skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No revenue would be interesting for a UK company.

Considering atrocious taxes and a broken hmrc i would not advice anyone to register a uk company.
Last four of their SSN? That makes no sense, those digits are sequentially assigned at the issuing office.
What are you scared of?
I'm there to eat, not socialize with people explicitly paid to act nice to me, though. Let's not even get into tipping culture, here...
It’s all about encrypted email messages. They’re talking about using a blockchain as a universal public key directory. I assume PM is doing this internally already since they already know the public keys on their own hosted accounts, but that’s not the case when PM exchanges email outside their own service/domain. A big challenge I don’t see addresses or discussed in the article is how blocks would be created and added to the chain if it’s going to be made public (and therefore useful outside of PM’s internal systems/email).
Not quite compatible with the Unfortunately, in this instance, there was a serious breach of the process.
Why just not fix the breach, unless there wasn't a breach in the first place.
Signal requires a real phone number to open an account, you are not anonymous to Signal.
"I ordered a green Hyundai but i got a blue Neon with 250k miles and a funny smell. 2 stars."
What are the alternatives for such a React component that lets applications integrate LLM into their apps? I was hoping to find an alternative that can understand the context of the webpage, let me map functions, etc.
And the people those friends want to talk to. And the friends of those friends.

To have self-hosted chat services, you either need a niche enough service that you'll never have two parties that would want to talk to each other while being on different servers, or federation. Signal chose the former, so here I am with eight communication apps on my phone.

Maybe the next best thing could be to support multiple servers, like how email clients let you fetch data from more than one email provider, if they're so worried about federation inhibiting their ability to control the ecosystem that they plainly won't go there and hold speeches about how harmful that situation would be. Then we could have self hosting and also Signal wouldn't have to care about federating with my self-hosted server.
The APA and DSM-V will be credible resources when anybody in the entire institution of psychiatry manages to reliably correct a single psychiatric disorder they've identified. CBT is just dog training applied to humans. Beyond that neat little trick they're just a pill-pushing standards committee.

Where they don't succeed, or get taken for suckers too many times, they take to reclassifying disorders to pave over their failures. You don't need to have corrected multiple personality disorder or Munchausen syndrome when you can quietly rename them and obfuscate just how often you get it catastrophically wrong. When your failures end up committing suicide, they won't be testifying against you later.

That they're denying excessive internet use outs them as either incompetent-- or complicit. FAANG hires psychologists to help in algorithm design to engineer these specific ends. You can't identify gambling addiction is a problem while your own people are the ones consulting on development of gambling algorithms. That would be unethical, and look very bad for you. #mentalhealthawareness! We won't acknowledge sex addiction as real, but we're totally qualified to treat it!

Notice how doctors quietly stopped advocating for circumcision of all male infants. When we look at what they've been recommending for generations--and their rationalizations--it makes them look like savages ("They don't feel the pain! They don't remember the pain! Women prefer it! It prevents HIV, maybe! You don't speak English? No problem, just sign here."). They have no skin in the game (and now, neither do you) beyond adding an additional line item to mom's invoice.

(I'm not anti-medicine, just disillusioned in how little these institutions ever acknowledge wrongdoing or complicity.)
Broken is a strong word.

There are a lot of language features that aren’t suitable to specific contexts like embedded or realtime.

It’d be interesting to see if this concern was raised during discussion of source_location and whether a rationale was established, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s broken when it just happens not to be suitable to a specific, narrow implementation context.
Cyber-Criminals Exploit Gaza Crisis with Fake Charity
I'm not going to "keep doing this," but you can bet others are. Whining about alienation and 200-year-old copyright law isn't going to accomplish anything.

People have no idea what's coming. The personal computer was the biggest deal since electricity. The Internet was the biggest deal since Gutenberg. Large language models are the biggest deal since fucking Aristotle.

Nothing will look the same in 20 years. Absolutely nothing. Whatever you're clinging to now won't be there after the storm, so you'd better learn to swim.
You seem to have a very narrow definition of what addiction is. Considering how similarly people with behavioral and drug addictions act and how similarly the brain reacts to drug and non-drug addictions, your definition is much too narrow and yes, out of date.

Plenty of research in this topic, not just Lembke, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139704/ for example.
The thing I miss the most about Iceland (and Europe) having returned to the US is how utterly easy it was to buy anything, at the price advertised, and use a phone/watch/card as the payment method without the checkout person being phased by it.

I utterly despite tipping culture. It's gotten even worse since I returned. Now not only are tips expected we have crap like service fees and "cost of living adjustments" as line items on checks that are trying to put even more responsibility on the customer to pay for employee benefits.
Just a reminder, many of the places you work will match your donations.

Edit: Not sure why people downvoted this. Boss, is that you? I'm increasing my donation.
Chrome to remove support for Manifest V2 extensions by June 2025
The small ISP/phone/cable company I worked for in high school had a data center. Maybe 20 racks. It was pretty damn reliable (old-school phone infra techs knew how to make shit stay “online”). I guarantee it wasn’t above the single-digit millions to build, inflation adjusted.
I'm also not aware of any but that's less about whether they're actually available and almost entirely because like 7.6 billion other people, I don't live in the US.
This is great to hear. Apple should be selling phones because their phones are better, or iMessage is, not because of social pressure, which is crazy.
He was there when I was there and we had drinks. A family member of mine worked with him in the past, so I got to sit with those two old foodies/restaurant beasts who had spent their entire lives either in kitchens or as managers/owners and listen to wild-ass stories about what it was like to work food-service in New Orleans before New Orleans went PG rated post Katrina.

It was absolutely one of my favorite travel memories.
Imagine being an exec at Nothing and seeing your acquisition turn into dust

Edit: it was not an acquisition but a partnership
Good question -- we've tested this a bit and it seems pretty clean.

After removing the app, you can make these small changes we've documented in our uninstall path: https://xethub.com/assets/docs/github-app#uninstalling-the-x...
> Improve database schemas, e.g., through normalization, to promote efficient filtering.

Cries in ActiveRecord type columns.

In less sad news, I recently learned that Postgres can have serious problems with joining a lot of tables. I looked at a join of several tables (table A 80MM, table B 30MM, table C 1MM rows) and instead of using the WHERE parameter to reduce the result set of table A to a few thousands, it fetched all rows from table C first.

The applied heuristic in this case apparently being "join tables by order of lower row count".

Setting "join_collapse_limit" to 1 forces the query planner to join the table in exactly the order as they appear in the query and that solved my performance issues neatly.
Nothing wrong with traditional art. But AI is already fairly good at imitating specific artists or writers, so why not performers? Also what if a new AI performance or style develops its own character that may be valid in the same way as human performers are?
Just the Facts as reported by Joe Friday (is a show I wish existed and I would watch)
I agree in general, but I won't hold my breath for any agreement to be made between the US and Russia, Iran, North Korea, or China in my lifetime.
This is something I never thought I'd see. I hope the GSM association moves fast to make robust E2EE a standard required for proper implementation for carriers. That would go a long way in making a huge improvement over SMS/MMS.

This is a win for RCS, ultimately. Maybe this will kick carriers into high gear to up their messaging standard support game and have standard interop.

I don't think this will lead to a decline in iMessage usage, nor do I think it will be catalyst enough to get people to move to Android, because there are still things RCS won't be able to support[0] but its a big step forward for a more pleasant experience between iOS and Android.

[0]: Memojis, reactions (tapbacks I think their called) and I'm curious about threaded messages. Also, at this time the actual RCS standard does not specificy that messages must be end to end encrypted. iMessage on the other hand has robust E2EE encryption (and you can get even more robust encryption by enabling Advanced Data Protection)
This has caused so many extremes in my life that I know actively avoid stimulant medications even though they objectively improve my quality of life. I wish excruciating agony upon the DEA and anyone who supports the current schedule system. It is just torturing the ill so that mediocre busybodies can feel superior without actually accomplishing anything.
There was a fairly recent, well-upvoted blog post shared here about a guy who worked for a few years polishing his iOS stocks app and ultimately gave up due to the data feeds becoming untenable. Excellent article... that I can't find :-(
I could get my parents who are nearing their 70s to use Element (Matrix) and it took them less than 10 minutes, even with me asking them to register to a non-default homeserver.

Screw "convenience". It's a poison pill. "Convenience" should never be put above "resilience" (not to mention "freedom") in a value scale. The American obsession with "convenience" is turning us all into cattle and it's getting harder and harder to get the rest of society to function without being controlled by some corporate overlord.
If thats the case I believe I can extend the app to do that.
Seconded, the Flatpak is the way to go.
Is there any objective and reasonable discussion on the state of CA's finances? Its like the 8th largest economy in the world or something and all I ever hear is right-wing invective about how its a "Failing State" and bankrupt etc. Come to think of it, it seems to mirror the discussion at the Federal level where all I hear the right bitch about is "deficits and interest", which never seems to come up come tax discussion time where they are all too happy to widen said concerning gulf...
I have an old receipt in my Google Pay for whatsapp at a whopping 99 cents :)
Mm. Good point. I wonder if that's why Microsoft has notices that their AI "requires Edge" - I'd assumed they were just trying to get people to switch browsers and a UA spoof did seem to work fine, but I hadn't tried any TTS features.

Having platform behaviour be a defacto part of the spec is probably not a downside for them :)

It's definitely funny that this article portrays this as Firefox removing functionality.
> It's really not very hard, basically add indexes

It's really not but you'd be surprised how many people don't know the basics of how indexes work. I've had people tell me that their queries couldn't be optimized further because "they had already added an index for every column of the table".

It doesn't help that SQL, by design, hides the actual algorithm doing the data access from the users while simultaneously relying on them to add indexes to achieve performance, which is in my humble opinion the worst mistake of SQL.
Signal actually jumps through quite a few hoops in order to let you and your contacts are on Signal without Signal actually having access to a copy of your whole address book. It's even mentioned in TFA.

I do agree about being linked to your phone number - doing it that way means not considering a lot of people's valid threat models. They are working on moving to usernames, though. It's in beta now.
Afaik you can crrate an account without a number.
Context:

https://nothing.community/d/2968-introducing-nothing-chats
Is this article about banks, or about customer service delivery?
You can do it live or you can do it from a video file. There are more than just English models as well, though the performance varies by language. https://github.com/openai/whisper
Sleep well. Active outdoors 2x per week. Remind myself "Let others be free" - I can't control how others react or choices they make. Say what I want to say and ask for what I really want.
Apple doesn't put a green bubble on SMS "to ostracize people's kids". Kids are ostracized just for having a default skin in Fortnite--because kids can be little shitheads. Apple differentiates because what you can do with SMS is different from what you can do with iMessage and that's a clear way to demonstrate it (and also to indicate if there's something weird going on when it changes from iMessage to SMS).

RCS is a suboptimal standard, and while it's good that Apple will support it to try to de-jank mixed-platform group messaging, I'd expect it also to be a different color because RCS in turn introduces its own jank that iMessage doesn't have. So people who want to make up an Apple to get mad at will still have their chance, I guess.
Wow, I totally missed they made a TV Show out of that Yul Brynner movie, which I remember most for being kind of a proto Jurrasic Park.
Helidon Microservices Framework Version 4 Reaches General Availability
Advanced session audit capabilities in Cloudflare One
Everyone knows that the best way to get something done on the Internet is with an inflammatory title and a potentially incorrect contention.
I wonder if you could do something clever such that you can have people volunteer their SIM for sending 2FA?
> I said you can't infer internal life from behavior.

Behaviour can't tell you there isn't internal life, but complex behaviour sure is a big red flag that there might be internal life there.

> We have good reason to believe that people and animals have internal lives whereas rocks and computers don't.

Rocks yes, computer programs no we don't, that's the point. There is no reason to suppose an information processing system that can converse intelligently doesn't have some kind of internal experience, and you have presented not a single argument suggesting that we can draw such a conclusion. I presented a simple deduction for rocks, what is the corresponding deduction for computer programs?
Can I operate my own Signal server and talk with people on the "main" one?
Funnily it’s vice versa for me. I don’t give out my phone number to random people, but instead give them my telegram handle of a throwaway account.
A JVM in Rust part 8 – Retrospective
SMS sender isn't generally something you can trust. If you get the SMS directly from the carrier that's responsible for the number, and you have reason to trust their SMS sending to verify the sender, then yes. But in countries with number portability, you still need to pay to lookup the carrier responsible for a number.

And you'll need to maintain ingress numbers in all the countries you support, and maybe numbers per carrier, depending, and you'll need to tell the user the right number to text to ... it's a lot, and it might not work well or might not save much money.
always great hearing your perspective on the notion text engine jake, thanks for taking the time to explain everything!
It's just so bloody unreliable. UK here. Literally everyone is on WhatsApp. I haven't found anyone who isn't!
Yup, sums up the ai crowd.
Blame the War on Drugs and our asinine DEA with drug scheduling that is completely decoupled from science and reality. Never vote Republican, they just enjoy torturing the sick.
> "Pay up or we'll report you to the government" is a textbook example of blackmail.

It's hard to feel too bad about companies who are actually doing illegal things that the government should be notified about anyway. It's like someone reporting their drug dealer to the police because they discovered their dealer was lacing their drugs with fentanyl. Sure, they're a snitch, but people are safer knowing the truth.
> doing it myself

You can even skip the cook.
It is now. It wasn't 200 years ago. Verbal communication was. In the very near future, the major means for getting anything done might well be producing instructions for a computer. Those who cannot do that might well be in a lot of trouble employment wise.
Others have responded to you as if you weren’t being disingenuous, so I will respond as one should to people like you: go fuck yourself.

Anyone that dismisses this as being a scatterbrained person that likes to do speed is clearly not trying to help anyone and are only here to tear them down and make them hate themselves more than they already do. The world would be a better place if trash like you was collected and disposed of. Grow up, asshole.
At some point you run out of jobs to replace, while just making your product less appealing. The entire world can't be employed by tech, and the answer isn't cut out workers - it's stop making things expensive. If technology drives efficiency, why do prices constantly rise instead of fall?
[1] That isn't the benchmarks game.

This is the benchmarks game:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
There's a ton of options between paying premium cloud prices on egress and running your own data centers.
> Breaking: Apple will support RCS - the green bubble shame set to end

Note that the green bubble could be kept for other reasons: RCS is a major improvement over SMS/MMS, but there could still be functionality that isn't on par with a completely in-house system like 'iMessage'.

The green/blue distinction may still be useful for setting certain expectations on how things work.
Right, so instead of 20 entities tracking you for example now you 18.. the false sense of privacy is far more dangerous than knowing your messages are not private (Like when Tucker Carlson used Signal thinking it was private to find later all his messages were not, regardless if it was a bugged app or an OS, the false sense of privacy is worse, he probably won’t texted those on iMessage for example). Same argument you can see with “vpn is private and we keep no logs because you can trust us!” plus it can be defeated with browser fingerprinting, or paying a hefty price for this “top private email” provider when the recipient doesn’t even use any privacy settings or anything let alone email as a protocol is not meant to be private, it’s all a business model, and the gullible buys it, you “have” to trust that Signal server is not backdoor-ed in real time, and as the old rule in security, if you can access the physical hardware you can in theory access anything in there, you don’t know the hardware is used there, is there any memory injection exploit that get activated after the so called audits? You can’t know, you have to trust that.
My open source project got stolen by a HN user
Hey everyone, I've got a bit of a situation and could use some insight.

So, I created this open-source project called Outstatic (https://outstatic.com), it's been my pet project for a while. But here's the twist: I just found out someone on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hoofhearted) took my entire project, renamed it, and has been showing it off all over the internet as their own thing.

I'm not usually one to call people out, but this is just too much. The only reason I found out was because this person was asking for help with my project on our Discord server, and I got curious.

Turns out, they've been pretending to develop this 'new' project since April and have even been warned by the mods here for spamming about it. When I casually mentioned that I stumbled upon their project and that it looked cool, they went on and on about their 'original vision' and even had the nerve to ask me to join them as a co-founder!

I understand that open source means people can use and modify the work, but claiming total credit and denying any connection to the original project? That's a bit much. I did bring up the issue of giving credit and licensing, and the response was a vague promise of 'eventually' doing it.

Just wanted to get this off my chest and see what you all think. It's a weird spot to be in, for sure.

He's fooled a bunch of people into joining and contributing to “his project”. So I feel like I should at least warn them that they are making contributions to a "stolen” project.

Here's a list of posts where this person claims they built everything and intentionally mention all the tech stack but leaves “Outstatic” out of it: https://dub.sh/code-theft
If you have a sustainable business model, you don't need the network effects. Threema is fine with a smaller userbase because they have a business model that works.
There's also Insect for interactive use: https://insect.sh/
> They think, it's fine to be inefficient, I'll just get a bigger X. And we are now blessed with technology and solutions that make that a possibility, when for the longest time it wasn't.

Unfortunately, the culture in my group is basically this. We never address things until they're dire inefficiencies; thus, I spend a nontrivial amount of my time addressing workloads that take 10+ hours but need to be faster (and often with minor changes are cut down to 2 hours).

Having a culture of "I'll just throw more hardware at it" / "If it takes an hour or ten, I still am going to run it and get the results tomorrow" is costing ridiculous amounts of money and lost time. It's such an uphill battle to try to change that culture.
I encourage you to read the article, but Signal minimizes the metadata it stores about you, doesn't hold on to you contact list, doesn't keep information about your IP address, etc.

WhatsApp instead makes tons of money from this kind of metadata.
> GPT checkers report that it was likely generated.

I agree it looks GPT generated.

However, I would not use an online “GPT checker” as I don’t trust them to be actually reliable at all.
You can use GitHub Actions to track your web analytics for free (sorta)
Considering how we were talking about how dual-SIM phones are niche in the US, I think my comment was rather relevant.
I hope they continue the green bubble shaming. Apparently RCS (at least as implemented in practice) still doesn't support end to end encryption.

In particular, they should color messages green if they can be forged by intermediaries / collected for bulk surveillance / used for ad targeting / sold to third parties by your carrier / etc.
This is well said. People who dont have ADHD or a similar cognitive dysfunction look at smart drugs as a boost above average to gain high performance - because they havent experienced ADHD or dismiss it. Unfortunately the reality is that folks with ADHD typically feel very below average regardless of their IQ, missing out on meeting details, falling behind in work, procrastinating severely vs their peers. Adderall makes me think "so this is what everyone else feels like" when I take it, and I can just get things done at the most simple levels.
Or more creepily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita
> There are no VMs or containers

> an operating system (NixOS)

> Nix is there under the covers, but you don’t need to know anything about

How exactly does Nix run without using containers or VMs?