skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much, I'm glad to hear it! That means you're one of the people who has helped to make this step possible :)
The sms decision made signal go from THE messaging app on my phone to an app I only use with a very small subset of my contacts. It is infuriating that they didn't allow users to retain that functionality when it costs them nothing, and they could have disabled it by default.
Great when it works, but I had so many disconnects from my iPad that I gave in and bought a portable 14" 2K monitor instead :(
I'm always intrigued by people that have this POV. Security and privacy are not binary for fucks sake. Improvement on the status quo is great and Signal improves a hell of a lot.

Not to mention that half of your comment is non-issues.
No, but not having Air 1s did
Great start. Time to go after the rest of the digital drugs merchants starting with Instagram and then going after the worst one which is TikTok.
https://www.cooleygo.com/so-you-owe-thousands-in-delaware-fr...
Most teachers I know, and I know several because I've been in a relationship with one for a while now, are basically doing a disservice to children. I hear their stories and all I can think is "you shouldn't be a teacher, you're hurting these kids chance at learning".

Even the girl I'm dating sounds like a terrible teacher but what am I supposed to do about that. Not everyone can be good at their job. There is basically zero process to remove the bottom few % of teachers no matter how bad they are.
I incorporated mine in Colorado, mainly because I'm originally from there. It's worked out for me, been in Cali, as a CO Corp for 8 years now, happy to answer any questions
Bruh, I think you’re onto something here. Definitely going to try this. Thanks a mil
Show HN: Version code, models, & datasets together in GitHub
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Show HN: Reshape – Zero-downtime schema migrations for Postgres
They absolutely can subpoena Bytedance. Congress did. They have offices in the US: https://maps.app.goo.gl/XqJdQyvTCQ1ZUEa96
Carriers that run their own messaging infrastructure can allow for direct connections from 3rd parties, and set the price per message to whatever they want, including zero.

For something like Twitter where you could post by SMS, the balance of traffic might have been such that giving Twitter free outbound SMS was balanced by the charges incurred by customers sending to Twitter's shortcode. Or it might just be balanced by increased customer happiness when they can use the product more effectively.

If the carrier doesn't run their own messaging infra, they might be paying their IT provider on a per message basis, and might not be able or willing to set the messaging rate to zero.

For a use case where SMS is used to show control of a phone number, getting a zero cost direct route is a harder sell, but it can happen if the routing through aggregators is poor and the carrier is concerned about that, or if there's some other larger agreement in play.
PostGIS Day
Your comment is at least a few hundred years early. Wait until it's an archaeological dig, then start speculating that the mountains were formed with psychic rock forming tech.

Unless you want to suggest The Black Hills, which are sacred to the Lakota people who see the four faces carved there as defacement of sacred property, had psychic rock forming tech and created The Black Hills. If so, you need to make a stronger argument than a two line comment without citations.

(Edit: And I will note that even if you manage to make the case that Natives "built" The Black Hills psychically, they are offended at the carvings, so it still was not built for that purpose, certainly.

/pedant)
If I’m reading this correctly, the Frink language has similar features (and also seems darn useful!) https://frinklang.org/
You can run this on Hetzner ARM hosts for about $30/year o_O
I'll probably donate, but I find it annoying that Signal only offers Linux packages for Debian-based distros. I've had headaches with the Flatpak. I would think that the Linux desktop audience - while not huge - would be the most interested in Signal. That is, might not be a lot of Linux users but percentage-wise I'd bet more Linux users are interested in Signal than macOS or Windows users.

Even an AppImage would be lovely.
Not sure I agree with that. We've been using Kotlin on all new projects for the last year or so and I strongly prefer it over Java at this point. It has many language conveniences that make the code more succinct. Suspend functions also make it extremely simple to parallelize certain things without any ceremony.
What about these?

https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/ntp/about_ntp/...

"This review finds, with moderate confidence, that higher fluoride
exposure (e.g., represented by populations whose total fluoride exposure approximates or
exceeds the World Health Organization Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality of 1.5 mg/L of
fluoride) is consistently associated with lower IQ in children."

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-children...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25446012/

You don't seriously think that drinking fluoride is OK? It's been studied to death and it's obvious at this point that long term fluoride exposure causes developmental neurotoxicity. Multiple countries have sponsored these studies and they show negative correlations to IQ and an increase in fluoride. They've demonstrated this in rats with sodium fluoride as well.
How is it different/better than Open-Interpreter?
I'm not so much saying it's fine (it clearly isn't), but that it seems to be grandstanding to me. Maybe it will yield some positive results for kids, even if at the cost of having official truth validators and/or uncensorable outrage porn for everyone else.
There are plenty of evidence of harm from sugar.
> Get off the major cloud providers that charge insane egress fees.

And run their own DCs? Cool, they'll just need a lot of upfront capital aaaaaand they're back in the "need money" boat. Except more so.
I wish they would go after addictive games instead, with micro-transactions built to raise young gambling addicts.
Frink (https://frinklang.org/) is an older language with similar design goals.

Frink runs on the JVM and is also available on Android.

I use it as a general purpose calculator on my smartphone.

It's really nice that Numbat is written in Rust :) Will have to try it out.
I think it's completely reasonable to expect that 90+% of your customers have working phones with them.

Obviously batteries die so restaurants always have a backup solution, which sounds like the one you'll use.

Everybody's happy.
Hopefully I can turn it off.

I do not know anyone who uses RCS who didn't end up on WhatsApp or Telegram pretty quickly afterwards.
The implication when a comment is made like that about one's self is that it should be a positive reflection. Most people are not asking people to berate them.
Hawking Fellowship Awarded to OpenAI by Way of Sam Altman
I think you might be applying your perspective a little globally. For lots, music is NOT something that's necessarily put in the background.
> For P2P communication. SMS is alive and well for B2C messaging, most importantly for 2FA OTP delivery, but also as a first line of defense against spam/bot account creation.

In Brazil, businesses use Whatsapp to communicate with consumers. You order pizza and book doctor appointments over whatsapp
I will point out that while you can't gerrymander a state-wide race, if you gerrymander enough other races, you can both actively-and-illegally, and passively-and-legally suppress voter turnout among people opposed to single-party rule.

But at this point, you are right - Ohio can safely be written off, like Florida.
if you get computation, you get the curry-howard-lambek correspondence for free. So you have an equivalence between logic as well as (cartesian closed) categories.

It also means some of those axioms are probably superfluous. It also means your bound by some of the same laws (? maybe the wrong term here?) that computation is (halting problem) etc.
Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
But can you -- without paying? AFAICS, only if there are fewer items in that full metadata list than the number of pages you can download for free. And the impression I got from this discussion was that this is definitely not the case.
So shouldn't countries and states introduce measures to restrict access to Instagram? Not sue them outright?
Like many things, more as "someone who hacks".
Please, do show me a place that runs, say, a 100+ person team where there isn't a significant amount of consensus building.

And if you believe all useful activity can be done by less than 100 people, you might want to acquaint yourself with actual team sizes for most major software. Yes, small and valuable teams exist, but a lot of stuff requires large teams.

Even a simple chat app, praised for being extremely lean, ran on a 35 person team (WhatsApp). Linux is running at ~1000 contributors, with a lot of coordination via lkml and side channels. It has a management structure, via Linus + lieutenants. OpenAI has ~500 folks. (I'm happy to hear counterexamples here - just because I don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist)

Communication & consensus overhead is real. Hierarchical structures evolve repeatedly for exactly that reason. The attempts at non-hierarchy are merely hiding that complexity - either via large losses (the OSS model where PRs just get thrown away if the maintainers don't agree, and that work is 'lost') or via informal groups. (Good reading: The Tyranny of Structurelessness)

(BTW: Would love to see quotes from those "fathers")

What you _can_ achieve in small teams is technical breakthroughs, and first working models. There's a reason skunkworks efforts exist. And even there, it's worth noting that the original SkunkWorks effort (XP-80) succeeded because it had a very strong manager, not because they just had a bunch of people in a room.

What you can't do with a small team is productionize for a large audience from there.
Firearms and rockets are clearly not built by Real Engineers, I see.
Ohio is very clearly a red state these days. Once Trump came in, he captured a lot of blue-collar democrats and they are now fully Republican. The gerrymandering just tilts the scales significantly more to ever overcome that majority. There is a big difference between the 8% win in 2020 and the 66% Republican majority in the Ohio house and 79% Republican majority in the Ohio senate.
Technique may speed up development of acoustic lenses, impact-resistant films
That's fine, but I'd still prefer to have real window borders. Not only because they make manipulating the window easier, but because the visual separation itself makes the entire system easier to visually parse and use.
We regulate tobacco companies. Social media is the new smoking so this suit is following suit.
I can give you an n=1; I have been detained by police for walking around in a suburb.

I was 18 and in community college. I couldn't drive so relied on rides to and from. Sometimes I had several hours between classes so initially I went for long walks since there wasn't much else to do. There was a quiet neighborhood across the street so I usually walked around there.

That stopped after a cop drove up to me and ordered me to state my business. "What are you doing here?" he asked.

"I'm just walking around," I said. "I-"

"_Why_?" he asked, looking incredulous, like I had just said I had been trying to skateboard on the back of a turtle.

Apparently he had been called because of my "suspicious activity": there were some cool rocks on the shoulder of the road that I had stopped and fussed over. (And probably pocketed, because hey, cool rocks)

There's your reasonable suspicion: college kid picking up interesting stones from the public shoulder of a road.

If Mr. Policeman says you look suspicious, guess who's getting stopped?
Data Science vs. User Passwords – Patterns in leaked email/password combo lists
Would you say a mastering engineer is "fiddling with bits?" and also: would you say there's artistic merit in bringing out the brilliance of a song with said engineering?
How exactly do you know I 'hate' China? Because I actually don't. I'm Swiss very natural, China is just another evil empire like the US.

> and the answer is an emphatic YES: China is watching SpaceX and it is making its own progress

Ok, but I am watching SpaceX too. And so do many other people and agencies. Watching is meaningless.

In terms of progress, there are many others that are doing as much. RocketLab and Relativity space are working on things more advanced then anything China is currently working on. Even BlueOrigin is building a more advanced rocket.

The iSpace vehicle is barley more advanced then European tests that will launch in the next few years. And that is not much more advanced then what NASA did in the 90s. The rocket the iSpace demonstrator was supposed to be for is already canceled by the way, because the company knew they wouldn't have a market. iSpace also had issues with its smaller launch vehicle.

> Nobody else is catching up as quickly as China, in the new space race.

Again, everybody is falling further behind. That was my whole point. SpaceX is innovating faster then anybody else is catching up.

What I recommend to you is to actually look at what China is actually doing rather then just assuming they are great and fantastic.

Because while China is launching a fair amount most of their rockets are not very advanced, mostly copies of former Soviet rocket. The same goes for their human space flight. The rocket engines they are using aren't very advanced.

Non of the private space companies in China are particularly advanced either and its not clear they have much of a market. I would say all of them are behind the major US companies, Firefly, Relativity, ABL, RocketLab.

Neither US, Europe, Korea, Japan or India wants to launch on rockets from China. Even if these companies had launch capacity.

Its a real question if China has enough commercial launches as the state still uses its own rockets for the most part.

> Also don't let the myopia blind you to the fact that whatever SpaceX innovates, others will commercialize. That's the entire point in the first place.

Well, SpaceX will commercialize it first. And maybe years or decades later others will copy it.

Sure eventually these technology will be commodities.

But you are moving the goal post. That wasn't the argument I object to. I object to the idea that China was hot on SpaceX heels and catching up fast. And that's simply not the case.

> Musk has stated multiple times he'd open source everything if he was allowed to ..

Source ...
If the SEC pursues prosecutions based on reports from hackers which uses the threat of SEC reports to extract payments, the SEC will be enabling and enforcing blackmail. The SEC would essentially be an accessory to the crime.
> open it up to let other people run their own servers instead of trying to control everything.

If you know of a good open architecture that solves the problems of spam and impersonation while maintaining the convenience and ease of use necessary for mass adoption, please share it.
Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions
Or the extra privacy could be the current misfeature where you can't properly sync messages across devices. No reason to ditch over that?
Is anyone using any of these services? The only one I actually recognize from their list[1] is Triton Inference Server.

1: https://github.com/protectai/ai-exploits/tree/main/nmap-nse
Because so far it has only worked on trivial tasks? That isn't denial: it's stating fact.

Business process workflow software is popular, but have massive downsides. These softwares consume massive amount of resources. One dev becomes one dev plus a business person plus another person plus overhead.

> Using something like GPT Vision means you can skip the widget drag and drop and use more freeform drawing tools or freehand sketching.

To do... what? Where does the UI go? Where does the data go? Where is it stored? How is it accessed? How is security? How are backups? Version control? Etc..
That won't happen because capital gains and tax-free selling of real estate is the source of the power and inequality. Might as well demand reps sign their own economic death warrant or at least their own demotion to regular plebian socioeconomic class who needs to actually earn and be big boy taxed on their earnings to cover "their share" and attitudes towards how they are able and also required to spend their time
I think that's what makes summaries so difficult for skimming news, like on HN.

For most professional use-cases, you kinda know what types of stuff you expect in a summary so you could possibly create templates. For example, internal calls are mostly around deliverables, due dates, blockers, etc. When casually reading, you don't know what you'll come across so getting a summary that really "hits" is difficult.
About Players Making Sense
I don't mind Apple adopting RCS the same way that SMS is implemented. I like that iMessage can add features at whatever pace Apple wants. RCS will at least fix the annoying group message problems that Android/iOS have.
> which given enough time and money any source can be rendered drinkable,

Fewer people would have issues with resource extractors if they bonded over sufficient funds for a full remediation of all the damage they could do in the course of their operations.

They never do, because the liabilities there are almost unbounded, and doesn't gel with the fly-by-night can't-squeeze-blood-from-a-deadbeat nature of most drillers.
Fair enough. I'm a born pragmatist, so I hear that sort of wishcasting and fear the worst in people. I'm still open to a technological miracle saving us all, but I wouldn't count on it happening in anyone's lifetime.
Never-Ending To-Do List
Yes, song lyrics are very copyrighted. Most of the sites you see online offering lyrics are paying licensing fees to a stack of different rights agencies.

source: I worked in the music biz
Where is it located?
Looks Fantastic! I love stuff like this, and am jealous of Planet employees ;-)

Wonder how it compares with the GOES raw data, and also I wonder if a hybrid viewer would have any aesthetic benefits.

Do share your "live 3d ISS viewer" when done. I can imagine myself getting a smile or two from such a thing. :)
so kotlin functions are colored while java ones are colorless?
What you said had been disproven in this discussion hours before you said it.
Incredibly patronizing way to say we're going to keep doing this.
This becomes an issue if each department is not consistent with each other.

Recently at an American university a department was banned for new tenure positions for two years after it was found that their hiring process differed from the university's as a whole, in a way that could get the university as a whole into legal trouble. https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/10/31/university-takes-...

Getting ahead of it with a universal policy to set a minimum bar doesn't sound like the worst idea.
PicoGUS 2.0 is officially released
You can't share an IP from military networks over Facebook
You paid them nothing and are infuriated. Interesting.
Cover bands pay royalties to avoid getting sued.
I worked at GitHub and this is exactly what I always wanted as someone working with data and ML artifacts. We even prototyped something with GitLFS once that looked like a very hacky and less well-thought-out version of this. Great work.
My first split keyboard, where I could also easily change the angle. That was an ergonomic game changer for me. I can really recommend a split keyboard to anyone. In my case, it's a Dygma keyboard. I use vim as my primary editor and I've never been able to type so fast and for so long without interruption
The only issue I'm aware of is that The Signal Protocol is only really defined in Signal's GPL'd code. So it's almost impossible to write a clean room implementation (e.g. Wire tried and ultimately failed. they ended up also GPL-ing their library).
I preemptively banned it because:

a) It's an excellent lead-gen machine for predators
b) Kids trivially trip into (rigged) casinos

My kids have an emulator running N64 classics and more next to the tv, no need for them to burn hundreds of dollars on gambling tokens.
Oooh, a strong-worded letter was sent. I didn't see mention of what law Apple had broken. And, after all, it wasn't Apple that voted China into the WTO, so Apple isn't the only one that thinks bending a knee to China is a-okay as long as there's a dollar to be made. Or as the kids say, "now do Marvel movies".

OTOH, WTF did you think was eventually going to happen when you hired Jon Stewart, Apple? The only reason that people even watch him is because, yeah, he might be a little controversial at times.

Posturing all around, it'll be forgotten within a week.
You're right about the average user's mentality, but there's value in publishing this kind of research for anyone who didn't get the memo, e.g. Caroline Ellison, who once wrote: "Nothing like regular amphetamine use to make you appreciate how dumb a lot of normal, non-medicated human experience is" [0]. The implicit contrast to 'dumb' here is smart.

[0] https://twitter.com/carolinecapital/status/13790363463003054...
> realtime speech-to-text

Oh boy. I mean, I frequently rewind turn on subtitles for 10 seconds because a bit of dialog is totally unintelligible. (Or it turns out to be perfectly intelligible but it's something with a proper noun like "Kantauganwe it is.")

For people without accessibility needs, speech-to-text is the least help when they most need it...
That doesn't mean they were actually profitable at those rates though. They could have been in growth hacking mode with venture backing.
And eventually, we'll go through cvs, svn, and then _finally_ get git on the iPhone?
Apple Plans to Adopt RCS Texting Standard in Truce with Android