skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, aggregator is a very industry specific term, so I just merged into teclo provider. But yeah, all the issues with short codes, national laws, and reputation, makes it very complex. I worked at a company like Twillio that had contracts with different aggregators across the world, and sold a platform to manage SMS interactions. They added a layer to make ensure customers respected opt-out keywords, or opt-in for specific countries, so it would help manage TCPA (and other) violations. I imagine this helped keep costs down. We would definitely fire customers for trying to get around the safeguards.

I was on the support side, so I just saw when it went wrong, which was a lot.
You can't pursue everyone at the same time. What do you suggest?
True. I guess question here would be : Should a reasonably priced one time license cover this requirement for accounting software or a perennial subscription is only way to go
almost, usernames and phone number privacy are in testing now
Great parody of WebGPU and other low level graphics apis.
It is a Rust application making use of wgpu, Rust's WebGPU native library.
> They want the address book because if you don't have engagement promotion features like that, there is no way to ever become remotely popular in the chat app space.

Intentionally ignoring the fact that Signal splatters your phone number to everyone else is a humongous problem. And you can even put your phone number block in your address book, and it'll tell you everyone who has Signal. This happens all the time, with Signal servers leaking all of this metadata.

And doing "engagement promotion" is what companies do to sell more shit. So, exactly what are they "selling"?

>Why is the security a joke?

Metadata, pertaining to communication patters and to whom matters just as much as what's being said.

And that metadata, like "your phone number" and "contact's phone number", and "when data is being sent to/from" is that metadata.

> The data is e2e encrypted,

> and isn't related to a phone number in any way after registration.

Bullshit. I see new people hopping on signal fairly regularly. If that was true, it'd be a simple verify-once-and-delete. It aint.

> Do you know of a better way of combining privacy and anti-abuse measures?

I reject your claim of "privacy", with regards to metadata.

Secondly, Tox has an alternate way to handle this, by allowing any number of accounts not tied to anything. Sure, it's a SHA256 id, but who cares. There, its secure AND anonymous.

Basically, I look at Signal as "better than SMS, but not much". It's basically a way to keep the phone company from scanning messages.
It is not "simping" to point out that factor prices have an impact on consumer prices. And while some companies do have (too much) pricing power, I wouldn't categorize it as unilateral and unchecked
understood :+1:
You can have a LWW CRDT, but not every LWW is a CRDT. LWW CRDTs generally pick a winner based on causal order which is convergent, the C in CRDT, because every peer receiving the same ops in any order would pick the same winner.

Picking a winner based on wall clock time order (as suggested in the article, and implemented by Notion) is not convergent; if peers used that algorithm to apply ops I they would not converge to the same state. Instead you need an authority (your server) to essentially pick an arbitrary order of ops and clients just have to deal with it.

A practical example is to consider three users (A, B, C) working on a document.

1. A, B, C start online working together.

2. C goes offline

3. A, B stay online, and make 100s of changes.

4. C makes a few changes while offline (not sent to other peers yet)

5. C comes back online and sends their changes to (the server / other peers).

In wall-clock LWW, C's changes will overwrite A & B's changes, even though A & B have done a lot more work.

In a causal ordering CRDT implementing LWW, C's changes will "lose" to A & B's changes, since they were actually made "earlier" in causal ordering.

> Clearly locking and updating the entire document would be terrible, but if you can do it on a small enough scope that others can change other elements, it can work really well.

I'm sure good UX is possible with locks, but I haven't used one yet for document editing. I'm still traumatized from Quip which did per-paragraph (per block?) locking and was really annoying. Eventually they added an unlock button next to the block so anyone could "steal" the lock at will due to all the user complaints, but at that point, why put it in at all?
I can see how this can save time with low severity incidents at places i've worked. Great use-case for LLMs.

Have you had any feedback so far?
While I generally agree, I'll add that the debug logs can be useful in security incidents.
Exactly, so how on earth does Google think that it is a good idea to put them in charge of running the infrastructure powering the future of instant messaging?

Any chance at all it has something to do with the fact that they've acquired an RCS infrastructure provider that they can sell to telcos?

https://jibe.google.com/
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
You're really out of date. See wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_addiction. Dopamine Nation by Anna Lambke (Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University) is a good pop sci intro. Plenty of other published research.
The problem with this blog is that it is written from the perspective of management rather than employees. The truth is that workplace culture is not really something that employees are overly concerned with. Remote work is hugely desirable for most employees. Lamenting that people used to feel the need to work harder to prove that they deserved the benefit of remote work reads fairly cynical in context.
I had a similar experience. I was taking it for idiopathic hypersomnia. At first it was a miracle drug, and then after only a few months it made me feel like absolute shit. Just - my whole body feeling bad, in a bad mood, etc. Hard to describe.

I’ve asked my doctor for a prescription so that I could use it to go on stimulant breaks, but since I already have a prescription for Vyvanse and Adderall he was concerned I’d get drug audited. The last time I tried to find a good online Indian source it seems it’s very hard to find anything legit.
So anyone with a name and badge number of an officer could impersonate one?
And that's just requests on 80/443. Hook up an IDS to the WAN interface and, you'll see thousands of attempts per day to exploit vulnerabilities across other services too.

My low-traffic personal projects get 90%+ malicious traffic.
America’s intentional disregard of the AIDS epidemic killed more LGBTQ+ folks than Al Qaeda ever could. It’s not 1:1 with education, but the current sweep of abortion legislation is an incredible act of violence towards women if you’ve followed the consequences of those laws.

This isn’t a defense of UBL, I’m just pointing out that so much of this conversation is a matter of your ideology. If you think the only harm of the religious right in this country is simply a matter of tolerating their speech, then count yourself lucky to not be among or close to their victims.
Cleveland.com's editors tend to be tools [0] for the same right wing that supports this stuff, and it forced out all its unionized journalists a few years ago, [1] so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for "deep" reporting on this. I guess we can hope a small, underfunded, more independent paper in the state might do something with it.

[0] https://www.ideastream.org/2014-11-04/the-only-video-of-kasi...

[1] https://prospect.org/labor/busting-the-guild-in-cleveland/
And that’s my point. There is no upper bound on the length of strings. If your data continues to grow it is because the information inside of it is distinct in some way. Nobody is putting “a” into an ordered list or into a set billions of times. They’re putting John Smith at 123 Sesame St, Springfield, MO into that list.

If we had a billion Americans, we’d have to use 9 digit zip codes to distinguish customers. The data grows logarithmically. Always.

This is less true in event processing, but groups of events are often information in that case, so the pattern still mostly holds. (Maybe someone could convince me that events are loglogn, but we also deal with 3 orders of magnitude more of them than any other data at my job.)
Before Reagan advertising was subject to FCC regulations around producing and publishing advertisements aimed at children. Once it was deregulated the big toy companies went full bore on commercial ads and we have the familiar experience today of children begging for, needing, toys because of the manipulative tactics used in advertising. The experts call it "pester power".
> the DOJ is going to have jurisdiction over approximately 0% of the referrals

Why? A U.S.-listed company was hacked.
Literally the first line of the article. Read it.
I didn't ask if they thought Google were reliable champions of openness. I asked if they believed Google would not work with Apple to diminish Apple's lock in. Screwing 3rd party apps long after Apple did doesn't show Google would have not or would not work with Apple.
Just because consumers get unlimited SMS doesn’t mean businesses get that. The telcos are ruthless about extracting their pound of flesh at business rates.
Im the same way. Days are not enough. You basically need to have like an umedicated week to gain your creativity back. I also (2xmicro)dose shrooms (i.e enough where I feel a very very slight trip but can still function).
Similarly to how Journalists feel justified in stories that have negative repercussions for some parties being reported upon. One way of assessing these decisions is answering the question "Is more harm done than good by releasing information this to the public?"

From my perspective, I'm happy that Martin Vigo released this information (in 2019) as it helped me inform my employers (and now my clients) to additional threat model vectors to consider before deciding how to best perform password resets.

Also in his defense:
1) He originally released a rather crippled form of the PoC
2) It requires a Twilio account, which raises the barrier to entry and provides a data point for analysts were the tool to be used criminally.
What if the lower priority thread is starved and the buffer is full? Do you start dropping messages? Or overwrite the oldest ones and skip messages?
We've successfully used a Delta Tau real-time Linux motion controller to run a 24 kHz laser galvo system. It's ostensibly good for 25 microsecond loop rates, and pretty intolerant of jitter (you could delay a measurement by a full loop period if you're early). And the processor is a fixed frequency Arm industrial deal that only runs at 1.2 GHz.

Perhaps even that's not an example of such a system, 0.3 microseconds is close to the allowable real-time budget, and QC would probably not scrap a $20k part if you were off by that much once.

But in practice, every time I've heard "soft real time" suggested, the failure mode is not a sub-microsecond miss but a 100 millisecond plus deadlock, where a hardware watchdog would be needed to drop the whole system offline and probably crash the tool (hopefully fusing at the tool instead of destroying spindle bearings, axis ball screws, or motors and gearboxes) and scrap the part.
> I think it's completely reasonable in 2023 to expect the general public to carry their mobile phones around with them.

I have to respectfully disagree with you on that one. Phones get lost, stolen, damaged, compromised, forgotten and batteries die or get low enough to not want to drain what's left reading a menu when paper menus have existed for trillions of years and didn't need fixing.

Many families also have a "no devices at the dinner table" policy and so it's annoying for the restaurant to undermine that.

So no. I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to use MY phone when I'm in person at your establishment.

The market will ultimately decide, however. I know I'm the grumpy old guy that hates tech despite being a software engineer.
That's been similar to my experience in the last year. WhatsApp or even worse, Snapchat, seems to be the preferred "private" messaging platforms, which is depressing to say the least.
Candy companies don't run invisible psychological experiments on their customers. An app like Instagram is also self-replenishing, which can't be said for physical products with addictive qualities.
Why shouldn't we want to pay people working at non-profits the same for their labor than they would get at for-profits? If they are doing just as or even more important work, why do we want to bend over backwards to justify them getting paid less for it?
> Signal already has a very hard time competing against the network effects of WhatsApp and Telegram

May not be the best thread to say this in, but Signal isn’t as good as Telegram and WhatsApp on features. People can be persuaded to switch, but may have different expectations than what Signal can satisfy.
> at the expense of the citizens

The SEC doesn't work for "the citizens," its mandate is in respect of investors. Especially small investors. U.S. law, broadly, prioritizes first consumers, then investors, and way, way, way below that, workers.
"Sign in with $Clearinghouse" could bring you to a page that prompts whether you want to share a user ID or the phone number, as required, with that service.

The clearing house verifies you only once, or once a year, instead of every time. If the clearing house were to be a nonprofit, perhaps even set up by Signal themselves to spread costs with similar services, that has to be cheaper.

It also gives users confidence that only a randomized user ID was shared, so it won't be used for cross-service correlation and tracking, if the service didn't actually need your phone number but only some identifier.
Ada’s type system also allows compile-time checking of units like physical dimensions:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.4/gnat_ugn_unw/Perfor...

https://blog.adacore.com/uploads/dc.pdf
What percentage of those “bad bots” are actually just crawlers for search engines and other internet indexes that aren’t actually bad?
I still don't think you need light for that. It is going to the bottom of the ocean either way
Should they also sue all the garbage TV shows for kids and food companies putting sugar everywhere? Did they also sue TikTok? To my knowledge California and New York did not sue TikTok, but is way more dangerous that Instagram. Did they not want to upset Xi during his visit?
I had a very similar experience with a toxic app like that :) I must say that I found a handful of valuable threads/comments that helped me, so perhaps it's not all bad.
Ask HN: What's your best and worst financial decision in 2023?
My best: moving to a lower cost of living area, much closer to nature with endless outdoor activities

My worst: ignored red flags and invested a bunch of money in a friend's high risk venture, all money down the drain, not clear we're still friends...
That's a fair analogy and numerous countries and states did introduce measures to combat obesity caused by sugary drinks (mostly through an added tax, which seems to have worked to reduce consumption).
Some people do a job for the pride of it because it must be done. I wouldn't want to be a plumber, but that doesn't mean there aren't plumbers who take pride in doing it. Same with the floor cleaner at the robot-tractor tyre factory.

Though I suspect on a long enough timeline, that job will be automated too and UBI will become a "here's a [weekly|monthly] stipend to live life on, but it's not too much to act truly foolish with."
> with their tail between their legs when their own proprietary lock-in messaging apps didn’t work out

For what it's worth, they've worked tirelessly to ensure their failure.
The clearinghouse may not have the user’s most recent email address, which is common amongst non-tech people. My mom and aunts have lost many email addresses this way and forcing them to use an older email would cause many issues.
That’s only phone number privacy from other users. Registration would still require a phone number, which is what GP seems to be unhappy about.
Watch the HD spacex feed then
I remember someone showed me the subreddits for Modafinil and other stimulants (before they were banned, I believe). It felt like every 3rd post was from someone complaining that their Modafinil “didn’t work any more” and they didn’t realize that tolerance was going to set in.

They thought they had discovered a free source of motivation in a pill.

Of course, most people’s initial assumption was that they received fake pills. Not a bad assumption after ordering online with crypto from an overseas website, but most of the stories went the same way: It didn’t matter the source, it just wasn’t “working” for them any more.

I’m always surprised that people understand how tolerance works for energy drinks, coffee, and other caffeine sources. But then they get exposed to prescription drugs and assume it’s going to feel like that forever.

The second part of this problem is the misunderstanding about dosing. The prescription pill doses are set for continuous dosing of patients who need to take it every single day.

A Narcolepsy patient taking 400mg of Modafinil every day forever is going to get into a steady-state tolerance that, ideally, brings their function back to a normal adult. A non-Narcoleptic person who takes 200mg or 400mg of Modafinil without having a baseline tolerance is going to be zipping around with extra stimulation. However, tolerance will set in eventually as well, leaving them with some stimulation, but nothing like those early doses when they had no tolerance. Again, this is a well known effect for other drugs like opioids or caffeine or benzos, but for some reason people forget the laws of tolerance apply to prescription stimulants too.
It's interesting that you're using both Honeycomb and Datadog. With everything migrated to OTel, would there be advantages to consolidating on just Honeycomb (or Datadog)? Have you found they're useful for different things, or is there enough overlap that you could use just one or the other?
Single owner isn't really the problem per se. Rather it's the owner(s) being significantly involved in the operations of the company, such that they can still be held to be personally responsible for the actions in question or the LLC can be declared undercapitalized (since it's not just paying someone to do those jobs). So like much of the legal system such structures don't actually provide much protection for individuals, but rather well-moneyed conspiracies.
While I agree at a high level, it's also important to understand that most of these demos are being carefully cherry-picked. If you are just seeing the viral demos on social media, you're going to think AI is further along than it actually is for more complex tasks. People who are non-technical and not using AI in anger to get real work done are going to be the most susceptible to this.

Those in the weeds are generally going to have a more nuanced view of the benefits and challenges--i.e. that it's incredibly useful but also very fallible and requires careful hand-holding to get production-ready results.

I say all that as an AI optimist. The value is real and the most impressive demos are glimpses of where we're heading. But it's going to take some time before the median result catches up to the hype.
The Mighty 'MOX: 50kW AM Tower site tour
So yeah, let TikTok and Instagram do whatever. If Gen Z likes it, they like it.
ADHD isn't so much as you are all over the place, its more along the lines of erradic attention. Hyperfocusing on a problem (especially one that is interesting) and being super productive is a common symptom.

Stimulants basically help regulate the dopamine levels so you can context switch easier and spread your attention to more things.
Erm yes. A triangle is quite easy .. but here they tried a simple tutorial to actually print "Hello World" .. and surprise, it wasn't easy and in the end just stops.
This is exactly the kind of thinking that caused this whole thing to spiral out of control.

The little bit of fraud that was uncovered did not justify declaring a very large fraction of the Dutch population as fraudulent. I'm kind of surprised that your takeaway is exactly of the kind that has been proven to be utterly wrong and counterproductive during this whole affair. Yes, what you are advocating for is racism and racial profiling.
Yeah, if a product you depend on can release a feature to make you obsolete, maybe $1.5B wasn't a very good valuation?
Only if they could also control the phone number we would find for that law enforcement agency. We would call them back through the number we found independently by calling the switchboard and asking for that officer/badge number.
Much of What.CD's metadata was later released:

https://archive.org/details/What.CD_Goodbye_Release
I’m paying ~$50 for my cell phone plan. $100 for internet. And all that does is route data. I’d easily pay, say, $200 a month for a system that routes sufficient high intelligence. Gpt5 with a 20% improvement over 4 would qualify.
Your link, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction#Behavioral_addiction Now lets go through each of them cited in the bad wikipedia write up.

Sexual addiction: Not in the DSMV or even the updated DSM-5-TR. Not in the ICD-10 or ICD-11 (pre-release).

Gambling addiction: The only one grandfathered in to the DSM. It's in DSMV. Probably to be removed in later versions "The DSM-V has since reclassified pathological gambling as gambling disorder..." ref: https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10899-014-9449-2 . Also not in ICD-10 or ICD-11.

Internet addiction: "Excessive Internet use has not been recognized as a disorder by the World Health Organization, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11)." "The American Psychiatric Association (APA), while stating there is insufficient evidence for the inclusion of Internet gaming disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2013, considered it worthy of further study."

And now lets go back to sugar and accepting your moving the goalposts to "food addiction" (another unsupported concept): You say that it is a purely psychological "addiction" with no physiological aspect and I agree. It's not an addiction. Those are called habits. Read more at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4179181/ "Food Addiction in the Light of DSM-5" to understand how this societal fear meme fails to fulfill the requirements of an actual addition disorder.
I don't think there's any trade-offs in that situation. It doesn't make sense to have your queries handle optional parameters when you have that info already precent in the application layer and can choose the specialized query. I suppose if you were really rushed you could end up in that starting scenario.
They do. Advertising is psychological manipulation (aka experiments).
> The same arguments were made to dismiss rock music when compared to classical music

Just because people were wrong in the past doesn’t mean they are wrong now.

> AI is just another tool

Not all tools are the same. A tool that changes how sound is amplified (like an electric guitar) is vastly different than a tool that can theoretically replace the human in the loop entirely.

Someone playing a piano and someone playing an electric piano are much, much closer to each other than someone pressing the start button on a player piano is to either of them.