skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue with online ordering is that I will be missing higher degree of customizability, options and allergies for some case. Online ordering does not cover edge cases. If I like the ingredients that comes with the food, then online ordering is awesome. If I want to further customize it, I am limited to online ordering offerings (in some case, I barely could).

I found in-person ordering is reliable enough that they know what I am asking for and could try to swap out a different menu to get me a cheaper price for the same quality. In online ordering, it didn't have an ability to do that. If I order a cheeseburger and remove the cheese, it is just a hamburger. In-person ordering knows that and would change it hamburger, the online ordering does not and keep it as cheeseburger minus the cheese while keeping it as cheeseburger price.
Usually when I have dealt with these sorts of requests, the way we verified they are legit law enforcement was by asking what department they work for, and then independently finding the number of that agency and verifying their badge number. It added time to the process but we wanted to protect our users as much as possible.
A lot of the people you don't like are actual Nazis? Like, card-carrying members of the National Socialist party? Or neo-nazi skinheads? Or Illinois nazis blocking the bridge in front of you?

Or are you doing the exact thing we're talking about?
RCS is anything but universal. It requires the explicit cooperation of mobile phone providers, which makes it a non-solution in many scenarios – including usage on any device that happens to not be a phone.

RCS is exactly what it says on the box: A modern successor to SMS. That does not make it a good modern instant messenger.
> I'm simply saying that we don't know enough about sentience to turn such statements of belief into statements of fact

We do! We can look at rocks and very clearly define them as non-sentient. If you disagree with that, you are not deferring to the overwhelming wealth of evidence that can prove rocks are not similar to us. Animists and panpsychics be damned, you only need thermodynamics to prove that we are not the same.

It's fine if you want to argue the uncertainty angle. I vehemently disagree with it though, and firmly believe that we can extend simple logic to conclude that LLMs are software, and software is not alive. Adding noise and 4.21gb of trained weights does not move the needle on that, for me.
Even in central Europe $240000 would be way more than what an average engineer would cost. I'd estimate ~$150000 for well paid jobs there.
Also here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286601]
It's pretty cool.
I have yet to find a replacement that both I like and other people use. Matrix and Session I have yet to find anyone using, telegram seems to be almost entirely bots in my area, and WhatsApp etc are owned by Meta.
> I'd drop these features if possible, or give them to donors.

They can't really do that, it deters adoption of something with a network effect.

The real issue here is that direct connections have privacy implications (maybe you don't want the other party to know your IP address), so they relay everything. If they could solve that they could save a lot of money.

For example, detect if the user is connected via a known VPN service (which is likely given Signal's user base) and then let the VPN hide the user's IP address instead of Signal having to pay for it. Or make a deal with popular VPNs to put the relay servers in their data centers, which gives a similar advantage and they might be able to get better pricing from them in general because the VPNs already have a lot of bandwidth, are sympathetic to what Signal does and could use it as PR.
There is a case to be made they took it to an extreme, but there is too much going in the other direction as well. It's not like most teams are working on the meat of the product anyway - they probably spend 40% of their time running a small project on Kubernetes and getting rid of daily security warnings from NPM.
To be a bit nit-picky, Cherenkov light typically has a wide spectrum. For water it spans the entire optical range, peaking around 350nm and dying off at longer wavelengths. So you could, for example, put dye in water such that it absorbed more blue light, but you'd still be able to observe some red light from the Cherenkov radiation escaping. But the signal would be much fainter.

Although, one further caveat, changing a materials absorption spectrum will also change it's refractive index as a function of wavelength, which will in turn effect how much Cherenkov light is emitted at each wavelength. So the situation is more complicated still.
If you asked somebody in the sixties whether it would be possible to have no airplane crashes, they would have laughed at you. And yet, the last crash of a commercial flight in the US is now 14 years ago.

Of course, if everyone agrees that a goal isn't achievable (or it's not worth the effort to achieve it), then it will never be achieved...
Not who you are responding to, but my guess is that it was all fixed costs. They spend $20mm (or whatever) to maintain access, and maintain infrastructure and they get to send as many SMS messages as they want.

So sending 1 costs the same as sending a 10 million. It isn't that they are free to send, its that they are charged for access to the system, but aren't charged per message.
Even that: You know it's called Eiffel-Tower, but you don't know the guy (unless you investigate the history of the tower). So, at the end of the day: It's just a word with no meaning.
Yes, find a map of polling down to the county level on any political issue, and this becomes very clear. Counties with major cities in red states are bright blue, and rural counties in blue states are bright red. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#Urb...

As an aside, that Wikipedia article describes the interesting history of the "red state" and "blue state" terminology which apparently wasn't in usage until the 2000 Presidential election, because broadcast networks previously used the colors interchangeably (even intentionally so, to avoid favoritism).
You can check the Twirp doc in the sibling comment. Ours is similar. Works on regular HTTP, curl or Postman is fine.
When I worked in RTB (about 10 years ago), the profile information sent as part of the bid request was really quite low granularity and very anonymized. There wasn't a lot there, just fairly broad demographics.

With cookie matching and third party data services, you could in theory extend this. But obfuscation of tracking cookies and so on was enforced by the bigger parties like Google AdX, etc. so that it wasn't usually all that feasible.

Has this changed significantly?

The various cookie matching and data markets out there are more disturbing to me than RTB itself?
> Firstly, it refuses to provide a data backup mechanism for iOS/iPadOS. If someone loses their devices, there is no way to restore older messages.

This is not the only case where Signal has decided that users should not be in control of their own data. For example an Apple Store or authorised repair shop may need to reset the phone, or an OS upgrade goes badly and needs a restore will also lead to data loss even if there is a full local encrypted backup made.

It is really orthogonal to the much of what Signal claims to stand for them to so boneheadedly insist that users should not be allowed to own and control their own data.
Maybe you should ask your wife, because as I understand it the prosecution has to prove a crime occurred beyond a reasonable doubt, that's the legal standard, it's the same standard as in Britain as I understand it. You seem to think that someone with some sort of legal authority on behalf of the victim has to testify that the item was in fact the victim's and was stolen-- this is not correct, it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt with any admissible evidence. Or maybe you agree with me and we are talking past each other, I don't know?

To go back to the Doctor Who example, there's clearly concern by the archivists that admissible evidence exists to show the film was stolen by them. Whether this is likely to be prosecuted and conviction is likely to occur is a different matter.
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Data centers cost billions. Signal, and pretty much everyone else who isn't already in the data center business, is far away from breakeven on that.
As soon as there is “extra privacy” for a premium, I would ditch Signal immediately. It’s either provate and secure or it’s not. Certain things cannot be half measured.
Mastodon org + Mastodon.social also have costs of 0.6 EUR/year, though they have two orders of magnitude less users [1]. This is really what most social media costs. These rates are even payable by many in poorer countries.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38117385
Is anyone able to determine how long it takes to generate a video with one of these methods? Can't find it in the paper.
> Oh, right, it's called RCS and Apple refuses to support it.

No one wants to support it. Even telecoms don't want to support it.
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Related: https://www.wired.com/story/signal-operating-costs/

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291490, but we merged the comments hither)
Alternative to Triplebyte
Are there alternatives to Triplebyte? Looking for ability to adminster free online tests to evaluate from 100s or 1000s of candidates for skills such as AI/ML, DSP, Python, JavaScript....

I am just surprised that the YC community has not built a wrapper around chatgpt to

1. Get a list of 15 questions on a topic
2. Evaluate the responses to questions and put it in a database
3. Small dashboard to sort/filter candidates
I donated $5.
Sure, but you're still using modernist language, which seeks to extract individual events from the larger chain of narrative history.
This is university specific.
I'm not defending the validity of this article but it is very rare that Netflix, Youtube, or any other stuff backed by the big CDNs(Content Delivery Networks) cross actual metered transit connections(for the networks, not including what the end user has to pay for their servivces.)
"just because you're working for a nonprofit doesn't mean you have to work for less competitive wages"

Actually it does usually. Because when people see real meaning in their work, as opposed to find yet another way to manipulate people on other peoples behalf, then you don't have to buy their consciousness as well.

So sure, it is awesome, that signals employers get to have meaning and money. But I would bet, you would find competent people working for less. (And maybe somewhere else)

But .. they do have a working app and organisation right now and drastic changes could destroy that.
Maybe. I don’t think technology in music is a bad thing. I enjoy pushing limits and non-transitional elements. I love music that upends expectations and may even be grating to listen to for most people. I enjoy music made with synths, plugins, and effects (analog and digital).

But more and more, I’m finding I don’t enjoy newer music, not because it scares me or I find it to be racket, like earlier generations said of mine.

Instead, I find newer music to be boring and devoid of life. Zero dynamics. Hearing the same few guitar and drum plugins. Rigidly mechanical tempos and tone correction. It’s just dull and boring.

A lot of this is poor execution. Maybe some of it is changes in how we listen to music. A lot, not all, of new music feels like content instead of art, mashed through a template for ease of production. Yes - that’s something that’s been done through the history of recorded music. But the uniformity gives everything a generic feel that used to be reserved for the most bubblegum of pop music.
For the purpose of 2FA and account registration let’s view it as a tax for fraud prevention, where the real value in SMS is in verifying someone’s identity rather than transmitting messages
No disagreement here, but Instagram shouldn't be let off the hook just because cereal companies get people addicted to sugar too and do awful things as well. Remember two wrongs don't make a right.
"Good uptime and good reliability but no guarantees" is just a good best effort system.
I don't understand how storage can cost a million dollars when they don't store anything. Even if messages are queued, how do you get millions of dollars in queued storage? It's hard for me to imagine... even if you receive and send trillions of messages I don't think you would end up storing much at all.

As for registration fees, it sounds like they should use authenticator instead of SMS... and stop requiring a phone number to sign up. That is why I left Signal (went with Matrix). I don't see why anyone would want to tie their Signal to a phone. If you value privacy, why would you do that?

Servers cost seems excessive as well. I don't believe you need that many servers, even if you served a boat load of requests.

As for bandwidth.. okay, that may be the case. I am not sure how you can get that cost down.
I mean cigarette/vape companies have been successfully sued for this, so yea.
I think the idea is to highlight the bad security practices that allow this in hopes that these companies patch these holes (in this case reduce leaked data in the password reset process).

A GREAT example of this was when Firesheep forced Facebook (and countless other sites) into embracing https. Firesheep was a firefox plugin that anyone could run on a public wifi (e.g. coffee shop) and instantly start getting the passwords of anyone on the same network that logged in to anything over http. At the time Facebook was http by default. So, it made the news and forced Facebook to make https required basically overnight. Many other companies followed suit, and it's likely fair to say that the release of that plugin single-handedly accelerated https adoption by a considerable margin.

I don't know that this release will be that impactful, but its certainly better than having this be a technique that only black hats know about.
of course and ability to generate URLs for tests..which can be shared with 1000s of candidates
That's in fact how iMessage does phone number verification. It works really poorly internationally.
Found this that summarizes comments as well as the article: https://hackyournews.com/
That's a pretty good translation.
Researchers use magnetic fields for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring
> Synex Medical, a Toronto-based biotech research firm backed by Sam Altman (the CEO of OpenAI), has developed a tool that can measure your blood glucose levels without a finger prick. It uses a combination of low-field magnets and low-frequency radio waves to directly measure blood sugar levels non-invasively when a user inserts a finger into the device. The tool uses magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), which is similar to an MRI.

> But there is competition in the space for no-prick diagnostics tools. Know Labs is trying to get approval for a portable glucose monitor that relies on a custom-made Bio-RFID sensing technology, which uses radio waves to detect blood glucose levels in the palm of your hand.

> Another start-up, German company DiaMonTech, is currently developing a pocket-sized diagnostic device that is still being tested and fine-tuned to measure glucose through “photothermal detection.” It uses mid-infrared lasers that essentially scan the tissue fluid at the fingertip to detect glucose molecules.
This is also a generational issue. Gen Z doesn't see as much of their identity in their work as previous generations. Even millennials had a loyalty to their company while Gen Z mostly see work as entirely transactional.
I'd say it's basically standard everywhere outside the US. I lived in Canada and Europe, and eneryone is on it. All my fellow immigrants in the US are all on WhatsApp groups.
Literally nobody wants RCS except Google and a handful of HN commenters. It’s so unwanted that Google had to scrap their original plan of making the carriers host the infrastructure and do it themselves, because the carriers didn’t give a shit.

(And even Google doesn’t really have any love for RCS, they crawled back to it as a fallback plan with their tail between their legs when their own proprietary lock-in messaging apps didn’t work out. Which makes their attempts to shame Apple into adopting it pretty hilariously disingenuous.)
You have to appreciate the complete transparency, gently nudging towards giving without ever begging for it.

Refreshing compared to the alternative that Wikipedia is showing, with the tantrum-like emails we receive from their CEO like "LAST REMINDER" or "We've had enough" ; which they ironically send to people who gave.
19M for ~50 people is quite a good compensation
In a more idiotic vein, I accidentally added "RUN apt install rust-all" to the wrong Dockerfile. Removing that made the image 14x smaller.
Interior? Education? We can keep referring until we hit the right department.
That is pretty compelling. Probably another layer you use by default but can swipe to the gui search layer or full control. As usual, nerds will default to full control.
I know that talk very well. And I still disagree with you that hardcoding the rules is not simple, just easy. It's always going to be simpler to implement code that's more specific (i.e. has less room for the unknown) than less. Or do you think there is anything Rich said that shows that not to be always true?
When arguing with an executive on why their company’s security posture needs to be updated, there is nothing quite as effective as an off the shelf demo.
Our children each had multiple bracelets, and when one bracelet had to be moved, it was a process involving multiple individuals and had clearly been rehearsed. Each kiddo also had a "baby LoJack" that went off and locked down the entire place if they were moved past a certain line near all doors; we accidentally set it off once and the reaction was immediate.

Sometimes it felt like it was overdone, and sometimes it felt like the most important thing in the world.
Sugar is not an addictive substance. You cannot become physiologically dependent on sugar with negative consequences. Lets not bring in even more disinformation. This nebulous application of the word "addiction" to non-addictive concepts by the public can lead to damaging outcomes like state DAs themselves exploiting the public ignorance and mis-use of the concept to try to bring themselves fame so they can run for public office later. See the original post topic for an example.
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C-3PO is bound by the physics of Anthony Daniels in a suit. It had limited mobility. The design definitely informs lots about the way the character would move, but it’s definitely proper real world physics.
> I know it's probably the least efficient way to store code changes

Not at all. Fossil's own repository (sqlite) database currently (as of this moment) has an overall compression ratio of 101:1, packing a total of 6.7GB of data into 66.5mb.
You wouldn't avoid the tool, just avoid surfacing it too explicitly - by being too fast or by explicitly boasting about it.
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> that could depress future customer retention and hurt the business.

But it doesn't really though, does it? People largely dgaf.

My info has been leaked by my hospital, medical insurance company, three major retailers, two social networks, etc etc. None of them appear to be impacted much, if at all. For some of them (insurance, the grocery store (!!?)), I don't have realistic choices to stop using the service anyways.
Nope.

My ‘yes’ was for long term, persistent exposure. Not an acute accident.

Panic tends to happen in acute accidents because people
don’t have time to prepare or do any of those things you’re talking about.

When the folks who are in charge during a crisis are clearly either incompetent or lying, and it’s one of those acute situations where people don’t have time to get all those things, that’s when it’s perfectly rational to be ‘irrationally worried’.

When there is a history of that kind of thing happening, that’s when it’s perfectly rational to be ‘irrationally worried’ long term.
In the spirit of your question, I run my side business from my personal mid-2016 Macbook, and total revenue so far is over $1M (over many years). It's probably time to upgrade to a new Macbook. :)
Did they fix it? Everything seems to be working for me and I don't even have a twitter account.
The way I interpreted the article, it’s not about being a hermit at all.

It doesn’t talk about isolation either, which is distinct from solitude, even if the two at times resemble each other.

Instead it points out the opposite extreme. Solitude as a sharp contrast to the realities of city life that we often don’t pause to consider.

As a city dweller, I find myself doing the same things described by the author (minus the nakedness, but to each their own). I spend time away from others so that I can spend time with them.

This is more about finding balance than embracing any extreme or becoming a hermit.
Wish they provided some numbers of actual messages, type etc. per day. Seems like a good game plan would be.

1) Get off the major cloud providers that charge insane egress fees.
2) Remove SMS verification. A simple solution might be the app gives you a code and then you dial in to them and punch in the code to them. Like a reverse voice based authentication.
3) Remove voice and video calling for non donating users.
3) Remove media texting until both users allow a p2p connection.
4) Remove no contact list message hosting for non donating users.

Lot of unpleasant trade offs there. But I would rank having a text based private messaging app as the top feature. Everything else is a "very" nice to have. I applaud what they are doing and the sacrifices that have been made so far.
Usernames are currently available in beta, the post I was replying to wondered if SMS verification could be removed because it's expensive.
> Not nobody

Within the scope of messaging network effects, nobody.

> Really?

Yes. iMessage spam is rare and stamped out fast. Open protocols tend to have spam problems the moment they begin scaling.
I do get the point and the difference from the classical monkey-patching. I like the stub ideas though!
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Same here. I live by a coffee shop with usually long lines and inattentive staff. But they take mobile orders so I just give them a few minutes buffer after they say it’ll be ready, then head over and it’s waiting for me.

It saves me like 20m which is the difference between that coffee being worth it or not.