skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In South America it's the standard messaging everyone uses, even businesses. No one uses SMS
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Plus you can use any SEC whistleblower money for your legal defense against the hacking.
That's fair. I've got some fully capable 32-bit x86 hardware that doesn't get the support which, it seems to me, it completely deserves. But like the enterprises that are almost fully transitioned away from Itanium, it's not like I'm actually willing to pay anyone to do the work.
Can it be used as a date calculator? I didn't see a way to specify "today" or "tomorrow". Like "today" + 14 days etc.
> Do the tax payers get any money for these negative externalities?

At least they should get vouchers for drinking water once their groundwater is polluted
I think the biggest risks for most people are going to be around key management, social engineering, and exploitation of terminal devices (i.e. if somebody has compromised your device running signal and can observe the message before encryption or after decryption).

More layers of encryption doesn't really solve those problems.
> What regulation was that?

You yourself described it: the government-made laws allowed companies to pollute, and that prevented people from successfully suing them--because they weren't breaking the law. Because the government made the laws that way.

> companies can only be sued for... breaking the law.

In our current government-controlled environment, yes, this is true. But that is no argument for our current government-controlled environment being a good thing.

> What do you mean "when it mattered?"

Isn't that obvious? When it mattered was before the polluting started in the first place. What prevents people from stopping these things in advance? The fact that they don't own the land and the rivers and the air that are being polluted--the government does. So only the government can stop them from being polluted. The government has taken away the people's ownership of these things and is doing a very bad job of stewardship of them. And you think this is good?
A person is never really going to know anything for sure. It's all risk analysis.
Would we still have landlords in a post-scarcity future? Surely if all wealth is being generated by AIs, it's the end of capitalism.

Even if we introduced UBI today, this doesn't make much sense. It wouldn't mean everyone just gets more cash because tax would have to rise to compensate.

I think you're imagining that landlords would think, "oh everyone is getting an extra 100 zorkmids a month, so I can raise rents by 100 zorkmids". But it couldn't work like that because the cash has to come from somewhere; what would actually happen is that someone receiving 100 zorkmids in benefits now gets 100 zorkmids in UBI, and someone who was paying 100 zorkmids in tax now pays 200 zorkmids in tax and gets 100 zorkmids in UBI.
While I would be willing to pay a fee to use Signal, most people won’t and then Signal would turn into a deserted landscape full of privacy nerds who only talk with each other. On the other hand, being better at soliciting donations more often would be more helpful. I’m a regular Signal user and didn’t even know I could donate.
What does the default Android messaging app do?
Okay, fine, a world where video streaming exists, in whatever particulars.
> Twitter said that's why they got rid of the SMS 2FA. They said it was costing millions to have that enabled for them.

Previous Twitter employees have said that this is incorrect. Because Twitter began as an SMS-only (and then SMS-first) application (remember 40404?), they very early on established direct-connection infrastructure for sending SMS, meaning that they have a marginal cost of literally $0.00/message in most markets. Twitter still has to maintain that infrastructure, because they didn't get rid of SMS 2FA - they just restricted it to Twitter Blue users, so the overhead is still the same.

Almost nobody else who delivers SMS today has that infrastructure, because it doesn't make sense for most services to build.

The only place where Twitter was paying significant amounts for SMS was due to SMS pump schemes, which is a consequence of Twitter gutting its anti-spam detection, resulting in them paying for SMS pumping which was previously blocked.
See the links I responded with and the hundreds of other sources available on the internet.
Just donated $100. I’ve gotten way more than $100 of value from them.
Where do you think it got the game logic from?

Recall that this is an LLM; it doesn't "think", it's just cutting and pasting "likely" scraps of things from its training set. At this point, the vast majority of those scraps were human-generated, so a) many of them work, and b) copying them in this fashion is plagiarism ("the offense of taking passages from another's compositions, and publishing them, either word for word or in substance, as one's own")
I think that speeding well in excess of the limit is the only thing that they can prove in traffic court. It seems to me that everything else would come down to the cop's story vs. the defendant's story. Or they get lucky and find that someone's erratic driving is due to being under-the-influence, which is also easy to to prove. If anyone can explain how enforcement of distracted driving laws is supposed to work, I'm curious.
> I have wondered if they are the one thing keeping SMS alive.

Absolutely they are. Most of my friends and family are Pixel users and we all communicate using RCS. If Apple would just support the modern replacement for SMS (which includes end to end encryption), iPhone users would be much safer and would have a better experience.
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I've worked as an IC on both highly productive teams, and completely stagnant teams. All of the productive teams were lightly managed, while the stagnant teams were very heavily managed. Some developers are just not ever going to be productive no matter what you do. However, many will respond well if they sense a positive trajectory - less stress, enough autonomy to tackle some tech debt or play with idea they have. Daily standups, sprint deadlines, etc... are counter productive IMO. They offer a sense of control to management, while simultaneously making your team less productive in the long run.
What is this, "offline", of which you speak?!?!

You mean like wifi?
Correct. I have done this on the Mac client and it is wonderful.
Buying drugs from shady people online like on Telegram channels is a good way to get you not high or killed. Apparently they're selling HHC now that looks like bud? No thanks. I'll stick to my local guy straight from behind the bushes next to the park.
I've mostly owned European diesel passenger cars (in USA). It's lower maintenance, more efficient, I like the way they drive (more torque/cool sound), and a fun hobby with a great community of hobbyists that help each other out.

It's rare enough that I often get very concerned gas station attendees warning me that I'm "accidentally" putting diesel in my car.
No I'm not endorsing anything like that. I'm thinking of the kid who picks up a guitar or sits at a piano at age 12 or 13 and falls in love with it, and is an amazing player by age of 16. It's an inner talent and passion that is unlocked, not a skill that was learned by force.
When you control access to the customer you can charge people a lot. Just like Apple can take 30% primarily because they’re the gatekeeper to iPhone users, telecoms are gatekeepers to their users so they can charge you a lot to text them. You don’t really have a choice. L
When it started, there was concern that CISC x86 was hitting a performance wall and Intel really wanted something which was locked up so other companies like AMD, Cyrix, etc. couldn’t clone it.

The part where it went wrong was a highly speculative bet on the academic argument that a simpler CPU with a smarter compiler was the future. HP and Intel bet the farm on that panning out, but they ran into a number of setbacks and the competition wasn’t giving them time to recover. Itanium was late and slower than predicted, and both RISC and x86 got a lot faster since they could focus on features like speculative execution and SIMD while Intel was pouring resources into fundamentals dealing with all of the perils of a new architecture, especially one which has significantly different performance trade offs. The original pitch was that Itanium would be faster, but most people found it to be significantly slower even on native code – compilers weren’t as good at finding instruction level parallelism as hoped – and once you factored in the cost it was irrecoverable: nobody is paying twice as much for a server which is half as fast on the hope that in years to come improved compilers might get closer to parity.

The real winner was Microsoft, and to a lesser extent Linux: part of this switch involved a lot of RISC vendors giving up and switching to Windows. Companies like HP, SGI, etc. scrubbed their plans to focus on Itanium systems but they didn’t go back to their proprietary Unix variants.
Daaaaammmnnn, kid is good!
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I hate QR code menus so much! It's not just the fact that staring at my phone is the last thing I want to be doing when I'm out having a nice dinner, but trying to see what the restaurant offers through a tiny little screen is also much worse than reading a proper menu. Instead of just looking at what's available, it becomes a whole fiddly process: pinching to zoom, panning around, zooming back out, scrolling around, zooming in again - like trying to read a book through a microscope. Just annoying.
Want to refer it to the DOD instead?
Please provide some evidence that melatonin does not work to help people sleep. Until you do you're not arguing from a position with any ground to stand on.

All available evidence does point to melatonin being an effective sleep aid. It is known to regulate sleep cycles, and it does so effectively for millions of people every night. It's no mystery or placebo. You can say it is all you want, but you've provided no evidence at all to support your feelings. And homeopathy has nothing at all to do with melatonin consumption as a sleep aid.
From your first link:

> After numerous rounds of testing by both the state of Wyoming and EPA, there is no evidence that the water quality in domestic wells in the Pavillion Field has changed as a result of oil and gas operations; no oil and gas constituents were found to exceed drinking water standards in any samples taken

There's not a single chemical used industrially that can't be found in some amount in the water supply. Wake me up when something exceeds safe levels.
me too [EDIT: and I totally empathized]
Congrats!

I used to use Firefly III, this looks similar but more polished.

Am I correct, self-hosting is only possible with the $520 lifetime license?
I think policies like vision zero are a complete governance anti-pattern. When you commit to a goal that is very literally impossible, it can be used as a justification for just about any action that would move the needle closer to the never-achievable target, no matter how insane that action might be.

It is the complete opposite of sensible risk management, and serves only the politicians who find it difficult to publicly admit the fact that some level of risk must be accepted, which isn’t something I think the public should encourage.

It also removes any level of accountability for actually having to achieve a goal, because no achievable goal was ever defined to begin with.
Which while not unheard of, is rare. Most water wells use fracking these days. It is a method of creating a local porus section of earth. I wish they would just say natural gas well, the fracking itself, when done correctly, is not generally the biggest envirnmental concern. Usually it is the wellcap and infrastructure that is.

P.s. pretty please stop fighting pipelines if you care about the environment. Trucking and shipping of oil are vastly dirtier, with more spills and in absolute best cases, the pollution from rail shipment.
I find this surprising:

> As a small nonprofit organization, we cannot afford to purchase all of the physical computers that are necessary to support everyone who relies on Signal while also placing them in independent data centers around the world. Only a select few of the very largest companies globally are still capable of doing this.

Signal may be “small,” but they’re spending plenty on this. Registration is expensive and hard to do without using one of the large expensive providers. But there’s $7M for servers, storage and bandwidth. These are comparatively easy: servers and storage (especially for a service like this where availability for the substantial majority of the data is not terribly important) come in nice pre-manufactured boxes that can easily saturate 10Gbps and can store quite a few TB at very very high IOPS. [0]. And the forwarding model isn’t very latency sensitive - several hundred ms for most users is fine, and sending media via Signal is quite slow regardless. So having many points of presence doesn’t seem terribly important. I bet that two small colocated facilities could cover all of North America quite nicely.

Bandwidth costs outside the cloud world, at least in North America, are comically cheap compared to the major clouds.

[0] A service like Signal ought to need relatively little processing compared to bandwidth and storage for the data plane. AWS and the like may not have a particular good match in their catalog for this use case.
> apparently even "green bubble bullying"[1] of kids who have Android devices and thus have their messages appear different

Bullies will bully. Targeting the articles of bullying versus the source is fruitless; the former is unlimited.
Ask HN: Anyone at Facebook can help me unlock my mother's hacked account?
Someone hacked my mother's FB account and change the email address. Now it's impossible to get it back, and support won't help since the email is changed. Anyone can help?
Extreme example - I’m just a guy with an Airbnb as a side hustle. (Barely even a real business!) I’m pretty thoughtful about taking on new software subscriptions, but I currently pay for:

- Guesty (calendar management & guest messaging) - $40/mo

- Pricelabs (algorithmic price management) - $20/mo

- Abode (security system) - $16/mo

- Sutro (pool & spa monitoring) - $30/mo

- Minut (noise monitoring) - $12/mo

- Google/Nest video storage - $18/mo (might be a little off there)

…and I’m probably forgetting something. I scrutinize this list regularly and there’s nothing I’d get rid of. These are also purely software subscriptions - not including things like cable/internet, recurring maintenance, insurance, etc. There’s also a long list of products I probably could add to the mix to help manage the house and the business that is a short term rental.

I’m pretty sure this pattern exists in every corner of the market across industries and across business sizes.
Right, I totally hate being able to text, voice, video, send files, and screen share with individuals or groups of people, including half my contacts who use iPhone. Also, fuck them for making all of it sync to all my computers. And I especially hate the fact that I was not billed by telecom carriers for the tens of thousands of messages I've sent and thousands of calls I've made over it over the last 10 years.

Yes, indeed, how backwards. I wish I only used software that spied on me, or permitted others to spy on me, for those features.
Nonprofits, as with for-profits, must pay competitive wages or they will have trouble getting the expertise that they need. $338k/head seems reasonable when you also consider taxes the company must pay for each employee.
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This is the second commend I read from you where you argue that a full data dump is still available for free, so the change wouldn't change anything about the service being 'open' – but it seems to just be incorrect: the only data dump that I can see is meta-data, arguably of not much use for most of the users.
I don’t think either of these (or the base Emu model) are open source.
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>But if this deal follows a Capitalist system, if we have greater supply of "valuable" content, than the price should go down and we should view less ads over time.

The prices are not going due to an economic change of form. It's happening because capitalism facilitates it. I think the writer is using an old view of capitalism and ascribing developments in modern capitalism to something brand new.

We can't stop the markets and tell them they're not being good old boy pure capitalists when they are doing exactly what capitalism promotes, albeit secretly. If a system develops differently than anticipated due to how it's used, it doesn't make it not the original design. You can repurpose the design, and make people view it differently, but the design remains static and people will react to the system appropriately based on the conditions allowed and not the conditions predicted or requested.

The need for a new definition arises solely from the person attempting to persuade you to accept it, better so if it confirms bias, uses half-truths to explain, and catchy language like Technofeudalism.

I guess it has provoked my thought, maybe I will read it.
ethical ones are fairly straightforward, and will often be the same.

unethical ones can range from not-so-nice to mind-bogglingly evil, and in all sorts of "fun", different, unique ways.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
I wonder how many people paid the $5 for WhatsApp back in the day. It gave you nothing but you were able to do it. I think I did.
Perhaps it will be good that vehicle manufacturers consider the risks of putting tracking devices in cars that only they can control.
> only someone would release a universal protocol

Nobody wants this. Universal access means universal access for spammers. iMessage won over SMS because of cost and spam filtering.
The actual report from Arkose (linked elsewhere in the comments) is much more detailed in what they’re measuring and reporting.

That said, the language around the “73% of traffic” figure is still a little ambiguous but most plausibly means “73% of requests/sessions to the significant commercial properties we studied”

Assuming that’s what they mean, it’s reasonable that bots are banging on major sites three times more often than legitimate users.

I think the linked article is doing the sloppy sensationalizing and the report appears to be much less so.
The flip side of this story is someone like an abusive spouse social engineering a car tracking firm with a story like this and then using the data to track the car's occupant with tragic results.

You just can't win.
It well might be an in-house research, but I have no doubt that my credit-card is linked with what I've typed in chatgpt. The immense amount of intel gathering capabilities over the chat bots is insane.
Super interesting outlook to get to 5 sigma by 2035.
If it’s a politician and you dislike this, you may want to vote them out.
I would confess that I had written a bad bot in the past, fetching data every time I runs it multiple times a day when the data source only updates once or twice a week. I didn’t know better back then
Absolutely insane. Very nice and clever. Does it handle responsive layouts?
Form 990 from Dec 2021: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824...
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"Jem Bendell on the value of accepting what is happening to our world"
Google Messages, which is fast becoming the default Android messaging app across Android OEMs uses RCS when both participants support it and falls back to SMS when that is not the case.

RCS is an open standard that any carrier/OS/messaging app can support, unlike iMessage, which is exclusive to iPhones.
Got a banh mi in Berlin recently. It was fine but the place literally only accepted orders in person from an app.

I can usually take or leave paying in cash but Jesus Christ.
Whilst competitive salaries are important, it's fair to say that, outside of the US, you can get good people for a lot less than $338k/year.

To give one example of a (not that cheap) market, outside of London average developer salaries are probably under $50k in the UK. Even accounting for additional costs like taxation and equipment, that's likely to be under $100k fully loaded.
You are thinking too much in terms of the stated requirements instead of what people actually want: good uptime and good debugability. Falling back to local logging means a blip in logging availability doesn't turn into all hands on deck everything is on fire. And it means that logs will very likely be available for any failures.

In other words it's good enough.
Totally should
> Physical things wear out.

Manufacturing defects and design issues also exist in physical products, so I'm not sure that this is a relevant point.

> I'm just saying that nobody should just shrug their shoulders and say "that's life" when common operations cause a crash.

Honestly, I find it a miracle that complex software like web browsers and operating systems are able to work at all. Yes, crashes are frustrating, and constant crashes are unacceptable, but you just cannot expect such complex software to work perfectly all the time.

Case in point: Just the other day, a macOS upgrade went wrong and had to be interrupted, and now I don't have an admin user on my MacBook.
Also in the UK. E.g. a big arrow pointing in the general direction of the site, and a dotted circle around the site itself. The low-tech ways are the best!
> Get proper accountancy software if it's important; a spreadsheet will lead to tears.

The irony being that once you reach a certain scale, the accountant you hire will be using... a spreadsheet.
Migrating to OpenTelemetry
I've got 4 largely-independent L2 chargers so I don't ever have to worry about a broken charger leaving me up a creek without a paddle. One Clipper Creek plugged into a NEMA 14-50 outlet that's lasted 12 years so far, another Clipper Creek hardwired on another circuit. If the charger with the plug fails I've got my mobile L2 charger and my old Tesla mobile charger with a J1772 adapter.

For road trips over 150 miles I just use my PHEV. I don't recall the last time I needed to use a public rapid charging station.
Java is likely the most optimized part of the stack.

Many startups move up to the jam when there is little else that has optimized performance and efficiency like the jvm for 20-30 years.

Of courses this is a moot conversation if you’ve never used Java at scale. Apple and others are Java houses.
I don't mind restaurants that have tablets on the table in place of paper menus. There is a sushi restaurant in my city that does this and I love it. This avoids the same problems you're talking about, with servers coming to check on you etc.

Where I have an issue is when the restaurants expects me to have my own device, to install their app, or even just jump through hoops (scanning a QR code) etc.

I'm not attached to my cell phone. I often like to leave it at home. And I'm sure as hell not going to install a restaurant's app on my device.

Another thing the tablet does better is just better UX. My phone screen is tiny and my old man eyes are poor. A tablet is often much easier to read and use.
In case one isn't aware, you can get a $1/month throwaway phone number from Twilio for that purpose.
I don't understand the concern. Signal has never been about anonymity. If you need to be anonymous, use a different tool. I like the fact that a phone number provides an additional verification that the person I am chatting with is who they say they are. As far as risk associated with having your phone number leaked to bad actors, that ship sailed years ago. I guarantee your number has been leaked a thousand other ways starting with by your phone provider.