skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Users increasingly want to talk to businesses the same way they talk with their friends and family.

Citation needed, IMO. I hardly speak for most users, but if I had to guess, it's far more that businesses want to speak to users the same way that users talk to their friends and family, rather than the other way around.

Not that this doesn't sound pretty neat, but I'm super curious where the demand from users to connect with businesses via WhatsApp is.
The Bill of Rights was ratified when none of those things existed. I absolutely believe the 2A is outdated, but you must consider the reasoning its creation.

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

People seem to forget that first half is more important than guns.
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> Two San Francisco supervisors introduced an ordinance last week that would forbid employee cafeterias in new corporate construction.

Yeah, we could use some more traffic and pollution from everyone driving 10 miles for lunch.

As a progressive liberal, california democrats confuse me all the time.
Actually, even though it started lower, Europe has been reducing its emissions at a faster rate. In 2014, Europe was at 63% of its peak of emissions, whereas the US were at 72%.

The slope in log scale gives it away too (from the same data set, comparing US and Eurozone since 1971): https://i.imgur.com/099XLIw.png
Bold but stupid. They have no way to sell these objects. Unless it was made-to-order, the thieves are out of luck with monetization.

While the objects will likely be found, the saddest thing is that they will also likely be damaged when handled by a bunch of careless people. The objects are several hundreds of years old and are not made to be handled roughly. For example the Västerås objects were apparently dumped from a car and this left its marks. I'm hoping these will be returned.

I also hope the Svenska kyrkan starts to take better pre-emptive care of storing these culturally important objects.
Hopefully this becomes unnecessary in a few years as the eSIM standard moves along, and your SIM is virtual (and multiple operator "SIMs" can be provisioned on a device).

https://www.gsma.com/esim/
We chose Flow for a number of reasons. One of the main ones is type inference. For example:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=function%20a(x)%20%...

https://flow.org/try/#0GYVwdgxgLglg9mABAQwBQA8CUiDeAoRRAJwFM...

With Flow, we can surface type errors even in files that don't have any type information other than the @flow directive, e.g. http://eng.uber.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/image4.png
Ive talked to a few of those million people.

They dont know what they want.
That’s the whole point of my second paragraph. SMS 2FA is fine, but SMS recovery masquerading as 2FA is not.
https://nim-lang.org/features.html

Crypto has become an interesting play-ground to test out esoteric languages, which is a good thing esp. in a world where we are close to end of moore's law.
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Incorrect. They're worse.
About point 1: Since we are dealing here with humans, this criteria is almost impossible to satisfy. You cannot enroll people in a control trial if you know this has a chance to make their lives worst.

> This leads to biased estimates and wrong conclusions.

It does not necessarily leads to 'wrong' conclusions. In social sciences, you have to deal with a truth level that will never yield 100% certainty.
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Tl;dr: splice() as a Linux-only, zero-userspace-copy, file-descriptor to file-descriptor copy that has to use pipes for one FD.

Interesting, but less than earthshaking.
For Google, it's not a text message though, is it? IIRC, it's tied to your Google account and not to your phone number.
There was the peer-to-peer lending in China with porn, how is that going? :)
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The UK security apparatus is nervous about Huawei's involvement in national infrastructure too - to the point that there's a Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) [1].

1: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/huawei-cyber-secu...
Even then, that would require those people to still have access to the same email address they used to sign up over 11 years ago. Even Gmail probably wasn't in very wide use yet at that point, it was invite-only until February 2007.
The difference is that in Finland etc. there are social services and childcare systems in place to support those kids outside of school hours.

Where does an inner city African American kid go after school if both parents (or single parent) are working? Who pays for that?

In countries with adequate social services, this is less of an issue.
What's the software like on the Chinese phones, like Huawei and Xiaomi? Most hardware is similar enough that it doesn't really matter, the software defines the phone experience.
That's a fairly basic liberal view, profoundly flawed. Consumer spending improves productivity as a second order effect. Consumer spending improves the demand side of the economic cycle, prompting opportunities for investing in efficiently supplying that demand.

The disruption of the demand side of the economic cycle is the reason behind the loss of competitiveness of economies with high inequality. You get capital accumulation that finds no outlet for investment, other than riding economic bubbles.

This open lecture by LSE, although focused on the UK, touches most important points about inequality: http://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2018/07/20180717t1830vOT/peak-in...
I'd be remiss not to note that there are better and still simple variants of Horspool that outperform the vanilla algorithm.

In any case, if you'd like to discuss search algorithms when you want to implement them, I'd be happy to help. I'm mattpalms, gmail.com.
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I did make that assumption because it doesn't fucking matter why, those are all still things that should be done. Domestic violence is bad, fortunately we can focus on more than one damn thing.
Who would benefit from this?
The initial motivation is, I need a nvm works at Windows. nvmx is only for macOS and Linux

In addition, nvmx also support nightly, rc, v8-canary version of Node.js, and Microsoft's node-chakaracore

If nvm already meets your needs, I don't think it is necessary to try nvmx.

But If you need the features listed above, just try it:)
This incident report glosses over the depth of what access was given to focus on the user data that was compromised... but it sure seems like they got pretty deep:

* A complete copy of an old database backup containing user data from launch in 2005 through May 2007 including:

-usernames,

-salted/hashed passwords,

-e-mails,

-all content including private messages

* Reddit source code

* Internal logs

* configuration files

* other employee workspace files [?]
The irony is that while the Bay area is screaming for globalization and free trade, against rising nationalistic trends, city-level protectionism is the norm now and only expanding.
Most of the high ranks of the Orthodox clergy are just "heritage" from the KGB era and their mission is to destroy Orthodoxy and they are very successful at that. For example, Kirill totally turned even Russophiles against Russia with his last visit in Bulgaria demonstrating by the book how a good Christian should NOT behave!
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Off-topic but not completely unrelated, hiring new grads is difficult. No, scratch that; employing new grads is difficult.

Enthusiasm and eagerness is valuable, but one needs to set aside an ongoing block of time for education and discussion and guidance and so on; not only do they not know what they don't know (had a CV cross my desk this week in which the new grad rated himself "guru" at C++, which is not impossible but seems very unlikely - typically at the interview, such candidates are actually what one would expect from a new-grad, and just don't realise how much they don't know and to what extent knowing the syntax isn't the same as being any good with it), but I don't know what they don't know and it's impossible for me to fully appreciate how difficult some things are to get to grips with. Sure, it took me a long time as well, but I just don't remember how long it took me to grasp various things, and that's only my experiences. They could have a completely different set of unknowns.

Placing them in the right team is hard too. They need the support and guidance of experienced people, but adding a new grad to a team generally serves to slow things down for a while; ultimately, the team and company benefits, but finding a team with a runway long enough to absorb the hit without jeopardising their own targets is not easy. Sometimes there's just no good place to insert a new grad and we have to just take the hit.
Back when I was a WhatsApp user, I for one enjoyed the refreshing total absence of notification spam. If I got a ping, it was because a real person I know had something to say. Just a cold, focused person-person messaging app. Even Facebook could not top that

Opening the floodgates to cron jobs dilutes the value of the service for me, and forces WhatsApp down my list of priorities along with SMS - which I haven't had notifications enabled for in many years, because in almost every case the messages are effectively an abuse of time and attention.
https://conversations.im the same security primitives as in Signal, but open and decentralized.
So is San Francisco actively trying to kill their golden goose?
Looking at you, LinkedIn.

Microsoft has been lax on this.
P2P lending rates are low because all rates are low right now. Junk Bond rates are at about 6%, which is right about where P2P lending rates are right now (I've gotten a 5.5% rate over the last few years from P2P lending). The question will be, when the market turns, and junk default rates shoot up to 10+%, what will P2P default rates be? Higher? Lower? About the same?
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If I want to get a problem sorted with my home ISP I need to call them and spend ages on hold, or use their poor online chat service and have much less disruption to my time.

Using WhatsApp rather than a browser based system for the chat would be a much slicker client experience.
This won't even solve the problem they're trying to solve. These companies will just order catered lunches. So now you'll have extra traffic in the morning for the extra food deliveries, and the tech workers still won't go outside.
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This is not Scranton, Pennsylvania no one drives 10 miles for lunch in San Francisco, city is only 7 miles wide
"Two San Francisco supervisors introduced an ordinance last week that would forbid employee cafeterias in new corporate construction."

In all the tech companies I've visited in the Bay Area (all <1000 employees, not the big campuses) they've only ever had kitchen areas and not cafeterias anyway. You can't ban kitchens or refrigerators, surely, so maybe larger campuses being built could just have more small kitchens local to the employee areas?

Also, if their goal is what they claim, why not just use the tax code by disallowing deductions for food and snacks? That'd stop many companies subsidizing lunch overnight.
At least in the USA, its very hard to expatriate to avoid taxes. IIRC it requires a one-time payment of ~40% of your net-worth and you to have citizenship somewhere else.

Other countries could follow suit, though the USA probably has the easiest time enforcing due to its global hegemony.
P2P lending has another pretty big issue with how it interacts with tax law. The short story is that the interest you earn is ordinary income, while losses from defaulted notes are capital losses that do not offset (past a maximum of $3000 in capital losses annually, at a lower rate).
Apple looks strong because their price per unit i.e. the "stupid" tax they make you pay on all their products is astronomically high. The actual demand and shipping volumes for their laptops has never set any records and the iPhone is sucking air now too. Their current lineup of products is mediocre at best when compared with what other companies are coming up with. Their biggest "innovations" lately are the touch bar (loser), removing useful ports/features that people like/love and dark mode. Really? Apple is the DeLorean of tech.
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America has a real problem with money in politics which has prevented strong penalties on top earners. But, the US does currently levy a minimum tax total for overseas personal income, it basically can be summarized as "If you earned X in the US you'd owe us Y, you payed the government of the country you're residing in Z which is less than Y, you owe the US government Y-Z", this law is extremely poorly enforced currently but even if they leave the country they still owe the taxes, legally speaking.

If they flee to other countries and illegally circumvent the law then that's where the US should start flexing it's muscles.
That is not what data it was limited to at all. That is the data they are highlighting because it affects their users the most.

Here is the list of what of what they are saying they got access to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17665254
Also, if you have a long pipeline:

cat file | this | that | other | out
vs
this < file | that | other | out

In the cat example, it's easy to change the head of the pipeline, by adding things before "this" or deleting "this", which is less so in the non-cat example. (The use case I have in mind is experimental commands that take probably <10s to complete, where editing time is a significant fraction of the time you spend.)
Now I'm not defending SF officials here, but c'mon. This is San Francisco we're talking about - there are restaurants aplenty within walking distance of most tech offices.
> "Nice, but why on earth would I want that?" I have no idea.

I know this is referring mostly to the `cat` portion and not the `splice` portion of the article, but I'll throw in a quick shoutout to `splice` for giving me one of the single biggest build performance wins in my time at Zynga (and possibly across most teams at the company at the time).

We had a ruby script which ran the majority of the build, and as the game grew we found that by far the slowest part was a loop which MD5 hashed each individual asset and used that as its filename on our CDN for per-asset-versioning.

At its worst it was taking nearly an hour and a half; the code was basically as inefficient as you could make it - multiple shell calls for each file rather than any sort of inlining of the hashing process.

I wrote a basic C program using splice and an MD5 library which took the whole process to under 10s. A bit overkill, perhaps, but the naive speedup I tried first still took over 1-2 minutes, and I figured 99.99% was worth the extra few hours to put it together knowing how many builds we ran each day.

Definitely gave me a healthy appreciation for the cost of transferring to user space that has stuck with me.
Great product
Then change how cities are built.

Throw in more bikes, and cut out some more cars.

Throw in more scooters, and get everyone to show some manners.

Throw in more pop-ups, and get everyone to utilize space better.

It's 2018, you're a grown adult that's tech literate with access to a computer.

Go outside, get some food and a drink and do better.
>The "turning off" of the items you mention is also entirely a user-visualization exercise.

Prove it. They offer controls for almost every service they provide. If you're going to claim they're visual-only, then prove that these controls do nothing.

https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols

https://adssettings.google.com/
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