skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd pay substantially more for Signal if I could bot accounts.

I'd like a signal daemon on all my servers for alerting which could message me via Signal. This is worth a monthly fee to me.

I know people running small businesses who would really like to have a business Signal account: an ability to send Signal messages as a business identity without tying it to some specific phone number. This would be worth a subscription even if they had to get their customers to install Signal.

Signal need to figure out what product they sell that's going to fund the privacy objective: because there's plenty and they're worth having.
Most of my friends are in their 40s/50s. No one knows what iMessage or RCS even is if they have an Android or iPhone. WhatsApp spread like wildfire here because no one gives a shit :)
Someone has to run it. Logically, the obvious party to do so the carrier providing network access to the device, which also has a recurring billing relationship with the user from which to recoup its costs, and that the user knows to contact when they have issues. As a standard ostensibly replacing SMS, and coming out of the GSMA, it's also pretty obvious it'd be biased toward a carrier-centric solution.

There are a couple other options of course, but I am not sure they are better:

* Fully federate this, a la Matrix or XMPP. I really wish this was a practical option, but without legislation I doubt any company wants to go willingly in this direction. Even if they did, it'd be difficult to contain spam at scale. It also creates 'first contact' issues; love it or hate it, the general public seem attached to the idea of phone numbers and it seems to work relatively well and unambiguously. It is also the most technically complicated and most brittle and unpredictable for users.

* Phone / OS maker operates it for their devices. You don't seem to want Google running things, so this seems markedly worse than what they have actually done which is give you options (most people can at least choose a carrier, and carriers can choose implementations). It's unclear how operating costs are recouped here, especially for low-end devices. Does this lead to feature stratification? I hope not, but probably. It's a global single point of failure, both from a technical point of view as well as a policy/jurisdiction one (can $country LE subpoena my records because the company operating the service is ${country}an - or perhaps merely operates in $country, for example?). Also unclear how users are 'found', but maybe it's a bit easier than in a fully federated system.

* Phone / OS maker partners operate the service, giving users a few choices. Not really sure why anyone would go in for this, but it's basically the same as if the phone maker operates it.

None of these are great options, but I think the carrier is probably the least-bad one. You have an agreement with them. You have the legal protections offered in your home jurisdiction, with clear jurisdiction over the whole thing. They already have a ton of data on you and access to your traffic. You have a neck to wring if the service doesn't work properly.

They really should have standardized E2EE though, not including it is ridiculous.
>What WOULD be a problem is if the hacker group got rewarded for reporting

Insider trading? But without being an actual insider.
Thank you for the response. I really want to avoid formal stuff like sprints and stand ups if at all possible. As a former engineer, I agree that it burdens ICs needlessly and would take up a lot of my time to manage. I am struggling with finding the balance of accountability and autonomy and how to meaningfully track that.
Jews outside Israel have more say than anyone. If it wasn't for America's seemingly unconditional support, Israel wouldn't be able to pursue actions like this. For some insane reason, America is ostensibly willing to support Israel's crimes all the way to the brink of Armageddon. The stakes are that Lebanon and Iran join in the conflict, which has given America cause for serious concern, but Israel seems more determined than ever. The root of the problem lies, as it often does, with America.
I haven't followed the DSA and the DMA too closely, but so far the knock-on effects appear to be overwhelmingly positive.

Really hopeful the trend continues.
Gaussian elimination in what context even? If your LA library supports generic types, it might work. But generally generic math operations are tricky to get right, because math often does things that from a pure physical perspective don't make a whole lot of sense / you run into trouble with too many competing types due to temporary multiplication / divisions etc (which is a big issue in any statically typed language, because your container (vector, matrix, tensor whatever) type is typically a single unit type!
Funny how a fantasy dystopia is in some aspects already less dystopian than the real world, where you already get such notifications.
After Nadella saying he regretted cancelling the windows phone [1], this would seem to be double downing on stupidity.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930478/microsoft-ceo-s...
My usual comment, bury it deep with signs as we already do.

If we've lost the ability to read signs, we've lost the ability to dig deep and will never encounter it.

The risk of death from any form of nuclear waste is insignificant compared to fact we've already killed tens if not hundreds of thousands of people killed mining for fossil fuels through to those killed by extreme weather caused by climate change right now.
> Wind and solar are terrific but unreliable. What if it’s not windy or sunny?

Battery storage can fill the gap. This blog post makes a good argument why battery storage and over provisioning of renewables could solve this problem - https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/grid-storage-b.... In addition it doesn't include dynamically controlling demand (for example not charging EVs when demand is high).

> So we need something to replace coal, which provides the grid’s base load. That thing can basically only be nuclear at this point.

Sweden doesn't appear to use coal as baseload. The UK did, but managed to replace most of it with gas, wind, solar, reduced demand and increased imports (https://www.mygridgb.co.uk/historicaldata/).
The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences
Beds in psych wards usually have sheets. Suicide prevention is not like stopping the sane, rational Epstein from avoiding prosecution, it is more like checking in on people going through an awful experience every so often.
I checked in a screen reader. Nothing is announced when pressing the buttons. This is a problem. It should say something like “Checkbox B moved to the left”. Without any sort of announcement, the user has no idea if pressing the button did anything.

Test page: https://output.jsbin.com/jixoqur/quiet
With all due respect, it seems that you have conceded that a convenient, spam free, open option not only doesn’t exist in practice, but can’t in principle.

That’s more than even I believe. I just think nobody in the OSS space has put the work in to figure it out yet.

> I could get my parents who are nearing their 70s to use Element (Matrix) and it took them less than 10 minutes, even with me asking them to register to a non-default homeserver.

Well in that case Element would be the solution we’re looking for, except that not everyone’s parents have someone like you to help them.

And as for the desire for convenience, it’s hard to imagine you seriously believe that only Americans value convenience over resilience. If that were true, the rest of the world would be using Element rather than WhatsApp.

Simply railing against people’s needs doesn’t change them.
Apple benefits from making their web experience shittier, because that means more apps.
You search for Toyota Camry. Your search returns thousands of generic car accessories.

You filter by category: Automobiles. You still need to scroll through 15 pages of miscategorized vinyl wraps and seat covers, but eventually you see a few actual car listings.

One has lots of good reviews, but the reviews seem to be praising a completely different product, like a phone charger.

You shrug and click buy. Two days later, you receive a rebadged Geely Panda delivered from commingled inventory by a seller called JGLEWYU.

You fill out the return form and drop it off at the nearest Whole Foods parking lot.
Take a look at the Cortex R series. The Cortex M series still has lower interrupt latency than the A series, but lower processing power. I imagine for something like Bluetooth that an M is more than sufficient.
I'm trying to built momentum for my Gmail add-on, Too Phishy, by sharing my launch blog post on HN. Unfortunately, I've posted it 3 times already and they've all bombed:
* "I built an anti-phishing app. Here's what I learned (and why I hate Stripe)."
* "The highs and lows of building an anti-phishing app"
* "Launching Too Phishy"

My friend suggested giving my post the title "Phishing for Compliments." So let's see what happens.
That's fair, the definition itself is difficult.

What's interesting is that there is a never ending stream of would-be inventors of PMs that really believe in their devices no matter how easy it is to poke holes in the physics. Most of them don't begin to qualify for a closer examination (assuming they'd agree to that in the first place) and the few that do are often marvels of engineering and the inventors themselves don't actually know or realize how their devices work.

I was part of an online community of renewable energy enthusiasts and we had more than our fair share of cranks there peddling their 'free energy', 'over unity' and 'perpetual motion' devices so I'm probably too bluntly dismissive of anybody that thinks they've finally got it.

Usually they are clever engineers but they miss the physics theory.

And if even the US patent office continues to fall for it who am I to complain...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6362718
First dose of gen AI is free
Happy first birthday Draco compiler
> and increased imports

From France, who has a shit-load of nuclear. :-)
Interesting, I always saw this as a deliberate feature aligned with what I first came across Signal for (sensitive communications between trusted parties that may need wiping at a moment's notice). If a journo reporting in a less than hospitable regime had their phone confiscated then they need not worry about their chat logs compromising them.
https://archive.ph/OZGii
Well people are fine paying 10 dollars on Amazon for a disposable widget which could be 5 dollar in physical store because convenience If customer is also ready to pay a couple of thousand extra for a car. I think dealer/amazon/customer will all be happy.

I'll call it a win-win-win situation.
I think the multipolarity may be the key. In a bipolar world there must be a rift between the two and in some unlucky circumstances the rift can only grow and never heal.
> The human mind is simply not evolutionary adapted for what's coming up.

Maybe we're in fact evolutionarily adapted to not being evolutionarily adapted. We have successfully dealt with a whole sequence of hard societal pivots by now…
Anybody know of a way to look up the data available on yourself over these Real-Time Bidding (RTB) broadcasts? (Similar to page 11 of the report) [1]

It would be fascinating/creepy to see what category ad networks have lumped me into or assigned to me based on my viewing habits.

"We believe you're a dairy farmer who works in the defense industry."

[1] https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Europes-hidde...
It's used by many major services, such as WhatsApp. How could it be that hard to define and implement?
Someone should build a factory which builds small nuclear plants. These one-off nuclear plants are just a distraction. The ultimate solution is to make floating and 99% automatic nuclear plants. This makes it possible to mass manufacture them in a massive factory with low unit costs, ship them all over the world, and run them scalably with low operating costs. Make millions of them. Include waste-management solution as a service.
A coal plant makes as much waste in one hour as a nuclear power plant does over its entire lifetime.

If your entire lifetime was fueled 100% by nuclear energy, at the end of your life, the waste would be the size of a hockey puck.

The amount of waste is very manageable, because the volume is so small. Right now, all of the plants in the US just keep the waste on-site... for the entire lifetime of the plant.
I disagree, unlimited domestic SMS/MMS was common by iPhone 3G (summer 2008) I specifically remember getting an unlimited plan from ATT, which was novel.

However, international SMS/MMS was extremely expensive, and that was the main impetus for WhatsApp. It required no password or making accounts or remembering all of that, hence all non tech savvy people could easily use it. And it worked flawlessly, with zero exorbitant international charges, because you knew everything was going via data.
Also, my understanding is that when they made that change they goofed up companionship talk in general, by virtue of how messy AI censoring is.
The current (SDP 8) kernel has 15331 lines of code, including comments and Makefiles.
> the only messaging app on Android that fully supports RCS is Messages by Google

Plus, unless they fixed it, if you enable RCS and then regret it and disable it again, anybody who texted with you via RCS will no longer be able to text you at all. Things won't revert to SMS.

This bit me pretty hard, but I finally fixed it by changing my phone number.
Federation can only make security worse and I do not want it. You can have something else.
Hopefully dron-delivered?
Microsoft has been increasingly moving to the cloud. The last update of Outlook changed it from a local application, to one that is through the edge browser. Absolutely awful. Eventually, I had to edit the registry to prevent it from force updating to the web browser option.
FWIW I agree, I'm just trying to be clear that you are choosing one or the other, as the grandparent was stating.
I started using Bing a lot more because of Bing Chat.

Turns out bing chat is of limited use for what i do (as is ChatGPT and Bard), but Bing search is perfectly adequate as a google replace.
most linear algebra requires vectors of multiple unit types. think of runge-kutta for a second-order system, for example, or just about any multivariate system. see https://yosefk.com/blog/can-your-static-type-system-handle-l... for more information

if your static type system can't handle that, it can't handle unit types for basic linear algebra subroutines
Probably got a chance to win a $20 Amazon gift card in return
Your company is doing something very wrong, but so are the vast majority of software orgs, including mine. Which maybe casts new light on the OP
Kind of, many developers feel they are using legacy deprecated APIs, especially given how they are referred to in some circles.

Naturally that leads to some uncomfort.
Or like advertising that a car will be able to drive itself without any human intervention, and then deactivating or removing the sensors that might allow anything close to that capability...?
> It has come to our attention that MeridianLink, in light of a significant breach...

SEC whistleblower information has to be original, which I presume means you have to have direct knowledge of infractions, rather than just claiming someone told you about them. So in this case a drawback of the hacker's plan would seem to be that they'd have to cop to the crime in order to be eligible for an award.
This is correct; anyone with relatively basic knowledge of VOIP can spoof any number (and CID name) they want.
The big opportunity on the edge is access to more data. Especially with the rise of end-to-end encryption, applications will be able to use more (and more diverse) data on the edge to get better model performance. It's generally true that training on beefier infrastructure is easier, but in the long run, nothing can beat access to better data. And edge hardware has gotten a lot faster over the last few years.
I don't know about you, but even a quarter the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool emitting radiation for hundreds of years is still a bit too much no?
Sweden has often very long transport routes for the energy, meaning that it is still a big challenge to supply the big cities, especially in the very south, with stable power, as the long transport routes don't have capacity enough for the increasing demand from an increasingly electrified society (charging electric cars etc).

As other comments are on to, you can't rely on wind for base energy due to the extreme fluctuations in output. It isn't uncommon with a few days of basically no wind at all in the whole country, typically when it is at its coldest, with temperatures sometimes around -30 - -40 C in the north, and perhaps -10 - -20 C in the south. Then you gotta have stable energy, or people's lives might be at risk.
The actual issue at (this) hand is the lack of reporting the breach, and the rule is not that you have to disclose "once you have your ducks in a row." You have to disclose soon after determining that it's material. Still a little squishy, but not quite as squishy as ducks.
Alternatively, the more users Firefox has, the more incentive Google has to twist Mozilla's arm. I doubt that ultimately defeats forks that are maintained by volunteers (https://librewolf.net/), and I don't want to discourage Firefox adoption, but it's not quite so cut-and-dry as "use Firefox". There will likely come a time that it's "use this community fork of old-Firefox-before-it-got-Googled".

Still not a case against Firefox; just pointing out there's more to the picture.
Is moving away from Russian energy also a factor?
That's your own interpretation of it.

You could say "blue means it supports link embedding; green means it doesn't" and it would be just as true.

Personally, I strongly suspect that Apple views it as "blue means Apple; green means NIH."
You picked the one auto brand where you might actually be better off with an Amazon counterfeit.
> and wasn't just interpreted as "ask me again in next week and every week thereafter".

It gets even worse; last week, on a relative's phone, after weeks of clicking "not now" it just force-enabled RCS, and displayed something like a "we automatically enabled RCS for you, here's what you should do if you want to disable it again" (completely confusing said non-technical relative). Needless to say, I quickly went into the settings and disabled it again; I just hope that it having been enabled for a few minutes doesn't mean it will no longer be able to receive messages from RCS users (like the rumors I heard many years ago of people who enabled iMessage and later changed back to Android no longer receiving any SMS from iMessage users).
A school I was working out rented out as a location. The lighting crew followed their standard protocols, power all lights with the generator so when the Location Manager orders the power down they know the lights are off. The wardrobe crew on the other hand decided to move one of the lights for their convenience and plugged it into the building power supply. Someone else had moved a garment rack into range of the light.

About 3am the fire alarm went off. One of the elderly nuns was sleeping in her room on the top level of the building, was carried out by a firefighter.

The school was a converted English Tutor Mansion, had a grand entrance with hand carved mahogany everywhere. The film company hired a crew of like 30 cleaners that were scrubbing the smoke out of the carvings with toothbrushes.
I know we're not supposed to use HN for throwaway jokes, but I came here for this comment and I love you.
I hate racists and hating racists doesnt make me a bad person.

I hate people who judge others based on $1000 dollar Veblen goods. Also I make more money than them, so I'm very aware that the person who cares about bubbles is being exploited by Apple's psychology and marketing department. So... maybe I don't hate them, maybe we should feel sorry for them.

Or maybe we need to hate them because its a deterrent against corporations exploiting insecurities.
Firstly (compared to python at least) there's the obvious 'typo in variable name barfs early' advantage, which honestly is not to be sniffed at on its own.

But my big thing is about being able to scope values to the specific block where they belong:

...
let foo;
{
let x = blah();
let y = frob(x);
foo = munge(y);
}

and the temporaries 'x' and 'y' have gone away as soon as the } happens.

also, if you've ever had "fun" trying to capture a loop variable,

for (let val of things) {
callbacks.push(() => val.finish());
}

has a different 'val' for each iteration of the loop so you can do that safely without requiring some sort of copying or an intermediate function invocation to create an extra scope.

Oh, and it also renders impossible certain weird constructs like

if <test>:
some_name = ...

where now whether the some_name variable even -exists- after that if block is indeterminate without knowing which way the <test> went.

I also like being able to do e.g.

for (let thing of things) {
let blah = thing.blah;
callbacks.push(() => blah.doThing());
}

Without 'let' you'd have to write (for the first 'for' example)

for (var val of things) {
callbacks.push(((val) => {
return () => { val.finish() }
})(val));
}

to perpetrate let-over-lambda to get a separate scope for the callback function.

This is not my favourite thing to write, and -very- far from my favourite thing to read later.

Hopefully that gives you a better idea of why I, at least, prefer having 'let' available.
> The optimizations are no doubt impressive

The sad thing is that the things they discuss like monitoring and optimizing slow queries have always, until recently, been baseline competence.

It's only recently that the universal answer to something being too slow is to simply spin up another dozen, or heck make it two dozen, cloud instances to compensate.

> Even if their DB infra was only half as efficient as it is today, their costs would increase by a whopping $8000/yr.

I think the interesting comparison is not so much the same team doing things slightly less efficiently, but comparing to the average status quo in the industry.

So many companies are spending $100K+/month (month not year) on AWS costs to run very tiny minimal loads due to the attitude that efficiency never matters, just spin up more instances. Pretty soon you're talking real money. And by the time the CFO starts screaming, it's very difficult to go back to a more sane infrastructure.
thanks, i'll take a look

i know it's possible (even in c++ apparently) but so far it seems difficult
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects" by Ted Chiang was a really good exploration of people bonding deeply with their AI companions (in this instance, pet animals in a metaverse). But it goes all the way in to the topic.
Dealerships don't do anything to enforce safety with car sales. If anything they do the opposite, given the pressure to upsell people on larger, faster, and more expensive cars.
Well, if post-Cold War globalized trade looks more like it might be regressing to a more fractured and unstable landscape, it would make sense to maximize one’s own readiness and make robust, safe investments that were previously hoped to be unnecessary.

In that context, spinning up local (and tightly allied) nuclear power might make more sense than it did in an idealized globalist world where you could trust that your investment in some North African solar array was less likely to be disrupted by some political realignment or exploited leverage.
They have direct info on what model car you have and can recommend to you all sorts of products for your vehicle.

Currently you have to manually opt-in to do this and enter the information in yourself.

I already frequently buy all of my vehicle maintenance items via AMZN.