skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"TikTok isn’t about you or what you’re doing. It’s about entertaining your audience. It’s not spontaneous chronicling of your real life. It’s about inventing characters, dressing up as someone else, and acting out jokes. It’s not about privacy and friends, but strutting on the world stage. And it’s not about originality — the heart of Instagram. TikTok is about remixing culture"

This does not fit in with FB's goals and strategy. Zuckerberg may not grasp it, but even if he does, it's unclear how this could be implemented inside a framework that is 100% centered on a user's profile and real-life persona.
And some useful context: the 50-character limit is the result of the subject lines then being readable next to a commit graph that Git can display.
"Long, oily hair" is not really saying anything about body hygiene though.
It's not about allowing it – we should allow institutions to choose their own members. The problem is that we are giving them money just so they can educate rich kids.

We should eliminate government support for Harvard like tax breaks, subsidized loans and grants.
What happened to DNSCrypt-OSXClient Preferences? It was suddenly pulled from Homebrew.
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The "millennial" social networks were all about sharing

The Gen-Z social networks will be all about creation

Zuckerberg does not have a finger in this pie and that should be an alarming sign for any Facebook share holders.
Intel is supposedly dropping the support to boot in 16 bits mode next year.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/intel-to-kill-off-th...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-were-ending-all-legacy-b...
I'm surprised nobody in the thread mentioned using a TPM device when available. My 5-year old MB comes with one builtin, and probably all new ones have one. TPM also provides a limited amount of persistent storage.
How to make better decisions with second-level thinking
> The star of the show in optional chaining is the new ?. operator for optional property accesses.

Wow, that took a while! For already about 9 years this feature is in Coffeescript. And indeed it must be the star of the show because once you're used to that you almost can't live without it. Why did JS/ESxx never copied that idea?

edit: just read it has just been added to JS some days ago as well..
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I really wish that these articles didn't run nonsense like the following:

> Shunkov explains:

> "All jewellery had a magical meaning for ancient people. Bracelets and neck adornments were to protect people from evil spirits, for instance."

Shunkov, you have no idea whatsoever whether or not jewelry had any magical meaning for ancient people, let alone that all jewelry had magical meaning for all ancient people. It's a wild-ass guess, and an embarrassing one, given the way it is qualified.
Minute Awakening Review, Legit or a Scam?
Lawsuits are not the way to solve this. That would require the judiciary to basically create a new law, which is the job of congress.
If the Government supervises the break up of big tech companies, isn't it possible that they will have too much say in their functioning?
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Shadowmapping is used on everything. But GI lightmapping only on walls ceiling and floor.
A New R6RS Scheme Compiler
Site appears to be down. Can anyone give an overview?
There is a difference between not respecting ISP supplied DNS and not respecting DHCP supplied DNS.
Scaling Map Data Generation Using Computer Vision
I make lots of pizza for fun with some friends at hacker events. We've managed to do ~120 portions (not individual pizzas) an hour with an entry-level pizza oven (2 levels, 60x90cm² area), the kind you see at kebab shops, and the oven was quite far from being the limiting factor (rolling the dough is hard work). From a quick web search, conveyor ovens can do up to 150 pizzas per hour, and you can typically stack them three high. So shouldn't be a problem.

The trick is that pizza is baked at a very high temperature. Our oven goes up to 500°C (900°F). Baking time is 90s-2min if you put the pizza on the fire stones directly, or ~3mins if you use a screen (tray).
Human Interest, a 401(k) Provider, Is Hiring Engineers to Help Small Business
This discovery doesn't tell us much about the skills, intelligence, and technology of the Denisovans in general. It only establishes an upper bound, which can be wildly at odds with the average. Especially in a time with no writing and terrible long-distance communication, isolated individuals or groups could have come up with amazing skills only to let it die out soon after.

There were individuals and/or small groups of Homo sapiens sapiens who built highly elaborate clockwork mechanisms with dozens of gears 2000 years ago. At the same time, a significant portion of the remaining population of Homo sapiens sapiens were picking berries in the forest. Even today, some of us can build billions of microscopic transistors and arrange them on a chip to do crazy things while others of the same species are just waiting for rain so they can grow something to eat. The evolutionary history of our own kind is already looking far from linear, and it's going to become even more complicated once we take seriously the fact that a species is nowhere near homogeneous in its skills and intelligence. Some of the things we've been placing on the timeline may have been outliers in the first place.
Tik Tok is almost the new Vine, but less restrictive and more engaging. The biggest assumption the article makes is that even in case Facebook were to try to buy out creators for Lasso, making new content is hard work and Tik Tok creators have spend hours and hours putting together the followings that they have.

It's not easy to convince such passionate and fan-driven folk with built audiences to switch, it's almost as if Vimeo started trying to pay YouTubers to switch to Vimeo.
> Any sex between adults and minors is rape, that's what the concept of statutory rape means.

You seem to classify statutory rape as a subcategory of "rape", and thus I am assuming you would be perfectly content calling anyone convicted of statutory rape a rapist. This is semantically unhelpful. "Rape" is widely understood to mean violent rape, and statutory rape is legally (and to most people, morally) the lesser crime.

There may be cases where even you might find it desirable to make a distinction in language between someone advocating for "violent rape is ok", and someone arguing for example that the existing age of consent in their country should not be increased, which requires acknowledging that the two are really distinct things.
This post came at a right time for me. I already run a custom DNS server on premises and setting up dnscrypt-proxy took less than 5 minutes. It's good to see how encrypted DNS has evolved in the last year or so.

It was actually the post "Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS" [1] which made me think that I will tackle this issue now, even though I was already thinking about this for months.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21124900
_with_ DoH you are passing not just network information, but session information as well.

DoH is not a privacy boon.

DNS, whilst plaintext is at least federated, and is a network level service. That is, its not tied to a single session in a browser.

as I understand it, there is nothing stopping a browser from appending metadata to the get request, or putting extra headers in. This means that its perfectly possible to nail your complete browsing history, down to the server you've been given.
As long as they're making it a selling point and a marketing message, they have incentive to stick to their word.
2I/Borisov, the second interstellar comet ever discovered
There doesn't appear to have been a control group? Perhaps wearing funny hats is good for cognition.
And they can use that if they know your identity, like if you provided them a phone number.

But I don't believe they can't do much from an IP alone. Unless the ISP starts ratting us out.
I've read that story. I understand that his clownish behaviour is a performance - it's more the gaffes that I don't think are calculated.
As a European it baffles me that this is normal in the USA. Why is this even legal? This should be PII.
Read-only file systems are common in embedded systems, where Linux is often used.
Pakistan is also experimenting with something similar. Ambitious effort, but without the infrastructural help to shift to alternatives that's just not going to happen
Yes, this is meant to be the exception, the point I wanted to make is that the solution is not tearing down management but fixing it.
Just a reminder: your email address will be harvested from here. Use a temporary one or have a good spam filter.
There are people working on this problem too.
Shared database is, in fact,a classic enterprise integration pattern, and much of classic relational database engineering assumes that multiple application will share the same database; in the classic ideal, each would use it through a set of (read/write, ad needed) application-specific views so as to avoid exposing implementation details of the base tables and to permit each application, and the base database, to change with minimum disruption to any of the others.
It certainly is not the core business. But it is part of the business.
> We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle

WHAT?

FSF means Free Software Foundation, Free as in Free speech, IT IS POLITICAL!

What the heck are you talking about?
The fact that some nasty hacks used to work doesn’t require anyone to keep them working. In fact, the sooner they stop working the better.
It doesn't have to be to their servers - they can just dump all data going anywhere on udp/53 from one of their routers. DNS isn't encrypted, anyone between you and whatever server you're using can see everything.
As far as universities do these things publicly, this is inadvertently going to tip the scales in who is going to apply. And I'm nowhere seeing an university that is actively filtering for opinion-conciousness in this sense, that might actually not be that bad of an idea.

Then again, if they test for both things, how are they supposed to not prioritize one over another?
Tragic, considering that the US has an arms embargo on China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_embargo#People%27s_Republ...
'I built my software empire from a Stoke council house'
You don't need to just blindly trust, there are ToS and privacy statements. My TL;DR is that Google doesn't use logs outside of service health (eg vs DDoS).
As a developer I always hated this feature in other rdbms. The idea of your app saving a row and retrieving it only to have more data in it.

IMO these types of calcs are better done in your app, where you can at least write a test and assert it's doing the right thing. It also makes it a lot easier to reason about your code if the logic is in the app rather than bits of it stuck in column definitions.

Perhaps there are legitimate uses of this, maybe for DBs that aren't just repositories for apps?
Here in the UK sky recently pushed out an update to their firmware which made it impossible to use another DNS server other than theirs. There was a decent amount of push back, I managed to get them to downgrade my firmware but who knows how long that will last before they "accidently" update it again.
Hitler's Joke
> Tik Tok is almost the new Vine, but less restrictive and more engaging.

Less restrictive? Just look at what they do to LGBT content: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/26/tiktoks-l...

Additionally, it's Chinese and thus likely to be in the target list of economic sanctions. For once, something good could result out of the cringefest that is the US-China trade war.
Is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?
The site helps you figure out what glue works best to attach two items to each other. It provides links to glues/compounds, and also has helpful tips to help you better.

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From their Philosophy page:

"We are here to help you choose the right glue for your bonding requirements. We are committed to keeping current with the adhesive market, but we don't claim to know everything about every glue on the market. We recommend the glues that we have found work best for us. We do know one thing for sure: there is no such thing as the All Purpose glue. Every glue has its pros and cons. The secret to a successful bonding challenge is to consider the following glue philosophy:

The primary principle of glue is much like any relationship in that the adhesive must fit the adherend. (Kinda Zen, eh?)
All glues work best when aided with a physical attachment. When ever possible the combination of glue and a screw, nail or staple, a glue and a joint, a glue and stitching or binding, will guarantee a successful bond.

Any glue is only as strong as the weakest material in the bonding union. There is no point in using a glue stronger than the materials you are bonding.

The success of a bond is dependent on the amount of surface area. The more surface area you are able to incorporate, the stronger the bond.

Always use the least toxic material that meets your bonding requirements.

Understanding how a glue works will help you choose the right glue for the job. The manufacturer knows their glue better than the cashier at the hardware store. Reading the label thoroughly will help you know if a glue is appropriate for your needs. Also, many glues have a help line or a website. We have found some sites for you."
> Zuckerberg does not have a finger in this pie and that should be an alarming sign for any Facebook share holders.

Why? Facebook can wait until one proves to be the winner and buy them out. Or, in case the target is unwilling to be taken over (like Snapchat was), Facebook simply integrates their model into FB/Instagram, exposes it to billions of people at once and crushes the target.
Ryzen9 [3900X 12C/24T and 3950X 16C/32T] both @ 105W will be Intel HEDT's coffins
You're right. I've checked it again on my laptop, and it looks like it's a script that was filtered out by one of my extensions.
What's the best way to tell if they're intercepting queries to other dns servers and replying themselves?

Say I manually set my dns to 1.1.1.1, is there a way to tell if the replies are really from 1.1.1.1?
Note that TypeScript also has union types - I never use enums.
This is a perfect example of faking it! The very thing this thread is about.

Instead of figuring out how to make the hard choice between Urgent<->Important in the first place, you've drawn a distinction which lets you kick the can down the road.

Choosing between Unurgent-Important<->Urgent-Unimportant is exactly the same problem as choosing between Urgent<->Important.

You have two tasks: A or B. Which one should you work on first?

The one which is most important/urgent/crucial/paramount/valuable/critical/indispensable/pressing/essential/serious/vital/exigent/burning/paramount/<insert more synonyms here>, obviously!

Is that task A or task B?

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman

If you can't assign relative priorities to things - you can't implement a priority queue ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_queue ).
How is that any different from twitter enforcing it the other way around?
Robot makes 340 hamburgers each hour
> “You can of course get exemptions, IF there is a valid business reasons.”

For an ad revenue driven business, that’s a pretty big exception.

Ad targeting / re-targeting benefits from a richer picture of the user’s personal life choices. Maybe only a couple percentage points, but every % of a billion adds up.
At first, I thought; /hey pretty cool feature!/

But after contemplating it, is this really necessary? I fear for putting business logic and meanings into the wrong the layer; There are use and abuse, and my consideration fears the latter.
How do I configure Mozilla to ignore the blocking? I don't want to use internet that tries to force me to downgrade.
flame bait
Finally, they were basically asking double price for some CPUs until there is a strong competition.
This is a really good example why competition matters for the consumers. I hope similar situation happens for GPUs too. Right now NVIDIA asks for way more than the cards' worth.
From my experiences with coffee machines that produce cappacinos, the act of frothing milk seems to be one of those tasks that is much more difficult to automate than I would have thought. I've had a few that were passable, but none that are remotely as good as a decent human made one. The actual coffee on the other hand seems to be easeir to automate.
I tend to follow the Postgres releases and I am always impressed by the cool things SQL databases can do. But for programmers like me who are used to code in C++/C# I always find the transition from these languages to SQL too harsh. Especially if you don’t have to do SQL daily it’s really hard to remember the syntax and read complex SQL code. Also the transition from SQL results to typed languages is tedious. ORMs help a little but they have their own set of problems.

Not sure what I am trying to say other than that I wish it was easier for regular programmers to use advanced SQL features...
Programming is fundamentally about the transformation of data and sometimes data is in such a shape that inevitably requires such code. Most of the time, you don't get to decide what shape the data is in.

OOP just obfuscates this basic fact of programming life to the point where it's not obvious anymore. That is not a good thing, it's a huge waste of time. Favor plain data over "objects" and functions over methods. Favor plain SQL queries over ORM.
I'm not sure they can truly afford it at TikTok's current valuation. TikTok's maker, ByteDance, also has a "revenue moat" in the form of their news app.

The time to buy TikTok was three years and 500M users ago.
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I wonder if there is a market for a portable Faraday cage
ByteDance is valued at over $80 billion, if the Chinese government would even allow the purchase. They've also invested a helluva lot of machine learning resources into building a platform that's hard to copy.
The parent were comparing Tik Tok to Vine, what does Twitter have to do with anything?
No, it was in USA.

It was short when driving :)

One route was Natick-Weston-Waltham, MA, so quite tough fighting with the snow (and snowplows) in the winter.

Another was MillValley-Sausalito-SF, including the time the Golden Gate was closed to bikes after 9/11. So all Marin cyclists had to cross the bridge on a free shuttle bus, which towed a bike rack trailer.

Not so young any more, but recently changed job, and started a 15 km bike commute again ...
A different approach for your sales process
Just a channel that is used for exfiltration. It's not a specific sort of thing.
The specific complaint made by one of the mods is that avoiding pronouns for or disengaging from a specific person to avoid using is viewed as improper under the new CoC. That's not the same as avoiding pronouns generally, it's differential treatment of an individual for not conforming to your preferred gender expression.
Maybe there is a performance benefit to calculating values once at update time vs millions of times during query?
PlayStation Now lowers subscription price to compete with Google Stadia
Right, to counter that they should allow self-made child pornography on Facebook.
(If you’ve ever seen popular TikTok videos, you know what I mean)
So what pays for this service?
Certainly not the case in the UK, I literally posted "Just testing: Tommy Robinson" yesterday after seeing your reply; post was left intact, friends can view and comment, and I'm not locked out of Facebook.
From what I read the really sad thing is how many of these failures are even not failure of the method or the underlying idea being wrong but pretty mundane things like failing to get funding for follow-up research, workgroups disbanding, PhD students finally throwing in the towel, researchers getting out of research for other reasons (family, ...).
This is really nice. Acts almost as a materialised view.
So is it better to be paid by Google?

p.s.: can you provide the source that says that Moglen was "being paid by Oracle"?

We know that in November 2017 you were already working at Google, AKA "being paid by Google".

p.p.s.: You said at the time

> He later released this position publicly with little co-ordination with the FSF, which was used by (Ubuntu creator) Canonical to justify their shipping ZFS (a filesystem developed originally by Sun Microsystems and now owned by Oracle) in a GPL-violating way

And I think you did it to backup your thesis of Moglen "being paid by Oracle".

Fact is you either were wrong or lying, Canonical ships OpenZFS [1], which is not owned by Oracle.

OpenZFS was born after ZFS was releases as CDDL in 2005 by Sun Microsystems as part of OpenSolaris, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in 2010.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/zfs-is-the-fs-for-containers-in-ubun...
It is great for geospacial.

You want centroids and bounding boxes precalced for all the geom you are pushing?

Now you can. Otherwise these can be pretty expensive operations.
A dam threatens one of the world’s oldest settlements
Why are so few women inventors named on patents?
The HN Guidelines (link in the footer) help clarify why you're being downvoted. I mention this not only for your sake, but to help raise awareness of the Guidelines themselves.

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
The content of the article itself is not that shocking, it only says instead of learning all commands & tricks at once, it recommends to learn gradually.