skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always very easy to trust as long as you're allowed to be mistaken in your trust. That's literally how people fall for all kinds of things, including wars, advertising, etc. It's much harder to fool all the people all the time, than corrupt some of the people (the ones in charge) all the time:

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/...

The mistake Moxie makes (and you do as well, you should really click on the links I posted to understand why)

is that "no one wants to run a server". In fact, an entire industry of professional "hosting companies" exists for Wordpress, Magento, etc. It's a free market of hosting.

You can't trust the software they're hosting, that's true. Which is why we have things like Subresource Integrity on the Web, IPFS, and many other ways to ensure that the thing you're loading is in fact bit-for-bit the same as the thing that was just audited by 3 different agencies, and battle-tested over time.

Think UniSwap. I'd rather trust UniSwap with a million dollars than Binance. I know exactly what UniSwap will do, both because it's been audited and because it's been battle-tested with billions of dollars. No amount of "trust me bro" will make me trust Binance to that extent. The key is "Smart contract factories":

https://community.intercoin.app/t/intercoin-smart-contract-s...

In short, when you decouple the infrastructure layer (people running ethereum nodes) from the app layer (the smart contracts) all of a sudden you can have, for the first time in human history, code you can trust. And again, there is a separation of responsibilities: one group of people runs nodes, another group of people writes smart contracts, another group audits them, another makes front-end interfaces on IPFS, etc. etc. And they all can get paid, permissionlessly and trustlessly.

Look at Internet Computer canisters, for instance. Or the TON network smart contracts. There are may examples besides slow clunky blockchains today.
First, the size of radio telescope matters. It doesn't matter if have lots of receivers if they aren't sensitive enough to receive the signal. Large telescopes are too big to put in space, they need a lot of structure and it is all required to reduce vibrations.

Second, interferometry is easier on the ground where the telescope is stable and not moving relatively. Doing with satellites is possible but requires equipment for exact positioning. It isn't something that can be added to Starink satellite.

Third, Starlink satellites are bad place to put radio receiver because they are receiving and sending signals that could bleed over. This is reverse of problem in the article.

It would be cool to have a network of radio telescopes in orbit but they would have to be planned and launched separately. And they would not replace large ones which would have to go on the Moon.
Would love to see a side-by-side comparison of iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram on this.
I think the real difference is the intent. If your platform makes it extremely easy to do illegal things, and you choose not to put in the controls to stop it, and then I think it is fair that government should stop.
> protobuf

such an awful format, I wish people would stop using it
Having onenote erase a days worth of work because it couldn't sync my tablet (and there was no way of exporting it as pdf or anything else) this looks really interesting. Hope there is an android version eventually.
The reason he was banned and given a C&D is because it ruins their business model. You are the product.
The reproducible build of Telegram lets you evaluate the code doing end-to-end encryption. Once you satisfy yourself it's doing this kind of encryption without implementation-level backdoors, then you don't need to worry about servers reading it (except for #5 above).

I didn't claim it encrypted "group chats". I said "things". If you want me to be specific, the "things" are individual 1-1 end-to-end encrypted chats.
I'm curious how you switch between workspaces. Do you give them names? I currently keep a mental list of what each workspace is for, but I still use the standard numbers 0-9.
Well of course, but this is a feature of Telegram. It's the only messaging app where messages are stored on the cloud. This of course has security implications, but also allows you to have a big number of chats without wasting your device memory like WhatsApp does, or having to delete old conversations, and allows you to access your chats from any device. By the way you can also set a password to log in from another device (two factor authentication, also on WhatsApp now you have this option).

To me it's a good tradeoff, of course I wouldn't use Telegram for anything illegal or suspect.
Yeah it's the startup vs established company dilemma. An AI company can publish a tool that makes mistakes. If Google publishes a version of that tool, maybe making it respond a little bit faster so that it can be shown next to search results, but at the expense of accuracy, people suddenly ridicule them.

Same goes for other products. New product categories require a lot of risk taking and established companies have a lot to lose, they don't want to take risks, they want to minimize it and for that they have entire departments with hundreds and thousands of employees that crunch every idea to death.
I agree, but I wouldn’t compare Signal to a Zephyr. Classic cars have that charm and magic. I would say Signal is more like a Honda Civic; its users are loud and annoying, and yet it’s mediocre in all categories. :)
I thought this would be about paper guillotines.
> Having sentences not start with uppercase letters really makes it one big mesh of letters.

That annoying trend is infecting HN too. There’s at least a half-dozen comments like that on this thread alone.
No problem! I wasn't sure if you had an account on here and wanted to spread the word. Hope this helps get you a resolution!
For some reason, I was imagining a machine with legs like a footstool. Any realistic machine like this would have large, wide feet. With proper suspension, the pressure might be low enough to not completely destroy the ground.

Though, I'm struggling to see how this would be better than a wheeled vehicle: you've still got static friction between the feet and the ground… I guess maybe they're flexing less?
I'm still waiting for somebody to make a version of Razer's Project Valerie.

https://www.razer.com/concepts/project-valerie
So? What's your point? It doesn't change the fact that LLMs hallucinate bullshit all the time. It doesn't change the fact that I don't trust anything coming out of an LLM.
Gnuplot is awesome. I've been hyping it up for years [1]. It's simple to get up and running with it, and remarkably deep when needed. Plays really well with poor man's command line data analytics (e.g. cut and awk).

[1] Here's a 2013 blogpost by yours truly https://blog.melnib.one/2013/04/01/gnuplot-data-analysis-a-r...
The arrest was about the expected removal of illegal and harmful content in groups, that masses see, so no enryption involved. Did you not read the news - AND the blog - in full?....
Are you saying the government should eliminate taxes and print $4.5T a year instead?
Basically DSA to eliminate political opponents and potential danger for establishment.
MD5 is “broken” as a cryptographic hash function. It still is perfectly fine as a non-cryptographic hash function.
"It doesn't work" for a bloated bureaucracy all encompassing everything.

It worked fine when the state was kept small.
I think its a cool exploration between art and engineering, with the end effect looking lifelike and emergent. It reminds me of the game of life.

But yeah the peanut gallery with 30k in hn karma probably have something snarky to say about it.
Inuktitut, Rust, Python, JS, or WASM? :D

Inuktitut is very cool. I'm not a speaker so I'm relying heavily on research, but I've always loved making tools for syllabics and working with text generally.
Banks do a massive amount of tracking and flagging. Even putting a joke “for drugs” in a Venmo field can cause issues. Plus reporting large transactions. There was a massive post on HN yesterday about how often banks close startup accounts due to false positives.
Ah, yes, even more big-tech concentration is exactly what we need.
> UUID Version 2 (v2) is reserved for security IDs with no known details.

Only no known details if the only document you're reading is the notoriously poorly-specified RFC. Here you go: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9696989899/chap5.htm#t...

There are also “version 0” UUIDs that you are very unlikely to ever come across but should be noted because they are the source of the reserved bits (via wastefully setting aside an entire octet for Address Family) that later allowed the other “versions” to be specified in a compatible way. Read my research about them here in my UUID library: https://github.com/okeeblow/DistorteD/blob/NEW%E2%80%85SENSA...

I decided to support them Because It's Cool™ but still need to figure out how to handle the date rollover of them and the even-older Apollo UIDs:

irb> ::GlobeGlitter::from_ncs_time
=> "#<GlobeGlitter 40639cd25341.02.00.00.e0.4c.18.00.69>"
irb> ::GlobeGlitter::from_ncs_time.to_time
=> 1988-12-21 14:52:02 UTC
irb> ::GlobeGlitter::from_aegis_time
=> "#<GlobeGlitter 00000000-0000-0000-4814-17c8b0080069>"

(Proper AEGIS `#to_str` not implemented yet lol)
> But any entity in position to globally correlate traffic

Also, Signal relies on AWS, which could also perform such an attack it seems.
Yes, this is the crucial point. It's probably not even that hard to get a pile of semi-clean Monero. Cashing it out, paying or avoiding taxes on it, and avoiding lifestyle signs. Best I've come up with is that I'd spend it all donating crypto to OSS projects that I want to see succeed.
Also, having a kid is great to get you to learn new things. I want my son to learn to play an instrument, so I've finally been taking piano classes because I know that very few children of completely non-musical parents actually succeed in learning to play instruments. Learning piano has been a lot of fun, I have a blast playing simple things with him (he's still young) and learning some of my favorite music.

Likewise, after reading "Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers", I've been having a lot of fun getting back into Mathematics because it's fun doing things like this together.
^^^ this. LA is such a sprawl, public transit barely covers all the places people want to go to.

Any improvement is welcome, hopefully it won’t regress after Olympics, but wouldn’t be surprised.
That's fair, I take back my comment. I don't think it was very fair to you and the dialog in the thread. Goes for the other replier as well.
Related:

Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305736
What do you mean by "directly affected?" The lack of a social safety net makes me worry about myself (and loved ones) and what might happen in the event of severe job loss or health misfortune. In my city I see people living on the streets almost every day - it is a recurring reminder of the thin line.

Almost by definition, anyone who is directly suffering from the lack of a safety net -- because they are falling through where it would be, and living on the street -- is unable to gain access to therapy, because they wouldn't have money to pay for it.
I think a high definition photo taken on a recent phone takes up an awful lot more device memory than a "big number of chats"
Despite having lots of treaties agreeing to extradition in principle, the UAE is somewhat notorious for never extraditing anybody anywhere in practice.

https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/a-golden-opportunity-f...
Not only that. If they want to intercept e2e chats it's possible with a MITM attack, that if you control the server it's not a difficult thing to do. Of course the users if they check the keys they see they are different, but practically no one does that.

And I think WhatsApp probably does it, otherwise why the authorities never complied that WhatsApp did not let them see the conversations?
MLS scales best for large n, but WhatsApp/Signal or Matrix do pretty well for < 1k people
But that's literally the entire point of this article. That is, in this day and age, when people talk about "secure messaging apps" they are usually implying end-to-end encryption, which Telegram most certainly is not for the vast majority of usages.
Just so I understand. Are you saying we should punish anyone who spends their own money to build something because they want to restrict how/who can use what they've built?

What's preventing you (or someone with capital they want to risk) from building a mobile OS?
> Apple should buy ARM while it has cash.

No.

> And then start industrial automation division (or subsidiary)

As someone who works in this sector - HARD NO. Machinery can and should last decades, even outlasting their users or their manufactures. Apple is not interested in providing this kind of support just like MS. They make money selling you new shiny things that do nothing for a fixed function machine.

I have to deal with machines with RTOS run-times, software and drivers anchored to Windows 2k/XP, 7 and 10. There is ZERO need to update outside of the fact that I'm a prisoner of their upgrade treadmill. I then have to resort to eBay for hardware and the good grace of 3rd party service techs to obtain obsolete software they happen to have a copy of. The controls OEM does not give a single fuck your machine and therefor your business is down and tells you to buy all new hardware and software as if that is a solution to lost business.
Have you read the article I link to in that point? After you read it, you'll have a better idea, and then if you have a specific point, we can discuss.
Yeah, but Whatsapp chats tend to be full of those... and videos.
> Personal rights end where they start to harm others, or harm society in general

This empty saying is used to justify basically any violation of civil liberty, because it is unprincipled and open ended, so it can be used to respond to any action anyone can take

> The commenter likely didn’t mean what they wrote

No, I meant what I wrote. The government has no business judging the truth. What is the Russian disinformation from earlier in this thread? For example, is it discussing the illegal 2014 coup in Ukraine that ousted a democratically elected government that was friendly to Russia? To EU overlords, discussing that event is “spreading disinformation” even though it is factually true and deserving of discussion. It’s a great example of political censorship being a problem.

> don’t absolutize “free speech”, or argue that authorities shouldn’t care about what is true or not.

Free speech should be absolutized in day to day discussion, even if there are very limited exceptions in the law. It’s when there is permission from society to limit speech that populations end up propagandized and suppressed by whoever has power over them. That’s what is happening here, where people are coming up with absurd mental gymnastics to justify France’s authoritarian actions.

> judging what is true is necessary for a state being able to function in the interest of its people

This sounds like support for Soviet or China style control of speech, and labeling of anything that power disagrees with as misinformation. Authorities shouldn’t care about what is true or not, because they are biased and corrupted by their agendas and ideologies and incentives. The free exchange of information is foundational to any free and democratic society. That’s what is necessary for a state to be able to function in the interest of its people.
Race is a big factor whether folks on HN/YC wants to admit it or not.
The Federal Reserve does not issue money...The U.S Treasury issues money.

The Federal Reserve processes payments for the federal government, manages the the flow of money through banks, and acts as the bank of last resort. It is also, very importantly, not an independent bank; it was created and authorized by Congressional statute to be the central bank of the U.S..
We have not acknowledged an approach that teaches the majority math properly. Find approaches that do and also have some problems that resonate to children in an age appropriate way set for their environment.
We're commenting on an article from a US news outlet about the situation in the US. I wasn't going to start talking about a random other unrelated country when people are proposing solutions for this one.

Also, I attempted to preempt these comments. They're not clever or new or even particularly accurate:

> And to preempt the comments saying it doesn't have to be this way: it doesn't matter if US government bureaucracies are incompetent by the design of politicians or by necessity, the point is that they are
this creates shear, lengthens the amount of blade edge, and directs force to a smaller contact surface than a perpedicular edge.

[But the story goes that the real reason the blade is diagonal is that the king suggested it might help with people with fat necks]

thus proclaimation was the lead contributor.
At some point, the adults in the room (and specifically, a few brave and seasoned elder statesmen/women) need to stand up and state the obvious:

On sufficiently long time scales, the internet will not tolerate states, and states will not be able to withstand the influence of the internet.

The ability to copy and send bytes around the world, to capture and disseminate media in such a way that forces transparency, but also to facilitate and democratize private conversation, to route around censorship... these are qualities that make what are today fundamental aspects of statecraft, such as state secrets, intellectual property, control over money supply and trade, surveillance, and censorship, impossible.

It's time to acknowledge that we need to transition our methods for ensuring each other's safety, well-being, freedom, justice, and prosperity via stateless channels and stop regarding states as having any jurisdiction over the internet.
Show HN: RealityPong
AWS is so behind on Gen AI they have to play up the PR.
How accurate does the timing need to be? I imagine there must be many Bobs getting notifications around the same time. Also, if I use Signal behind a VPN is it still known that I’m talking to the Signal servers?
Please do not assume

When in doubt, ask.

I was replying to

any plausible attempt to minimize bad actors from using your service

I mentioned criminal lawyers because their job is literally to "offer their services to criminals or to people accused of being criminals" and they have no obligation whatsoever to minimize bad actors from using your service, in fact bad actors are usually their regular clientele and they are free to attract as many criminals as they like in any legal way they like.

Helping a criminal to commit a crime it's an entirely different thing and anyway it must be proved in a court, it's not something that can be assumed on the basis of allegations (their clients are criminal, so they must be criminal too).

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

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.

In other words most of the times people do not know and are not required to know if they are dealing with criminals, but, even if they did, there are no legal reasons to avoid offering them your services other than to avoid problems and/or on moral grounds (which are perfectly understandable motives, but are still not a requirement to operate a business).

Take bars, diners, restaurants, gas stations or hospitals, are they supposed to deny their services?

And how would they exactly should take actions to minimize bad actors from using your service?

If someone goes to a restaurant and talks about committing a crime, is the owner abetting the crime?

I guess probably not, unless it is proven beyond any reasonable doubt that he actually is.

It doesn't matter if it's true or false it only matters what the justice system can prove.
Don’t think it would help people get therapy.

The big companies already have a pile of cash they’ve allocated for when they get sued, as the cost of doing business.

So maybe a class action suit happens, and insurance companies have to pay $1 billion in damages. Lawyers get their cut, a bunch of therapists get a $1k check, and zero patients get more therapy.
I might have to give this a try one day. In my experience, therapy as a tool to improve one's life is overrated and not worth the money. But hey, that has been my experience over a long period of time with many different providers. Everyone is different.
Reminded me of the Feynman’s technique. I relate completely. One of my biggest challenges in returning to university after several years of work was exactly having lost the grasp of prerequisite knowledge. Unfortunately, from experience, more often than not lecturers just play the “you should know this from previous courses/high school” card and you are pretty much left alone in your struggles. Gets even worse if an exam problem relies on some borderline trick that wasn’t practiced throughout the course. You could probably tell I haven’t let go of some grudges.
You already know how Signal is going to come out here, because this is something people complain incessantly about (the inconvenience of not getting transcripts when enrolling new devices).
Why?

The format is not that bad.

The binding/libraries OTOH are often awful and they often require unnecessary full-message deserialization
this is pretty much what Matrix does, if I understand correctly.

Additionally the key is regularly updated to provide some degree of perfect forward secrecy and avoid encrypting for people who left the group chat
> I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR, TrueCrypt, BleachBit,

Let's update this for 2024:

Signal/Session/Matrix/^, Tails/Whonix/Qubes/Heads/BSDs, VeraCrypt/Cryptomator/^, GrapheneOS/CalyxOS/PureOS/^, KeePassXC/Bitwarden/^, Mullvad, NetGuard(Android)

^ represents others that I am leaving out for convenience.
I am surprised to admit that I have watched zero dark thirty at least 5-6 times. Actually not sure why. It is good, but good enough for beyond two views?
It's PR gobbledygook he made up to make these seem more interesting than the mechanical tumbleweeds that they are.
I use them on purpose to "help" the optimizer by reducing the search space for query plan ((knowing that query plan optimization is a combinatorial problem and the optimizer frequently can't evaluate enough plans in a reasonable amount of time).
> "It is now up to the venture capital scene to become aware of this challenge and take appropriate measures to create a fairer and more balanced investment environment."

Won't the VCs' thinking be that the same cortisol-boosting effects on them will also apply to other people with whom the founders interact, increasing likelihood of startup success?
There are many erroneous assumptions based on conjectures and not enough real world metrics and evidences.

AI art is very much already being consumed and sold. It's not just "mill schlock" anymore. You won't even know you are consuming AI art.
Anyone can join these channels. How would encryption change anything?
That link has 100% broken scrolling on my device. The actual journal link works better: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01492063241249699