skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"would he have been sharper without them"

Probably not? It'd be pretty unusual for an already sharp person to become sharper at age 80.
in the US you have a right to free speech, not mass reach
If I were to speculate, and it would definitely be speculation, I would say it was adding some sort of key escrow for encrypted chats in the Enterprise. It's not uncommon for escrow to be a requirement in Enterprise encryption products.
On the contrary it gives insight into something I'd always wondered about. How did a chat app get such big mind share - its clear the strategy was deliberate, and that it worked.
> WhatsApp and Facebook have many users in the developing world who could not afford a subscription unless the price was extremely low.

I would make sense to me to scale the price to the market. Make it $5 in the US and 5 rupees in India.
Deep Learning Conspiracy
What's with the chess pieces setup?
This should be easy to verify with sampling: I mean count the stars in a spot in the sky and extrapolate to the rest.

Actually the recent Sky and Telescope article about killer asteroids mentioned another interesting form of sampling. The article said that astronomers have a high confidence that 90% of all large asteroids which cross earth's orbit are known. But how can this be? This is the argument: we "tag" an asteroid when we find it. Then we look for these types of asteroids over some period of time. 90% of the asteroids found in this period are already tagged ones, so we know only 10% remain.

I'm trying to get my head around the reliability of this method- at the very least the sampling has to be non-biased and sensitive.
I would wholeheartedly recommend Ubiquiti products. I use an EdgeRouter X and Unifi AP Lite and get almost no loss of speeds over WiFi compared to connecting directly to the modem. Also no packet loss or poor reception.

Their devices run Linux so you can ssh directly into them if you want to change something. All config options are also available via the command line interface.

If you want a consistent UI experience, choose one of their several "lines" and stick with it for all your hardware, i.e. use a Unifi Security Gateway + a Unifi Switch instead of the EdgeRouter X. This will allow you to control all your devices from the same interface. I went with the heterogenuous combination because it suited my needs.
But that is it. If all you want is basic messaging then you are probably right.

However, if you are trying to build a messaging platform, which is what probably FB intends to do, then it requires more investment. Today, you might think that that is where the problem. All the users really want is basic messaging. However, in 3-5yrs from today, the reality may be very different (see WeChat or LINE in APAC) and WhatsApp maybe a complete misfit in that world.

All good products evolve. For something like messaging, if all you provide is a basic product, then you risk yourself being taken over by default platform apps (such as what happened with iMessage on iOS in US). You need stronger lockins and FB is well suited to provide those.
> people who are currently in jail were doing something that was illegal at the moment

But consider that their actions are the reason why marijuana is becoming legal. The public sentiment against the War on Drugs is partly or mostly due to outrage the public felt at long sentences for possessing or dealing in marijuana. The people who did the most to get the laws overturned (even though they did it unwittingly) do not benefit from the changes. Everyone should benefit from the relaxed laws going forward except for the people who suffered to make it possible?
It's your mapping, so you can easily gather up everything with the given marker and hand it back to them. You only throw away the key (and delete attached data) if the user deletes their account (and maybe after some additional time elapses, in case they change their mind or were hacked); it's the same process as GDPR per-user encryption key deletion.
> Sonic, a local ISP, has been blitz building out fiber in the East Bay Area

As a lesson for the world, how does a company like Sonic get the money for that kind of investment?
Huh? People like the stuff Simone creates, and want her to be able to continue creating stuff. There's going to be a period of time where it will be tough for her to make money, and by supporting her on Patreon you make it more likely she will be able to return to making stuff after her recovery.
Microsoft didn't abuse a monopoly on Windows in the 90s either, as you could just run a Linux distribution on your own machine. Right? Wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

Just because someone can run a small-time operation out of their garage, doesn't mean another company doesn't have a monopoly.
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Oh, I know. On a human level I can't blame anyone for making that choice. But then exiting with a big pile of cash while complaining about what Facebook is doing feels a bit... eh.
I encountered a similar issue as a learning Objective-C programmer, with autorelease pools on macOS (probably iOS too): If you're allocating and autoreleasing ObjC objects in a thread without an autorelease pool, or not draining the pool, those allocations will still be billed to your application and not available to the OS.
@patio11 does the LLC package come with a DUNS number?
Well you could say the same about the entirety of "the cloud" ... no need to pay a team of sysadmins to manage, deploy, and maintain a data center, when you can easily provision a VM in seconds, or even better, use a SaaS offering so you don't even have to worry about applying patches and stuff ;)
>A close friend of mine, when we were 21, had heart attack and passed away. No family history of heart attacks, he was in excellent shape (cycling was his life) and just randomly out of the blue.

Not sure if this is the case here, but fatal heart attacks in healthy physically active young adults are often the result of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

This is a fairly common (~ 1 in 500) inheritable condition that can be easily diagnosed by ultrasound. Everybody do yourself a favour and get at least a routine checkup in every few years. It prevents deaths.
Marijuana was explicitly prosecuted [edit: criminalized] more aggressively to target certain groups of people. https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich... The laws were never just and that's why the "criminals" should be exonerated.
Agreed. I think one of the reasons that my employer wound up retiring their WFH program was because the value of the real estate cratered.

IE, if your plan was to let people WFH, then sell the buildings they used to occupy, that plan is going to go south if the value of the building drops by half.
See also, why hashing is not a good way to discover shared contacts, and a better way:
https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/
I think this may be a case where the truth is difficult for the general public to believe because it sounds too "conspiratorial".
What would you use then?

I don't think a manufacturer should be judged too harshly based on if they have vulnerabilities or not, since all software does, but rather on how they respond to and patch those vulnerabilities.
So which major vendor hasn't had a RCE on the LAN side? Even my current Asus router had an RCE on the LAN side a couple of years ago...

MikroTik fixed both of the issues you referenced, just as Asus fixed the issue I referenced. So I see no specific reason not to use either a MikroTik or a Asus device (and keep both up to date).

The only major thing I'd consider is:

- Does the manufacturer respond constructively?

- Is the device still receiving security updates/has no outstanding holes?
The way Whatsapp encryption works, they don't have the keys to hand over. Telegram is unique in its state-vulnerable encryption implementation
Eh, I feel like this is pretty bland. It should incorporate a dictionary attack database. For example, "password" should be considered way weaker than any combination of letters. I would look at https://howsecureismypassword.net/ for inspiration.
Median salary in India (WhatsApp's largest market) is $600-$1500 per year.
Missing a warning: You can get lost in here and start to programm in uml- which will result in alot of generated template code, in need to be fleshed out-
or a attempt to integrate coding snippets into your uml editor of choice and the realization that the most accurate representation of systems- is actually sourcecode.

The concept is never the full realization, and shouldnt become it.
Enough so that the tax payers understand the IRS isn't actually running on an IT system from 1958. That's a pretty hilariously low bar to set for a journalist to step over.
Come on. Quantopian doesn't have 100k users... maybe 5k?

EDIT: Here we go again... downvoted, then probably flagged and reprimanded by mod dang or something. Sigh.

I actually spent hundreds of hours on Quantopian, and from the activity in the forums you wouldn't think it has 100k users. Either that, or it's the most muted community on the internet.
Omar Khayyam

Great quote. But you probably know, that the English translation is more inspired by Omar, and much of what you enjoyed was the work of FitzGerald.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/516526...

Full Quote:

“But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me

The Quarrel of the Universe let be:

And, in some corner of the Hubbub couch'd,

Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee.”
After criticizing my argument that looking at spending of taxes is necessary to argue if its progressive or regressive, you now propose an argument that would make progressive taxes also regressive unless they are enough to compensate the utilitarian value of how the poorer and the richer spend their own wealth.

The utilitarian argument is for me one of the most practical and also one of the most scary. Are you ready to exploit the poor if it were proven that it was economically profitable to do so? I digress. My point is that seeing flat taxes as regressive is either false or inconclusive, regardless of the desire of being flat, regressive or progressive in taxation.
Or, you know, all going to see whatever you want and meeting up when you can. Festival protip: there's no law saying a group must stick together the entire time
I've had some very good experiences with Ubiquiti as well.
I would definitely not run linux windows macos netgear cisco juniper because they once had a RCE.
Depends on how strict your countries DVLA is. If you dump a car the last registered owner is going to get charged and fined for fly tipping - in the UK
It's fairly common to have workers limited to a number of requests or memory size for similar reasons, forking new ones regularly.

Instagram found deactivating parts of Python's memory management actually helped with efficiency in such a scenario: https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...
Certainly! There is a biological element to compassion, but there's a knowledge component as well. Simply knowing that someone may actually be worthy of your compassion is half the battle.
Remote working is becoming more and more accepted as time goes on, and collaboration technologies improve. Video chat is by far one of the most useful things about being on a remote team, in addition to things like git/pull request workflows making it simple and async-by-default to work with others.
Agreed. The more alarming angle to consider is that the more a particular describes somebody, 1) The more valuable it is in the context of surveillance and advertising, 2) The more work good-faith actors should put into anonymising it, and most importantly, 3) The easier it is to de-anonymise through correlation with other sets.

~~People just aren't the unique snowflakes our mothers told us we are.~~ Most people for example can be uniquely (and easily) identified with just a DOB, first name, and suburb.

Edit: maybe the problem is actually that we are too unique :)
Oh, sure, my bad.

OK, in the context of 'why can't you cleanly have the kernel in a different address space from user processes on x86', the same reasons apply. It's a chicken/egg thing, as a syscall instruction executes and touches the kernel stack before you have a chance to change mmu mappings.

There are versions of Darwin for x86 (but no released versions of full OSX AFAIK) that separate the address spaces, but they reserve a (albeit much smaller) piece of virtual address space at the top for the kernel in all address spaces in order to facilitate the transition to the full kernel address space.
If you need to provide the data back to the customer, then maybe the right answer is to follow the same standards as financial institutions and health companies do. In practice, that comes down to ensuring that no individual has access to the underlying data without extreme monitoring of how that data moves around and is used. This is a rather large burden though, so I can understand if that's too much for your use case.

Things we do:

- Rotate passwords used to access networks/servers regularly
- 2FA all the things
- Only provide permissions to what a user needs
- Limit it to just time a user needs it
- Logging+security scanning across the backend infrastructure
- Tight monitoring of devices used to access network for patch level
- Keep front-end networking infrastructure redundant and patched
- Multiple levels of auth (vpn pw, vpn 2FA, then public/private key for each server, then 2FA for each server, etc.)

You can only do so much but you can make it so that it's harder to compromise the crown jewels.
Ad placement via search results dominance.
Happy serendipity!
>I think you're over-estimating the amount of data involved.

The one billion figure was from the article.
Never really liked Wittgenstein. He's often misunderstood by wannabe logicians (people that don't actually want to do, you know, proofs) and (imo) didn't really contribute that much to logic or philosophy of language. Much more important logicians are brushed over (Łukasiewicz, for one; Gödel, for another) when Wittgenstein is taught for entire semesters.

Arguing that he "invented" the emoji when we have entire civilizations that used pictorial forms of communication (uh, ancient Egypt?) seems just straight-up wrong.
Many people talking about portability of but fields, but;

The assumed behaviour of bit fields is well defined between gcc and clang with the proper pragmas. It is therefore probably a non-issue. You even get better aliasing optimisations* using union/bit fields over just using bit shifts.

*) this means, if your union contains a way to read the whole field as ie uint_32t and also to read each field individually and also write struct as u32 via pointer, compiler can properly detect which actions cause read/write invalidation of each other instead of having to assume all volatile-like.

Use case 1: https://gist.github.com/donkeybonks/8749545

Use case 2 (with asm showing better codegen with union): https://gist.github.com/donkeybonks/11103152

nb these gists are ~4 years old because I don’t much care about micro-optimisation anymore.

nb2 it’s a really good idea to static assert the size of all your structs below their declaration for confidence and splash a few unit tests for ordering.
Water is great at containing radiation, to the point that you can safely swim at the top of radioactive cooling pools (just don't go too deep). Should something go wrong, scuttling the boat is a much better containment method than what is possible on land. There are issues with debris escaping from the vessel however - but the problem is much simpler than on land.
Russia: Telegram block leads to assault on freedom of expression online
maybe in some areas, but where they're doing this in Oregon/SW Washington, they have enough competition to not be considered a monopoly.

so, in these specific cases, it probably doesn't apply.
C'mon, do a better research! Emojis were spotted in middle-age Latin texts in Europe already... Probably nobody cared about claiming copyright back then and I assume educated monks back then were as curious and creative as anyone.
Bikes in Africa are often used for cargo carrying. I doubt the type of bike used for sharing would help.
She has posted on twitter that she is staying in the US for treatment.

https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/990983271705018368
I pine (pun intended) for command line mh, but my eyes glaze over when I consider dealing with the issues you raise.
You guys couldn't have picked a more perfect example: Red Bull settled a class action lawsuit for false advertising, not because of "gives you wings", but because their advertising falsely suggested scientific support for their product being better than caffiene-only products.

https://www.truthinadvertising.org/red-bull/
You should be able to game that somehow in a legitimate way like Johnny says. Most types of oscillating movements should do
Is having a person on the board that provides a moral check on the others a hazard to Facebook's stock price

Absolutely. You and I can agree it is a good social thing, but when it comes to revenue and growth that can be a huge impediment.
The original seems to be down. Google cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c9vt2e...
that's an interesting perspective.

As a fellow programmer myself, I care more about the results than the tools, but I have worked with many programmers who, like you, care more about tools than the results.

As humans, aren't we all conditioned to care more about the result? E.g. I eat pasta, without spending time tinkering with pasta-making tools.

Can you help me understand what past experiences made you deeply care about the tools, while finding the results largely less interesting?

Because I want to understand this perspective more, so I can practice better empathy with my co-workers and better put myself in their shoes. Thanks!
Yes, yes there are. Nothing I can do about that, sadly. They really do break the experience and ruin everything I was going for with the design...
She is having the surgery in the US:

https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/990983271705018368

I guess she has a health insurance as part of her employment at Adam Savage's Tested.com.

Having a Swedish citizenship, she also has the option to travel back to Sweden, sign a form and within a day or so be eligle for free healthcare there.
Yeah, use a messenger with E2E off by default, no multi-device E2E sync and questionable crypto..
Ok you guys, we've taken "invented" out above. Step away from the title now please.
>I think you're over-estimating the amount of data involved.

A better analogy would be if you were an airline and kept upgrading airplanes before they were needed.

Airplanes (especially private ones) fly for decades and decades.

No one is suggesting that the IRS systems weren't maintained. Obviously they were since they exist on virtualized hardware.
Hack your mind. Meditate.

Get the Headspace app or pick up a book on meditation and get going. Nothing will improve your concentration more. It takes consistent practice every day, but not as much time as you might think. Ten minutes five days a week treats me pretty well.

And get enough natural sunlight. It will help you sleep better. It will improve your mood. If you can't go natural, get a sun lamp.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner disqualified for using stuffed animal
What's with this attitude that the solution to issues in Africa is to dump some product on the continent? What are you solving by dumping a massive amount of unwanted, broken down bicycles? And where in Africa? Africa is a huge place.
I have 1Gb + unlimited data right now. I regularly use 1.2-1.5TB of data every month. I'm sure they hate me almost as much as I hate them.
We use Coverity and, even though some members of the team really dislike it, I think it is quite helpful to detect things that would go unnoticed otherwise.

However, our project is relatively small, so we are normally done in ~15 minutes. We run it right before upstreaming patches, which means that the tests run once or twice a day.
How to Design Better Social Media
Very interesting. There was one other scholarly work in this general area — but that was comparatively much more recent: Roger Ekirch’s “At Day’s Close” [1], which is very well-researched and covers pre-artificial-light Europe.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/At-Days-Close-Night-Times/dp/03933290...
Interview with Chuck Palahniuk
That is because the US has the best treatment and medical care in the world. Kind of proves the point about universal healthcare not working.
I think the fact Kansas's population is decreasing is likely a good thing. People generally prefer living other places and automation let's that happen.

PS: The average household net worth in Kansas is apparently $424,976 which is well above the US national average.
There is software that allows you to draw the characters on a touch screen, but it's still slower than typing and most people either type the words phonetically (e.g. in Pinyin) or use something like Cangjie which is based on the shape of character components. Shape-based methods are harder to learn but can result in faster input.

For Japanese there are keyboard-based romaji and kana based input methods.

The correct Hanzi/Kanji is either inferred from context or, as a back-up, selected by the user.
There are three separate companies that have provided bikes for this kind of business model in Seattle: Lime Bike, OFO and mobike. I ride my own bike approximately 55 miles per week, and these are my anecdotal observation:

-) A decent percentage of customers in some areas seem to be tourists. But a lot of locals use them, too.
-) There is no rhyme or reason to where customers "dump" their bikes when they are finished using them. Sometimes these can literally litter sidewalks.
-) when not in use, there are times when I ride through the city and see them all over the place to the point where they look like a spooky apocalyptic movie set. All of the people just left their bikes everywhere, but are gone.
-) Someone who works for me lives in an area in Seattle called Capitol Hill, which has very steep hills. He needed a Lime Bike to get him to downtown quickly (almost entirely down hill, sometimes steep). It was just in the nick of time halfway down the first hill when he realized someone had snipped the brake lines. He was not injured but nearly flew into traffic.
-) The tires are solid rubber: no inner tubes. Seems a brilliant idea that could spread to all bikes eventually.

It's a cool concept, but there is some sort of magic number (that doesn't seem spreadsheet-driven) on how many bikes is too many. There is supposed to be a city review at some point, which was scheduled at the beginning of these contracts, to see if thousands more bikes could be added to the city’s streets.

I feel pretty confidently that it will be rejected.
> it seems more and more that the US is "pushing off" things, to what end I don't know.

I suspect there are many reasons I'm unaware of, but two things come to mind.

First, the IRS is chronically underfunded because their budget is approved by Congress, and Congressman get funding / donations / bribes by people that don't want the IRS going after them for their shenanigans.

Second, there is (understandably) controversial book by Bruce Gibney called "A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America"

https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Sociopaths-Boomers-Betraye...

with a recent interview here

https://www.vox.com/2017/12/20/16772670/baby-boomers-millenn...

"They habitually cut their own taxes and borrow money without any concern for future burdens."

The general mindset seems to be to kick the can down the road, on all things, including the environment. This group became the dominant political power in the mid 90s, and still holds great power.