skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aggregators do some of this, and they can negotiate pricing to some degree, but a carrier is unlikely to intentionally give them zero cost traffic, and even if they do, they're not going to pass that through at zero cost.

I ran the engineering side of carrier integrations at WhatsApp. Carriers wanted to sell data plans with special pricing for data with WA and use WA branding in advertising, because it attracted customers that might later convert to a bigger general purpose data plan. As part of that, we would ask for zero rated SMS to their customers for verification. When it was available, it was generally faster and higher success vs sending messages through an aggregator.

We also had some, usually small, carriers approach us asking us to set up direct routes to them for verification, because their customers would not always receive our messages when we sent through an aggregator. Early in my career at WA, we would just send these carriers to our aggregator contacts, and often things would get linked up and then we'd still pay $/message but it would work better. As we got a little bigger and built support for direct routes anyway, it was usually not too hard to set up a direct connection and then there'd be no cost for that carrier. Messing around with IPSEC VPNs and SMPP isn't fun and the GSMA SOAP messaging APIs are way worse, but once you get the first couple implementations done, it becomes cookie cutter (and FB had built way better tools for this, and a 24/7 support team, so I never had to be up, on the phone with telco peeps at 3 am kicking racoon or whatever ipsec daemon we were running until it finally connected)
The threshold for any disorder is usually “is it causing a significant and negative impact on your ability to live a normal life”. And while there are a lot of squishy terms in that statement, it’s about the best we have. We know even less about the workings of the brain than we do about the workings of your body and anyone with a chronic and rare health issue can tell you just how little we know about the workings of the body. So these sorts of “standard normal life” and “significant impact” fuzzy phrases are our best tool.

Everyone is late sometimes, are you so chronically late that you’re losing or at risk of losing your job despite doing things that normal people would do (e.g. getting up earlier, setting alarms etc), that could be (along with other symptoms) an indication of ADHD.

Everyone is sad sometimes, even deeply so. Are you so down that the very act of getting up and making yourself food seems too much? Are you so hopeless that even doing something you love makes you feel nothing? That (along with other symptoms) might indicate you have depression.

Everyone has things that they want to have “just right”, whether it’s a well organized tool box, a clean car or a spotless mirror. Do you find yourself needing to ensure that every dish in your cabinets are sorted properly by size and weight, every day, even if it means missing that important meeting with a friend you haven’t seen in years and even though you already did this yesterday and only used two plates since then? That might (along with other symptoms) indicate that you have OCD.
Seeing Aqua described as "Aero" hurts my inner Mac fanperson something fierce. Aqua's aesthetic was Aqua lol

I've been reliving it on my Wallstreet Powerbook https://old.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/15s67e8/266_m...
Thanks for the example, that's a great demonstration!

The context is that an entity that does not give a crap about making ad blocking hard (Apple) believes that this is the best design for content blocking extensions. They have no ulterior motive, it's just obviously the right technical design.
Brilliant strategy.

Reminds me a litte of the oldtimers trick of adding a sleep(1000) somewhere so they could later come back and have some resources later, or if they needed a quick win with the client.

Now cloud companies are using malloc(300000000) it to fake resource usage. /s
It is not meant as a anonymous messager, but an encrypted one, you can trust to not sell you out.
"someone would have done it already"

That sounds like a short version of an argument "nothing can happen for the first time, ever, because someone else would have done it". Which is obviously nonsense.

Also, this is not about technology per se. Why would anyone else build Starship first? People and organizations have objectives, including space organizations, and most of these objectives are perfectly solved by existing rockets.

Musk is obsessed with making life multiplanetary, and that is a goal that cannot be achieved without high-turnover, cheap, reliable rockets. Given that he has money for that, he can afford making a high-risk bet on developing such a rocket. But NASA or Roskosmos or any other organization don't share that goal; they are happy launching satellites and astronauts to the ISS, and that can well be done without a decade-long project whose potential failure would be hard to explain to the taxpayers.

Starship is intended for use cases that no one before even seriously entertained, much less was willing to finance.
If you don't pay, they'll limit you to 5 downloads per 24 hours. If you pay for a "VIP" account you can download 1000 subtitles per 24 hours.

How long would it take for you download all 6.260.893 subtitles listed in the "dump" with these limits in place?
Ah, you've encountered a non-logarithmically-scaled volume control in the wild. All too common I'm afraid. https://dcordero.me/posts/logarithmic_volume_control.html
I don’t know what would change if the dealer is still involved - why wouldn’t they lie to Amazon? “Oops sorry we sold it before you got here, what about this model?”
Signal's design for usernames and phone number privacy means they won't know

Also, dissidents aren't the only (and definitely not the primary) intended users for Signal
A copyright holder identifies (with a DMCA filing) a copyright violation on the partial publishing of his copyrighted work. Technically, the publishing is not violating the copyright rules (because of some exception in the law). This DMCA filing would be incorrect.

That is a difficult problem to solve if we want to add penalty and responsibility. If the error was done intentionally, we ask this to be considered perjury. Of course, if the error was done unintentionally, then it should not be perjury.

Typically, this would be called a "false filing". False filing (of any document) is not "perjury" in law books. If the filing is done intentionally with error or malice, the false filing rule would/should cover such cases. If it is done negligently, it should be documented in record and held against the DMCA filer in the case of future submissions. If it is done irresponsibly, then there should be a fine/ticket. If it is done with malice, the affected party should sue for damage including punitive damages including but not limited to the loss of copyright work.

Of course, accusations like this need a heavy amount of proof, else it would adversely affect both the copyright holder, the DMCA filer, the producer, and the publisher.
Imagination I feel is something that is not learned. Like soft skills some people seem to be wired one way and can't change. Some people can effortlessly imagine.

I think imagination is like language you see stories of children abandoned and who never learn to speak when they are adults they lose the ability. With imagination I think you can develop it as a child but it has to grow as you do. If you don't do that whatever it is that generates imagination doesn't develop in you.
If you socially exclude someone because they care about the color of text message bubbles, don't you care at least as much as they do?

More, probably, because if they just mention it and you block them, that's disproportionate.
Nope.

Pixel shaders in WebGPU / wgpu are written in WGSL. The above 2-dimensional for-loop is _NOT_ a proper pixel shader (but it is written in a "Pixel Shader style", very familiar to any GPU programmer).
> also involved machine learning algorithms

I could be wrong, but afaik it involved "just" algorithms not machine learning. Which is a meaningful distinction, as traditional algorithms can actually be audited much easier in regards to how they make calls.

Which is also (although with limited success) what they have been focussing on with things like the algorithm register (https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/overzicht-van-alle-onderwerp...)
Panda Diplomacy Might Not Be Dead Just Yet
How do you generate so many email addresses? Host your own domain?
I don’t know why you’d assume the AI behind this wouldn’t end up with access to both the source and product artifacts, implementing changes in the most constrained/localized way possible.
Replit Teams for Education is no longer free
One easy thing you can do to reduce your caffeine intake is to drink 1/2 caff or have every X coffee be decaf. I switched to 1/2 caff and tapered down, that was a lot easier for me.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38294034.
Yeah, I assume SMS, RCS and iMessage messages will have different colors, like green, red, and blue.

RCS is such carrier-dependent crap.
There are incredibly rare exceptions but almost universally a uncontrolled fire on a aircraft in flight is not a survivable experience. I had a tremendous fear of flying in my younger years. I dealt with it through exposure and becoming a technician in the air force. Fire is the only thing that brings that fear back. Aircraft commonly survive (land) incredibly violent stresses, partial structural failures, widespread system failures, and explosions. They do not survive persistent fires.

So no, if there is a fire, those 3 steps are your options regardless of the aircraft's location or altitude.
Well, unless they are bringing in ten thousand options with brands and models having names like OSDKIFRU, KDJFRIUER, CNUEIR, IOUYRRF, CSOIFR, LOIWUEB I have no reason to buy from Amazon.
> why wouldn’t they lie to Amazon?

Because now they're playing a repeated game [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated_game
Well, your license gave them permission to pretty much do anything. As nefarious as it may be, it is not illegal.

https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/blob/canary/license.md
This more money on apple thing is a selection effect caused by Apple phones being more expensive, such that the distribution of revenue is truncated.
Yeah, the thing to bring back would be headphone jack.
The light spectrum from LEDs is undesirable.

But otherwise yes they would be less hot.
been using regular windows Remote Desktop with multiple monitors for years. if you have a decent network connection and your host is not on the other site of the world RDP is very performant.
The issue isn't "online buying."

The current dealership model creates and tolerates incentives for dealers to rip me off at sale time. It also injects a set of complexity into the model, where if I choose to buy a car of brand X, I then have to comparison shop for the exact same car at multiple dealerships.

I've bought two Teslas, and the nice thing about the process is that it doesn't matter where I pick up the car, I get the same price, and the exact same experience. Tesla also won't try to rip me off on buy-ups like tire protection and seat protection. (Then again, Tesla really needs price protection because they significantly dropped the price of the Model Y shortly after I bought it.)

One of the most annoying situations was a Subaru dealer that made me sit through a pitch for various upsells (that were rip offs) and then sign a form that I listened to them.

I really hope the Amazon car purchases explicitly prohibit upsells and other nonsense. Just bring me the car, give me the keys, and stay long enough to make sure that the car works. No BS upsells.
I don’t think I quite understand what a belief is or what is being updated in this context.

If I have lots of beliefs, like every fact in a news story is a belief, then even an O(n) updating process seems overwhelming.

If my beliefs are just big things, like “people in states governed by political party X tend to have better outcomes by the metrics I care about,” then I think I only have like a handful of beliefs and I don’t really care about the big-O cost of updating them.
As stated in Bill Gate's book [summary: 1], there are basically 5 issues to deal with: automobile transportation, energy (industrial/housing), airplanes, cement, and cows.

All of these will require multifaceted, long term solutions to get to net-zero carbon emissions. An opinion (no necessarily in the book) is that we need short term solutions to bridge the gap. This is not talked about enough.
For example, sequestration to start removing the carbon from the atmosphere and climate engineering to reflect solar insolation back out of the atmosphere before it has a chance to get into the heat trap.

Off the top of my head, short term solutions could include putting sulphur back into shipping fuel [notes: 2](probably a bad idea), but other similar things could be investigated. The math needs to be done on whether it would be a net win for humanity. Perhaps there are additives to put into aircraft fuel that could mimic the effect of a volcanic eruption? Probably not even all of the 100,000 flights per day would need to carry it.

This recent post [3] on creating a stable carbon brick that claims $100 per ton will hopefully play out and scale up. Something like $200 billion per year for 20-30 years would solve it. That's a lot of money but on a global scale it's really not. I'm not a fan of nuclear (my first job was at a nuclear power plant), but I would be ok with its use to power sequestration at a massive scale.

All of these should be done - if they aren't already - while working on the decarbonization of the five things.

[1]https://medium.com/feedium/book-summary-how-to-avoid-climate...

[2] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...

[3] https://www.geekwire.com/2023/bill-gates-backed-startup-can-...
"What's risky is stagnation and letting other competitors catch up."

It is a different category of risk, though, with a different perception bias.

For an analogy: becoming obese is probably more risky than BASE jumping, as the diseases that come with being too fat are horrible. But people don't perceive those two risks in the same way.
Given how many activists have used it in overthrowing dictatorial governments, self-sovereignty seems an odd choice of words to claim it doesn’t support.
HandBrake 1.7.0 Released
Nobody does, it’s a bitchy trope.

Green bubbles matter in group chats. You can’t easily change participants and stuff like reactions generate junk messages.
For an example how far the kernel goes to get log messages out even on a dying system and how that's used in real deployments:

https://netflixtechblog.com/kubernetes-and-kernel-panics-ed6...
Gray is encrypted to Apple, and then the information is (of course) shared with third parties. Would you consider that to be a private communication? Kind of. It's a gray area...
Reactions aren't in RCS? I thought that was one of the main motivators for it.
> whereas conventional fossil fuels are heavily taxed

Hahaha... I wish.

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel...

> fossil-fuel subsidies rose by $2 trillion over the past two years as explicit subsidies (undercharging for supply costs) more than doubled to $1.3 trillion
Thank you.

I don't think we diverge from units on purpose anywhere, but I am probably not very familiar with its syntax, to be honest. I did however look at its huge collection of units and checked if there were any important units missing. I think we have a pretty comprehensive list of units that are supported by now in Numbat [1].

[1] https://numbat.dev/doc/list-units.html
In say Iran? Search the requester for cannabis. In the U.S. there are stories of law enforcement following people home from hydroponics shops and searching their trash, same idea.
> When you say someone is "talented" at a sport or intellectual pursuit, are you talking about the same physical (or mental) advantages?

"Talent" is the genetic component of the advantage. What's so hard to understand?
AlphV hackers reports Meridianlink for no breach notification to SEC
Surely it's great for you as the developer to get paid extra to learn transferable skills.

That's not necessarily true of the business.
I've got maybe 4 extensions that are manifest V2 that just purely don't seem worth upgrading/fixing up (my largest with 5-10k installs) due to the time/5+ year old code that has been working fine on the old apis... Has chrome done some outreach to the popular extensions, or maybe just gone past a point where they're happy to kill off the old and move onto the new? Or is this purely about ublock etc?
> somewhat backwards into DD entrenchment, because they've decided that anything not an official DD metric (that is, collected by their agent typically) is custom and then becomes substantially more expensive.

It a vendor pulled shit like this on me. That’s when I would counsel them. Of course most big orgs would rather not do the leg work to actually become portable, migrate off vendor. So of course they will just pay the bill.

Vendors love the custom shit they build because they know once it’s infiltrated the stack then it’s basically like gangrene (have to cut off the appendage to save the host)
That's why there are guardrails like credentials scanning tooling, security trainings, SAST, code reviews etc.

Additionally, most providers now provide out of the box tooling, see: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/abo... that can, within minutes, sniff out whether your commits or PR has some creds, and notify you on it.

I think most of those leaks happen when credentials were given to somebody developer-adjacent (data scientist, BI, tech-y PO/PM). You know, somebody that wants to put some scripts together and call it a day. To me, that's more of an oversight on the credentials sharing process rather than a question of developer security awareness. In more enterprisey scenarios, there even is the concept of separation of responsibilities, where devs wouldn't even dream of having creds to any production system, as those are managed by a separate team. Theoretically, once you start getting into SOC2/ISO preparedness, the chance of a developer hardcoding a password/secret in code should be close to 0. Right?
Archive.is and Cloudflare have a long-standing feud over EDNS Client Subnet support. Archive.is refuses to serve Cloudflare DNS users and Cloudflare refuses to work around it.
OpenAI-based generative AI using sketches
I understand what you are saying here in terms of the difference between using wall-clock or causal ordering to determine who 'wins' for LWW. However, both of these strategies seem convergent to me? In any case, all clients will agree on whose changes win.

1. With wall-clock decided by clients, A + B changes will win since C's wall-time is earlier (yes, C could lie, but still would converge).

2. With wall-clock decided by server C will win and everyone will agree.

3. With causal ordering, everyone will agree that A + B won.

2 is not a CRDT since it requires a central server, but I think 1 would still count? Or stated another way: I'm not sure the _convergence_ is what determines if these strategies are CRDTs or not, but rather whether or not this decision making is _distributed_ or not.
Yes, in my case, but also fastmail includes unlimited @fastmail.com email addresses, delivered to your normal inbox, and can even be generated on the fly by password managers like Bitwarden.
That would be almost exactly Replika, right? I don't think that was really the intent of the creators - their original vision seems similar to OP's - and they apparently confirmed as much when they restricted its use for 'erotic content' last year . But the screeching anguish from their community (still visible in the history on their subreddit) resulted in a quick pivot back towards NSFW capabilities. I think there was some coverage of it on HN at the time, because the Replika AI is frankly pretty primitive, but passionate users became deeply connected to "their" partners, and it raises questions about what's going to happen as these tools become more powerful.

Interesting, in context to what the OP remarks about the odd feeling of realizing all their users were anonymously interacting with "Dolores" too - Replika allows the user to name 'their' AI, set some criteria around its personality, etc...and will even sell you personality traits as 'upgrades.'

OP's experience seems to track rather closely with the trajectory of Replika, actually, which has also upgraded with voice synthesis, etc. The difference seems to be Replika has buckets of VC funding to throw at alternative models.
Yes, that's true. I wouldn't recommend getting an EV if you don't have access to a charging station. I did it for a year and it was unpleasant.
I really like the politeness rules that Dang enforces. I think it's a wonderful place that fosters respectful discussions and makes many people not afraid to somewhat link their real life identities to their HN profiles. I recently saw an old coworker's username on an unexpected comment and smiled to know they're still on this Earth.
Ask HN: Non-US contract developers, what's your hourly rate?
My memory of that specific detail is a bit fuzzy, however I’m pretty sure it was a staff pick. That or via the fantastic similar artists feature at the bottom of an artist’s page, the star/spoke map that was user generated/voted: thicker the line between artists, the more user votes that similarity had gotten.
Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us $230k per year
Apple Studio Display was a bit of a splurge, but makes the hours of meetings I’m in every day much more pleasant.
Does anyone know what std::source_location::function_name() returns inside a lambda? Is it the outer function name, or something like this:

"foo()::<lambda()#1>"

I remember writing some constexpr expressions to strip the lambda portion (which had a guid). Is there now an easier way?
I would be interested to see a list of capabilities and features lost in MV3. For example, do we lose CNAME filtering or strict-blocking? It's not clear what we are losing.
Amazon is generally very pro-customer and low seller nonsense.

(Say what you want about Amazon's reputation towards sellers,) but they generally swiftly handle stereotypical seller BS when it comes from sellers for other kinds of items.
Yeah, the DD agent and the otel-collector DD exporter actually use the same code paths for the most part. The relevant difference tends to be in metrics, where the official path involves the DD agent doing collection directly, for example, collecting redis metrics by giving the agent your redis database hostname and creds. It can then pack those into the specific shape that DD knows about and they get sent with the right name, values, etc so that DD calls them regular metrics.

If you instead went the more flexible route of using many of the de-facto standard prometheus exporters like the one for redis, or built-in prometheus metrics from something like istio, and forward those to your agent or configure your agent to poll those prometheus metrics, it won't do any reshaping (which I can see the arguments for, kinda, knowing a bit about their backend) and they just end up in the DD backend as custom metrics, and charge you at $0.10/mo per 100 time series. If you've used prometheus before for any realistic deployments with enrichment etc, you can probably see this gets expensive ridiculously fast.

What I wish they'd do instead is have some form of adapter from those de facto standards, so I can still collect metrics 99% my own way, in a portable fashion, and then add DD as my backend without ending up as custom everything, costing significantly more.
Why should they be dead?
Aren't you using any banking apps, any note takings, video or messaging apps?

Could you exaggerate your point a bit more?

Thanks :)
Yes. We use up-to-date currency exchange rates from the European Central Bank [1].

https://github.com/sharkdp/numbat/blob/786512175b99c195a7d5b...