skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not e2e encrypted, so what? It's something the majority of users does not need, and that doesn't increase security that much given their downsides.

Of course for Telegram is much more convenient to not have end2end encryption. Given that they store everything on their servers, it means years of chat history that probably weights Gb for each user, contrary to what WhatsApp/Signal do, of course if 10 million people send eachother the same meme it's stupid to have 10 million copies of the same images on their servers just because it is end2end encrypted. They probably have a store where they index each media with its hash and avoid to have multiple copies, that is fine. This is the reason Telegram can offer you to have all your messages, including medias that can be up to 1Gb each, stored on a cloud for free.

As I user I prefer Telegram just because it's the only app that works perfectly synchronized among multiple devices (Android, Linux, macOS) with good quality native clients, without wasting space on my phone for data.

By the way, end2end encryption it's not that safe as they claim. Sure, the conversation can not be intercepted, however:

- you can put a backdoor on endpoints, that is compromise the user phone (something they do)

- you can make a MITM attack on the server (don't know if they do that, but technically possible)

- you can access the data that is backed up on other platforms (i.e. WhatsApp makes by default backups on Google Drive or Apple iCloud, trough which you can access all the conversations in clear text).
I messed up an insurance deadline one year. I called in and they sorted it out.

I didn't say the IRS was worse, I just said it wasn't any better.
The technology has potential to be decentralized, but telephones were famously considered a "natural monopoly" and ended up centralized under Ma Bell.

Government split Ma Bell into multiple smaller pieces, but they still operated as a cartel and kept prices high. They had centralized telephone switchboard operators etc.

It is only when authors of decentralized file-sharing networks like Kazaa (who built them to get around yet another government-enforced centralized regime of Intellectual Property, RIAA, MPAA etc.) went clean did we get Skype, and other Voice over IP consumer products. And seemingly overnight, the prices dropped to zero and we got packed-switched networks over dumb hubs, that anyone can run.

That's the key. We need to relegate these centralized platforms (X, Meta, etc.) into glorified hubs running nodes and earning some crypto, akin to IPFS nodes earning filecoin, or BitTorrent nodes earning BTT, etc.

Everything centralized gets enshittified

Clay Shirky gave a talk abot this in 2005: https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_institutions_vs_collab...

And Cory Doctorow recently: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-04...
I think what Apple is building into the OSes now, combined with LLMs capable of running on mobile devices and new fine tuning techniques (that probably might not be invented yet?) will give rise to exactly this.
Yep. And at the end of it you die of some weird cancer while your heirs get a settlement with the DOE for some reason. But the commute really stands out.
what is "artistically produced software", I'm genuinely curious as to how a CRUD app for enterprise is "artistic"

are you talking about games? thats not really what article author was speaking to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaging_Layer_Security

https://github.com/facebookresearch/asynchronousratchetingtr...
It's already well-known that attractive women also do well at sales.

This is the same thing.
Isn't this what the Apple Vision Pro was supposed to be?
"You need to run your own platform people." What problem does this solve?

I'm someone who's been on the business end of a subpoena for a platform I ran, and narcing on my friends under threat of being held in contempt is perhaps the worst feeling I'm doomed to live with.

"XMPP is ..." not the solution I'd recommend, even with something like OMEMO. Is it on by default? Can you force it to be turned on? The answer to both of those is, as it turns out, "no," which makes it less than useful. (This is notwithstanding several other issues OMEMO has.)
(On Android), if you don't care about the (old) WhatsApp media, just delete it from your phone. It's all just loose files in `/storage/android/data/com.whatsapp` (or thereabouts). The text content of the chats will remain available.
As if it were that simple. Where are you going to host that self-hosted instance? What protections against law enforcement inspections do you have? What protections against curious/nefarious hackers? How are you going to convince every single person you interact with to use it?

Gung-ho evangelists rarely convert like a reasonable take on the subject does
Compilation is generally deterministic with strict semantics.

LLMs are great, but they are the opposite of a compiler (in a good way)
There's also an option in the settings that translates into taking over a phone number on a separate device isn't enough, you also need to enter the pin. (Not on by default though.)
Drug for discussion:

Bimzelx (for psoriasis). This costs six figures or more per year, from what I can glean. Watching baseball a lot, I see this advertised multiple times per game, and God only knows what else they spend on marketing.

(I don't have psoriasis or know anyone with it, if that matters)

Looking at UCB's financials (helpfully broken out by drug), they took in $242 million on that drug alone in fiscal 2024. So that's how they can afford all those ads. It's also probably something patients would demand, and maybe even be happy to pay for out of pocket.

> they will help the Medicare program cap what individual patients spend out of pocket on their prescriptions in a year at $2,000.

So if you want clear skin, you probably have to pay big bucks. But maybe these immensely profitable drugs subsidize the life-saving ones.
It shows what the EU action is about. It's not about telegram's supposed crimes, whatever you think they are, because other platforms are full of the same crimes.

The difference is that other platforms give EU states access to people's private messages. If you go into the technicalities of what EXACTLY this means, it started with a list of 27 organizations that got blanket access, without judicial oversight (because all of the different rules from the member states apply. Some do not require judicial oversight). Organized long ago by Interpol. It grew from there, exactly as people expected.

Oh and in case you're wondering. This already exists. It is NOT about the new EU directive ("directive 92"). This is about delivering specific individual's messages, when specifically asked to, and maybe blocking them.
I really don't get what people think they are getting out of it though. Other than aesthetic "vibes".
The mini has the same logical resolution as the 11 Pro, and the current SE3 has a significantly smaller screen. Not sure I see your point.
Not true. That charge was dropped. He was convicted of numerous other charges related to running Silk Road: Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, distributing narcotics, distributing narcotics by means of the Internet, conspiring to distribute narcotics, etc.
olympics considered harmful.

when will the world realize that these 'olympic sprints' to meet goofy expectations for the IOC are ridiculous and damaging on the long term?

seriously. almost every visited city is worse-off for years after the games; it's only ever accommodated because of the accompanying rockstar status and the money injection for the in-seat politicians, almost none of which actually sticks around to provide improvements for the city or its' people.

it's a gross abuse, it results in gross abuses towards the people, and it fucks up a city for years .

Example : What did Rio's new anti-poverty highway walls enable for locals? How did the promised lagoon clean-up go?

(hint: https://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-de-janeiro-lake-recove... )

the walking city thing is a nice concept for LA -- how many homeless encampments are getting torn down to accommodate this? How much worse does traffic get in the interim for those living here? Who's going to care enough to listen to complaints during the olympic-cash-season?
Ahh yes, breezily moving at a speed where I will destroy anything stationary 200 feet in front of me without a choice.

I'm going to drive home today from my vacation at 75mph because if I go any slower the people having breezy drives stack up dangerously behind me.
Work for government.
> And I think WhatsApp probably does it

Rule of thumb: never trust anything Facebook. I’m sure sending your messages through mail is more secure and private than WhatsApp these days.
Creating/capturing network diagrams and Infrastructure as Code from cloud providers.

Create one, the other comes with.
Depends on the target market.

If they need to sell to other men, that's fine, but if they need to sell to other women (which is actually quite likely), then not so much.
> award for best customer

I've never heard of this. Does it mean best cash cow?
Nope, NeXT had magneto-optical 128 MB drives, somewhat related. They were 3.5" but using an entirely different media, and were absolutely incompatible with ordinary floppies.
I'm a fan of Solzhenitsyn as a writer. The First Circle justly won him the Nobel. But this speech has not aged well.

> For one thousand years Russia belonged to such a category, although Western thinking systematically committed the mistake of denying its special character and therefore never understood it

The idea that Russia is a separate civilization with a great destiny is a cause of Russia's imperialism in Eastern Europe. That was true under the tsars, in the USSR, and it's true today.

Moreover, Solzhenitsyn's harping on the spiritual decay of the West brings to mind a modern post-liberal blogger. Solzhenitsyn was a contrarian, and this led to significant heroism, but it also prevented him from recognizing liberalism as a goal for Russia. And today, Putin's weird mix of far right larping, belief in Russia's special destiny, and throwback chauvinism could plausibly claim late-Solzhenitsyn as its progenitor.
Or Telegram is threat for current establishilment because of platform used for organising protests. It could be politically oriented like main purpose of DSA.
The idea is that.

Implementation: beyond horrible except very simple things.
Fast case insensitive search with SIMD
perhaps its a spitefull thing, but you would be amazed what you can learn greping through someones trash.
Even if you do elect to trust the government mandated studies more than the special education teachers directly involved in the situation, the very study the parent cited attempting to discredit me also reaches the same conclusion as me: masks cause developmental damage and their use must be carefully considered, especially as it pertains to forcing young children who can’t say “no” to comply.
I find it so interesting that you say that, because I, for a long time, have been trying to manually erase/obfuscate details in my Instagram account—when I go to unlike posts in bulk, after about 40 or 50 of them Instagram gives me an incredibly vague "Something went wrong" error while spouting something about "protecting our community".

Even funnier, I did this with my story archive, and it actually hid my entire archive from me after I deleted about 10 of them. Now, I can't access my story archive except through Instagram's "Download Your Information" downloader. It now won't let me delete or even view my past stories.

Food for thought.
> Is this true for Signal too? I thought it wasn’t.

It is, because you cannot use Signal without giving them your mobile phone number, and from that point onward they (and anyone they might be sharing data with) know the who/what/when, and more. My gut feeling, notwithstanding any apologist and their weak arguments, is that the design choice is exactly about the who/what/when because it's mandatory despite being entirely unnecessary from a technical perspective.
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...

okay, I didn't want to be that lazy, so looked up the author. (Her name is interestingly not on the cover :o)

Abigail Shrier, hm. okay, at least there's a wikipedia page about her. she seems to be a layman when it comes to psychology/psychiatry. and her 2018 book about "Transgender Craze" ... uh, okay.

...

https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/bad-therapy-review-fift...

"""

Much of Shrier’s book is devoted to critiquing Internet Mental Health Culture, [...] I broadly agree with her critiques.

[Her] preferred alternative to Internet Mental Health Culture is what you might call Fifties Dad Mindset.

[...]

Shrier explicitly says that the right response to “minor cutting” is to ignore it.

"""

Amazing book.
Thank you for inspiring me to read my health insurance plan’s SPD. I learned some stuff.
What's in Telegram that you don't see in Signal? Honest question, I only use Signal rather than Telegram.
Also, iMessage is very secure...but then all your stuff is backed up on iCloud servers unless you specifically disable it. That includes all your iCloud encryption keys and plaintext messages.

Worse, iPhones immediately start backing up to iCloud when set up for a new user - the only way to keep your network passwords and all manner of other stuff from hitting iCloud servers is to set the phone up with no network connection or even a SIM card installed.

Did I mention there's no longer a SIM slot, so you can't even control that?

And that iPhones by default if they detect a 'weak' wifi network will switch to cellular, so you can't connect the phone to a sandboxed wifi network?

You shouldn't have to put your phone in a faraday cage to keep it from uploading plaintext versions of your private communications and network passwords.
Two months ago, LAPD began doing its job again and patrolling the stations and trains. Early estimates are that property crimes and violent crimes dropped by over 75% in August. It only took a few murders and LA Metro revoking[2] the security contract[1] for LAPD to start doing its job.

Because LAPD and LA Sheriff almost exclusively assigned officers who had already hit their 8/40 for the day/week, almost all of the time on the LA Metro contract was billed at overtime hours. With its own internal police force, LA Metro can actuall field a security force almost 50% larger for the same amount it was paying LAPD/LAS.

[1] In the 1990s, in order to increase the size of the police force, the LA City Council shut down the LA Metro police force and forced LA Metro to contract security out to LAPD and LA Sheriff. Security in the system started worsening immediately, reaching rock bottom earlier this year. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-06-26/editorial-w...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/metro-ok...
Pavel did mention that investigation agencies tried to lure Telegram developers to use certain open source libraries.

It's no wonder why WhatsApp and other apps don't face much heat from the government, they're already with the government.
> but the user experience just in creating an account was pretty abysmal

I agree it was, probably better now, but for the average person, it’s too much to “process” compared to just adding your phone number and signing up.
To be clear, I'm not talking about the cultural fear of the IRS, I'm specifically referring to the idea that patterning insurance after the IRS would solve most of the issues that OP brought up:

> - Have to deal with filing claims, which ultimately becomes an additional expense, since chances are you have to pay someone to do this for you.

> - Get your money later instead of now.

> - Have to keep meticulous notes in case you ever get audited by the insurance companies, who can refuse to issue payments if your notes don't meet their standards.

This description could be lifted up and dropped in to be describing my tax situation each year. Meanwhile, I've never interacted with the kind of nightmarish insurance companies that some people have, so I'm strictly comparing two relatively painful bureaucracies, not nightmare stories about either one.
Anything that could light o flame.
Who’s going to use this on MacOS to take notes? The only input devices are expensive Wacom-style devices. iPad Pro with Apple Pencil is the way to go here, am I wrong?
Show HN: Isoflow.io – Text-to-Diagram v1
One idea I've been wanting to experiment with for a while now is generating diagrams from text, and this weekend I managed to put together a demo and release it into Isoflow.io (which you can try for free at https://isoflow.io/app, just click the button with the AI icon to start generating).

The idea is simple, but the results are surprisingly decent.

Even though I originally built isoflow to visualise network architectures, there's nothing stopping you from going beyond networks and generating anything you're interested in (provided it can be visualised on a graph). For example, try writing the prompt “Show me the organisational structure of the US political system” and you'll see what I mean.

As a visual learner, I’m already finding this feature quite useful for gaining insight into different types of organisational structures (I've been asking questions from how Amazon is organised to how the Sinaloa Cartel is structured). The output is not yet perfect, but as a first iteration it's already feeling quite useful, and I'm sure there is a lot of improvement to be made when it comes to optimising the prompts I'm using.

Now for the tech side of things.

Text-to-diagram uses OpenAI's GPT API under the hood (no surprises there!). As I mentioned, I've had this experiment in mind for a while now, but it bubbled up to the surface again after I recently read about the new ‘Structured Outputs’ feature which allows you to pass a JSON schema to GPT, so that the response can be formatted to the schema. This is HUGELY useful, and made it a breeze to get GPT talking the same language as Isoflow.

Once I had that, I built a simple interface that would accept a prompt. Nothing complicated, mainly just a textbox, but after generating a few diagrams, I discovered that ChatGPT wasn't great at positioning nodes on the graph. A lot of the time the nodes were too close or too far away from each other, making relationships difficult to see (and something which made the output almost useless). So as a next step, I started experimenting with auto-layout algorithms, mainly force-directed graph drawing.

The force-directed algo essentially sees nodes as physical objects, and connectors as rubber bands, and runs your graph through a physics model. Eventually connected nodes start getting pulled closer together, and the result is a neater layout where everything is more logically spaced out. So now I use GPT just to generate the content, and the layout algo deals with making things look nice.

I'm interested in whether others find this feature useful, especially visual learners like myself, and I'm also interested in what people are using to visualise with it. I will aim to keep this feature free as long as costs don't spiral out of control. Do let me know in the comments what you think.
Reads like a hit piece on Telegram from a crypto expert who couldn't be bothered to explain in more than one paragraph why the app he is calling not an encrypted app (according to how he personally thinks everyone refers to when talking about encryption) actually uses some encryption technology that he's not exactly sure of but suspects is insecure.
We have yet to see a user interface that works equally well for laptop/desktop and tablet use, and that isn’t a downgrade for either. It’s not entirely impossible, but it might as well be.
Sounds like anti-statist propaganda.
I regularly report scam ads as well as obvious catfishing friend requests from obviously fake accounts whose only post is a sketchy URL to some "sex chat". Almost all of the reports are rejected.

It seems obvious to me that Meta's moderation is mostly about pretending just enough for regulators to go away, and no more. Hell, Meta probably indirectly makes money from these scams by targeting more scams at the people who fall for them, at a premium. Meta makes money, scammers make money, regulators are content. It's a win-win-win.
its interesting... but i do wonder how we went from planet scale and infinite terrains in the earlier 2000s and late 90s down to "lets just do one little square". granted this looks a lot prettier...
If I had to guess, more money in selling people meds that they don't really need, profits get funneled into advertising and media outreach, positive feedback loops, social contagion sets in, etc

Therapists don't typically prescribe medication, but they have a role in the pipeline of prescribing it
Has anyone ever been arrested or fined for failing to provide time off for voting? Do we think compliance is 100%?
Missing object storage kinda makes it a joke. Hetzner cloud is certainly useful for some things, but object storage is something I just assume any cloud would have in 2024.

AWS launched it before EC2 even it's that valuable.
simplex.chat
But also act as invider many times in history.
Wasn't Matrix in the running for this? And Threema is the standard in Switzerland, I believe.
I read it now, and I saw nothing at all about a free market of LEAs, either police or intelligence agencies. It's only speaking about some silly idea of filming every private scene but relying on magic encryption with keys that are stored... Somewhere?... And somehow the keys to decrypt these most private moments are only accessible when it would be nice to do so. It's clearly not a serious idea, so it gives me a good idea how wild the speculation goes about the broader trends.
I mean it's human nature. Much like how most CEOs of Fortune 500s are over 6ft tall (https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2d8jwd/til_t...), youre not going to correct for this.

If the decider doesnt have many data points, they're going to find points to support their hunch. This person works out super hard, the did a marathon, super good at chess, being hot will open some doors, anything goes.

The reality is most of the deals are made through friendly intros, and vet you for a certain lingo and overall fitness to be fundable.

Good luck correcting this culture. Are you going to evaluate the deals you missed, and go "eh to be fair the guy was a slob and came from a no name school, and we under estimated grit / timing"?. It's not like the data that shows youre bad at data driven evaluation is going to sway someone who isn't data minded.
These arguments really make no sense: "it can't reason because it can't think" very comprehensive ahah

Also if you train an AI on how numbers work, like humans do in school, you can tell it how much you want to believe that 2+2=5, it won't believe it, just like humans, it's obvious.
The closest that comes to minds is ULID[0]. It is short (26 character base32), 128 bit and lexicographically sortable.

I think the reason there's no other popular standard is you give up something. 128 bit gives a pretty low risk of collisions in almost all uses, but as you go smaller you start having to consider the specific scenario and impact, etc, which doesn't work well for a standard.

You could use another encoding (eg base64 or base85) to get it shorter, but you start sacrificing other things (case sensitivity, url-safeness) - again, not great for a standard.

[0] https://github.com/ulid/spec