jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Most people in the UK use WhatsApp .. the fact that we have WhatsApp groups means Facebook can make this ultimatum with fairly good confidence we'll stomach it.
Or realize the overwhelming majority have no interest in limiting their communication and social network due to "privacy concerns", and already have both a Facebook and Whatsapp account that are connected and sharing data. You can do this if you want, but don't preach it as if most people should care.
Scroll up. I added to that comment with two of the deleted tweets, and in a subsequent tweet clarified what I was saying.

By all appearances, it is Trump that deleted the messages. And understandably, because they make him look like the instigator. If Twitter deleted them, the message would be different. And the link they give tells you what those messages would be.

It is easy to duplicate that message yourself. Make a tweet. Reply to your tweet. Delete the initial tweet. You are left with the same thing seen here.
Do you have any insight as to why libdispatch added support for this new clock internally (in the last year or two), but did not expose it in any public API? In C I can manually construct a dispatch_time_t that will use make libdispatch use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW¹, if I'm willing to make assumptions about the format of dispatch_time_t² (despite libdispatch warning that the internal format is subject to change³). And I can't even do this in Swift. It would be really useful to have this functionality, so I'm mystified as to why it's hidden.

¹Technically it uses mach_continuous_time() first if available (which appears to be equivalent to CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW), then clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, &ts) on Linux, then clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts), then some other API for Windows.

²Conveniently enough the value that is equivalent to DISPATCH_TIME_NOW using the monotonic clock is just INT64_MIN, at least in the current encoding.

³Swift makes assumptions about the internal format of dispatch_time_t so I don't know if it actually can meaningfully change. Newer versions of Swift now use stdlib on the system, but any app built with a sufficiently old version of Swift still embeds its own copy of the stdlib. Granted, additions (like the monotonic clock) should be fine, as the Swift API does not actually bridge from dispatch_time_t so it only ends up representing times it has APIs to construct. Since it doesn't have APIs to construct monotonic times, they won't break it.
Being a member of the "liberal elite" (I think I am) I think it is our fault.

We lost our mojo. We forgot that leadership is not leaving anybody behind.

We left a lot of people behind, then we blamed them for not keeping up.

Sorry, on behalf of my class, I really am sorry. The consequences, when we face ecological catastrophe, could be very serious indeed.

Stay safe, people, and be kind
> 20 years ago we started an un-ending war in the Mideast

Or, given the conflict starting from the first Gulf War and continuing up until the second, maybe 30 years ago.

Or, given the US deep involvement in the immediately preceding Iran-Iraq war, maybe closer to 40 years ago.

Or...
Although lockdown measures in the UK look very similar to measures in other European countries I can tell that there is very little police control, probably due to lack of resources.

For example I don't know anyone who arrived from abroad being checked if they are self isolating at home as they declared.
Unfortunately the only reason they can do that is that they are the government.
We are currently using Postgis + geonames (the same DB used by this project) and it works very well. I'm curious to see benchmarks comparing the two.

edit: We are only interested in knowing the nearest big city though
It is.

But some people will believe in anything they want, and are completely sure that they have institutional support. (And the fact that even the institution is questionable won't even cross their minds.)

That happens for every kind of institution, not only religious. Violent sports fans are a very explicit example.
> not everything is worth the overhead of setting up all of those tools

I have a hard time disagreeing with this, since quite a bit of my professional life involves writing such configuration files.

That said, even in the cases you describe, I at least try and set up a shell script or makefile to keep things repeatable and documented.
>Careful. If an attacker is ever able to observe the output for a very short password - one byte, say - then only one byte of your secret salt is used, and the attacker could begin brute-forcing the secret salt starting with the first byte.

Can you be kind enough to explain with a very simple example?

I would appreciate understanding your point - Thank you
They probably have the same answer they have for the "Why can't I search comments" question: they can't afford it.
One of the few things you can do that will get Reddit admin attention is to "manipulate" votes. It's not surprising that mods are cautious when people say "get this whole sub to upvote the post".

From a first reading that screenshot sounds like vote-brigading, not like using a single thread of questions within a sub to organise a list of great questions.
Someday soon we'll be able to order ourselves one-off machines like this (or any way we like). At least that's my hope
Yep: https://twitter.com/morqon/status/1379271413807390722?s=21
> I will take this moment also to mention that "re-implement" isn't exactly right in that they modified the protocol slightly to allow for someone in control of the administration server to change a user's private key without their knowing, so that the admin can decrypt the E2E communications using the known key.

Do you have a source for that claim?
I like the term 'public health theatre'.
(1) You can't always trust the opinions of 100 developers, even if you can somehow consolidate them. Certain things are best seen firsthand, even if you have opinions of top 20 people you trust.

(2) Lugging multiple phones is clumsy enough that most people won't consider it, most CEOs, even more so. Two is somehow tolerable. And you need competitors' apps always available, to try things while you have an idea, and to easily compare.
The Humble Bundle used to release actual numbers. For sales that offered games on Linux, Linux users accounted for around 20% of revenue, often beating out Mac. Interestingly enough, for sales that only offer Windows-only games, Linux revenue still reaches 1-5%.

https://cheesetalks.net/humble/
If someone touched infected surface every day during the past year, their risk of being contaminated would be about 3.6% according to this study (10^-4 at each contact). Touching twice per day would not double the risk, since the process is not linear. So 3.6% is a a kind of absolute maximum.

Note the paper suggest the real rate could be lower. For instance, a 10^-5 risk per contact would mean <0.4% risk for 365 contacts.
Nice project btw! Were you experienced in C&C++ before learning Rust?
For some odd synapse firing reason this quote popped into my mind while reading your comment:

"It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of BURNING them!" - Henry Jones - Last Crusade

- Not wishing to insult you but you want to get rid of a service that you personally dislike. Newsflash: Many people don't share that opinion. (And I'm frankly almost as tired of hearing it as I am tired of hearing about the amazing benefits of crypto currencies.)
>Do a (paid) take-home test

I would like to do that. How do you put the amount in the company books? It can't be salary as they're not yet signed up, they probably won't be able to give you an invoice or any other document. Or am I just being paranoid and let my accountant handle it?
Isn’t creating profiles that are not real deceptive? Your details, pictures are used to create a profile. This is one aspect that comes to my mind being deceptive.
I work at a digital agency (http://carrot.is/, hosted on Netlify), and Netlify has become our go to hosting solution for all our static projects. Their API is killer, but what we've fallen in love with most of all is the webhook support. That means we can use an external CMS like Wordpress or Contentful, load that data into the static site generator of choice (in our case roots: http://roots.cx/), and then send a webhook to Netlify to recompile the site every time content changes.

They've also been super responsive to any issues we've had, even proactively contacting us when a build fails with a solution in hand before we even noticed. Everything gets pushed to a CDN so our sites are as fast as they can possibly be. Happy to answer any questions from a customer POV, highly recommend these guys.
The reason Angular has silent failure by default is because failure is designed to happen all the time - this means angular expressions can deal with data that hasn't arrived/hasn't been created yet.

This might sound like a bad thing, but it actually makes the page work without confusing the expression syntax with endless or statements.

That said, I do see your point - it's frustrating to find something not working due to a typo in an expression, with no errors to point it out. A halfway solution could be some kind of debug directive/tag that logs when an expression doesn't evaluate? Or perhaps something integrated into Angular Batarang? (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/angularjs-batarang...)
Could you link some sources to your claims?
Second that. Nobody has time for verbose blog posts these days.

To paraphrase Tuco, if you're going to say something, say it, don't talk about saying it.
the google maps experience was designed by apple. pinch+zoom, gps mapping, etc.
We had about 45 min of downtime around 4am EST. Our RDS instances, EBS backed and normal instances all returned without problems. We are in Virginia us-east-1a and us-east-1b.
You haven't answered my question at all. I'm asking how MSFT can "install" someone at Nokia. All you've said is that Elop was a good employee who got promoted, and then Nokia came and tried to hire him. That's not MSFT "installing" anyone.

The far simpler explanation is that if Elop is going to make a big bet with Nokia, he feels safer doing it with MSFT (who need Nokia, and where he knows people) than Google (who don't, and where he doesn't).
You enter the URL in the URL input not the text box.
'Slaves' would imply that we would have some useful value.
I love Dropbox as much as anyone, but unless you're using it for audio, video or (lots of) photography, the free offering is plenty. I'd be surprised if they were much north of 5%.

That said, they've got a great "long game". Everyone will fill it up EVENTUALLY-- and then you have to choose between nuking files and converting to premium.
Jobs seems to much prefer the idea of a smaller number of really really classy apps. And that seems (to me anyway) to be reflected in their changes to the developer terms.

To claim the reverse is kind of going against years of Apple branding (clean, classy, slick).

I think the OP's point was that Apple probably wants those few "really really classy apps" to be Apple's, not 3rd party. It makes sense, too.
I didn't say that CAPM precisely modeled the market. I said that individual investors can't beat CAPM, meaning they can't beat the reward/risk relationship predicted by the model.

The model predicts that you can get higher returns by accepting greater variance on those returns. Even at moderate risk levels, it's easy to predict that some investors will happen to get the kind of returns you describe. Were your returns a result of your agency? Who can say.

Let's sidestep the issue of luck. I don't believe it is likely that your prior returns are a meaningful indicator of your future returns. But I could be wrong.

For a given asset, (Jensen's) Alpha is usually quite small compared to total return. How do you isolate the Alpha you identify?
It doesn't just prove that there's infinitely many irrationals -- that is trivially easy to prove. For instance we know pi is irrational, therefore 2pi, 3pi, 4pi, 5pi,... etc are all irrational as well.

Cantor's proof proves that there's no one-to-one correspondence between reals and integers (whereas there is a one-to-one correspondence between integers and rationals), and therefore the infinite set of reals is "bigger" than the infinite set of rationals.

That there is an infinite number of irrationals should follow as a trivial consequence of this. (Left as an exercise for the reader...)
Yeah, that is going to be a problem wrt pow camps when we have to house all those who surrender so they can get food, clean water and a bed to sleep in.
Agreed. I don't really have a problem with connecting my GitHub account, but a landing page should at least explain what the site does and provide some basic screenshots/feature overview.
I have vague memories of my first visit which must of been in 1961 or 1962 and I was 6/7. This was back when they sold ticket packs containing some number of "A" through "E" tickets. The "E" tickets were the coveted ones as they were the big rides. The "A" tickets were things like the Main Street trolley. We always ended the day with only "A" and "B" tickets. Of course, crowds weren't insane like today and we didn't have to wait more than 20-30 minutes.
I thought my post made it clear that I was both aware of that and built one of the largest Jekyll sites on the internet.

I'd link the damn thing but I don't want to dox myself.
The name (including the .pub part) made me think this was related to the Secure Scuttlebutt client Patchbay: https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay
It's the purpose of the specific system of western capitalism's system of sole-ownership in perpetuity of private property.
"Thank you for choosing Streisand Effect Charter Service, providing daily access to the hotspots of entitled Billionaires who abuse the legal system since 2019..."
Counterargument: it was meaningful and interesting to me.
Well this is amazing, it's simple and functional, solves a wide variety of problems with a very simple approach.

Congratulations for shipping it!
I think he meant FreeBSD for Linux users. Since most of the points in there are only relevant to FreeBSD.

I am an OpenBSD user, but the reason I don't use it as often is because most of the VPS/dedicated servers providers only offer Linux.
I feel like I should be offended about the Northern Hemisphere-centric nature of the plot. What about the lack of sunlight below 42 S from May to July?

(Admittedly that only includes half of New Zealand's South Island, the tip of Tasmania, and part of Patagonia. Plus all of Antarctica, but I assume if you're wintering in Antarctica you're probably well aware of Vitamin D deficiency.)
> Most of the people on HN sell/create digital goods and to say that we have no rights over the things we create is very insulting.

Most of those involved in the ACM and IEEE also sell/create digital goods for a living, and yet in their ethics literature they conclude or imply that treating intellectual property like actual property makes little sense logically or philosophically. Of course, they stay safe by admonitioning us to obey laws unless there's ethical compulsion otherwise.
The works of Shakespeare (died 1616) were written without copyright protection (Statue of Anne 1709). It can be argued, based on the amount of copying from previous authors, that they could only be written because there was their sources were not subject to copyright.

Although copyright is one mechanism to create incentives for creative activity, it is far from the only mechanism.

kb
> I think it is a mistake to make something a human right that has to be provided by somebody else.

So you don't believe in property rights; the right to an attorney; the right to a trial by jury; the right of a speedy trial; protection from unreasonable search and seizure; the right to confront your accuser? All of these things require someone else to do something they might not be paid to do or would be paid by the government to do through tax revenue.
Wow that's actually horrid.
Which countries are closest to lifting the first lockdown? Italy is generating record death tolls every day but that could mean the pandemic will die down soon (pardon the phrasing.) I feel like that and Germany might see some improvement by the end of April, they've been taking things quite seriously.
You're getting a lot of downvotes...but this is how the eradication of Smallpox started...through inoculation.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.h...
It’s interesting that you are “relatively” optimistic about the situation in New York. I’ve been watching Mayor De Blasio in the recent weeks, and, he seems to have become more and more nervous over the course. Almost desperate. Maybe he is just playing it or he is not as cool as Cuomo, who, granted, does a good job so far.
On the contrary, I wish we'd be more aggressive about drivers licensing. The whole process is fairly meaningless.

My mother-in-law barely has enough motor control to turn the key to start the car, yet somehow she just renewed her license. People like her need to be taken for a test drive, not allowed to renew online.
Thank you for the link, but I can reasonably expect that Qt bindings for Nim either exist or will become available soon, as most languages that get any traction get them. I still don't know, however, if it's a good choice to try and put a GUI app together in Nim. Will it surprise me with a huge binary, like Rust does? [1] Will it be easy to develop in it on multiple platforms? I can find all those things myself, but in the spirit of what the OP describes as putting the best foot forward, I'd like to be able to quickly assess whether the language is potentially a better choice to solve my next problem than those I already know or am planning to learn.

[1] - http://endl.ch/content/cxx2rust-pains-wrapping-c-rust-exampl...
I'd like to add something about how the quality of your employees affects the outcome of the open office arrangement.

If you work with a bunch of thoughtful people, of course they are going to respect flow. And they're going to realize when their personal habits affect the people around them. Even gregarious extroverts will be quiet in a library like atmosphere, and move their conversations to a kitchen or break out room

The open office allows people to split into sub teams and to work together on projects more fluidly than an arrangement where people have strong physical barriers to moving.

But it's a sort of environment that comes together as the sum of its parts. Forcing an open environment into a shitty company with shitty employees will likely make it worse.
I don't feel this way at all, and judging from the number of similar comments that popped up while writing this, I don't think I'm in the minority either. Why can't an introvert put on headphones or simply disregard irrelevant conversations in an open office? Why do type A extroverts feel the need to control things they happen to be nearby?
"occasional spontaneous fun interruptions"

I would prefer to choose when to have my interruptions.
Open office is by no means a new thing Google invented. It existed a long, long time ago.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/04/23/opinion/23rfd...
Haven't used Swift of its strings yet, but I have used string/unicode in python, NSString in Cococa, and string in Go. The only one that hasn't bit me in the ass is string in Go; the approach they take is a sequence of bytes, utf8 encoded by convention (which is easy to follow); there are methods to work with unicode code points when you need to, otherwise it's just bytes. It's simple, well-defined, non-magic, and doesn't screw you over.
The "nuclear boy scout" was well on his way to something before he was shut down due to public safety concerns. I'm not certain what that something would have been, but Mr. Entropy suggests that a destructive device was more likely than a constructive one.

Granted, he was working off of principles already explored and established by Manhattan and other nuclear physics research, but it is still possible that he would have created something novel before killing himself, and possibly others, simply because externally funded researchers must necessarily be prudent and rational to secure external research funding, and therefore don't intentionally try anything too far beyond the ordinary.

Crackpots, on the other hand, can do whatever crazy thing they can imagine with their own money. The only thing really stopping a tinkerer's nuke is poor availability of appropriate isotopes. And David Hahn began construction of a breeder reactor in his own backyard. At age 17.

The "demon core" accidentally went critical twice, killing the person closest to it within a month, both times. In both cases, that person had the presence of mind to remove the neutron reflectors as quickly as they were able. An amateur, acting alone, might have accidentally caused a criticality event large enough to qualify as "the first nuclear bomb".

Manhattan was more about adapting nuclear bombs for military use. It's really easy to create a bomb if you don't care about blowing yourself up (see also: "Things I Won't Work With" blog), but much more difficult to destroy only what you want to destroy, without dying yourself or going bankrupt.
Anyone who masters deep concentration will become good :-)
The kids working at sweatshops probably think it is a good gig too; it pays more then digging through piles of trash.
Bingo! There isn't a cloud OS and then an standards-ish implementation of that standard. All of the clouds are bespoke and closed source. That said, nothing weird about needing specific knowledge for running on the specific thing.

If I run a motorpool that is all Prius, then I'll want Prius mechanics.
Agree with another comment here saying that it's worth it. I've had way better luck reaching out to recruiters over LI than doing applications, and even better luck with two sided marketplaces like AngelList's Alist, Hired, and TripleByte.
Not entirely true, they have nag screens even when you subscribe.
Unfortunately, you will pay and still get the behavioral ad tracking. There was a time when cable television's premise was "TV with no commercials!"
Maybe .net does not include .net Core? .net standard falling would make sense then
That argument doesn’t really work. Measuring coins in their current value, not their theoretical value is used in other situations too. Specifically stocks. You can possibly sell $1b of stocks and expect to get $1b.
Hey did you know you can get notified? Just hit that bell icon.

Every single damn video if it’s not the YouTube app telling me it’s the creator, or both.