skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but you only really get to a good setup with a decent query builder library (ORM-haters smashing strings together like an ape is naturally full of issues, and ORM-lovers get all the fun of table/object model-mismatch and poor query generation). But then you run into the issue that every database library tries to be database-agnostic, and you lose access to all the fancy features your database provides

I've found that smashing strings together works excellently so long as:

- You use something like JavaScript's template strings so that interpolated fragments are inline

- You have named placeholder support (so that you're not trying to count parameter placements which gets hugely complex for optional parameters).

- You mainly use it for SELECTS and have minimal query builder for INSERTs/UPDATEs/UPSERTs

And you get full access to all of the database's features.
I would like to see an actual report on this
- That's $338k/head on average. At face value for a nonprofit, I'd like these costs broke down as this seems excessive. There is far cheaper IT labor available outside SV.

You get what you pay for, though. $338k/year seems like a reasonable salary for people working on something as privacy critical as Signal – just because you're working for a nonprofit doesn't mean you have to work for less competitive wages.
Oh I think they'll managed to figure out a way to keep corporations safe, at the expense of the citizens. That's the historical precedent.
I think a more efficient approach would be to prosecute those who do it - bandwidth costs money - and to implement mechanisms to deter them. A not insignificant number of ai workers think are entitled to using people’s bandwidth, servers and intellectual property for free. Until a couple of such people are taken to task this wont stop.
2 ideas to limit costs:
Make it a 2 tier plan: free tier is text and images only, paid tier adds audio/video calls
Remove the need for phone number verification

I'd be happy to pay 10 bucks a year for Signal.
No, WhatsApp won because it successfully replicated and replaced the SMS experience in the developing world, where the cost of data was dirt cheap in comparison to the cost of a single SMS message.

This is why it still has a stronghold as well…
lots of drug traffickers went with something homegrown (Anom), which turned out to be an FBI front. they'd have been a lot safer sticking to Signal. and you can audit the Signal client's source code, which is enough to verify its secrecy.
I think there's a good ethical argument for releasing the knowledge, not so much the tool. I think the open secret is that most people who go into cybersecurity do so because they enjoy breaking security through clever methods rather than actually helping others stay secure.. but security research is legal and hacking random targets isn't.
Easy to follow tutorial about what it is and how to use softmax function. This algorithm is used in most of the neural networks we use everyday
> a lot of important tasks (like maintaining the floor cleaning equipment in the robot-tractor tyre factory) just really isnt that interesting but still needs to be done

In a heavily AI-oriented future, why wouldn't that be done by the floor-cleaning robot?
Look up Gutter Oil on YouTube. Supposedly people clean it up and resell it to restaurants.

We should be so lucky that they only resell it for burning for heat and engines.
You're discounting the time you spend waiting for your order to be prepared. I now pretty much exclusively get lunch at places that have online ordering, because I can order before I leave the house and it's ready when I get there.
It's crazy, 400,000k per person. It would feel like nothing but an unfair waste of my "cheap-country" money to fuel "overpriced-county" with a donation.
Not to mention exploits for actively maintained open source projects don't last very long, and patches tend to work the first time.
I would definitely believe that Bots are responsible for %73 of the traffic. Not sure how one would necessarily characterize them as "bad" but definitely wasteful. Worked at site that published science. They collected page view metrics. Doing something simple like excluding page views that where done by IP addresses that continuously cycled through all articles resulted in over a %70 reduction in page views. Needless to say it was never deployed because the high view numbers made the authors feel good.
I like this project! I’ve been thinking of looking for something similar involving GPTV to see what the user sees, and then sending that info along with context to an assistant group with autogen. (This is because I have found groups of agents to deliver better results for my usecase than a single conversational agent). Would be nice to see stuff like this come together over time. Good luck !
Why do you find it easy to believe in genetic advantages for basketball, but not other activities? It would be strange if other talent did NOT have a genetic (and maybe hormonal, etc.) component, wouldn't it, when most everything from intelligence to obesity can be inherited?

Exceptional aptitude only makes sense measured against the median performance. So yes, of course you'd observe or otherwise measure the subject somehow. But from there, if you come up with some concrete measure of ability (easier in some fields than others), you can work backwards to try to identify and isolate biological and environmental components.

Some random examples from a quick google: chess correlations with different intelligences (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...), genetic factors helping chess and science ability (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/14/1/204), music and genes plus practice (https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-014-0671-9).

There is a much bigger discussion on this exact topic here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-009-9260-5

Or a Wikipedia summary of an opposing viewpoint, that talent is NOT involved at all, only practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)#Del...

TLDR aptitude at something is usually a combination of many things, from genes to hormones to upbringing to deliberate practice.

Yes, we have vague concepts like "talent" and "intelligence" that are often hard to nail down, and used lazily in day-to-day life to mean whatever the speakers wants it to mean. But you can still reframe it in a more precise way, like "Is ability at X activity partially heritable/genetic?" or "Given a group of people practicing Y similarly for Z duration, do they arrive at roughly similar outcomes?"

There's nothing mystical about any of this. It's the same sort of work as trying to trace the genetic components of anything we experience, whether that's aptitude or disease or personality or behavior. At the extreme ends, it's easy to see this across species; why are some so much faster, or able to solve certain kinds of problems, or can navigate by starlight, or can sleep half-awake, whatever.

I think the counter view -- that humans alone, of all the animals, are created absolutely equal and environment alone shapes our outcomes -- is far more mystical. That requires the belief that the brain and mind is some sort of super-natural device not subject to normal biological evolution, replication mistakes, natural selection, etc. If talent didn't have a biological component, we should be able to train everything from apes to whales to do exactly what we do, given enough practice.
AI will remove the traditional 'Creator'. Now, it's a direct line from platform to consumer, with the AI as the new creator. No royalties, no middlemen, just pure, content delivery... Creators better wake up, or have something to license to the platform...A gait, a singing style, a voice tone, a guitar or piano style...
Mine is the grippy kind - no screws. And you’re right, a pull up bar malfunction would not be fun. No issues so far.
Building a Huffman Data Compressor
Supernova neutrino background with up-to-date measurements and simulations
The lack of a social network is why I settled on Signal. Before using Signal I tried Telegram, which requires a phone number and if they recognize your number in any of their user's contact list (which many people seem happy to allow access to), they'll send them a notification telling them their contact has joined. I got a nasty message within 10 minutes of making an account from a woman accusing me of pretending to be her deceased father. I had inherited his phone number a decade prior, and it told her I had made an account. I was so shocked they not only allowed, but encouraged such behavior that I deleted it promptly and swore I'd never use it again.
From the PDF:

We analyzed tens of billions of sessions worldwide across industries, [...]

I think they mean: 73% of all commercial sessions are malicious.

Very sensationalist, at the end of the day they are selling something
My guess would be that it gives students the unfair advantage of more study time?

Where I studied (Norway), university students would regularly fail on purpose on the first exam, so that they could get two-ish months more time to read on the subject, as the re-take/postponed exam would be around August/September, or January/February - depending on semester.

It was/is called "strategic re-take", and unsurprisingly, you'd always see a bunch or A grades on the re-take.

Same thing happens in the high-school level. People that want to study wildly popular majors, like medicine, will spend YEARS re-taking HS classes/exams to polish their grades. Those studies are so competitive that you could get almost straight A's, but still not be good enough.
What a great response.

Often I find it's not even just nonparents, but also parents who have lucked out by having their methods work on their kids, so assume that's all it must take, and why can't other parents just do this list of things that worked for them, so are obviously universally applicable to every child.

/rant, after having spent yet another day exhausted by my weird-sleep-habits 2 y.o.
Walls and floor/ceiling not being parallel (old house) tripped me up when I modeled my perfect kitchen in abstract 3D software land and then tried to make it happen in real life.
Hey HN - Dre Smith here, one of the founders here at Nuon.co - helping SaaS and oss companies deploy and run their products in customer cloud accounts (aka Bring your own cloud -BYOC)!

Essentially Infra-in-a-box for BYOC.

We just publicly launched a couple weeks ago and we get a ton of questions about how we solved one of the hardest problems in B2B SaaS. As customers begin to strengthen their security posture with strict data residency requirements - it's becoming more of a thing to run your app in the customer's cloud account.

That said, solving this problem would've been nearly impossible without a robust architecture to power BYOC for everyone.

Today, we're teaming up with Temporal to discuss how we rebuilt our API in 2 weeks using long-lived workflows. We're bullish on Temporal and would love for you to join us for our debut webinar at 9:30a PT.

Here's the link to register:
https://pages.temporal.io/webinar-using-long-lived-workflows...

If you don't have time, no worries, we've wrote about it extensively on our blog!

Exciting times!
Maybe you were missing something? You could have been a manager, commanding a team of Spark engineers and an even higher salary?
You are an expert in taking a deep breath and...
Mapping where the data is not
Short blog on showing the complement of the data in a web map.
With WhatsApp, your phone number allowed you to see everyone in your contacts that you could message on there, so you could see everyone straight away. Without that, you'd have to bring your friends along and have them sign up as well, then give you their username so you can connect.
They do mention that their expectation is that the 70B model will provide even better performance. I expect that you are correct and that they determined the 13B was capable enough to serve as a base model. Why incur additional training time before getting preliminary results.
> My god. Just feed them and get them to bed at a proper hour, and turn off the blue lights.

You make it sound like some easy accident of scheduling, but it's not: As kids get older there are documented and measurable physiological changes--especially in melatonin release--telling their bodies to stay up later.
There's a lower bound on what these services can charge in the form of interconenction fees charged by the mobile service providers delivering the messages.

In the US, that's effectively zero due to the US phone infrastructure largely using a shared-cost model, but in most other countries which use "sender pays", these fees can be significant.
Games for one thing.
Everything's a trade-off. Most people who take stimulants regularly would be far less likely to even make an effort or make a decision without them. It seems obvious that the quality of an effort or decision will decrease in proportion when you take away all of the additional indecisive overthinking an individual would normally be doing instead of, y'know, actually doing the thing. Again, that's the trade-off, and I think most people are behaving rationally when they accept that deal. Until clinical psychology cracks how to simply teach the skills of "not overthinking," "staying singularly focused," and "maintaining a bias towards action," it would seem that we're stuck with stimulants for the foreseeable future.
Honestly dude, just drop the simian theme and pick a different, possibly-endangered animal instead.

Monkeys have nothing to do with your project and were a meme over a decade ago, which makes your brand-new project look dated.

Apes are associated with being heavyweight and freakishly strong and have been long-associated with racial slurs in America. You're only ever one degree removed from coming out with "chimpout.py" or "statutoryape.py" or something else that'll get you cancelled for unintended racism.

Your tool seems like it's meant to be reliable, used for work, and possibly elegant in its code. Consider the name of a work animal for their efficiency or birds for lightweight, graceful maneuverability.
I always try to get to the point quickly, I feel like the longer the conversation gets the more it forgets earlier important context and I have to keep reminding it. Mainly using ChatGPT4.
Sure, but I don't know a single pirate that decided to purchase media because subtitles were made unavailable.
> the first Jew to ever be elected to British parliament

If anyone else was taken aback by this, Disraeli and a couple before him had to take an oath affirming their Christianity before being seated and are bureaucratically regarded as converted. Although the first openly Jewish member to take his seat was Lionel de Rothschild in 1858, who was not Herbert Samuel, the person being referred to. Samuel was the first Jew to serve as cabinet minister and to lead a major party, though.
I am too cynical by far, but Signal
being run by an ex-Googler is not at all
reassuring me of its long-term commitments
to security and privacy.
Session.app solved this problem well
Man, that is so damn cool! Thanks!

Don't have any particular use case for this, myself, but its open accessibility (a simple url) makes it a drop in solution for all kinds of environments, including Unreal and Blender. And just based on what those two apps can do with it, I bet there are a bunch of others that can do some other really awesome stuff with it, too!
> The smallest meaningful length is the 1.6×10^−35 and it's known as the planck length.

This is not a known fact. It's a plausible speculation in quantum gravity, but we are not going to be able to test it any time soon.

I agree that we don't know that "infinite resolution" is correct; but we also don't know that it's wrong.
It's due to the extreme right wing and other opportunists fear mongering and inflaming people's grievances with an easy scapegoat that cannot defend itself.

Social media of all kinds are effective tools in this. Vilification of minorities works, it always has, but those who would exploit it haven't had access to the
public forums required to promote it. Now they have.

Nuclear weapons won't destroy the earth, social media will.
It's really a quick hack that got mass adopted and then became the center of gravity due to network effects.

... like DOS, Unix, BASIC, JavaScript, and loads of other things we got stuck with at various times.

Network effects are a force of nature that doesn't care about you. They are not your friend.
Thank you so much. EarthBound is awesome. I played it for the first when I added SNES to Afterplay. Are you playing on desktop or mobile?
> "If the GD logging interface is offline or slow, you'll take downtime; is that okay?"

> [edit: added "GD" to clarify that I was referring to the guaranteed delivery logging api, not the best effort logging API]

i read GD as god-damned :-)
Yes, this seems like somebody seeing AI as an area they can "take over" including prestige and a headcount.

In this case, every department of the government already has a legal team, a privacy and data use officer, etc, responsible for the use of any product. Why does this need to be centralised?

In my org, somebody got hold of 50 license seats for a popular code generating AI, and required users to fill in lengthy forms and provide regular feedback about their "use cases" and "experience". Somehow, this "pilot" never ends, because then their makework would end.
Yeah, a voice command on payment terminal, that shouts loudly at niggardly tippers "Hey there! looky look we have cheapskate award winner for today" will certainly help.
YouTube is full of "X [goes to/tries] Y for the first time", where Y is a country, restaurant chain, big box store, kind of food, amusement park, etc.
lowers the bar so even dumber people can go phishing. Guess that's not "quicker" but more voluminous.
As of this year (ish), `int main() {puts("hello, world\n");}` stands a decent chance of running on a GPU and doing the right thing if you compile it with clang. Terminal application style. Should be able to spell it printf shortly, variadic functions turn out to be a bit of a mess.
Microsoft is charging $30 for Office Copilot.
Yeah. I feel like any time this comes up on HN, the comments heavily skew towards moving _away_ from integrating technology into the dining process. I'm all for it. I don't want to do the whole song-and-dance of chatting with a server, I don't want to deal with them coming to the table mid-bite to ask if everything is OK. Just let me order via a QR code and table number. Hell, I'll even clean the table when I'm done.

This obviously does not apply to fine dining, only really fast casual/fast food.
This is factually not true.
I would certainly prefer the donation begging - chance of getting family and friends to use it with an upfront cost: 0.
Experience on WhatsApp, Telegram or any other IM is vastly better than SMS. Unless by SMS you mean iMessage - then it's even simpler - most of the world doesn't use iPhones.
Every time I hear about Signal's donation notices I start thinking about ways they might generate revenue. I'm sure Signal staff have considered a ton of options already. Anyway,

- can't do personalized ads or geo-specific ads, so doing generic ads wouldn't drive a ton of revenue anyways

- can't require users payment because when payment (most forms, including bitcoin!) can be used to identify people

- No real benefit to themed group chats (like discord nitro) since it doesn't focus on community groups

I'd love for someone to figure this out, though, because a nonprofit structure for an app is not sustainable.
I guess everyone is looking for new revenue streams in this market.
I Just Want Authentication to Work
you are correct but the article is talking about "crack down" of labeled videos
> The biggest increases in attacks from Q2 to Q3 are SMS toll fraud (up 2,141%),

Toll Fraud is rampant lately. I can tell because people have attempted it on nearly every consumer-facing project I've worked on. Additionally, the ill-advised "text the app to your phone" gimmicks have disappeared (fraudsters have cleaned up on direct, public endpoints to send SMS).

Shameless plug, but I've written a little about Toll Fraud and how to prevent it [0]

[0] https://koptional.com/article/how-to-stop-twilio-toll-fraud/
2015 was after the internet-based-messaging transition but before the rename. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextSecure
As far as I understand, this is even more expensive than SMS in many cases due to WhatsApp's B2C messaging fee structure.

It's also not a great idea to make sign-ups for an instant messaging service contingent on having an account with another, competing service.
> “Oh, yeah, I’ve got Signal, I use it to buy drugs.”

Funny, people around here in Germany say that about Telegram.
I thought there was a rule about not editorializing post titles on HN...
That's a great point, and it inspires me to use "QR code" as a pejorative.

"We went to this QR code restaurant last night, and my fork had dried ketchup on it."
Are you considering having a CRDT for each text block individually, or moving to a CRDT for the entire data model for a document? Really curious about the design approach here, especially insofar as there's now an external API that the data models need to service!
As someone technically savvy, I don't trust myself to manage my own private keys sufficiently for a service that's the point of contact for all my friends and family. I think it's a much taller order for someone without the technical knowhow – remember that Signal's audience includes very non-technical people who don't have time to learn the technical ins and outs but absolutely require its utility, like journalists and dissidents.
Yeah, that's part of why it threw me for a loop: it the right adjective for describing him, not his appetite.
Also, employees cost more than just their salary.
Yeah this whole thing really brought out the inner SS in some people.
OAuth 2.0 Redirect URI Validation Falls Short, [pdf]
> everyone’s gonna say “but hey, google docs uses operational transform not CRDTs”.. OK yes, but you are not google.

Well, google docs works not because they somehow figured out how to converge OT edits with as much precision as CRDTs do, but simply because they have a central server which orders edits anyway and don't need true leader-less convergence.

In fact, I agree not many things don't need a CRDT. CRDTs help with mathematical rigidity of convergence when you want true peer-2-peer collaboration which works without any central authority.

However, most apps anyway work on top of a central authority (example SaaS apps) so there is no real reason to accomodate all the compexity that comes with CRDT. They might get far with a simpler OT based model + central server based ordering.

For example even Figma doesn't call its model a 100% pure CRDT. It's a partial, simpler CRDT implemented with an assumption that there's going to be a server that understands ordering.

It's the same with Google Docs. They don't need a CRDT because it's a cloud app after all, which means OT is more convenient with major heavylifting (ordering and conflict handlings) outsourced to the server.
How are you going to charge users $0.10? Micropayments is a huge unsolved problem.
The deal could just be: no phone number, but you have to pay $x/year (I guess this doesn't work with 501c3?)
"Under state law, the identities of those who nominated the land for oil and gas drilling are confidential"

Gotta love it.
That first part is hilarious
Irritating that fracking gets all the headlines. You wouldn't even notice it if it were happening under your feet right now. Drilling is what you will notice.
> Note that "Bad Bots" are never defined

This stuck out to me as well. What are "bad bots" and how do they differ from "good bots", and how are the authors determining which is which?