skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously if your phone is compromised your e2ee chat is not safe.

Yes, and that's where the 'practical' argument pops up. With all the E2EE buzz, is it really helping in the scenarios where it's supposed to work the best?

This thread gives an overview on why Signal and other apps are not really practical: https://x.com/Pinboard/status/1474096410383421452

> The broader problem of ephemeral or spur of the moment protest activity leaving a permanent data trail that can be forensically analyzed and target individuals many years after the fact is unsolved and poses a serious risk to dissent. But E2E is not the solution to it.

> I feel like Moxie and a lot of end-to-end encryption purists fall into the same intellectual tarpit as the cryptocurrency people, which is that it should be possible to design technical systems that require zero trust, and that the benefits of these designs are self-evident
> This surprised me since I've always thought of myself as someone who loves programming but it turns out that it is only a small subset of programming I love.

I am the same, and why many of my personal projects end up stranded. Once I've solved the tricky bit, the rest often isn't that motivating as it's usually variations on a common theme.

I held off LLMs for a long time, but recently been playing with them. They can certainly confidently generate junk, but in most cases it's good enough. And like you say can be used as a driver to keep going. In that regard they can be useful.
Almost everything that is a blade is designed to be curved or slanted, yes.
Same in Norway, which has a directly subsidized phealthcare system for all.
iCLoud can be disabled by MDM profile installed by Apple Configurator at setup.
It doesn't sound like a robot at all, because it doesn't "plan". A robot is an embodied cognitive agent.
Embodied = has a body and is acting in physical space.
Cognitive agent = it uses a sense-plan-act loop. This thing may sense and act, but its controls are too primitive to call it "planning". In particular it doesn't plan multiple actions into the future. It's doing something folks in the AI literature would call "reactive control".
This increases the time you spend proofing other’s work (tedious) versus time you spend developing a solution in code (fun). Also, if the LLM output is correct 95% of the time, one tends to get more sloppy with the checking, as it will feel unnecessary most of the time.
Out of curiosity are you operating at a scale where "MinIO on a Hetzner node" isn't a viable replacement? I totally believe that's possible, just curious about the use case.
Would you say that it's possible that the answer to the article's question is:

- Telegram is not encrypted from Putin's perspective

- Telegram is encrypted from everyone else's perspective
Not really. WhatsApp only keep them temporarily (and E2EE!) until they're delivered to each device. Signal too. Telegram keeps everything for all time. Which is kinda handy too I have to say.

Of course you can send your backup to Google for WhatsApp and signal but that's optional. You can keep it locally too. And it's encrypted too. With WhatsApp you can even choose to keep the key locally only.
In opposition to something French?
Facial symmetry and body proportions that would indicate health and suitability for reproduction.
C6552 H10132 N1750 O2029 S42, 147229.87 g·mol, what a monster. Probably not making that one in your garage.
User base, large groups (I think the max is 200k members), channels, bots to automate work, animated stickers, video messages (not the calls one), and video/voice calls within the group (not sure if Signal has that), file storage and file sharing, multiple devices without worrying about losing messages -and you might mention the security part and that’s ok, I want the accessibility, if I want security I will look somewhere else- among other features. Those are on top of my head.
A search engine's first job is to cull the crap. To distinguish the good from the bad.

Thus a personalized search engine could double as a forum moderator.

And you could share search engines. Get a copy of the search engine of somebody that you admire/trust and merge it with your own. Thus your search engine could learn from others what's good and bad.

You could have a family search engine, passed down through the generations.
Narrator: He did not realize how idiotic this sounds.
I also view coding as essentially creative.

Programming was mostly a hobby in the days of 8-bit PCs. It was a profession for some decades. Maybe it will be a hobby again in 5 years. Like gardening, sailing, fishing - professions at one time, now hobbies.

On the other hand, the arrival of futuristic capabilities like computers speaking human languages is what drew me to technology in the first place. Luckily, you can choose to look forward and backward. You don't have to pick only one.
Unless you live in a place with very cheap electricity, you'll save money in the long run by getting a purpose built air purifier
As much as I hate the amount of illnesses my kids get from daycare - maybe this shouldn't be a goal? In workplaces, hospitals, etc. we definitely want to reduce illness. In daycares, the kids are all building their immune systems and the contact with germs is a vital part of that.

I definitely understand the teachers don’t want to be sick, and it’s a hardship on parents to keep kids home, so it’s not all about the kids’ health. But the kids’ health might be better served by letting them get more minor illnesses, not less.
> Every. Single. Tetris clone which has -tris in the title ends up receiving a very scary cease and desist.

But I did the first and the second didn't happen. So not "Every. Single. Tetris clone which has -tris in the title". You emphasized that it will happen and has happened to everyone who did the thing.

I'm literally an exception to your statement.

Because they don't care if you're not looking to make money off of it.
Drawing tablets are not expensive. I recently purchased a Deco Mini 7 for under $40
the only problem in your manifesto is that no internet can exist without connectivity.

He who controls the cables controls the (cyber)universe
https://abc7.com/road-rage-incidents-los-angeles-lapd-data-l...

looks like cars aren't safe either in LA, and that's not counting accidents
Clear skin is the least of the problems with psoriasis. From their website:

Bimzelx, alone or in combination with methotrexate, is indicated for the treatment of active psoriatic arthritis in adults who have had an inadequate response or who have been intolerant to one or more disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).

In other words, it's for people with bad cases who don't respond well to other drugs. Keep in mind, other drugs often come with serious complications- constant use of topical steroids will thin your skin, and give you glaucoma if you develop it and use them near your eyes. Many biologics have even worse potential side effects.

On top of that, psoriatic arthritis is degenerative, if you're unlucky enough to get that too, so not treating it means not only constant pain, constant threat of skin infections from scabbing, but permanent joint damage.

I ended up on Taltz, another very expensive biologic, but the eli lily foundation covered almost all of the cost since my insurance wouldn't. Before then, I looked like an alcoholic, because my nose was constantly red and inflamed, and I didn't have anything safe to put on it- glaucoma runs in my family, and I wasn't brave enough to risk anything strong enough.

If that was the only problem, I might not have even gone the route of Taltz, but I was also developing it all over my body, and there wasn't much that was helping.
I 100% agree with you. Whenever I see artists buy their brushes I cringe. Real artists don't draw anything until they've grown a tree and raised horses to obtain the raw materials (wood and horse hair) to make their first brush.

Using a bought brush to paint and generating a painting via a prompt are basically identical.

/s
"...you're saying MTProto isn't binary?"
Telegram is mostly used by people in the US for drug deals and chatting with people in Eastern Europe, so it's very common to believe it's a secure messenger.
Then congrats all the more on this work, I had assumed a motivation from attachment also. As for the tech stacks and langs yeah they're fun, but I meant in how abstract Inuktitut looks, I guess the human language in the loop is the real meat of the problem and of the "working with".
But thats because the cutting angle changes when depressing the lever. The curvature is meant to counter that to some extent.
> Telegram have never made any attempt to either implement full E2E or to dissuade their users for using it

It's probably true. There are still no e2ee chats on desktop, which includes my smartpon running GNU/Linux.
Study suggests even mild concussions can have lifelong brain impacts
> I'm wondering whether there's also going to be a large-scale operation a few months ahead of the games of deporting homeless people

Yes. Already beginning in cities all across the US since the Supreme Court decision in Grants Pass v Johnson.

Prior to this decision, a locality without sufficient shelter beds could not just sweep through an encampment arresting/fining/evicting the residents while seizing and destroying their possessions like sleeping bags, blankets and tents, or fine/arrest and impound vehicles of people sleeping in vehicles (yes, all the above happened in spite of the law, but it did result in some restraint on the part of the authorities). Now, homeless hate can be unleashed without restraint.

Hate it is. In one memorable letter to the editor of a local paper, a woman wrote, "Homeless are like cockroaches and I wish I had a giant can of Raid." (for non Americans, Raid is a brand of insecticide-- maybe obvious from context).

People who were in foster care as children make up 50% of the homeless population in the US [1]. Homeless demographics have changed recently, people becoming homeless for the first time after the age of 50 is now the second largest single group in California at 41% [2]. The US is a brutal society that is failing its most vulnerable.

[1] https://cbexpress.acf.hhs.gov/article/2022/october/reducing-...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2024-05-28/old...
That is the correct default. Every day users are far more likely to accidentally lose their data than to run into government snooping.
It is also on Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15177
If anything states are much more involved in policing internet than 20 years ago. As more and more stuff goes online, I don't see governments reversing this trend, quite the oposite.
It feels like this sort of thing is heavily ideological. A classic "nerd world vs. jock world" thing. But the reality is somewhere in the middle.

Basically, if you take the axiom that physical appearance and genetic qualities should not matter at all, then we need to minimise its' influence.

But you could also easily make the argument that beauty is a proxy for a lot of things that we _do_ want to maximise. It makes sense to reward those that are beautiful, fertile, strong, etc.

Just not above all else. You wouldn't pick a romantic partner, or a friend, or a colleague _solely_ on those qualities, but to not incorporate them at all seems odd.

I mean, on a basic level, you have to be able to get on with your colleagues. A lot of people would find it difficult to get on with someone who's ugly, doesn't shower, has no social skills, etc, even if their code is great and their stock picks too. It's not arbitrary.
In my opinion, Telegram is more of a social network than a messenger. There are many useful channels and in many countries, it plays an important role in sharing information. If we look at it from this point of view, e2ee does not seem very important.

We should also not forget that, in the time when all social media (Reddit, X, Instagram etc.) close their APIs, Telegram is one of the only networks that still has a free API.
I looked at Agones - the docs on architecture are non-existent but from their ops docs it looks like a crd extension on top of vanilla kubernetes to automate/simplify scheduling. What specifically in cni or its most popular implementations prevents long running connections in your opinion?
This is such a misrepresentation. Telegram could at-will feed the cloud-2FA password to password hashing function like Argon2 to derive a client-side encryption key. Everything could be backed up to the cloud in encrypted state only you can access. Do they do that? No.

So it's not as much as trade-off, as it is half-assed security design.
Your logic seems sort of like the inverse of Augustine's proof for God.
I agree with the principle here wholeheartedly. One addendum though is I think this isn't quite the same as the mud puddle test. The idea behind the mud puddle test is if you've forgotten everything, but then manage to recover your data, then the principle must be that someone other than you has to have had access. With Signal, they intentionally refuse to sync data as an extra security step even if you have the keys, the software just refuses to do the syncing step. I'm glad they do personally and I'm not contradicting your point, just adding some notes. Just thought it worth noting.

Edit: Actually, yeah that proves your point.
Depends on who you buy hardware from :)

How about swap then: the user page you read() into might get swapped out, and an I/O error might occur when strlen() faults it back in. I can't remember if you get SEGV or BUS in that case... but it's certainly fatal.
I was working there off and on in the early 80's - everyone was moaning about it, claiming to have "smog withdrawal" whwn they went off to the San Gabriel mountains at the weekend. Coming from London though, little to complain about here (at least on the air quality side of things).
It was more thinking that made no logical sense and was a bit of personal insult. Remember, the leading scientific theory at the time was that illness was caused by bad air. It would be the same as you suggesting to your doctor today that he wouldn't have killed his patient if he was wearing more deodorant. He would both think you are completely crazy and insulting.
> The premise of this story is that Telegram offers a service which is very similar to safe deposit boxes, the bank it's not supposed to know what you keep in there hence they are not held responsible if they are used for illegal activities.

This is the issue. Web platforms DO NOT have that kind of legal protection - be it Telegram, Instagram, or Hacker News.

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.

As part of that content moderation, it is EXPECTED that you crack down on CP, Illicit Drug Transactions, Threats of Violence, and other felonies.

Also, that is NOT how bank deposit boxes work. All banks are expected to KYC if they wish to transact in every major currency (Dollar, Euro, Pound, Yen, Yuan, Rupee, etc) and if they cannot, they are expected to close that account or be cut off from transacting in that country's currency.

> That's why in that famous TV drama Jessy Pinkam says "You dont want a criminal lawyer, you want a Criminal. Lawyer.".

First, it's Pinkman BIATCH not Pinkam.

And secondly, Jimmy McGill (aka Saul Goodman) was previously suspended by the NM Bar Association barely 5 years before Breaking Bad, and was then disbarred AND held criminally liable when SHTF towards the finale.
Same image on both sites, not same image over and over.
> allows edits and deleting messages for all users

And it has those little features like masked text and what not, features wise, telegram is just the best. I didn’t use Signal for a long time, you can’t edit the messages there!?
In the video there clearly is a line being pulled from the right. Was the wind insufficient that day? It seems like cheating.
Interesting, I feared Sealed Sender might be susceptible to statistical analysis (hence my phrasing "reduce it a bit") but it's worse than I expected ("Signal could link sealed sender users in as few as 5 message"). Thanks for the link!

As for TOR, that wouldn't really help much, would it, given that the described attack is at the application level of Signal. Or are you talking about not using Signal altogether?
Thanks for sharing it. I will surely check it out.
I can’t believe LA was picked as the spot to showcase on an international level.

LA is the only host in Olympics history to have been selected by default, a feat it has accomplished every single time it has "won" the Olympics. (for the 1932, 1984, and 2028 Olympics, LA was the only bidder).

LA is, paradoxically, the reason that cities/countries go crazy spending money on the Olympics: despite being an undesired host, LA is the only city in Olympics history to have made a profit every time it has hosted. (The profits from the 1984 games are still funding youth sports programs in the LA area today.) This is because LA has such a large athletics scene that only two or three venues needed to be built for the 1932 and 1984 Olympics, and all of these venues remained in use after the Olympics. Almost all of these venues are still around today (except for the 1984 velodrome).
…which all failed for that reason.
Can I enroll my personal iPhone in MDM myself? And if I can have MDM with just my personal phone, do I need to buy some kind of subscription for it from Apple? Or pay some third-party?

I thought MDM was only for enterprise businesses and schools and universities, but I may very well be mistaken about that.
> I really don't care much about the code being written; I don't even care if it runs

Great! Then you're not one of those interviewers with "the one true answer" in mind.

> I care about how they're thinking about it, how they react to my hints, how they act when they are stuck, if they ask for help or not, if they try to cover up what they don't know or that they made a mistake or are open and honest about it and treat it as an opportunity to learn

Then again, maybe you're one of those interviewers with "the one true thought process" in mind and the luck to have double-majored in Computer Science and Psychology, so you have the ability to understand how people think.
just never use pipes. they are some weird archaism that need to die :P

the only time ive used them is external constraints. they are just not useful.
>it's just claiming that you can trust them more than you can trust the major messaging apps.

All the cool kids in the block eliminated the need to trust the provider decades ago. PGP: 33 years ago, OTR 20 years ago, Signal 14 years ago.
Of course. VCs exist to generate profit for themselves. They should fund whoever they think will help them get a ROI. Otherwise they can just stop risking their capital and go chill out on a beach instead. They don't exist to give a fair shot to everyone who deserves it.
The thing is, all these stacks are built by people and verified against specifications. When they failed to perform the way they should, we fixed them.

Plus, all the parts are deterministic in this stack. Their behavior is fixed for a given input, and all the parts are interpretable, readable, verifiable and observable.

LLMs are none of that. They are stochastic probability machines, which are nondeterministic. We can't guarantee their output's correctness, and we can't fix them to guarantee correct output. They are built on tons of (unethically sourced) data, which has no correctness and quality guarantees.

Some people will love LLMs, and/or see programming as a task/burden they have to complete. Some of us love programming for the sake of it, and earn money by doing it that way, too.

So putting LLMs to the same bucket with a deterministic, task specific programming tool is both wrong, and disservice to both.

I'm also strongly against LLMs, not because of the tech, but because of how they are trained and how their shortcomings are hid and they're put forward as the "oh the savior of the woeful masses, and the silver bullet of all thy problems", and it's neither of them.

LLMs are just glorified tech demos which shows what stochastic parrots can pose as accomplishing when you feed the whole world to them.
I have never heard of anyone pushing to make IDs harder to get.
GPT-4 is judged more human than humans in displaced and inverted Turing tests
Compilers are deterministic
i think they mean elizabeth holmes and adam neumann

more seriously, is it even possible to have discussions on race without devolving into talking points?
Looks good!
Same issue as shown in Loom below. Without signup and create form. Shortcodes don't immediately show up.
After deleting and trying many times, it starts working.
So on page load, there is no shortcodes
This could easily pivot into “all e2e not officially sanctioned is bad because think of the children”if those public channel users use e2e to get the nasty bits done and it’s provable. They (5 eyes countries) really want this to happen, even above all the stuff they already tap into legally at switching centers, network nodes, and social media companies.
How much money over how much time?
Apple supplies a free application for managing MDM.

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-mac/welco...
Well, no one really dorectly struck a nuclear power plant in the war so far (though watchin the Russian infantry fight for the Zaporozia one on a livestreem back in 2022 was kinda hair raising) and thus nuclear powerplants provided important source of power for Ukraine.

No one wants to risk serious damage to a nuclear powerplant, given not just international outcry, but even just bad weather ending up contaminating you own country for decades.

In that regard nuclear powerplans end up being an important sanctuary in a conflict.
That's it. The article could be just that. You log back in and all your messages are there without you having to provide a secret or allow access to some specific backup? Your data just lives on the server. The only thing preventing anyone from accessing it is the goodwill of the people running the server.
Automating my bills with Azure Functions so that I never forget to pay them and I avoid angering the property manager
Simple question denotes whether its encrypted.....

Does cloud server store the message and key.....

If answer is yes, ITS NOT FULLY ENCRYPTED!

Sounds contrary right?

If key and message is on server any LEO org can get it....for it to be fully encrypted cloud server should never store the keys....

So how many services claiming encryption have this flaw? All....

Why do you think Telegram has shell companies to avoid gov subpeonas?

Because it knows that its encryption is faulty to real world LEO and laws as it stores the keys on the cloud which means its can be subpoenaed for those keys and messages.
It says "Get Started for Free" which I take as marketing speak for, "oh, you'll pay for it later". But there is no pricing page that my ADHD addled mind could find.

So it is free, free for a limited time, free for a limited feature set, or something else? Let's find out....

Oh, I see, you have to go way down the onboarding path before they tell you is between $130 and $200 a year - after a 3-day free trial. "Weekly pricing" also seems pretty sneaky to make it appear less expensive than it actually is.

Why not just be up front about it? Do you think that your pricing is too expensive good enough, such that you have to hide it?

At least it gives you a "delete account" option at the pricing page.
The article is 90% standard template for such events in the media.
Which has lot of filler.

The attribution to North Korea, which was after all the headline
does not appear substantiated in the information given.