skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah Oracle DB has the most bells and whistles, sure. But other DB's have caught up far enough to a point where the cost (and potential lock-in) of Oracle simply isn't worth it any more.
I call it "manipulation" when someone is trying to get me to believe something contrary to factual evidence.
It surprises me that ad companies build their businesses around audiences who cannot afford $1/year for a useful service.

I'm not suggested that people in poorer economies should be deprived of targeted advertising. It's just surprising they wield such influence. I guess they make it up in volume.
I named Kent State as an example of a US massacre of protestors, in response to a parent saying it doesn’t happen in the US. That’s all.
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What I recently heard is that there are Google workers actively protesting against Google's involvement with projects connected to US DoD and US Army. What I am not hearing now is Google workers actively protesting against Google enabling censorship and oppression in China. I wonder whether this is an artifact of how news are reported (or how I am consuming new) or a genuine phenomenon? And if the latter, why is that?
And webcams that show how long the line is. There's an art to waiting out the line but getting the entree before it runs out.
Square and Whatsapp are basically not comparable business entities.
I know that department but it's new to me that people say "a resource in my team has found....". That's a new level of dehumanization.
I think the author meant multi-label.
The emphasis on choice and freedoms in the US is often good in principle, but imo has been abused in too many ways to justify some truly horrible policy decisions.
As a side note, I posted this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447280
There seems to be little interest.
Because as someone who's willing to pay to not have ads, ads are a non-starter for me. If they're forced upon me, I'll switch products, and force anyone I communicate with to switch products to continue communicating with me. (If an individual won't install Signal, I'll drop down to SMS/email for them.)
Isn't Google calendar easily replaced by any CalDAV implementation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV
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So now we're at a point where asking for an email is a privacy violation and a dark pattern, but not asking for an email is a security issue and a dark pattern?
And are not at all related to the content - horrible.
> it's hard to find quality content if you don't already know what you're looking for

But if you already know what you are looking for, then YouTube will usually have the most relevant, and sometimes even high-quality, content.

That's the direct result of massive userbase+infrastructure and an edge very hard to beat and gets even harder as time passes and more content gets uploaded to YouTube.
I use both, but we choose Django for all new projects. For advantages of Django vs Symfony, there's first advantages of Python over PHP...

In a web design context probably the biggest advantage is having things like asynchronous code where it makes sense and websockets without having to use another technology stack such as node.js.

Otherwise I simply find we are more productive using Django, it allows less boilerplate code for similar functionality, there is less complexity involved overall.

Disadvantage is maybe for really large projects with many developers, Symfony might be easier to have someone pick up the code since it's more standardized.
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Can someone explain sharding here as it relates to ethereum? I've often thought the goals of ethereum about putting all the world's data in a blockchain weren't technically feasible, but maybe if there was a sharding mechanism it could be.

Also, what exactly are the capabilities of the client here. They mention running on mobile devices... surely that's not actually doing any mining is it?
Relating this to RTBF is interesting, but your thinking is muddled. Europe created RTBF, not Google. So the hypothesis that RTBF is part of a Google corporate plan to "defeat" internal activists is baseless. It just makes no sense on the face of it.
If I recall, the U.S. government has reached out to people who claim to have interacted with other beings while tripping on DMT for more information. I read this a few months ago, maybe here on HN, can't remember. The stories by people are all very similar, warranting further investigation. Weird stuff.

I wonder if this temple will be renting out its rooms for DMT trip events.
At a very basic level, looking away enables the situations and power structures to come about which then are used to excuse that looking away.

Any individual's act of looking away, is completely within the power of that individual. You can't save your life anyway, nobody can, but only you can kill your soul. You can that "histrionics", I call it a shorthand. Speaking of shorthands,

> IMO, there were historical processes at work well beyond any individual's ability to stop.

These "historical processes" are 100% made up of the acts and failures to act of individuals. When I said "wanting to act but being unable to" that acknowledges that you can't always do much or anything. That's the whole point of even making that distinction, I made a difference between "looking away", and for some reason "being unable or not daring to speak".

But still I don't take the average of what people did, or what people currently do, and call it good as if I was blind and deaf and had no instruments of measurement of my own. A lot of people showed tremendous courage, and saved a lot of lives. Those are the standard to aspire to, not the excuse makers any dark time has. For everybody who had excuses, you'll find someone who risked and endured orders of magnitude more, and didn't want to hear any praise for it.
""And so castles made of sand melts into the sea eventually"

In the the end this the reality for many things we create.
The power of mass usage comes into play here. IIRC, when WhatsApp launched, I was one of the early adopters. As it grew (and it became hugely popular in Brazil, where I lived) they switched to the $1/year model. Current users were auto-enrolled in a "free-for-life" plan. My friends who didn't have WhatApp would still sign up because everyone else was using it and, besides "$1/year? it's almost nothing".
I have trouble calling this scary when the data we are talking about is upvotes and private messages associated with an alias (not necessarily associated with an human) that are over a decade old.

From the standpoint of the person who took the data it is likely boring enough that it's not even worth the effort to restore the database.

Given the existence of more pressing problems I really can't do more than shrug.
An Inconvenient Truth - which was released in 2006 - does not say anything like your supposed quote. Don't lie.
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I had a US number with Fi and I think you might be surprised when you move. I still have my Fi number as a Google Voice number however without any other US number Google won't let me receive calls. I can still make them at least, and SMS through the Google Voice app works.
The stolen objects could be bent, pierced, scratched, etc. or pieces (like the jewels) broken off. It is not a bunch of diamonds or such.
Another failure mode of the American capitalism model. Not an employee, no benefits, no retirement, no job security, disposable. If enough suckers get become contractors, maybe we can finally get universal healthcare and a stronger social safety net.
So? It would still be profitable. Not everyone has to use the same thing.
The company is Raytheon.
Fast.ai + Floydhub is something I’d be really interested in... but this appears to just be about the former?
Why would Coinbase agree to an acquisition by a tech giant?

* Coinbase is making plenty of money,

* Google, Facebook or Apple etc wouldn't provide much more additional value,

* and there would be a real risk that an acquisition would be a disaster since tech giants clearly don't understand cryptocurrencies (see AOL/Timewarner).

I could see an acquisition by a large bank or exchange.
If you don't know of the database compromise (which could have been a backup or old dump, and not necessarily a live system breach), you may be "owned", but unless the TOTP seeds (or equivalent 2FA master keys) are in that db dump, 2FA most certainly is still doing something for you...
I can't help but roll my eyes at these "hello, open source steward of the labor of others, checking in!" posts.

Comes off as straight virtue-signaling.
Wow hopefully this means I'll be able to use Firebase in China.
> collect explicit opt-in

Isn't this the biggest lie in the bulk messaging industry?
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> it works with gcc and clang, the compilers you can get for free

When I’m building for Windows, I usually use Visual C++ 2017 community edition, the compiler I got for free.

> into any asm syntax your compiler understands

When building 64 bit binaries, my compiler doesn’t understand any syntax. The portable way to produce that instruction is __rdtsc() intrinsic, it’s supported in all major compilers just in different headers, x86intrin.h for gcc/clang, intrin.h for msvc.

> There are total of 6 instructions.

Right, but I’m not sure assembly, inline or not, has good compatibility with advanced optimization techniques implemented by all modern compilers. It’s just too low level: harder to inline, impossible to move stuff across registers…
From https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/technology/whatsapp-fa...

"Mr. Koum had grown increasingly concerned about Facebook’s position on user data in recent years. Mr. Koum was perturbed by the amount of information that Facebook collected on people and had wanted stronger protections for that data ... he felt the company’s board simply paid lip service to privacy and security concerns he raised ... Mr. Koum was tired from fighting back against pressure from the board throughout 2017 to allow advertisements on WhatsApp ... There had been a certain level of pride within WhatsApp’s team over the dedication to privacy and the departure of their co-founder had left many wondering whether Facebook would now open WhatsApp to tracking user data and, eventually, to ads on its service."

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"WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton reportedly left $1.3 billion behind by leaving Facebook ... The major divide was over monetizing the messaging app, which has 1.5 billion users. Koum and Acton had been resistant to adopting Facebook's widely lucrative targeted advertising model."
This is the HN post I've been waiting for all my life. I'm a software engineer by day, amateur mycologist by night.

Glad to see there's another one out there.
Would you consider remote (D.C.) for the VP of engineering role? I am otherwise qualified.

Also, how do you want people to apply? You don't seem to have any roles listed on your site
Hmmm, what is a "sarcastic" chord? Minors?
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It's all semantics. "Persuasion" and "manipulation" are just synonyms except for different emotional valences. Like "judgment" vs "discrimination", "patriotism" vs "jingoism", "principled" vs "idealistic". (This is fun. Got more?)
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Just before WhatsApp was bought by Facebook, they were asking for that $1 per year (I remember paying it) and they had 450 million users, in spite of plenty of chat alternatives being on the market ever since the 90s.

I initially ignored it then switched to it after they started to do end to end encryption and encouraged all my friends to use it, instead of Facebook’s Messenger.

So yes, they were already popular because the app was working on all platforms, because it is easy to connect with your friends and because it did what it was supposed to do without the crap.

I’m not saying that the ads model doesn’t have its place, far from it, I’m saying that WhatsApp could have lived just fine without it.
That's a really interesting read. FTA:

"My first stop: WHOIS. The WHOIS database is designed to serve as a master directory of all domain name owners, although in my experience there are no controls enforcing the submission of valid information. Moreover, most domain name registrars now allow registrants to register anonymously by serving as a proxy for the registrant. Despite these shortcomings, it’s always a good place to start."

I know on balance the GDPR is a good thing, but we are really going to miss WHOIS.
And Kent State is taught in US history classes in high schools.

Where is Tiananmen taught in Chinese schools?

We shouldn't become desensitized to Kent State lest we enable the equivalent of Tiananmen in the US.

But equating the scope of the two is actually giving in to Chinese propaganda.

I can condemn the bad things that the US does while still realizing that China is orders of magnitude worse.
If the entire world went to zero carbon emissions tomorrow, the effects would still be serious. Given that's not going to happen, the effects are likely to be catastrophic.

You're right that it won't mean the extinction of life on earth or humanity, but it might turn out to be the end of advanced human civilization if the bad end of the predictions come to pass. If there's not enough arable land left to support the human population, things will get very ugly very quickly.
There are a lot of cheapskates who believe anything over $0.00/forever is too much. I don't really know how many there are, but in some places (anecdotally and quite subjectively, especially poorer areas) there are people that just object to paying anything if there's a way to get something remotely similar for free. Even if that way ends up costing more in wasted time or sacrificed privacy or self-respect.

Heck, I think I'd admit was like that, once upon a time. I stopped only when I started earning enough to be able to spend relatively liberally, sometimes even without looking at the exact price, as well recognized my time's worth something too.
>Perhaps because you stated your personal experience as though it was universal. It works for me.

TBH, I thought it was. Maybe they've blacklisted my IP or geolocation like you suggest or something else.

For the record, I tried it in Android Chrome and it works ok there! Just not in my desktop Chrome.

OSX 10.12.6 (16G29)

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> Including a stack of family photo albums.

How sad. At least one can photograph the pages with a phone, as keeping those would be costless.
I had one of the Sony backlit devices. It was a poor purchase decision, perhaps, but it was quite advanced.

AT&T pulling support for it was my first experience with "the cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away".

Paired with a more modern cpu and battery though with some updates, it could be quite useful even today, though...
Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant that keyboards are a commodity. They're mass produced low margin items and there's little differentiation for the most part. There's rarely a compelling event that causes someone to replace their existing keyboard. The industry always wants more profits and better margins so creating the perception of mechanical being better and therefore more expensive allows them to extract more money from an already mature market through the illusion of superiority. I do find the whole thing annoying but I suppose it's good for the economy, so more power to anyone that cares for them.
> audiences who cannot afford $1/year for a useful service

Not being able to afford and not being willing to pay are separate.
It feels like 2007 all over again (in Cali).
The documentary on Alex Grey and CoSM is pretty good also. Even if you're not interested in DMT/LSD/MDMA, it's interesting just to get insight into their approach on making art.

CoSM itself is a lot of fun also. If you get a chance to get the tour from Alex and Allison I'd highly recommend it. They're both super geeky and highly entertaining.
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The article seems to combine San Francisco and the Bay Area into one thing, which feels wrong. I very much doubt San Francisco would miss the tech bros if they fled San Francisco. If they fled the Bay Area? Maybe.
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Exactly this. Punycode is poorly supported because no one wants it, it just opens a huge front for phishing.
Zuck paid $19 billion for it and needs some form of return on that investment? You can't just lose $16,000,000,000 in personal wealth in a day and come up with a plan that maxes out at ~$1 billion a year in revenue.
Can business accounts on WhatsApp be part of groups?
I can't help you with ASP.NET Core, as I have no experience building and/or deploying it.

What I can chime in with though is: In my days as a web dev I started off and learned the ropes with ASP.NET (MVC was recently coming up), and after moving to django for another project I felt right at home.

It's very impressive how the django project was able to rival a behemot like Microsoft in terms of usability, reasonable defaults and developer convenience, overall design, documentation, upgradability.

The REST stuff (django rest framework) and some aspects of managing models were actually quite ahead of ASP.NET at the time for getting you up to speed with things.

Of course the tech stack around them is completely different and something you'll want to think about, but in terms of features and how things are laid out you don't need to worry, django has you covered.
Speaking of GDPR compliance, and as some in the Reddit thread have pointed out, the GDPR requires disclosure of serious data breaches to the affected users without "undue delay", and to the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

It will be interesting to see what consequences, if any, Reddit end up facing over this.
>Same as in the US. Your appointment won't be on time and you will have to wait.

Not all countries. I got last slot recently...knew he's 15mins behind so went for a stroll. Showed up 5 late and got flak for being late (he caught up in last session so was back on track)
While not unexpected, it is very bad for these users. This salt will do nothing to stop a cracking effort. A system with pairs of GTX 960 and GTX 1060 cards can easily check 12 billion hashes a second. This database is hosed.