skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They take checks by mail. You definitely can do a cashier's check and I'm sure they'd take the "cash in an envelope" method that places like Mullvad do too. Looks like they also support crypto, and that includes Zcash. So I don't think this is a great excuse. The only "can't easily donate" aspect is going to also be tied with the "can't easily get a cashier's check or find an anonymous person to sell me bitcoin for cash" kinda issues, and when you're operating at that level I'm not sure anything is "easy." (but that's not that hard usually)

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360031949872-Do...
If a bot's user agent doesn't look identical to a normal user, either the bot developer is dumb, or they are relatively well behaving.

Anyone malicious who knows what they're doing will just send you a statistically common user agent string.

Under most http libraries this is a one-liner:

headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/119.0.0.0'}
is it possible to extract the citation list of a pdf paper using this tool?
I'm hoping this is them ramping up on that type of stuff. From what I've read Meta's made themselves a pretty strong target because like the tobacco companies they have documentation that they explicitly know they're doing it and ignoring the effects cause money.
> Even if messages are queued, how do you get millions of dollars in queued storage? It's hard for me to imagine...

The details are there in this post, but I can offer a few guesses. Users may be using multiple devices. And the service has to deliver to all the linked devices before ejecting the message from its storage. The time limit for storing and waiting for linked devices to come online is about a month. With tens of millions of users, this could add up.
It's an uphill battle. I asked to recommend Session on the privacy subreddit- which the moderators denied because Session lacks a well-documented endorsement from a public figure regarded as an authority with regard to privacy.

That is a non-starter specifically in the context of vetting privacy-enabling software. Anyone got a list of privacy celebrities with enough spare time to vet reddit content?
Props for use of the word niggardly, but I don't think that would work. I certainly would never again to to a business where that happened, even if it was someone else that it happened to.
What is the cause of action here?

> Thirty-three states including California and New York are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people's mental health and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that cause children to be addicted to its platforms.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, also claims that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents' consent, in violation of federal law.

The federal privacy law part is crystal clear. But there is no description, or even mention, of what laws are being violated related to addictive products. Is this federal law? State law? What does the law say?
Indeed. I just ignored the dialog box the first time it popped up. But next year I paid. It was quite a big deal because back then it was equal to my entire monthly cellphone bill in Pakistan.

But I remember other people started to en masse switch to other messengers like Viber(?). And Whatsapp had to stop enforcing the fee.
Here is a random journal article, but a quick google search will pull up a lot more.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2050324520904540
Selling a service automatically opts you in to all kinds of consumer protections, either legally or de facto through the dispute mechanism of the payment methods your customers use.

Just ignoring customer complaints and selling the service "as-is" is usually not an option.
Wikipedia is particularly insulting because they make enough money to cover the actual costs of running Wikipedia (the site) in days if not hours, and could operate for years without any additional donations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32840097
Starlink announced that they arev cash flow profitable. But that doesn't include capital expenditures and they require those to keep operating. The satellites fall out of the sky after five years.

They also need to launch more satellites to increase capacity and add most customers. The big question is how many potential customers are out there, and if they will be enough to maintain the network.
I wish their justification for dropping SMS capability from their Android app to move away from phone numbers was a little more transparent about the obvious cost aspect rather than solely sticking to the patronizing "we're saving insecure messaging users from themselves" messaging they had. I found it pretty obnoxious. I think people generally get "valuable nonprofit + huge expense = not-sustainable = bad."
The only reason it is like this is capitalism. Success in this system demands constant growth to define success, and eventually cutting down on human labour is one of the only ways to grow profit.

Gas stations could absolutely afford to pay someone to pump the gas if they wanted, but it would mean slightly less profits for shareholders. Its the same as what is happening at supermarkets with self serve checkouts at the moment.

Dont defend this practise with arguements of it being unecononic, its purely about more profit.
Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024
GPTs versus Quickchat AI
No. There wasn't tracking in this case.

This is the same sort of argument used to get rid of encryption, among many other privacy invasions.

If you want to put a tracker in your car, that's up to you. Should the federal government mandate trackers in every car so they can always find any vehicle?

"Think of the children!"

I am thinking of the children. Having some semblance of life outside of Big Brother's watchful eye is essential for the children.
Have you seen VWs in car software? They should definitely outsource.
In Scala https://github.com/typelevel/squants
I haven't experienced the top-40 veer, but it seems like any jazz song from absolutely any subgenre will eventually lead to Freddie Freeloader off Kind of Blue, and then the algorithm just continues to generate from that direction. It's become a running joke between my partner and I. "Just threw on a Cal Tjader album - how many radio tracks do you think we'll get before it's a Miles Davis station instead?" I recall back when I used Spotify, that service's radio similarly insisted that any playlist incorporating even a single indie rap song MUST become a radio featuring JPEGMafia.

It really highlights the limitations of these automated discovery services. I would love a service that makes it easier to explore the vast amounts of recorded music in jazz's various subgenres, and current streaming services are not it. The human curated playlists on Apple Music are pretty good for exploring a genre, at least, but relatively surface level. You are unlikely to discover the deep cuts I'd expect to surface two hours into a generative radio off an album that was itself kind of obscure.

Gosh, I miss what.cd. The industry destroyed it and never replaced it with anything close to it. I have to imagine so many of those cassette rips, like lost Dilla tapes handed out at shows in the 90s, are just gone forever now.
Back in September I went out to get a haircut. My usual barber was swamped with kids due to back-to-school so I decided to try out a different newer place that was just up the block. They advertise that they offer online appointments and walk-ins, and I see a LCD screen by the cash register announcing that the walk-in wait was only 5 minutes so I figure why not. I sit down and a minute or two later a employee ask:
'Hi, can you tell me what email address you check in with online'
I respond: 'I didn't check in online, it says you take walk-ins on your sign.'
She responds: 'Yes, no problem, can I have your email address'
I say: 'No, I just what a haircut, why do you need my email address'

To make the rest of the story short I didn't want to give these strangers any information in order to get a simple haircut, told them this was all weird, and left. The next day I was able to get my haircut at my usual barber who has only ever wanted to know a name to address me as and whatever information I offer up in the usual getting your haircut small talk.
I didn't say that internal life has nothing to do with behavior. I said you can't infer internal life from behavior.

> I'm not asserting they have an internal life, the person I responded to was saying they have no internal life and I said they cannot rigorously justify such a claim.

The only claim that I can "rigorously justify" concerning internal lives is that I have one. And the proof is subjective. Clearly this is not a discussion that admits the kind of rigor you're demanding...

We have good reason to believe that people and animals have internal lives whereas rocks and computers don't. That we can't be certain of this isn't a reason to believe the opposite. If your goal here is to insist that all statements about internal lives (other than "I have an internal life") can't be "rigorously justified," fine, I agree.
Toward Federation and an Open Network
I'm mainly excited that you can just deploy a generic tool like Bacalhau across your cluster and have it as a platform to manage your logs and a whole bunch of other workload/management stuff, rather than needing to install a million different special-purpose things on every machine!
System management mode is one example of a feature on modern CPUs that prevents real-time usage
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/documentation/howt...
That's an edutainment book written for profit (https://www.annalembke.com/events) by someone who's income depends on fearmongering and getting interviewed/giving paid talks. Especially the title, "Dopamine Nation" and the abstracts I've read. It harkens back to the 1970s when people still mistakenly believed that dopaminergic populations were responsible for the perceptions of pleasure in the brain. Those are implemented by glutamergic populations in the shell of the nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum. Anyone writing a book about dopaminergic pleasure is still in the 1970s. Dopaminegic populations encode for wanting, not liking, and predict reward (necessary but not sufficiently encoded in the ventral tegemental area). But they are not reward.

I'm not out of date. I read journal articles on this every week and have for the last 20 years.
Support for Signal development supports all privacy-oriented software and systems, because Signal is open source.

The Signal Protocol already is an industry standard. What other Signal development - either the components, the code, or the concepts - are used by others?
When the business is entirely about marketing everything their users do against them, regardless of age, can you blame them for wanting to grow their business?

This is why I've never had a Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, etc. The poor bastards that do get what they signed up for and accepted in the TOS.
Sure but that was already mentioned before the comment I was replying to. Standard hardware not being great for realtime has nothing to do with hypothetical realtime Linux.
maybe using the VScode plugin for phind
As in, “Going stale pretty soon“, you mean?
> And surprisingly, I've been getting some of the best sleep of my life so far on a pill designed to keep you awake. Who knew

It's my experience as well. I used to wake up really tired. I still get the same hours of sleep but I wake up feeling... normal? which is an improvement. Very unintuitive.
Several states started investigating TikTok in 2022. They investigated Instagram first due in part to the whistleblower. So it’s not that other suits aren’t coming, it’s just that IG is the farthest along.
Transatlantic Trends 2023
It is vc funded, do that is primarily their working capital
Thirty Five and Years of Projects
Well, that's what happens when you make the API more limited than what people can do with scraping (or with using the public "our own web client" API key).
I think they're referring to https://deadline.com/2020/06/netflix-hulu-pull-episode-commu...
Which is understandable, given that the "metaverse" thing was over in a hot minute. The rebrand is only going to continue making less sense as time goes on.
Downdetector is completely unscientific and based on user reports. It could also be that way fewer people use the website now, so nobody is making reports to downdetector.
Not even that, because it is linked to phone numbers.
EuroRust 2023
> The question being "How do we make sure users can find all those features we put in successive new releases"?

I don't agree it was a good answer to that question. The ribbon makes things harder to find, not easier.
Linux 6.6 Formally Becomes This Year's LTS Kernel
The shared homepage experience on HN is one of the most underrated aspects IMO.

With other platforms, the algorithmically curated and individualized feeds just feel like these claustrophobic little echo chambers to me.

There's a ton of interesting stuff out there on the internet, but it's hard to actually encounter it when you have to fight against the feed algorithms to get exposure to new concepts and ideas.
Do you feel depressed and suicidal looking at other people's builds in Factorio?
If they can get evidence of significant, known harm then yeah probably
Those are social media apps, not video games.
> jurisdiction to enforce any judgement against the actor, which is likely in a foreign state with no extradition agreement with the US

Justice has a long memory. A common theme, when new extradition agreements are struck, usually in the context of trade or security arrangements, is how to deal with the backlog of overdue enforcement.
They hold focus groups and push false narratives with popular characters.
> The main thing I was trying to get at there is no one should make the mistake of “ORMs are shit, I can just write SQL strings directly”

This has actually been the road I've been heading down on my personal projects. If I were to use this for work I would use something like Kysely so I can have type safety and make sure the application layer is updated to support every migration, but I've taken time to really practice SQL and write queries & migrations manually and avoid ORMs completely. I love writing SQL by hand, however I know that doesn't scale without some automated checking going on.
>Critically, if we are persuaded by either camp, we will find most of the sources in that camp believable. And most in the other camp to be not believable.

You don't believe one camp or the other. You look at how each camp reports on the same event. You use them against each other to get closer to the truth, like a trial where both sides argue their case and you are the judge.
>but for GPT to have derived it (while also being able to write essays on a billion other diverse subjects) blows my mind

think about the number of dimensions and the calculation speed we are dealing with
Clearly, you haven't worked on German automobiles.

There is no one so willing to do things the hard way as a German car engineer trying to implement something that has existed for decades, and functions perfectly in standardized form.

I'm only half kidding.
What does Tesla and Solar City have to do with this at all?
I got a case with a snap closure after having to crawl under the car multiple times to retrieve an earbud. I hate the bulk of it but beats the alternative. I used to keep an odd-sized wide rubber band around the case instead but lost it somewhere.
The comments section on the article discuss this at some length.

Personally, I think most governments will eventually decide to legislate both safety and privacy together. The argument will be that requiring ID is acceptable when the data tied to that ID has privacy protections. The EU seems headed in this direction.

I expect keeping that compact will be next to impossible, but governments work with the tools they have—legislation and regulation—and expect the industry involved to solve the implementation details.
I have to look up how to create and switch to branches every single time.
or 576p for PAL.
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It drops messages. That's almost always the desired behavior: you never want your logging system to be doing work when the system is productively tasked with other things.

I know there was some level of argument about whether it's best to overwrite older content (ring-buffer-style, probably keeps the most important stuff) or drop messages at input time (faster, probably fewer messages dropped overall). But logging isn't my area of expertise and I forget the details.

But again, the general point being that this is a complicated problem with tradeoffs, where most developers up the stack tend to think of it as a fixed facility that shouldn't ever fail or require developer bandwidth. And it's not, it's hard.
Yeah, and subscribing to SaaS vendors is a fine way to run yoiur business until they, or the cloud they run on, goes down.
Interesting question:

When Netflix was a cheap stock but it made up a significant part of internet traffic, I assumed it could be the next big thing.

So how do you invest in "bad bots", whatever this is supposed to mean. Honestly, I don't trust the numbers.
Given the few fees, what about charging/giving the option to pay $1/year? Whatsapp had this in practice before they got acquired.
Can you explain why? I allow my son to play it once per week for about 30 minutes, but I sit next to him the entire time and watch. Why did you ban it?
Cap'n Crunch has been out for 60 years. There's been time.
I messaged ProPublica.
Yeah, IANAL but that is my understanding as well. You have to love the boldness of reframing "a court has specifically ruled this legal" as "no one has ruled it illegal". It's technically true while also heavily implying that it's just untested and it could be ruled illegal at any time.

It's very: "technically speaking, the Constitution doesn't explicitly require people to quarter troops in their own homes, but..."

Not outright wrong, just kind of missing a lot of context and quietly implying a lot of stuff that is wrong.
Please provide references for the term "scary" and "not for the uninitiated."
The joke is that DOD is the long arm of US foreign policy. Can't prosecute? Invade.
It's in testing now; you'll soon have to switch to complaining about some other thing.

Anyway, considering usernames required an extensive redesign of how Signal works, it's not surprising it took 5 years (3 years of full time)
Generally, there is no drug that can make you smarter. Psychedelics can help you explore different perspective, but thats just being equivalent to a Monte Carlo approach to problem solving.

That being said, if you are ADHD, stimulants can essentially make you more efficient, which will make you appear smarter.
The CBC article doesn't mention what's arguably the most interesting thing about this lawsuit, which is that it goes after Meta on the grounds of product liability. This of course a pretty established area of law and a central feature of the decades of legal battles that Big Tobacco was embroiled in, but applying it to online publishers is very new.

I think the states have an interesting point. Should you be able to knowingly create a product which harms consumers and provide it to them while failing to disclose that fact? Doing so is illegal and I think your average HN'er would agree that this is bad when applied to say Big Tobacco or some manufacturer selling a product that contains toxic chemicals or whatever, but what about Big Tech?

Of course there's a big can of worms here. We've known that watching TV "rots your brain" on some level for years, and there's a fair bit of research which claims that porn is bad for you too. So where do you draw the line and when is litigation the correct recourse for society in dealing with these issues vs approaching it another way?

Hard to have sympathy for a company like Meta at this stage in the game though...
Shame on you for not going with Rolling Sole [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_(fish)
I've actually posted Signal's tax return before, but a great thing about US nonprofits is the tax return is publicly available from the IRS website: https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/824506840_202012_990_...

The last one available is from 2020, though. They tend to lag a few years behind. They're required to report key employees plus top-five compensated who aren't "key." Brian Acton and Meredith Whittaker both earn no salary at all. Their COO got $290 in 2020. Moxie Marlinspike and their top five developers/managers were all in the 400-600 range.

I'm sure they pay well (don't have much choice if you're going to be based in San Francisco), but I highly doubt 400 is an average salary. The expense being reported is total cost of employment, which includes FICA taxes paid by the employer, 401k matches, and probably most notably healthcare, but all benefits and in-kind compensation.
> In this particular way Apple is happy compromising the mental health of young people to secure a larger market share

Should we also force luxury brands to offer stipends so that teenagers whose parents can't afford them (or simply don't want to participate in that nonsense) don't feel stigmatized?

It would be a completely different story if Apple were to ban third-party messaging apps on their platform, but as restrictive as they are in other areas, they aren't doing that.

It literally only takes a free app download to get a cross-platform messaging experience at least on par with iMessage (and in my personal view superior in many regards).
> Get off the major cloud providers that charge insane egress fees

At on demand prices, yeah. But companies of sufficient demand can enter into volume discount programmes.
The EU will finally free Windows users from Bing
Awesome, I ended up purchasing your app, which is saying a lot because I hardly ever do stuff like that. It's been helpful in weighing out different financial decisions recently.
Kotlin had its time in the sun but it's a harder swallow now with Java's release cadence closing the gap every 6 months.
It's the classic problem: you have a system that's useful in the 1% case but not in the 99% case. Over time, normalization of deviance causes you to extract functionality from the system so that it responds to the 99% case 100% of the time.
When that 1% occurs, your thing breaks.

Obviously the call center did this. Pretty typical.

In any case, I have an Airtag in my car. It's pretty good. Maybe I should just wire in an old iphone on a data SIM.
The issue of rationality in analysis is it is forced to take on the base assumptions of the thing it's analyzing. If you start from false premises you will reach bad conclusions. This is the difference between rationality and reason.

Media literacy, in particular a rather (dare I say) postmodern approach to understanding the process of narrative construction, helps a whole lot to see through the ideological underpinnings. It actually helps quite a bit to triangulate an approximation of the truth by understanding not only the partisan bias in interpreting facts but also what different outlets might choose to include or not in their stories in order to further ideological arguments as well as how they might try to think for the reader to lead them from bare facts to interpretations that feel like facts.
I had the impression, logs and metrics are a pre-observability thing.