skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Air Accident Investigation Branch: film lights caused window damage on A321neo
Wow this was an incredible response. I don't even know how to properly respond to it but I've favorited it and bookmarked it. Thanks a ton!!!!
Google ran a clever “Time for SMS to exit the chat” campaign some time ago. Might have helped precipitate this decision. https://youtu.be/N_B0riy__rw?si=C-gDkNbmb3MFyWao

Telcos live in the Stone Age. A little disruption is well overdue.
Matrix fixes that issue (and also the issue of the server your group chat is hosted on disappearing). It has plenty of other issues, of course.
What if war became just a couple of countries intelligence bots crunching digits of pi until one came up with a new one. That country would be the winner and they could ask one thing from the 'losing' side that didn't result in destruction or terror.
One of my best friends literally runs a donut shop down the street, and he's trying to break into software development.
> Usually you can't fuck your therapist.

Isn't that what prostitution is though?
> Legal on roads with 35mph speed limit

This would be extremely limiting in many parts of the USA.
Does this sort of "status symbol" thing really matter to the average restaurant goer though?

I've never cared about it, with my only concern being if the place has something I'd be interested in eating and if it seems sanitary. Only reason I don't go to supercheap fast food places often is that their options for vegetarians tend to be pretty limited (particularly since I'm also not a big fan of vegan "meat", I want vegetarian food that's good through being vegetarian rather than despite it).
Texas and Florida have passed laws putting the states in control of content moderation.
No. You can just hide it from other users in group chats now (and perhaps 1:1, didn't yet check but you still need one to sign up)
Agreed - when I dont take Adderall, the closest I feel to it is when I do intermittent carb-free fasting paired with high water intake. If I eat shitty, I have what feels like a severe mental hangover every single day with significant impacts to motivation and productivity.
Were you actually detained?

I'm not saying the cop can't ask you questions, I'm saying he can't demand your ID and run it for warrants, and you're free to leave that situation if you want.
With how much Mastodon.social tends to fall over when Twitter does something stupid (again), their rates are probably a bit too low for a more robust service like Signal.

Signal also intentionally doesn't store too much data, long term data costs will slowly grow over the years. I imagine for a bigger platform, costs can grow to multiples of the rates for Signal and smaller Mastodon servers.

€10 per year should be more than enough for most users, though, and it should be quite affordable for most countries.
Thanks! Yes you're right, it does become a lot more pronounced when it's used on a sphere. I'll find a nice way to fill in the gaps that doesn't just make it more obvious
They have never made a dollar of profit in their 15 years of operation and just sold themselves to a private equity firm for pennies. "Most important website for software developers" doesn't really mean anything unless one can also be a sustainable company in the process.
I think it'll remain green. Apple might feel pressure to implement RCS to ward off regulators, but keeping the chats green will likely still serve Apple's purpose. Even if RCS is 100% as good as iMessage, a decade of green bubbles has cemented the perception in people's minds. Even if people don't know why a green bubble is worse (and even if they aren't worse), it will still be their perception.

Apple has no reason to change the color from green and let users know that they shouldn't care as much as they used to.
Yeah definetly would not expect it to be blue as 9 to 5 noted how Apple mentioned it won't be as secure as iMessage and iMessage will be separate. So presumably people texting will still want to know if they see blue they get full privacy where is if they see green or a new color it means yes they get lots of new features like iMessage, but not as secure as iMessage. But the green bubble (or whatever new color) will be less shameful, if users in general can group chat and chat easily without worrying about not being able to do most all the standard features they can with other iPhone users. Time will tell.
You must be obviously a British citizen.

Please be advises, compared to the rest of the core EU your taxes are pretty decent (lets not talk about HU, BG etc.)

And what most angel-sax people are not aware of: Everybody can open a company in the UK or US with a few mouse clicks. Try this in some other EU countries :-) (e.g. Germany).

And as a non UK/US resident, HMRC is not realy relevant to you.
> This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users," said an Apple spokesperson.

I could be wrong but I don’t see anything here to suggest non-iMessages will no longer have the “green bubble” like the author assumes.
It says they're going to support Universal Profile, which is the GSMA defined feature set, and it's not immediately obvious to me if that includes E2EE capacity (I highly doubt it's a requirement) - I recall seeing something saying that "standard" (non-Google) RCS group chat doesn't support it.
Performance = 73

Best Practices = 95

SEO = 90

and that's using the marked.js library
The only reason they'd move to E2EE would be if Apple forced them.

Looking at / selling message contents is a large potential revenue source for all the other major players.
You're right, that's how it used to be. They still have pages on their website bragging about times when they didn't have anything to turn over because they didn't keep any of it. A while ago that all changed. They started collecting and forever storing in the cloud the exact data those requests were asking for. Lists of everyone you've been contacting, along with your profile data (name, phone number, photo).

https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

If you're a Signal user and this is the first time you're hearing about this, that should tell you everything you need to know about how trustworthy Signal is.
I'm predicting either purple or a (light) gray.
> what you can do is different

Can you talk a bit more about how iMessage is fundamentally diferent than SMS on the functionality level? Is it like "Signal" different or is it like "different" different?

Edit: bonus points if you can offer why iMessage is able to be the skeleton key into your iPhone, as often it and WebKit seem to be behind most of the serious 0-days...
I understand that. Signal has put in a lot of work since I started using it fulltime and is much more reliable now than it was just 2-4 years ago. The only time I've had issues now is when I'm backpacking in areas with spotty connection. SMS delivers quicker and is more reliable.
the classic problem for such number systems is linear algebra https://yosefk.com/blog/can-your-static-type-system-handle-l...

the issue is that each column and each row of a matrix can have different units. worse, gauss-jordan elimination chooses which rows to operate on dynamically. there is eventually a solution to this problem in c++ far down the comments thread

i don't see anything in https://numbat.dev/doc/type-system.html about aggregate types such as vectors, matrices, maps, arrays, lists, trees, records, etc., though it does have a suggestively named scalar type. i wonder how it handles this sort of thing
Ah I mean if that's the only thing you'd be buying the generator for, you're right, it's probably not worth it. if you're buying a $70,000 truck, the cost of a big genney shouldn't be out of reach. If you're a construction worker of some sort, which people that own trucks often are, you probably already have a gennie for the job site. Yeah they're heavy and lifting it onto the bed is a pain, but get ramp or a buddy to help. if you've got toys with you (aka an ATV) you'll have a ramp anyway. Imo it's a decent backup plan if you're going to go off-roading with an electric truck because what are you going to do if the campground spots with electricity are already taken?
>But of course this is a macro, and means that your logging/assertion code has to be a macro.

No, only the code that references __FILE__ needs to be a macro. Usually what i see is a logging function that takes line and file as arguments, and then a macro that calls the function with __FILE__ and __LINE__.
Ask HN: Any Open Source GUIs for OpenAI Assistants API?
Hey HN community -

Has anyone come across an open source way to locally control an assistant that has a user interface?

I've been enjoying the custom GPT tool but have run into a few limitations. Given GPT's similarity to the Assistants API, I was going to try and re-create one using the Assistants API and threaded messages.

My near term goal is a tool usable by some internal folks to beta test a custom assistant. These users would not be comfortable working in a Jupyter notebook (and GPTs are a bit too limited for our needs, such as only supporting 1 auth type, etc).
https://archive.li/hTUFA
Devbox is using Nix the Package Manager, not Nix the Operating System. The Nix Package Manager can run on macOS and Linux without needing a container or VM, since it installs the packages natively.
But they pick an ugly shade of green though.

I currently have an iPhone 15 Pro Max and have also used Android devices in the past. I like to switch each time I get a new phone.

Apple definitely picks an ugly color to make you feel uncomfortable texting with a non iPhone user. They should at least let users choose the color (which will never happen).
What are you on about? Do you know how many women died in childbirth for the last 20,000 years?

They don’t have the same healthcare as tribeswomen during pregnancy, they have multiple times better chances of surviving.

You’re delusional. I know life is hard, but it’s just not as hard as anyone has had it before the 1800s.

Not having social security is not the hardest humanity has had it. Get real
What’s the story around e2e encryption on RCS these days? In the past there were a few countries that didn’t allow it, no idea if that has changed.

Also, will iMessage support for RCS include e2ee?
> They can only be as trustworthy as they're allowed to be.

This may be true, but it still means they're untrustworthy. We all are responsible for our own actions. Behaving in an untrustworthy fashion says something important about a person even if (or especially if) they're behaving that way to save their own skin.
André 3000 Talks His New Album and Life After Outkast [video]
Duh. These lights are frightening to work around sometimes. The UV alone you'll get a sunburn working inside a studio lit by them.

The black-body radiation is the true heat coming from them
Also a reminder, your work might have a donation matching system. All the major tech companies do, so you can really boost your effect.
All the carriers in the UK use Googles service. Perhaps you don’t want to send all your messages via the worlds biggest advertising company.
Signal Desktop is available in the Arch repositories. https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/signal-desktop/
Carefully designing your application around an underpowered database is almost surely more complicated than just paying for a more powerful database.

We're not talking about K8s or sharding. We're talking about adding more cores and RAM to the single database node that they're already using.

Imagine how much easier the backend dev's life would be if they could just write SELECT FROM JOIN WHERE like everyone else, and not have to pore over query plans and design/implement/test a bunch of custom joining routines. This path sounds like a high-effort artisanal approach to something where it doesn't seem warranted. It's penny-wise and pound-foolish in exactly the way you (very nicely) described.
How is a check in any way private? Your name is on it.
Why is it not an option when it already exists in many places (all these protections fail all the time)? Your first sentence doesn't imply high/expensive level of customer service

Besides, even now they're not ignoring all the complaints, the do fix bugs?

Maybe to be more specific, how much did it cost WhatsApp when they had $1 price and a tiny team? How does it compare to the cost of SMS?
Thanks! For logs, we actually use github.com/segmentio/events and just implemented a handler for that library that batches logs and periodically flushes them out to our collector using the underlying protocol buffer interface. We plan on migrating to log/slog soon, and once we do that we'll adapt our handler and can share the code.
The culture is derived from the economics though. Software engineers who value simplicity don't get promoted, or their software is not as successful, because the other engineers who produce complex software produce results that users are attracted to and the cost of that complexity is not so great as to completely ruin it (at least not at first).

On top of that, a little bit of software can be used by a lot of people, but a little bit of building usually can't, so unless you're Gaudí building the Sagrada Família, nobody really wants to spend a couple centuries building a complex building.
Is there E2EE in the actual RCS specification? Can there be, given that telcos are usually subject to lawful intercept laws?

AIUI, what Google/Android does is have their own extension, with the Content-Type of the message being "application/vnd.google.rcs.encrypted":

* https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf

This is kind of like, with (E)SMTP/IMAP, having your own capability of "X-GOOG-ENCRYPT" if the standards-based "STARTTLS" was not around.

So while RCS gives many other improvement over SMS/MMS, encryption is not one of them.

(Personally I have an iPhone, but don't conect 'iMessage', and generally stick with SMS/MMS.)
The Armageddon Scenario for OpenAI
Wouldn't worry at all. It's a cool feature if it works. The value in that blue bubble is less about the features of iMessage and more about social capital, not that I personally care.
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Built this tool because it's hard to keep track of the constantly changing laws, especially in the US. Send over your feature requests and let me know what you think!
Why do you say "acquisition"? I thought Nothing just partnered with Sunbird.

But I do wonder if the timing is completely coincidental.
Yes but only for those strong enough! I know some who have trouble handling both at the same time.
When you try this out, I'd love to know how much dedupe was possible for your Git LFS files (I'm a co-founder at XetHub).
Thanks for this initial go at the blinking LED script! I went ahead and tried to add some quality-of-life features to this that I wanted. I've never used pyqt before, so I admit I had help from google and copilot figuring out methods. Anyways, here is an updated version that has a few more configurations for background color, circle color, slowdown period, graceful window resizing, and graceful shutdown.

https://gist.github.com/rzwiefel/4527d40de25a7fd5a723016fbd4...
> Note that "Bad Bots" are never defined, and that 73% will never be explained, either to say how they mean it

Arkose runs a bot detection service, OpenAI being one of their customers (check your requests on chat.openai.com). I’m guessing the 73% are the number of requests/sessions that fail their JavaScript fingerprinting.

Not sure how reliable these numbers are as I have a Go library specifically for passing their fingerprinting in pure Go (No JS) and it has been working for a while without much change
Amazon announces online car sales for the first time, starting with Hyundai
Dual-sim phones aren't just a niche in the US either.

But regardless: using your existing 5 year old iPhone with an eSIM that isn't "cheap" is still going to be cheaper than buying a new dual-sim phone.
Apple will be pushing for RCS/Carriers to adopt e2e, but it'll probably just flag green/notify users that messages are not encrypted.
At the risk of sounding like a space case: I think we need to make sure we know what consciousness is before we make a bunch of abusable models.

I, for one, wouldn't necessarily like to be a depraved-sex slave bot if I was able to reason about it.
Which tech domain are you working in?
'can be implemented' is different from 'has been implemented'

how does unchained handle gaussian elimination
> millions upon millions of new people suddenly switched to Signal in January 2021 after WhatsApp updated their Terms of Service

From a footnote of the article. Maybe this is why they've stayed with "infinite scale, infinite costs" (commonly known as "cloud") so long? Surely at some point this is worth considering though, I would also be curious where that point lies

Virtually anyone, also when spending only 100 euros/month on server providers, can save a large percentage of costs by taking it in-house. There might be a gap where you need dedicated personnel and it's briefly cheaper to outsource before you grow and it inverts again, but generally if you've got a stable service then this is nearly always worth it

Maybe a hybrid, where new users onboard onto cloud and they buy hardware for expected loads (i.e. current users), would be the most cost effective. I wonder how hard that is to combine the two worlds, but anything that requires more than one server already has that sort of communication going on so there shouldn't be any real blockers. Maybe the two types of infra add costs/risks again and that's why one rarely sees this setup?
Sure but that problem happens no matter how you place the order. :)
How to Scale a Large Codebase
Sure ;) lol I believe you, I'm basically looking at clouds right now aha
Uuuugh BMI. Something a twelve year old might come up with but is still the gold standard. Every weight lifter has a laugh when it comes back as overweight or obese and they get suggestions on how to trim down. For non-strength sport practitioners it may make more sense.
True. I remember I used this back in the day when I was a pro online poker player. I would like to try again in Software, maybe to kickstart an indie project ... food for thought.

How often do you use it and have you found any side effects? (or long term effects for that matter)
Artificial Thirst
The weasel word "related" is doing all the heavy lifting here.

Speed is constantly and accurately measured. Police love to say accidents are speed related, because that is always technically true; and it lends vain credibility to the most lucrative traffic law.

We have a similar problem with scheduled substances.
We need to stop the oil too, not only the pipelines.
> The GOOD version is good, because it avoids repeatedly re-evaluating condition, removes a branch from the hot loop, and potentially unlocks vectorization.

Compilers can do that: notice that condition is not affected within the loop and hoist it outside.

Speaking of which, if the condition is affected by the loop, then the transformation is not correct. E.g. maybe the walruses appear in the list in a specific order, and an earlier walrus can determine a condition affecting the treatment of a later walrus.

Don't go into your code randomly swapping for and ifs.
Microsoft is bringing its Copilot chatbot to Windows 10
I would get a short term productivity boost with caffeine, and then a remarkably unproductive time when it wore off. I deduced that the "up" part of the curve was cancelled out by the "down" part.

So I switched to decaf. I'll still enjoy regular coffee now and then as a special treat.
The market has spoken. People don't care about that feature.

Or at least, they don't care enough about it to vote with their wallet.
Lets hope they will. Apple is a bit of a forcing function in the cellular industry, especially in the US.
I would if they let me! The main advantage to going out is that someone else has done the prep (buying, storing, chopping, slicing, etc) and someone else is cleaning up. I actually like the cooking part, but you can't do it without the other parts.
But then it should be the other way round from what it is right now. For Israel, even though the government represents the people, I keep hearing "don't hold Israel responsible for the bad things Bibi does" -- when the election was a year or two ago.

For Gaza, I keep hearing "but they elected Hamas, so they're responsible for all the bad deeds". That election was in 2006, close to two decades ago. Many (most?) people who live in Gaza now werent even alive back then.
It wasn't the carriers, it was Apple mostly winning the race in creating their walled garden, and everyone else being disinterested in an alternative in the phone race wars.

It's now some badge of shame Apple users discriminate against the blue vs green windows if a friend or relative doesn't have an i-thing, and Apple loves it all the way to the bank.
In your example you looked at sources from two different sides of the debate and correctly identify the omissions and irrelevant information.

To me that says that looking at the two different sides and judging their arguments to arrive at the truth works.

A final test would be to see if your arrived truth is close to reality, without relying on human observers. This is done by using your truth to make predictions and see if those predictions come tru. To see if your model of reality has predictive power.
Regarding economics, this has been brought up about automation for many decades now. Humans adapt, adjust and productivity output increases to even higher levels.

Yes, it may harm certain professions, careers and people, but the only option is to accept and adapt. We can talk all day and night about how sad and unfair this is, but unfortunately there is nothing stopping such technological advancements.

Though a little blunt at times, the libertarian economist and journalist Henry Hazlitt talks about this in great detail in his book, Economics in One Lesson, which I highly recommend to anyone no matter what belief system. He also wrote many essays on it, including one I'll share here:
https://fee.org/articles/the-curse-of-machinery/
Bingo. The cartel was so focused on trying to save their existing money printing machine they took their eye off the ball and refused to disrupt themselves.

The cable television industry did the exact same thing. If they’d been willing to go OTT a decade ago and not force agreements based on geolocation, a lot of the streaming services that exist wouldn’t even need to exist today.
All texts were green for years before iMessage (and blue texts) existed, so I highly doubt it was picked to be ugly on purpose.