qualification and frame problems, combined with the very limited computational power of transformers is another lens.

LLMs being formalized doesn't solve the problem. Fine tuning and RAG can help with domain specificity, but hallucinations are a fundamental feature of LLMs, not a bug.

Either a use case accepts the LLM failure mode (competent, confident, and inevitably wrong) or another model must be found.

Gödel showed us the limits of formalization, unless we find he was wrong, that won't change.
He was convicted of hiring a hit man to kill a business partner/competitor.
Splitting stuff between multiple companies doesn't really protect anyone if the boss of all companies is held hostage.

Also

> To this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.

Didn't they conclude an agreement with Russian gvt in 2021?
If we want a v7, shouldn't we use a ULID instead?
Or maybe he is sharing with the other guys.
https://youtu.be/gaQTYrisieA

This is an extremely well researched and presented video that exposes the fact that HEPA purifier marketing is a bit of a scam. The most important factor in air purifiers is not the filter but Clean Air Delivery Rate. You can only make a difference if you are moving air through the filters faster than particulate is introduced into the air.

I just returned a Medify filter because their advertised square footage is way higher than what the purifier should support based on the info in the video; it is inadequate. No idea how they are calculating their numbers - not to mention it's probably at the max speed setting - but it doesn't align with the sources from the video.

On top of that, smaller air purifiers must move air faster, be noisier, and the smallest sizes of particulate are captured most effectively at low velocities.

Use something like this to make a nicer version of a CR box:
https://acinfinity.com/component-cooling/cabinet-fan-systems...

Or buy one of these:
https://www.cleanairkits.com/

Those seem to be the best options that ACTUALLY work.
Does anyone have any reason to believe that Telegram's E2EE doesn't have a backdoor? Because if not, then I fail to see why it matters whether the E2EE even exists in the first place.
Try the mud puddle test: log into your account on a new device using the password recovery flow. Can you see your old messages?

If the answer is yes then law enforcement can too.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/08/05/how-se...
They’ve got brand new demos that I remember seeing 10+ years ago from Boston dynamics. I mean, that’s no small feat, but they don’t have an edge yet.
> I was just recommending Telegram as alternative to WhatsApp

If you care about privacy and security, please don't. Defaults matter, and private chats are effectively unusable for anyone using more than one device or needing group chats. And that's not even considering their strange home-baked cryptography.
Actually we have webhooks in our cloud offering to streamline and address this. Since this post is about our open source, I didn't mention it as an option. However, if you choose to go with the open source, you would need to maintain it manually as you described. Open to any suggestions on this. We're designing a functionality to add rollback to snapshots[0], but it likely won't be shipped in the near future.

[0]https://docs.permify.co/operations/snap-tokens
I wonder if this is practically relevant at all.

Given that users can access their messages without interaction with people at Telegram, automatic aggregation of the cloud data for single end points is in place.

In consequence the data can be accessed from a single jurisdiction anyways.
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Hi everyone,

With the rise of AI agents and recent advancements in agentic research, my co-founder and I wanted to explore whether we could develop a tool to automate parts of penetration testing. This led to the creation of TARS a few months ago.

TARS is our attempt to automate parts of cybersecurity penetration testing using AI agents. Currently, we leverage CrewAI as our agentic framework and GPT-4 as our primary model. We've integrated tools that allow TARS to utilize Nettacker, RustScan, ZAP, Nmap, and web browsing via the Brave API & Selenium.

Recently, we decided to make TARS accessible to everyone without any restrictions, so we open-sourced TARS under the MIT license. We see the value in TARS's ability to generate general reports from surface-level scans and its potential to perform unique attacks based on the model you're using.

Since TARS is in early development and still experimental, we'd greatly appreciate your feedback.

You can check out TARS here: https://github.com/osgil-defense/TARS

And view some demos of TARS here:

- Short Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjw_gkSz6Lw

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Thank you for reading!
Via a touchscreen? :P
You've misread that. It is not saying that 43.7% of the state budget goes to elementary and secondary education. It is saying that 43.7% of the funding for education comes from the state. Those are completely different.
France, where this blogger is from, produces a little under 80% of its power from nuclear. It doesn't just power France, but also exports to the UK and Germany among others.

A 100% nuclear society is of course also theoretical, so don't even start with that. We're talking about the optimal mix of sources given currently (and medium-term foreseeable) technology. By most serious analyses, this will include improved energy storage, renewables, and nuclear in the form of SMRs.

Serious analysis means people 'at the coal face' who have to deal with the reality of actually powering a country, not posturing bloggers. Most countries don't have a desert to pave over with solar panels, and wind (especially offshore wind) has proven surprisingly expensive.

Both the current and previous UK governments, left and right respectively, have committed to increasing nuclear as part of the energy mix.

Germany is deeply regretting shutting down its nuclear power stations and the consequences that has had, not only in terms of emissions (twice the per-capita CO2 emissions of France and the UK), but also its energy independence.

France is sitting pretty, precisely because they dealt with the reality in front of them and didn't fall for Greenpeace-esque utopian fantasies that you're now projecting onto others.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/01/25/french-g...
It doesn’t have to be that way but it is and won’t be anything different until many variables change. As far as this case is concerned: no there is and never will be due process for this situation nor does any UK law allow for that.

Maybe the user could make an argument in court that Facebook was hurting his business but hard to prove with a free service. No real harm has come to this person.
Open Telekom Cloud was at least in 2020 running fully on Huawei Software and hardware:
https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/de/blog/vorteile/die-sich...

Deutsche Telekom used Huaweis OpenStack implementation.

I haven't found any information that this changed, so I assume it is still running completely on Huawei. At least they made sure that they still get chips from the US despite sanctions. ;-)
Telegram still collects and stores private user data, and as per their own privacy policy. This isn't in stark contrast to western companies at all.

Additionally, they fulfilled requests made in Brazil, India, and Germany to name some I remember. Again, using the private user data they collect.

So what you fell for was just basic marketing (a CEO going on a TV program, as Tucker Carlson isn't even news) to market his app.
v cool to see more alternatives to cursor popping up