skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do monthly so you could divide your yearly contribution by 12.
"many of them use Signal" - where is this conclusion come from? They have WeChat. I've never seen any of my Chinese friends using Signal.
I wouldn't expect the first party keyboard on a Chinese-manufactured phone to be any safer than a third party IME.
To go further on the question of the UI being "bloated", here's a quick reference shot of what a very slightly customised Vivaldi UI might look like[0] (for anyone who hasn't yet downloaded it to try it out).

Despite the apparent bloat of the default experience, what it really does is just increases discoverability of the UI for new users. While things like gestures, keymaps, etc. still allow people to run a very slimmed down browser if desired.

[0] https://ibb.co/F6SkHKV
The most common first message is :wave: , because it is suggested by Bumble on the UI
MalwarehunterTeam on Twitter regularly posts analysis of machine code, so yes. Very true.
That wasn't a donation, it was a loan.
> You think we don’t have enough traditional options to level London on a Tuesday afternoon?

I actually don't think there are any that are feasible. Leveling a city the size of London is no small feat, and amassing the troops and weaponry required to carry it out seems like a complicated enough exercise that it would take longer than "Tuesday afternoon".

Not that I don't think it can be done, but just that moving a large traditional military apparatus, or even mustering enough conventional missiles to flatten an area that large seems like it would take far longer than that.

The "shock and awe" campaign waged on Baghdad might be similar in scale within about an order of magnitude, and it certainly took a heck of a lot longer than an afternoon, although the goal was never to level the city in its entirety.
I'll file this under "security tips". Signal should probably give its users tips for communicating securely - but that's at least one degree separate from "warn users about insecure IMEs".

Additionally, if you're already using a chinese phone, why does it matter whether your IME is compromised? Doesn't the CCP already have its nose in all of the manufacturers' OSes already? Maybe Signal should warn about that as well.

I'm all for helping people communicate securely, something Signal should be very interested in, but the hyper focus on IMEs is confusing.
This is not at all a practical solution. How much "decentralized P2P internet" infrastructure do you think there is in Uganda? Hell even in the US its virtually nonexistent. Which P2P internet should I use? IPFS? Helium? Any of the other blockchain internet vaporware?

Any Blockchain operating in a small region would have no resiliency, be vulnerable to 51% attacks, and diverge significantly from the original internet ledger.
How many CVE exists because of path, symlinks etc ...
This takes me back to working in a few (slowly going to way of the buffalo) "professional" or "big" studios. Both of the A studios I worked in had a big set of Genelecs in the bulkhead and two or three more mid and near field monitors just above or behind the console meter bridge.

Each served it's own purpose and all the mixing guys I saw wound swap between them fairly regularly. In that situation it was about emulating different scenarios, from the 4" block speakers to get a feel for what someone would hear on an old car stereo to mid field Dynaudios that were more flat than hyped to get a feel for what the home audiophile might experience.

That's not a practical approach for a small studio (either in size or budget) but having been out of that world for a long time it makes me wonder if someone would be better served with two or three pairs of reasonably priced pair of speakers rather than trying to perfect the sound of one pair that aren't going to reflect (no pun intended) other playback environments that aren't acoustically optimized.
People use Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Telegram with VPN in China. Twitter are mostly for porn, telegram for shady business and porn. I would assume you will probably need to use VPN for Signal.
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Honestly, I've had way more success with Bumble when it comes to getting matches, continuing conversations and meeting IRL.

That said, IMO the market for Tinder vs Bumble is quite different even though they are in the same space.

Anecdotally, my friends use Tinder for FWB / Hookups etc. while Bumble is more-so for casual or serious relationships.

I also find the risks interesting. Not a ton of people are paying for dating (which is opposite to the advice given on Reddit for example).
I imagine a second-strike is going to get a lot less hesitation than a first strike without obvious provocation. If nothing else, there's no harm and potentially an immense benefit in delaying a first strike to get confirmation, whereas there is a time crunch if enemy missiles are inbound.
> Each additional daily cup of the brew was associated with a reduction in relative risk of nearly 1%, the findings indicate.

This feels like a reference to that Futurama episode where Fry drinks 100 cups of coffee

https://imgur.com/gallery/uoKqLRm
Or you simply value control over money. The economy is not the primary goal of everyone, not even all governments.
There is very little to no awareness of what it takes to create software. We, the developers who have released our work for free, have allowed this to happen. It feels like mobbing, heck, we keep reading about other devs mobbing others by opening GitHub issues and demanding new features or bugfixes for software they did not pay for. I really hope that we can do something about raising awareness.
Personally not a big fan of small and thin if the trade-off is I/O ports. Reasonable people can disagree though!
How has the book sales been doing?
I agree, and that seems to be the majority of science-related content here on HN.
Is Signal having a problem of not enough money? I'd heard rumors they'd burned through the $100mm USD donation already but didn't want to believe them.

Is there any indication that applying capital to the problems we're seeing will fix them?

I want to help, but only in a way that will be effective in improving the situation. If they already have enough money, giving them more will not. If they don't have enough money following a $100mm USD donation, it's possible that giving them more will not.
Your comments in this thread have been belittling and unhelpful. We don’t like that here at all. Please stop.
If you're ever around Tucson AZ, I recommend a visit to the Titan Missile Museum. (No affiliation, just a fan.) The tour includes a simulated launch order, two volunteers are chosen to turn the keys, and the ancient control panel will blink its lights in sequence.

https://titanmissilemuseum.org/
We are all chimpanzees of varying temperament.

The internet finds a story like this and spends a month on it.

"Good chimp killed? Good chimp killed on hike? Hiking good, hikers good. Must be good victim chimp. How can good chimp have bad thing happen?"

Then somebody finds out who the chimp is, and somebody gets a thousand bucks to write

"Good chimp not so good. Fought with other chimps. Shouted, got quiet, not share food. Not good chimp die on trail. Bad chimp wander off to die because bad. Sad but ok."

That's the natural cycle of news, it's been going on since the press was invented and it's mostly ok.

What's frustrating is the internet adding the layer of

"Bad chimp? Bad Chimp?! What kind bad chimp? Bad chimp have excuse to be bad? No? Put on list of Villain Chimps! Vvvvvvvvillllainous chimp."

Dysfunctional dude didn't do so well with his personal relationships on his way to an early grave. Ok-doke.
You would be surprised how many Microsoft shops among F500 do it all the time.

Here is another one, WebSphere on Windows.
This is incorrect. Most of Europe has free speech:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises."
I've wondered the same, and personally, I'm just assuming the health benefits come from B vitamins, antioxidants, etc, which would suggest decaf should also be beneficial.
Each community has it's explicit and implicit rules. One of the (implicit?) rules here is no tl;dr. The idea is that the site will get a better technical discussion if everyone reads the complete article before commenting. (Strangely, another rule is that you can't write RTFA.)

Nobody is sure which are the best rules to get a nice discussion, but this are the rules here. Other communities like tl;dr.

There are some exceptions, like very very long articles or very very technical articles. Also, sometimes the tl;dr are ignored, nobody is so angry to downvote a tl;dr until it has -100 points. So assume that if you write or ask for a tl;dr, there is a high chance that it will be downvoted.
I can confirm, having spent some time there 15 years ago. The daily headlines about police busts of homosexuals was terrifying.

At some point Bob Geldorf called on Musevini to resign. The Ugandan papers carried knee jerk headlines of "is Geldorf gay?". It would have been comical had they not reflected a grim pervasive homiphobia.
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile...

And you may find yourself paying for 5TB of cloud storage with feature bloat...

And you may ask yourself, "Well... how did I get here?"
I've agreed with most of the societal restrictions so far, but, imposing celebacy on a large subset of the population is a step too far. It is completely and absolutely unrealistic.

Trying to suppress life's prime imperative is always a losing battle.
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I don't think you can say "its not this way or that way" and then follow up with "its 100% this".
My wife out of the blue just started asking if she should switch from WhatsApp to signal. What’s causing the exodus?
You need some degree of economy to have control though.
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> I don’t remember all of the details, or if it ended up being true

Not as far as any link between the disappearance and D&D, no:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dallas_Egbert_III#Disapp...

> and there was a Tom Hanks movie about it.

Mazes and Monsters, the novel and the movie, were inspired by the (false) story of the event.
There's also https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/seeing-ai
If it's an issue in any app that can lead to privacy leaks, it's a showstopper issue for something like Signal. It being an issue with any app is even more reason to tell people about it, not less.
Not really, ive paid plenty of subscriptions to services that later shuttered and not paid for plenty of things long kicking. And vice versa of course.

Ambiguity goes away by understanding the total finance model not by knowing you paid 5 bucks.

That being said I'd like to at least cover my cost to them to see it better grow. A payment isnt the same thing as that though it only tells you you at least paid a portion e.g. buying a smart tv doesnt mean you now know the tv cost less than that to make.
if I have to enter something into an app, I will eventually forget to do it. and if I miss entering too many appointments I'll eventually have to declare bankruptcy

not trying to be negative about your idea. but the best app is one that will know automatically what's on my schedule, without me having to enter it explicitly. that way I can't forget. I have no idea how to do this, it doesn't really sound possible. Just trying to convey my experience with projects like you described
Google Play has 10m+ and then 50m+ step. So if you have 40m users then you still are in the 10m+ bracket.
Existing vaccines should work against new coronavirus variants
While it's true that few of us remotely understand what life is like for most people, I don't think it's fair to say that none of us care. For the most part, we don't have the slightest clue of how to even help.
Have you tried Ruffle?
https://ruffle.rs/
I have the same issue as well. Often I feel like people are taking advantage of me. I feel like I have a good sense of people's intentions even before they say them. Also if I don't receive reciprocation in any way, it further reinforces to me the taking advantage of belief.
> That's what we're focusing on?

That's my point. By presenting the issue the way she did, people moved the conversation away from the issue and instead ended up in a meta-discussion about the discourse. If her points were laid out in a nicer manner, she would be closer to actually achieving her goal.
I hope we never find out what happens if the US internet goes down. But with 2020's track record and what 2021 is starting to look like, we might find out!
I came across this project recently which solves for this problem.

Locha.io

https://www.github.com/btcven/locha/tree/master/documentatio...

https://www.github.com/btcven/locha/tree/master/documentatio...

A Harpia node is a Locha Mesh standalone node which can provide services on the network such as an Internet gateway, Bitcoin transactions broadcast, latest blocks data, Electrum Server, a remote monerod, or any other. This device can have a larger antenna plugged, a power amplifier, or even a satellite dish, extending the transmission range in several kilometers
It's a bit more nuanced than that. While there are more woman than men, that's because of women outliving men by many years. All of that abundance is due to women in their 50's and up. For people of a more typical dating age, under 50, there are more men than women.
Hell if I know. Give what feels right to you - imagine the service going away tomorrow, and someone saying "If only you'd paid $X/mo, this wouldn't be happening!" What's the value of X where you'd regret not having done so?
https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/11655

I'm hoping for more/better matrix clients before I can make the switch.
I would say I would be surprised if many>1% of the people. I have yet to know a single Chinese ever mentioned Signal.
Thanks for posting, I just donated too. Signal is doing important work and I hope they can continue under this new load :)
$1/mo is prevented by a hard minimum, and likely for good reason as the credit card processor imposes a flat base fee.
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I don't know what options show up depending on the route you use to donate, but the link on the Android app [0] takes you to a page that does allow recurring contributions.

[0](https://signal.org/donate/)
Not sure if it still applies since I cancelled prime, but you can contact Amazon any time a package is late, and they will give you credits or extensions to your Prime sub. That was in the US a year or so ago.
I don't really want to see a bill for e.g. £0.41 every month on my credit card statement, and at some point the transaction fees would become a bother for Signal.

I'd have ticked "recurring annually" if the option had existed.
or thank you devalued dollar for making these assets worth $1tn more.
You're not allowed to mention that, we have to pretend it's a charity.
I'm a little confused because you brought up Telegram specifically.

WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger offer the same level of security as Telegram. In fact, I think WhastApp is more secure since it does E2E encryption by default.

It's true that Telegram is about "fun" and not security. I just wasn't sure if you tried to imply Telegram is like Signal with a focus on fun as well, or you just meant most people don't care about security and would rather have fun chats?
There are tons of political discussions on HN. It's a difficult area, because some is on topic while some tends to turn into flamewar that destroys what the site is supposed to be for—but none of that has to do with the community "not caring".

Please don't post unsubstantive flamebait, and please don't post supercilious dismissals. It would be nice if you'd stick to the site guidelines so we don't have to keep banning you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Which can be done neatly by having the things in the database have value, so that the reward can also be inside the system, i.e. mining coins.

Sure, but that's a mechanism, not a goal.
> it’s only a selfish minority that have not.

If there's one ugly thing about the Covid situation that I hope our society reflects on with great remorse in the future, it is this justification for moralizing the private behavior of others. Covid seems to have unleashed the self-righteous scolds of the world in a way that I haven't seen in my lifetime.

If two consenting adults weigh their own personal risks and choose to go on a date, it isn't your business to judge their behavior. Catching a virus is not a moral act.

Obviously, people who interact with high-risk individuals should take special precautions. But if I am a healthy young person, live by myself and want to date someone else who is in the same situation, you can take your judgments and go pound sand.
>This is meant to be a replacement for normal cable....which also shows ads. As far as I know there is NO live cable service that is ad-free.

HBO doesn't show commercials. It DOES use the time between two shows (starting on the hour or half hour) to preview other shows on the same network but I find these slightly less annoying that paid-for ads.
Publication, future citations, and career advancement.
I think Elon moved more users than the user you quoted.

EDIT: We know it was a joke. Maybe you are downvoted because of your username.
I worked with Google Glass (Enterprise) in the past and think this might be a really good use case for Glass... Realtime streaming without using hands. Voice activation and a speaker in your ear all could be really helpful.
Allegedly, just change the time on your computer https://twitter.com/Tasselfoot/status/1349023841754996739 .
In at least some cases, the answer appears to be "yes":

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019701861...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2018.1...

But not in all cases:

https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...
Heck the benefit may come simply from the fact that the alternative to coffee for many people is soda pop.
> Depends on who the “we” is there.

I would argue the statement is true for any significant government or private use of general inflation measures.

But, sure, if you’ve got a case where the CPI is actually used for a purpose and you think a different measure of inflation that incorporated asset prices would be a better replacement for the CPI, please feel free to present (1) the existing use in question, (2) your proposed replacement measure, and (3) your argument for why your proposed replacement is better.
I'm not sure a 5x+ growth in under a week is really "for a while now". If anything I'm surprised they've kept it together this long. The growth looks more like an exponential function too, so that's even more difficult.

Good luck Signal team!
If nothing else, I imagine if the vendor were to get hacked, the client would have obvious grounds for a lawsuit. Obviously you'd rather it not get to that point, but, still.
Taking the angst out of SAST analysis
Nukes level London in 5 minutes (and the launch alone initiates MAD from China and Russia before they realise what the target it)

That's not enough time for the VP and cabinet to 25th amendment and cancel the orders.
Especially in a country with less infrastructure, there's usually only a small number of mobile carriers that service the vast majority of the internet use; sometimes the government only calls the mobile carriers, and ignores the wired carriers and dialup ISPs.
First, I dispute that piracy is really better. Amazon and netflix generally work easier than piracy. My, um friend, has radarr + usenet + plex, and its work pretty well 80%. But subtitles are often a problem. Unpacking/par checking sometimes takes forever. Sometimes the decoder in plex doesn't really work. Sometimes the movie has been DMCA'd off the use net servers. Private trackers involve sucking up to to 15 year old polish kids who run their service like the Stazi.

You can usually find everything you want, but sometimes it requires some time.

I don't have a large 4k tv, so maybe I'm not appreciating how bad the streaming movies look.

But Netflix, Amazon, itunes, Vudo, etc. are all way easier services to use.

Second, they are targeting the masses, who probably like a 30 second preview for another show and don't care how 4k is encoded. In my experience, about 50% of people with high def TV's didn't even set up high def cable packages.
The way the author went about doing and explaining this is somewhat confusing. What he arrived through that strange band split/merge process is actually ~identical* to:

- Apply an EQ filter that lowers the volume of the 0-100Hz band by 6dB (this happened because he halved the amplitude of the 100Hz band)

- Add a slow binary digital signal at around ~4 baud (2Hz fundamental), with slopes smoothed to around 10% of the bit time.

This has nothing to do with dubstep or bass drops - it would work for any song. It's just modulating data in infrasound, at 2Hz, which is well below the threshold of human hearing. The problem here is that he's also needlessly reducing the level of the 0-100Hz band to half the amplitude (6dB), which completely kills the bass feel of the original song. Dubstep fans will not approve (and he needs better speakers if he can't hear the difference).

A much simpler, more sensible process would be to just do this:

- Apply a steep highpass filter at 20Hz (the limit of human hearing), to remove any inaudible low-frequency (infra)sounds.

- Reduce the volume of the overall song by, say, around 1dB, to make a bit of headroom for the modulated digital signal

- Encode whatever you want in those 20Hz in the headroom you created (the amplitude can be quite low, e.g. 5%, it doesn't need to move the whole waveform over).

Then to decode it just lowpass the signal at 20Hz and do your bit detection after that - the filter will remove the audio, leaving only your signal, so it doesn't matter that your signal isn't a whole 50% of the output power. Now the song is only 1dB quieter. You can use as simple or as fancy a modulation technique as you want in that 20Hz band. You could use (normal) ASK as he did, just lowpass it to remove any high frequency components. You could use FSK. You could use QAM. Whatever.

* His process actually also messes up the original 100Hz band by modulating it with a ~4Hz square waveform due to the way he does the modulation by inverting and interpolating, which is going to create harmonics and other ickiness around the transitions, as well as does not guarantee the absence of clipping due to the way he only reduced the amplitude of the low 100Hz band (this process can actually increase peak levels, as can happen any time you use frequency filtering - try his high-pass filter command on this file and watch sox complain of clipping, even though the original file does not clip: https://mrcn.st/t/filtering_clips.wav ), so I would not recommend trying to emulate his approach precisely even if you want to achieve the same actual effect, since it's actually quite a silly way of going about doing it :)
... and to prevent the Fed from increasing rates, the US needs to enforce the Petro-Dollar regime whereby all of the world economy runs on the USD.

That explains the incessant saber-rattling.
0% interest repaid in 48 years... I'm sure they'll figure something out
has whatsapp never had an outrage?
The OEM IMEs are also proprietary, which makes me question everyone's points.
The loan seems to be more a techinical stand-point than a real loan.