jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They could have promoted their version via Facebook itself and then spend a “cool” billion or two on advertising this globally and/or incentivizing installs.

Assuming a $2b ad spend matched by $2b of internal Facebook promotion value, that'd give an user acquisition budget of around $8 per user. If the author thinks that'd be enough to tempt the majority of Whatsapp users to use a Facebook equivalent then he's grossly underestimated the value people put on Whatsapp - more specifically, the value in fact it wasn't Facebook. Facebook would have needed to spend a lot to overcome that.

I have no doubt that someone at Facebook ran the numbers and realised it'd be cheaper to simply buy the opposition. I actually think Facebook would have paid a good bit more than they did.
Why would a depositor care about the difference between trustworthiness and creditworthiness?
Thanks for the answer. I'm still not sure I understand this, but I'll do some poking around.
Only vulnerable to 5 of them:

CVE-2015-0207 - Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen
LibreSSL is not vulnerable, but the fix was safe to merge.
We have a few tricks up our sleeve.
Only if you look at quarterly return.
People could also agree on a language to use in Reddit that uses a ticker to get through the approval system (e.g. AAPL) but then in the content of the message, indicate the ticker actually being discussed by look at the first letter of each of the first few words of the post.

For example

Subject: AAPL is awesome

Message: Generalizing My Equations in a very interesting way ...

When the mods catch on this and write bots to deal with it, we invent a new language. It's faster to invent codes than for mods to write bots so they can never keep up.
The iOS app store prohibits downloading code at runtime, excluding some very specific circumstances.

As long as the airport rules can be stored as data, not code, then iOS would be fine with pulling them.. but at that point you have a data blob saying effectively "in country X, you can use payment Y", and you still need code that knows "payment Y means enable this section of the app and use this library"... and you can't download that library at runtime on iOS.

So my guess is that the code implementing regional rules have to be bundled with the app due to apple's restrictions, and the associated data that could be dynamically downloaded is to small to not just bundle it too.
802.11b to 802.11g was not much of a transition, just higher speeds without any real protocol improvements. Back then when I was using long distance (~4 km rural wireless hops -- was too far for DSL) 802.11g links, they were atrociously unreliable. It wasn't until 802.11n gear finally came out is when wireless finally began to work reasonably well for me. MIMO meant that reflections and other oddities were better compensated for. Moore's law strikes again - more transistors, more math, better performance!
dont forget its gotta have a vector graphic mascot and a custom TLD from a design team of MFA students. if the disclosure page doesnt take over my mouse like a new iPhone release website and include a youtube video i just cant be bothered.
If it’s doable in Scandinavia I’d say it’s doable in the whole US too. It’s not comfortable some days, but it’s doable (disclaimer - I don’t do it even in nice weather but I pass a lot of people with my car that do).
Companies were already willing to fire you for posting racist stuff before Twitch made this decision.
Just because there are others that have gotten away with having their own JDK & not faced Oracles lawyers doesn't mean they weren't one day going to have to litigate it out.

The precedent matters.

I'm again willing to accept coincidence here, but doubt will be eternal.
Looks like the author is undecided on what to push next. Hardware - software "solutions" are not the issue, his definition of what his data is worth, to him, as to the pushers as part of an overview of how to stump the global masses is still opaque to the author. F** the data, it is the amassed, filtered, analysed dataset that is globbed over the wire that matters. If the author really has some content with rationality in-built, originality expressed, it is probably half an a4 page in hand-writing. That would be his back-up(so as not to forget what in a bright flash came up in his processor-mind, the once in his life-time), as it would be his legacy to the world. His billing and buying patterns, with his earnings defining his prodigy of consumption not power who cares? What the glob tells about similar individuals, that is what power minds.

Above as to repaint the context, really... this article is as close to a reduction to "nothing" as can be conceived.
There are a lot of misguided beliefs about the Medieval period arising from a popular Gothic/Romantic revival in the 19th century. The period became known by another name - "the Dark Ages" - and was seen as dark, mysterious, and primitive. That completely got wrong what the Medieval period really was - the transition from Roman imperial rule to early-modern European states, and a small industrial revolution in technology including agriculture and navigation.

The popular view of all-powerful, romantic nobility and dumb peasants also comes from this mischaracterization. In reality, the period's instability after the Roman empire fell really made kings and nobles more akin to local warlords playing at Roman customs, and there were exceptions to the rule like prosperous city-republics. Peasant life was also sophisticated, rational, and complex, completely attuned to local weather and crop cycles. A good blog series goes into detail about this here:

https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...

The important thing to realize is that no matter how difficult it was, how long ago it occurred, and how foreign the customs were for a certain period, people are still people. They have emotions, worries, good days, and struggles. If you take things in perspective and empathize with the people that preceded you on this world, history will lose a lot of its mystery.
Pretty much, we just happen to be on a big (empty) island.
> but if you want to succeed you are going to see a lot of Bezos-built barriers to climb.

Like what, though? How is Amazon unfairly stopping indie stores from succeeding?
I mean yeah, if there ever was any other intelligent species or subspecies on this planet, we either killed them all or fucked them all.
It's not about deleting 1000 lines of code, that's just an example.

It could even be as simple as moving cursor 1000 lines below or above. Or doing bulk operations.
I can't even imagine, sometimes I feel like AWS offers this pretty facade of "scale it up easy" and in reality its like "wait, I can't even see why this thing is failing because its a layer below, and AWS support costs mega bucks"
"Absorbed" does a lot of work, suggesting that there was not a lot of violence, since the DNA is intermingled.

But war in the ancient times, would result in DNA intermingling. The men would be killed, and the women kept alive.

An example from the Bible:

Dueteronomy 20:12-15

12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Regarding female captives - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

10 When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

This what war and conflict was like in the ancient world, in recorded history. It was likely very similar to this in pre-history when there was conflict between modern humans and Neanderthals. The males would be killed and the women takes as wives/(sex)slaves.

The DNA evidence does nothing to dispute violent conflict between humans and Neanderthals.
Glad I'm not the only one who finds the Verge's foray into politics to be wholly unwelcome.
"e.g they do have so bloody many customers who'd love mobile devices with the ms office suite. there, right there is you focus point."

Given that Windows Phones (mobile devices with the MS office suite) have been on the market for 3 years and not really taken off, I'd wager your theory isn't really true. Clearly having MS Office is not enough to sway many people.
4K gaming is already a thing with very-high-end PC setups, 8K is just 4x more, so it's not exactly 'science fiction'. This is for desktop GPU of course, not mobile.

But: I think gaming won't actually be the 'break-through' application which brings in the masses, but instead recorded or live short 'movie experiences', stuff like helmet camera recordings from base jumpers or parachuters, or those crazy Russian kids who climb sky scrapers. A VR Google Street view where you can explore distant places, or 360 degree Rover material from Mars, a 360 degree camera attached to the outside of the ISS. All those small viral videos which drive Facebook and reddit.

For these 360 degree movies you don't need an expensive and power-hungry GPU, the simple mobile GPU in your existing smartphone will do, and you also don't have the uncanny valley effect.

I think 3D cameras will soon be common in smartphones, and full 360-degree GoPro style cameras will be standard for everything where a normal GoPro is used today.

[edit: typos]
Congrats to the Nix team! A lot of new packages in this release.

See also: GNU Guix, based on Nix. https://gnu.org/s/guix
What you’re arguing for can be classified under the “slippery slope fallacy”.

We have repeatedly seen that, while deplatforming does drive content creators to move to other platforms, these platforms will not have the same reach as the mainstream ones. I.e. it’s not a perfect remedy but it’s quite effective.
Sorry you are right, I confused this with reordering.
> "Subscriptions and paywalls are markedly better than advertisements, for the consumer at least."

Except the ones that don't or can't pay for it. People want more options for access, not less. The extremist position is saying all advertising is bad while ignoring the economic impact and the fact that almost all businesses grow because of it.
Talk about synchronicity. I was thinking only about a week ago about this very same problem.

My solution was much the same also. My solution was to temporarily drain the water, polish the porcelain with one of the those silicone furniture polishes leaving it smooth and slippery, and then refilling the bowl.

'Never anything new under the sun.'
I can assure you that Rust's syntax is not designed to further separate application development from system development, if anything, we encourage a way broader audience to learn Rust than just pure systems programmer folks. In general, Rust's syntax is intended to be vaguely similar to C/C++/Java, but with some influence from functional languages where appropriate, and with syntactic forms that work better with type inference. There is very few syntactic forms that are truly novel in Rust (even lifetimes are taken from OCaml's generic syntax, because lifetimes are generics!)

That said,

fn my_panic(_info: &core::panic::PanicInfo) -> ! {

would be something like

[[ noreturn ]] void my_panic(&core::panic::PanicInfo _info) {

in C++, which is very similar, syntactically speaking. The main differences are:

* fn for function declarations

* Rust has the return type after parameter list, and adds ->

* ! is [[ noreturn ]], less punctuation actually!

* no need for the superflous void return type

* "name: type" not "type name", which adds a single :

I am admittedly very biased, but it seems much more similar than different.
A noble view but giving China too much credit. The more that US invests in China, the more the US is supporting the atrocities in Chinese concentration camps, mass surveillance and censorship, and military expansion into international territories. This is not at all just an economic issue. China is acting without impunity and it is up to world leaders to step up and put a stop to their aggressive tactics.

I think most people would be sold on decoupling from China or at least entertaining the idea of enacting punitive actions on China the moment they realize that more than 1 million Chinese citizens are being detained against their will and having their organs ripped out from them while still being half-conscious. All the while, their family gravesites are bulldozed [1] and the CCP sends Chinese men to sleep with their wives [2]. Unfortunately, the insane amount of influence through bribery, censorship, and propaganda exported from China has made people completely unaware of Holocaust-level atrocities.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/09/chinas-destruc...

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7647865/Muslim-wive...
I've made no claims of equivalence between the two parties.

The topic we are discussing is moral grandstanding on social media. The comment I replied to suggested that only one "side" is guilty of this behavior. I'm interpreting a "side" as the supporters of particular party and their actions on social media, and not the policies and actions of the party's politicians.
I believe there are people on both sides of the spectrum that routinely cringe at the behavior of those they agree with. There are many staunch Republicans that wish to distance themselves from the social policies of their constituents. Likewise, there are Democrats that are unfairly given stigmatizing labels from their peers for having fiscally conservative views.
Both "sides" are guilty of tribal tendencies, ignoring any possibility of nuance, and pigeon-holing "centrists" into Team Red or Blue. And I'm not distancing myself to relish in my own smug either, I've been guilty of this as well.

Just like with football, neither side likes the guy that supports both teams when it's convenient.
Echoing another poster, people and individuals who are Chinese are not their government. You shouldn't equate working with Chinese individuals and talent as a tacit support of their government.
I made a firefox/chrome extension [1] based on
Kevin Hafy's script [2].

Firefox Addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-slack...
Chrome Extn: Pending Review

Per Sean0-'s comment, it looks like this might not be necessary though.

Edited: formatting

[1]: https://github.com/pocc/no-wysiwyg
[2]: https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet
The idea is that a gift card is "good enough"; some useful information can be derived from it, whereas an indirection is never "good enough"; if you're told your present is in another castle, you're no better for the wear: it's as if you've accomplished nothing at all. I think I might be able to capture that in a small pastiche.

That was the original idea for the comic. But it seemed like it would be really complicated, so I simplified it (but failed to update the text :-). But the simplification really fails to capture why you might expect x to be evaluated, even when it's not. It's all a bit dodgy. I'll sleep on it and see if I come up with anything better. It's certainly not the case that the trace output "takes time."
Who gets Italy?
Try BetterTouchTool or Magnet. Magnet's UI is a little nicer, but that doesn't really matter since you'll never see after you've set it up. I prefer BetterTouchTool because the shortcut keys are more flexible. Perhaps you can match the i3wm keys to leverage that existing muscle memory.
It’s a matter of degree of truth in this case, and it is an order of magnitude or more true for China.
What happens to nuclear power plants if they’re destroyed by a nuclear blast? Or a nuclear waste facility? Wouldn’t that result in a Chernobyl like event, without the ability to contain it as quickly? How would the world handle a few dozen Chernobyls all at once?
Hmm, and evaluation technique cannot be filled by something

One cannot fill an abstract concept like a technique with things

Maybe you mean that every evaluation technique will detect that most of the job applicants aren't good at coding? And therefore, all evaluation techniques seem to work? (Although some techniques are a lot better than others)

If so, then, yes I agree. That's a good point
especially in a period that kills xx% of the population _due to scarcity of resources_.

in a black plague situation the following generations are almost guaranteed an economic boom of sort as there are more natural resources per capita, in a nuclear winter scenario I believe that many would die and the survivors would still find themselves with incredible scarcity.
I am not in a position to know what precisely has transpired in Ukraine, but your comments are proposing either-or alternatives which are incomplete.

Selective, limited, terror tactics against a civilian population can help an occupying army by cowing them into submission. Given the "fog of war", all sort of plausible denials can address PR fallout from the few, selective, events. Carpet bombing may cow the population but there is no room for denail. This calculus holds true for any invading army, including Russians in Ukraine.

Grozny was carpet bombed because Chechens are not ethnic Russians and if they had finally managed to get rid of Russians from their homeland, the rest of the ethnic patchwork that is the Russian federation would have fallen apart.

I don't know about barbarians, but Russians constantly moan and groan about being invaded and being insecure but as far I can tell they are just as brutal and self justified as other empire minded nations. The B-Team of wanna be overlords. That's their secret shame, imho. That "Anglos" have this game figured out and they keep failing at it.
curious because i can't find any alternative reading besides the question if the eggs that the girl found were the same eggs that the organizers had hidden.
Thanks for Quordle. That's another chunk of my life taken up every day!
I dont mind people preparing data to build intelligent machines -- I mind what data they are preparing, and subsequently, what their claims about these machines are.

If you can build a hand to grasp objects, and train its substructure to grasp this-way-and-that -- fine. So long as it can, in the end, also train itself... as we all do when we type.

Nature provides something to bootstrap learning, but it isnt "data" in the sense in which ML requires data. It isnt relevant, quantified, premeasured. The "data" nature provides is in our biochemistry .. how we react to our environment, etc.

If AI research can produce an intelligence which is able to formulate the very terms of problems it wishes to solve, great. I dont see "summarising the solution" as a strategy which is event in the ballpack.
This is not unique to Pearson. I do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies, and I've worked on all sorts of education projects, including numerous projects for school districts, Head Start, Early Head Start, and Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK—it's an NYC program). For most of these projects, funders require applicants to identify the curriculum(s) that'll be used. The curriculums themselves are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pages of stuff like this:

3. The Buildings Study; (a) Investigating the Topic; Day 5; Investigation 3: What are buildings made of? What makes them strong? Vocabulary: English: Characteristics. Spanish: Caracteristicas. Large Group: Opening Routine: "Sing a song and talk about who's here." Poem: "A Building My Size." Use Might Minutes 49, "A Tree My Size."

(From The Creative Curriculum: For Preschool: Featuring the Buildings Study.)

I'll stop now. These things are always faintly ridiculous, but they're mandated, so people produce them, and others use them. I have a shelf sitting next to me.

A lot of funders will list validated curriuclums, so you have to chose from this, and only a relatively small number of companies are in the game. Those that are, from what I've heard on the grapevine, also spend a lot of money and time and energy taking people out to dinner and doing the sort of stuff you might've seen on Mad Men. It's a hard business but can also be a very profitable one.

The teachers on the front lines know all this stuff is bogus. The basics of reading, writing, and math haven't changed substantially in decades. Everyone knows that great teachers aren't great teachers because they've mastered "Common Core" or "The Buildings Society."

But most of these decisions get made deeply underground, and no one sees them. Common Core has for whatever reason become a politically popular thing to hate, but if you drill down to find each state's standards, they won't be any better.

In some ways not much has changed since Richard Feynman wrote "Judging Books by Their Covers" (http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm) decades ago. The big publishers all know this stuff. Even the Al Jazeera article is only seeing a shadow from the main event.

EDIT: For more on UPK in particular see http://blog.seliger.com/2015/01/11/trying-to-give-away-unive.... Some outsiders are aware of how this stuff works, but it's not overtly corrupt and it's not sexy enough to be newsworthy most of the time.
Required: https://xkcd.com/927/
To some extent, it seems that it's something the community can self-regulate against. Read it and don't think it was worthwhile? Don't upvote it.

I actually don't mind sensationalist linkbait titles like this, as long as what I'm clicking on is actually worth making a sensationalist linkbait title about. That's clearly 100% subjective, though.
Why is 3G bandwidth not just a simple metered service where everybody pays the same rate?

Because the vast majority of people don't use enough bandwidth to make that option more profitable for the telcos than their current setup, where people buy much more bandwidth (if you measure it as being the maximum throughput times the amount of time in a month) than they need.
You didn't enjoy the benefit of being able to compare the two ideas side-by-side? They both neatly fit the screen in most resolutions if your browser window is max height, no scrolling in that particular case.

Beautifully designed article and your specific example is a great attention to detail on the author's behalf.
> $15/month for the 200 MB/month “DataPlus” plan is a great starting price, and AT&T claims that 65 percent of their smartphone users use less than that. I thoroughly doubt that 65 percent of their iPhone users use less than that.

Actually, I don't doubt it, I'm one of them. Though it has more to do with the fact that coverage in my area is EDGE-only and that, except when I'm driving, I'm pretty much in a WiFi hotspot all the time.