skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been receiving notifications that a person in my contact list is now using Signal for years.

Apart from that, your use case has another possible issue.
If a person stops using Signal, your messages will go to the void until Signal actually removes the user and your client switches back to SMS. This has caused a lot of confusion for some of my friends when I switched my signal account to a different phone number.

I think it's more reliable to use Signal for Signal.
> We have now reached the point where SMS support no longer makes sense.

What a laughable, out of touch suggestion. Did anyone at Signal actually ask the community what they thought about removing SMS support?

Seriously, this decision is going to kill Signal app. It will halt the majority of growth as evangelists such as myself can no longer recommend it with a straight face. Signal is supposed to enhance the messaging experience, not replace it.

I think Signal thinks they can take on the WhatsApp market, completely misunderstanding why that market didn't choose Signal in the first place. The products serve two completely different user needs, and are highly geographically segregated.

What the heck is going on over at Signal Foundation?
I liked the idea until I realized it wasn't self sustaining and needs a monthly subscription to replace the algae =(
It is precisely because I use it every day that I use VSCode. As much as I like some of the features of JetBrains IDEs I have also had more headaches with them than VSCode. For example at my previous employer our dev machines weren’t great and I routinely needed to have multiple projects open at once. If I tried doing that in IntelliJ it would make my computer basically unusable. When I gave up and used VSCode for all of my projects I was able to have all the projects I needed open without any issues and without really losing any productivity. If JetBrains IDEs were lighter on the system I would consider switching back to them, but honestly at this point I don’t see a benefit in switching back.
We ended up going on a date still but it did make me raise my eyebrows.
Before the Responsibility to Protect: The Humanitarian Intervention in Cuba [pdf]
Abstract: Prior to the creation of the United Nations and even prior to Woodrow Wilson’s philosophy of intervention, members of Congress called for a humanitarian intervention to aid the people of Cuba as they fought against the violent oppression of the Spanish government. Spurred on by the first-hand accounts of horrifying atrocities, President William McKinley overcame his reluctance and called for the American military to aid the revolutionaries in Cuba. This initial decision marks the beginning of a very different path towards international dominance than the one created by European empires. Unlike their European counterparts, the United States would claim to use its military to protect those fighting for their freedom all over the world due to their longstanding commitment to the liberal ideal of self-determination. While it may appear benevolent, the United States struggled with questions about how a self-governing people could develop and use a large military to overthrow governments as well as whether these actions could be considered imperialism. Looking into this early effort to rid a country of violent oppression by offering military assistance provides a prism through which to view the ongoing struggles of liberalism that informs American foreign policy decision making.
Apple has the same problem, and an article and entire process for disabling it out of band, plus a heartbeat so it’s done automatically after a while if you don’t reset your phone. It’s a major problem.

I’ve only done the switch from iOS to Android once and I remember it was a pain for a few days until everything realized I didn’t have iMessage anymore.
https://steamdb.info/graph/
Top 5 currently and Top 4 all time peak.

And outside Steam others like Fortnite, Candy Crush, Roblox, Club Penguin...

Many at the top here have a free-to-play model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_game...
This airport is in the constitution free zone.
Doesn't look like a healthy division. Presumably you'll need a healthy organization to achieve the goals. Technicians will do the job, but someone will need to keep the organization in shape, it won't happen by itself.
> On Friday (7 October), for a period of around five hours, the country was running off entirely renewable power, reaching a record high of 3,106MWh at eight o’clock (GMT).

It was for 5 hours.

> Renewables made up 46% of Greece’s power mix in the eight months to August this year, according to Greek climate think-tank The Green Tank, which was up from 42% in the same period in 2021.

In my opinion this is the greatest news. In a period of high demand they can still do 46% on renewables.

> The country is targeting 25GW of installed renewables capacity by 2030, up from around 10GW today.

With such an update they can be almost self suficient.
If anyone want a privacy focused all in one app I cannot recommend Beeper enough. I have been using it as my main app for SMS, messenger, WhatsApp and LinkedIn for half a year now and have only positiv experiences. Some bugs still, but amazing support and continuous fixes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848278
Agreed. Thank you for calling me out here - I also disagreed with myself when I chose "of, by, and for", and was going to use more generic words, but thought more interesting ideas may come out with the extra salt.
Cars are not super cheap, and in fact are very expensive when you start to account for public costs and externalities. Especially in regards parking, building car infrastructure is expensive and space inefficient, and nowhere near the amount built today would be built without laws mandating it. Moreover, highways really aren't cheap either, and Houston is suffering under the financial weight of them.

Obviously since sprawl exists now it's hard to get rid of it; a city would be hard-pressed to go to the suburbs and tell them that they won't receive services anymore. However, as Detroit has shown, sprawl is definitely a liability if the city ever has any sort of period of decline. That certainly hasn't stopped Houston (and many other American cities) from acting as if that could never happen, and I suspect that the next 50 years will reveal the weaknesses of the model. I hope to be proven wrong, but that would require climate change to magically disappear and resources of all kinds to stay abundant, which seems unlikely.
Another factor in my field as well is linking to software -- papers that introduce algorithms or use computational analyses are rightfully expected to include the code (usually github) and reviewers are expected to at least check that the code exists and is reasonably documented. I can remove my name from the paper, but the github page will say which lab it's coming from.
Tried a few different color combinations. Every one looked pretty good, although the combinations seemed a lot like those used in certain games. Might use this generator in future projects.

Interestingly, today's HN post[1] about the poor contrast ratio of SMS message bubbles in iOS illustrates a key point: the higher the contrast ratio, the more attractive two colors will be when used together (while also being more accessible and less fatiguing).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33176668
> lack of services

In San Francisco, where I live, all of the “services” (i.e., food banks, check cashing services, shelters, soup kitchens, even the DMV) are in the poor neighborhoods (the Mission). You can’t find any of those services in rich neighborhoods (Noe/Cole Valley).

So, maybe we should keep building affordable housing in poor neighborhoods instead?
The CIA, FBI & Military industrial complex seem to actively work towards their own interests, separate from the democratic will of the citizens of the US.

It is hard to view this as anything but the 'deep state'. If the US was not the preeminent leader of the 'free world', American intelligence agencies would be viewed as global terrorist organizations.
Most of those in group 2 are not using Signal.

Beyond that, the minority in group 2 that use Signal are most likely to be using default settings. SMS handling is a non-default option. So you're left with a very tiny minority.

Group 1 makes up the vast vast majority of the userbase (and most likely 100% of the evangelising userbase)

(Also: if things are unclear for non-technical users, that's a UX challenge, not an absolute)
> The most important reason for us to remove SMS support from Android is that plaintext SMS messages are inherently insecure.

This is an incredibly bad reason to remove SMS support. Sure, the fact "plaintext SMS messages are inherently insecure" is true, but the implication is not "remove SMS support".

Most people are motivated strongly by convenience. Signal is convenient because of its use as a drop-in replacement for your existing SMS client, so people use it, which increases their personal privacy and security. Removing SMS support will directly and substantially reduce Signal usage, and therefore both of those things.

The solution to "SMS is insecure" is pretty obviously "make a warning message telling users that", which also solves their second problem:

> This brings us to our second reason: we’ve heard repeatedly from people who’ve been hit with high messaging fees after assuming that the SMS messages they were sending were Signal messages, only to find out that they were using SMS, and being charged by their telecom provider.

...and the third problem:

> Third, there are serious UX and design implications to inviting SMS messages to live beside Signal messages in the Signal interface.

This is ridiculous. You're not making a paid product where if your app doesn't look perfect people won't use it - you're making a messaging app, and slightly ugly workarounds are perfectly OK.

> It’s important that people don’t mistake SMS messages sent or received via the Signal interface as secure and private when in fact they are not.

THEN DESIGN THE APP THAT WAY. IT'S NOT THAT HARD.

This post is a travesty, and the reasoning contained inside is completely insane.

Wikipedia says that Moxie is still on the Signal Board of Directors, but I find it hard to believe that he would let something this crazy go through.
Definitely. SD County should do this, and all the other California coastal cities. They benefit from being near the ocean, therefore transport costs are reduced making it a win over importing.

For inland california, this isn't the case since pumping costs don't make it so clear cut cost wise. Reclamation efforts like the OP company, are a really big deal because they are one of those rare "easy-wins".
But that's socialism, and is therefore bad because reasons.
The second most popular top level comment chain is:

> Unless I can back it up and import it into a new device from a competitor, then there is no way I am going to use this unless forced. I do not trust one company anymore.

Which is the same sentiment as this thread. The first comment was just talking about the open standard of Apple's implementation and weakness of 2FA loss/recovery.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644190
Many popular games are free to play. They monetise through targeting whales.
Microsoft cloud leader says companies aren’t holding off on cloud spending
> “But are there better forums where this sort of behaviour is discouraged?”

Have you experienced good interactions on SO as well?

I have and I’ve experienced difficulties. So I use the site for what it’s good for and take my troubled questions to other places. This includes other forums, google groups, discord and meetups.

Some problems just take longer to sort out.

What I don’t know I don’t know.

How to write the question in a way readers are not triggered and recall a distracting association in the problem space. Some details I think relevant are not relevant, or show my ignorance about something—even if it seems unrelated to the question.

And some communities on SO have very strong biases and protect their sandbox.

I personally appreciate strong opinions from volunteers. I appreciate a strongly held belief.

Then again, some people are just awful people and behave badly to others. It’s good to recognize when you’re in this kind of situation, deal with the emotions and move on. It makes you a better person :)
That's definitely not iOS 7. Those screenshots are from a notched device, which means at least iOS 11, and based on the app drawer on the bottom it looks more like iOS 12 or above.
Mmm...
You can use end-to-end encryption with Telegram if security is your main concern.
I don't see how it being "Russian owned" is of any concern, but if you feel like privacy is an issue then you're free to claim their $300,000 prize at stake or just take part of their ongoing bug bounty programme and be rewarded by spotting flaws.
Yea this is super cool
> James’ office said it responded to the loophole by giving buyback personnel more discretion to determine the value of weapons being handed in, [...]

Paying fair market value for the guns is the solution. Asking for gun donations without paying for them is another. If they do either of these, then the shenanigans stop.

> and setting a standard that all 3D-printed guns accepted by the program must be capable of being fired more than once.

This is dumb and will be ineffectual at stopping shenanigans. If they did even a minute of research they would know this new rule won't help. The people 'pranking' these buyback programs can and do make extremely cheap guns that are made out of metal pipe and can fire more than once: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/12/22/5-homemade-sh...

If you want to stop that, pay fair market value for the guns. Homemade guns have essentially zero market value, so stop paying people to make them.
That's a risk not worth taking, by what measure can one gain by speaking with any LEO?

The folks who have do not carry a fear of prosecution because they can afford to remove themselves from any danger. However; those who do not, suffer under the obfuscated rules of law.
Cue the "actually we didn't mean that" follow-up to this.
How to develop a CKAN plugin: Part 2, Templates
VR is going to be a niche product even for gaming. It's fun and definitely a novel experience, but onerous for extensive use. It's way easier to sit in a comfortable chair and play on a traditional machine--particularly for any lengthy game (it's also cheaper and has more to offer).

The myth of the "killer app" just assumes progress is inevitable regardless of practical utility. No one needs "immersion" for a zoom call. The awkward, and not completely comfortable, VR sets are acceptable when you're doing something fun but--and I can't stress this enough--completely demoralizing when you need to put it on to "immerse" yourself in the banal confines of a business meeting.

Investors pretty uniformly don't have high hopes for what seems to be a desperate Hail Mary for a company that's no longer capable of organic growth. Meta just doesn't have enough time to cultivate a Meta-verse with enough adopters to stall its decline. I'm sure there will be benefits to this research but the level of optimism we're getting from Meta is more hopeful than reasonable.
First, I detest this. As an iOS user it’s annoying to have another messaging app and I’m sure many android users will stop using signal. One day I converted my whole extended family to signal by just installing signal on their android phones. Done, no change for them in their user flow.

That said, I also want to use signal without my phone. Things like usernames would be great.

That said, part of me thinks that’s an engineering problem, not a UX problem. Why are engineering problems being pushed into the UX requirements?
Compare this with status quo for users like my parents. They constantly forget their passwords and quail at screwing up the 2nd factor all the time.

If they could just use their fingerprint/faceID to login (after initial registration on the device) they would be super happy.

Rest of us should be happy there will be less exploits where people give up the keys to their kingdom by clicking on a random email.
The power balance between the individual worker and a corporation is completely and utterly unequal, when renders your whole rant moot.

In fact, from my point of view your argument could be summed up as, "Corporations have no human emotions of any sort, particularly loyalty, and so workers need the most stringent and extreme protections against these psychopathic organizations."
Mark Zuckerberg says he enjoys 'being doubted'
I wonder if there's a small bit of pressure on the device manufacturers to keep DNS leaks happening for consumers. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at some of the NatSec-level conversations.
its been 10 years since I designed them, but back then, no they didn't. Silicon is pretty cheap, but power is very expensive. ECC drives up memory power quite a bit. Both static and dynamic power are impacted.
Yeah, according to https://www.roetell.com/glass-vs-plastic-vs-aluminum-contain... it can be a 40:1 ratio.

Though you could counter-act that with more local bottling plants so that transport is shorter. In other words, don't bottle the soda in George and ship it to New York or whatever, but actually have multiple local bottling/washing plants in New York itself.
Welcome to user hostile revenue maximization algorithms
Thanks for the comments and describing your interpretation -- which is correct -- clarifications follow:

We not only support social login, but also crypto wallets that support browser extensions or Wallet Connect. The user can also just use email or phone. We will be adding support for Passkey once the implementations have sorted out some details.

Yes, you can bootstrap enrollment with Hellō and then prompt the user for additional profile / identity assurance. We are working on supporting KYC claims as well so that you could request them and then Hellō would interact with the user on how best to gather those from the user if we don't already have them. IE we would be an abstraction layer for KYC similar to being an abstraction for login and profile registration.

As a user, you pick your "IdP" for your Hellō wallet, and use that IdP for all apps that support Hellō until you want to change your preferred provider. In the future, the user does KYC once with us and then has a reusable identity.

wrt. resilience -- we encourage users to setup two or more backup providers so they can recover their Hellō Wallet if they lose access to their preferred provider. Recovery requires logging in with two backup providers, and then they can change their preferred provider.
It was obvious this was going to happen when they refused to implement RCS.

So instead of working on RCS, we got mobilecoin, stickers, gif search, and now yank out legacy SMS support so more "features" can be developed?

As an early adopter of TextSecure, through CyanogenMod integration, to Signal and everything in between, I have the t-shirts and all -- I am done with Signal.
Exactly. And now it's time for Godwin, more or less: would you have followed the laws in Nazi Germany that made Jews less than human?
The problem isn't that I don't feel like I'm in the same room with the other people, it's that I can't look around the room and understand what the vibe is, or make eye contact with someone else to communicate something.
Doesn't Google use the Libreoffice code on the server side?

You still need at least a locally running spreadsheet application for the Excel wizards.
If I were Google or Slack, I would push Libreoffice Calc to be better than Excel. Only then will big companies be able to use an MS Office alternative.
This means an acceleration of 85 g, what hardware can support this? What temperature the influx of energy will induce?
> by charging manufacturers a cost to recycle or trash

I've been advocating for decades the taxing of pollution to "internalize the externalities". In this case, taxing plastic.
This is unsurprising given American history, in particular the history of the FBI. It began as an so the DoJ had investigators in certain cases where they otherwise wouldn't (eg on reservations) but it really began with the Mann Act [1]:

> In its original form the act made it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose". Its primary stated intent was to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking, particularly where trafficking was for the purposes of prostitution

The reality however was that it was used to prosecute interracial marriage [2]:

> Also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, the law was invoked over and over again to punish black men for their relationships with white women—affairs that challenged the racial status quo. Rooted in fears of women’s growing mobility and racist characterizations of the sexual appetites of non-white men, the law was designed to protect women against the supposed scourge of “white slavery,” a term used to refer to sex trafficking in the early 20th century.

Later there's a dark history of the FBI's involvements with the likes of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm-X, the Black Panthers and a bunch of other black leaders and movements.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act

[2]: https://www.history.com/news/white-slave-mann-act-jack-johns...
They can also dose US citizens with psychoactive substances without their consent or knowledge, start destroying the evidence and get away with it.
As long as you can build the project with standard tools (e.g. npm for javascript, maven/gradle for Java etc.) you can survive your favorite IDE disappearing suddenly from one day to the other. It is more o less a requirement if you use CI/CD and a non issue anyway since any decent IDE can generate and synchronize a project using an external tools as a source of truth.
Do you consider Japan to be a civilized country?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_Control_Law
It’s been supported on iOS since iOS 16
Google also restricts their specific flavor of RCS (or at least they did awhile ago). I wanted to keep using Textra SMS but they never let Textra into RCS land.
> without being approved to do so

You'd think if he wasn't approved to do so then they would've actually told him to knock it off and not, you know, give him PR training and put him on a social media council.
A manager at my old company was advised to get an iphone for communication with VCs.

This doesn't seem very different from a Director of Sales telling the salespeople to upgrade their wardrobe.

Image is important in business. Some people may be uncomfortable with that, but it's a fact. Companies, and people, spend trillions of dollars a year to project an image.

It just happens that blue text bubbles are more in style than green text bubbles.

But Google fell into the same trap that all large companies do: If you can't innovate, litigate.
I think the question is where's the line between "trade school" level practical instruction and "reinforcing concepts with practical examples." When I went through school, CS was taught in the Math department. In fact, not all universities had "Computer Science" undergrad degrees. Later on, my school introduced a "Computer Science and Engineering" degree that included a lot of hands on stuff (like what the previous commenter mentioned: implementing OSes, Network Stacks, Database data structures and algorithms, etc.)

But they didn't teach C programming. I actually taught the Intro to C Programming class in the Continuing Education department.

It might be the equivalent of a chemistry department saying "We'll teach you how not to blow yourself up in the Organic Chem Lab, but we won't teach you how to use a calculator."

But yeah. Seems every school is slightly different about where they want to draw that line. And most every school I've seen has more practical work than they did 40 years ago.
If they said that up top I think many more people would be accepting of it.