skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> gas company, electric company,

Mine don't need SMS

> internet provider,

Also doesn't need SMS for me

> my bank,

F them, I use a throwaway Twilio number for this

> my elderly neighbor who can barely use a phone and I taught how to text,

I tell them to either e-mail me or stick a handwritten note on my door. E-mail is WAY easier to use for elderly people in my experience. You get nice big keyboards, big fonts, big screens, and it works on any device you own, not just one. But if they disagree they can still handwrite a note to me

> every restaurant I order online from,

I use a fake number for these. They don't need my number any more than I need their wait staff's phone numbers. Never been a problem. I just go pick up and say my name, no SMS bullshit.

> the plumber I just texted literally an hour ago

I don't text plumbers, I e-mail or call them
Why would you waste weight and send organisms? I can't see anything useful coming out of it. And it would be sad if these organism wiped out alien life.

The probes need as many sensors as possible. It will already be super tricky to make any observations from a probe that goes at a tenth of the speed of light. And how do you get your data back from that distance without huge antennas?
NAT wont stop an unsecured IP camera from happily streaming content out of your network. Always deploy (and properly configure) an actual firewall to control ingress and egress of packets on your network.
Hyperautomation
Right wing, left wing, meh. To me (i.e. Opinion), it's difficult at times to distinguish between the two when looking at the highest echelon on each side.

I think my slide into cynicism regarding humans who achieve power, regardless of their stated political philosophies and alignments, started after finishing "The Dictator's Handbook". I read here some posts advocating getting rid of this or that, or saying we should do it "this way", but even though I agree in a wishful kind of way, it's just not how human beings are wired... No matter how virtuous a system may be, it seems to take only the inevitable one or two odd instances of corruption to start the rot that will bring it down.
Nothing really other than it's a device I can loose to easily or it could be stolen. I don't do banking on my phone either. Plus there's the hassle of syncing it too.
If you want to go down the rabbit hole watch this video from suspicious0bservers.org.

Start at 7:24 to skip the intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_zfMyzXqfI
One weird trick to lower prescription drug prices!
Trump had 2 halls of congress and the presidency and didn't get it done the first time, he won't now, especially since he can use them again.
Damn, that's a lot of people. Wow.
I'm interested in learning how to formally express distributed systems but have limited time. Does anyone have any insight into which would be better to learn - TLA+/PlusCal (e.g. Hillel Wayne's courses) or Isabelle/HOL?
Proposed labor rule could give millions of gig workers employee status
The other obvious reason to avoid inverses is that they're only defined for square matrices, whereas LU decomposition works on general rectangular matrices (or rather PLU decomposition,same basic idea).
Do you use Signal in the EU? Seems to be either WhatsApp or Telegram depending on how west or east you are.
> What if society would treat companies raising prices as betrayal?

They often do just that. Usually through government actions that limit or cap price increases in goods, or policies that discriminate against companies based on previous behavior. Last time the US had a real run at it was the Nixon price/wage caps in the 70s, but it's definitely getting traction again when we're seeing corporate taxes at historic lows, profits at historic highs, and inflation popping up again as a real risk.

This whole "trust" thing is a big fucking deal, regardless of what folks might like to think, and it absolutely does extend to the relationship corporations have with the public.

I personally don't think the controls usually work the way they're intended (it's mostly bad news), but I don't mind the punishment aspect of them in regards to betrayed trust.
There are surely ways around this that don't limit the functionality of the application
It's not particularly surprising. Apple has a much better reputation at customer service than Google does – they have actual stores you can walk into.

Now I'm not sure whether they can help you unlock your Apple ID if you prove to them that you're the owner of the account, but I can at least visualize Apple having the scale to do that.

Google on the other hand has a horrendous reputation for locking out people out of their accounts totally and permanently. Of course everyone has concerns about handing all your account login responsibilities to a company with such terrible customer service.
Cheating the location on my phone is gravy.

Broadcasting an RF signal to spoof GPS (and especially across a campus), that my friend, is not trivial or cheap.
A grow-house is not cheap; harvesting labor is cheap. Once we've got better harveting bots GH/HP/V-Grow will make a lot more sense.
Your seemed to imply above that the SVP got involved because of already-flagged tweets, whereas the part of the story you've quoted happened after the SVP had not only met the author and appointed him to the company's social media council, but after the SVP started ghosting him.

The causality you're implying (if not explying) seems inverted.
I agree. I'm in an applied computational field, that attracts a lot of computational and mathematical researchers that don't have knowledge of the applied system. I've learned from experience that often researchers new to the field make a whole lot of poor assumptions and modeling decisions, even if the mathematical part is fine. For better or worse, I'm going to more heavily scrutinize the details of a paper from a lab I haven't heard than I am one that I believe has a strong track record. That doesn't mean I'll give a pass for the latter, I'll still read it with a critical eye. But certain types of trust build up over time.
I was hoping to see something that would be even half as fun to play as Mari0 [0], which is a SMB + Portal mash-up.

[0] https://stabyourself.net/mari0/
> pay fair market value for the guns.

Seeing a P38 on the table next to a $100 HiPoint in the article photo drives this home. That's a $1k+ relic that the seller probably got $150 for.
Couldn’t they just do something like have the sms messages in a different color than the rest? Similar to how iOS used blue for iMessage and green for texts? Signal could use an annoying red color for sms to make it even more clear.
> The downside is that they will opportunistically send your messages via Signal. If the recipient chooses to not have SIgnal installed any longer, then your messages go into a black hole.

The user cannot just log out of Signal and have the app on other people's devices automatically fall back on SMS the way it works with iMessage?
QKSMS is so good I almost forgot that I am using it.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.moez.QKSMS/
I've been using QKSMS on Android 12 and haven't had any problems in about a year of use. I think its on Google Play as well.

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.moez.QKSMS
The strawman would not change our reaction to a meteor filled with alien life that starts killing off the population.
You can separate them. You want to send probes with sensors and get the data back. Just don't send microbes.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/adverbially-2

Personally, I prefer using the adjective. It's descriptive.
I agree! The Internet can be way more than a text forum like this. My point was merely that we don't have to build an online world that reflects our real world's democratic leakages. We can simply choose to do better, so long as we're willing to say no to some (but not all!) forms of profit.
>For one, you get no performance benefit over non-cow unless you update in place. It’s what every ‘fast and easy’ filesystem has to do - fat (including exfat), ext3, ext4, etc.

That is just a matter of priorities then. And just because you might opt to not update in place in some situations doesn't mean that you can never do it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Delayed allocation and data loss", I don't find it relevant to this discussion at all since that isn't about filesystem-corruption but application data corruption. And COW also suffers from this - unless you have NILFS/automatic continuous snapshots. Now with COW you probably have a much greater chance of recovering the data with forensic tools (also discussed in this thread regarding ZFS) but with huge downsides and hardly an relevant argument for COW in the vast majority of usecases anyway.

ZFS minimum block size corresponds to disk sector size so for most practical purposes it is the same as your typical non-COW filesystem there. Writing 1 byte requires you to read 4 kb, update it in memory, recalculate checksum, and then writing it down again.

How you remove old records shouldn't depend on COW should it?

My only statement was that checksums isn't in any way dependent on COW.

The discussion about compression is invalid as it is a common feature of non-COW filesystems anyway.

Haven't seen a proper argument for the corruption claims. And that you get corrupted data if you interrupt a write is not a huge deal. Mind you corrupted write. Not corrupted filesystem. The data was toast anyway. A typical COW would at best save you one "block" of data which is hardly worth celebrating anyway. Your application will not care if you wrote 557 out of 1000 blocks or 556 out of 1000 blocks your document is trashed anyway. You need to restore from backup (or from a previous snapshot, which of course is typical killer feature of COW)).

There are also several ways to solve the corruption issue. ReFS for instance has data checksums and metadata checksums but only do copy-on-write for the metadata. (edit: was wrong about this, it uses COW for data too if data checksumming is enabled)

dm-integrity can be used at a layer below the filesystem and solves it with the journal https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/device-ma...

Yes, COW is popular and for good reasons. As is checksumming. It isn't surprising that modern filesystems employ both. Especially since the costs of both have been becoming less and less relevant at the same time.
In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game
> I think this will only affect US users, because nobody uses SMS outside the US

This is not true at all, at least for Czechia. The number is going down but it's still in billions (for a country with population of ~10.5M). Quoting from the official annual report:

> In the number of SMS messages sent from mobile networks in 2018, CTU estimates - in the context of the increasing popularity of OTT messengers (e.g., WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Viber, etc.) - a slight decrease relative to 2017, approximately by 2% to 8.21 billion SMS messages.

https://www.ctu.eu/sites/default/files/obsah/stranky/284221/...
Nobody has the right to obtain copyrighted entertainment products. Unlike, say, having access to food or water, or even education, there's no coherent moral framework that says that you are obligated to the latest TV shows or movies under your own terms.

> that are contributing a substantial part of how the society collectively feels and thinks

First of all, I straight-up don't believe this. I had very little exposure to TV/movies/books/the internet growing up, and yet I feel virtually no disconnect with my friends and co-workers - even when I don't understand a particular cultural reference they make, they either explain it and we engage in a fun tangent about it, or we just laugh and move on.

Second, even if that were true - then the problem is that culture is being built off of copyrighted works in the first place. Solve that. Doing otherwise shows that this is just a convenient excuse to secure access to personal entertainment.
All of the initialisms should be expanded/hoverable. This is impossible to read, directly.
This work is the NTP client, with server promised later. https://github.com/memorysafety/ntpd-rs
That's false: Telegram doesn't have access to secret chats.
Just to add one more point of context, nearly every commercial service does a ton of advocating and donating to causes that is not related to their core business.

I have no choice but to provide some Cell phone and internet providers money to do those things because paying them is necessarily to function in society.
> that Americans love using single use plastics.

I only interact with single use plastics directly as a Costco costumer, Amazon delivery recipient, and occasionally when I interact with some medical products like bandaids. Otherwise, here in San Francisco, in my day to day life, I do not interact with single use non-compostable plastics directly.

I don't feel like I'm missing much.

However I am intellectually honest, I know that the goods that are delivered to Whole Foods and Rainbow and whatever are packaged in single use plastics. I know the hospital throws away a lot of stuff, including metal instruments, let alone plastic ones.

In an industrial context, it is possible to legislate a reasonable reduction in single use plastics.

> Developing countries need better trash infrastructure. Even, landfills and incinerators are better than dumping it in the ocean.

Some people never litter.
Seriously. I'm pretty stoked to see what happens here. I was an early backer of the Rift and have been just gobsmacked by how far it's come since then! I bought myself a Quest a few years ago and was so impressed by it I bought one for my family across the country. We hung out online a couple times in Eleven Table Tennis, in RecRoom, and a couple other apps, and I totally get it: there's real presence there that's lacking in other modes. Unfortunately, everything else about it was so clunky (keeping the thing charged, updated, joining these apps, etc) that we never really got a habit of it and haven't met up like that for a while.

Still, I think it's a really cool problem and there's awesome progress being made. I don't know if Meta will pull it off, but I'm pretty glad they're throwing billions of dollars at it. I'm pretty impressed with Zuckerberg for having the fortitude to do that; we'll see what comes of his company...
The Google Messages app is pretty good. It's a little thing, but it's the only app that supports tapbacks from iOS -- so on the (many) group threads I'm on that have iPhone users, I can see loves/like reactions instead of a flood of texts that say "Jane Doe loved an image".
So do you expect all movies to be available for 99 cents or to be available a la carte like Spotify?

Movies cost a lot more to produce than music. Besides, Spotify is losing money and even iTunes was never hugely profitable. It was primarily meant to sell iPods. The music distribution business is a horrible stand alone business
> users don't know/see who is on SMS and who isn't

They could just show the literal word "SMS" in the send button.

I think that would be more obvious than wha they do now (button being grey instead of blue with a minimally changed lock symbol [1]).

[1]: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318911#an...
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You sound misguided if you're trying to explain the details of signal to get them to use it. All they need to understand to use the app is "its sms", any e2ee they benefit from as a result are completely in the background.
I don't see the difference here. D offers the same options when processing a string.
Two minutes of The Simpsons, dissected mercilessly
Which countries impose SIM-card registration and collect data on their citizens?
You have a hard time with Lisp, but find Tcl intuitive? I'm not judging, just scared and impressed. It's like when my friend told me she found differentiation tricky but integration easy. Objectively that's more impressive, but how?
Westinghouse sale signals arrival of a new nuclear age
The problem with that comparison is that only a small percentage of people are going to be even 1% more productive using VR, and a noticeable percentage will be noticeably less productive (e.g. nausea issues)... and with the state of current technology you're not going to find out which person is in which group until after you've spent the money.
Sort of. While increasing global CO2 levels makes it worse, indoor CO2 levels is mostly a function of buildings being made more and more efficient/air-tight. I live in a new LEED-platinum condo building, and in the fall or spring if I don't may my A/C unit on, my bedroom CO2 levels will go from ~500ppm to 1,300 or higher. You can see the drastic drop in CO2 levels when I wake up and open the door to get air flow.

actual chart of my room: https://imgur.com/a/zZRNQGX
The theory is good, but when my non-technical schoolteacher neighbor wants to use her iPhone to tell me that my package was delivered to her house incorrectly she's going to pop open her iMessage app and look up my phone number, and that's going to come to me as an SMS.

There's no chance I'm going to get her to install Signal, she doesn't need it, her circle is almost all blue-bubble iPhone users who don't value anything Signal adds over what iMessages gives them.

This doesn't kill SMS/MMS. Not even a little tiny bit. All it does is make MY life more irritating because I have multiple apps that I have to deal with now. The way to kill it is to make something better that people WANT to use, that offers the extra value to make it worth the effort.
The right kind of practice is going to help the most. One thing you may or may not have tried is practicing with a metronome (if you don't own a metronome, googling "metronome" will pull up google's metronome). Pick a target for accuracy and slow the metronome down until hitting one key per beat with your target accuracy works. Then gradually speed up the metronome, keeping your accuracy at the desired level.
Why do you assume this is a bug?
How can I best send my feedback to the signal team about this?

Is it feasible to fork the app?
As if Signal couldn't change the color of the text bubbles to some shade of, let's just say, green, to indicate when a user is chatting via SMS instead of a Signal secured message.
Amazing decisión signal. I always hated this combination as it confused me constantly. I’ve been coding for 30 years and I’m a published author in security… and it still confused me.
It's not that they don't know better. I'd say it's all down to marketing and sheer numbers in developer mindshare.

This is from my experience: Just listen to most junior developers. They regurgitate and repeat marketing fluff spoken to them by twitter evangelists or twitch developer streams. I just spent the afternoon listening to it and it was sickening. You can't reason or get through to them. Compromise and nuance just feeds their pompous attitude.

/rant
1. His kid was finishing high school and didn't want to move out of a small metro with limited jobs.

2. Company health insurance + family member with chronic disease.

3. He was personal friends with the VP which made his firing potentially career ending for the new manager.

There are people you meet in your career that are a privilege to work with like this guy.
I don't understand the logic here. If the harvesting labor is already cheap, why will better harvesting bots help, since that's not the problem?
Isn't Telegram partially closed source?
From what Forth, Inc. and MPE tell about their projects and customers, it seems indeed to be micro-controller focused, but extends sometimes to the desktop. For instance Forth, Inc. talked about a cold storage facility ("a fridge as big as a warehouse") for which they did both the code for the small temperature control devices and the facility monitoring graphical front-end (PC).
This is extremely frustrating and lowers the chances of me ever adopting a similar non-default texting app again. This will hurt Signal and as well as poison the well for future developers.
It's a foundational belief of the social contract we've signed by agreeing to democracy
so put SMS in different tab and let users turn on/off this feature in settings, done, problem solved, but I understand giving users options nowadays ain't trendy
https://www.popehat.com/2011/12/01/reminder-oh-wont-you-plea...

Great writeup on the topic
I have my own term that dominates large hierarchies: the Middle Management Machiavelli.

These people don't care about the organization, and they don't care about producing things, or even doing their job. Their full time job is gaining power and climbing the ladder. Everyone is fighting for budget and headcount and appearances. And taking credit for things.

I would say that there are three phases:

1) the creators/doers: the company aligns to being productive and successful with these people focused on whatever does that.

2) as it increases in size, upper management transitions from industry skills to managerial people. Thus Pournelle's second class comes to dominate. Here the company still may grow and managerial tricks like acquisitions and financial cookbooking will continue growth, but nothing revolutionary. The company begins to plateau.

3) with people settling into a more fixed reporting structure, now the machiavellis will begin to fight over internal territory, and since the top managers are just sociopaths themselves, they let it happen. The company becomes a cesspool of battlegrounds, and will begin to slowly rot.

The only thing that saves companies these days is that the US economy is now structured around monopolies and cartels, so companies can obtain direct control and then establish barriers.

But the net effect of all markets being cartel/monopoly dominated is that the lack of competition means companies fall into stage 3 more easily, but can't be displaced. So the entirety of the US is now all these cartel/monopolies weighing down the country as a whole, and it becomes overall more and more corrupt.

What's the end state of this? Look at Russia.
This looks cool, but it's not useful or interesting to me. I don't need to "heal from stigma and internalized ableism", I need to get things done and my brain is resistant to this. "stigma" and "ableism" is just psychobabble to me.
This is really going to mess with some highly stressed out, low digital literacy people in my life. I guess I'll need to help them move to something else - is there any other basic SMS app on Android that a) looks like it's from a legitimate developer, and b) doesn't skim your message content for ad personalization?
I'm sure that even as technology continues to innovate, and tech companies find all sorts of way to find innovative business models (though rising interest rates might end that renaissance of creative unit economics), they'll find a way to curb piracy by fixing the problem of too many streaming services, that they and the studios invented.
It's tricky. Too much of this and it comes off as inauthentic and a company "trying too hard." Anecdotally I feel like this is a complaint that comes up from time to time on HN, but I can't find any examples at the moment. This is especially the case if all companies in the industry start doing this. See for example how many company products now have emojis splashed everywhere.
> they're forced to

Key point in the enterprise world.

MS - archetype enterprise longing for consumer love.
Meta - archetype startup trying to sell its toys to enterprise.

This is just too bad for VR. Making VR corporate friendly will leave a bad taste for the young generation. Meaning this generation will never fall in love with the possibilities and potential of VR.
Yep. You want to pull guns out of the population that people don't care about enough to where they're willing to trade them for a cheap gift card. The people who'd actually participate in this program likely do not covet the weapons enough to protect and keep up with them, which are more likely to be stolen, or mishandled.