skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an expert on articles like this, don't bother reading it. I did so you don't have to.
I'd put Telegram up there, probably in front of Signal.
There's a missing "real" in the title of the submission: "The Mark Zuckerberg Is a Lot Less Impressive Than the Movie Version"
Congressional inquiries haven't been about finding truth since TV was invented. They are a platform for the parties involved to signal their positions. MZ is talking to his investors, AOC to her constituents.

My point is: there is no conversation going on. Just people talking.
US govt gives Adobe permission to continue to sell in Venezuela
"If you ever used a command lien interface".

That's a good one, I've been using Unix/Linux systems daily since the early 90s and test people on their Bash skills in job interviews.
So boring.
Ah, you mean a Unsolvable Maze: https://www.sickchirpse.com/janitor-creates-completely-unsol...
The worst is when an ASMR video lulls you into a sense of relaxation and vulnerability and a loud obnoxious ad suddenly obliterates you and sends your heart racing
In my experience the best information is always in websites with no ads. Like personal blogs, old pages, you name it. Seeing ads in a newspaper website? Why would I want to watch ads in exchange for being fed manipulating, half-true information?
You can't have targeted ads AND be anonymous to the ad companies.

You absolutely can, the ad just needs to match the venue. If you are selling fishing tackle you buy an ad on Total Carp (a real magazine!) and you have guaranteed targeting to fishing enthusiasts. This is the same for any ad for any product.

The idea that tracking is needed for ad targeting is pure deception on behalf of those whose real objective is the tracking for other reasons.
They must have very recently re-implemented it. It had stopped working when they disabled plain text backup and restores.
I had at few meetings with Zuck at Facebook after Wit.ai was acquired in 2015. To me, the real version is at least as impressive as the movie version.

Then, of course, maybe was I biased by the movie and everything else I already heard about him? I'm sill wondering.
A Country's laws have to stop applying at some point - they can't apply to everything 'above' that country at that time. To do so would lead to absurdities like settlements on the moon/mars shifting legal zones many times per day as that country rotates into view.

I'd think that a reasonable limit would be the point above a planet where you can maintain a stable orbit for some length of time.
I think my confusion is around the article's 'frames' and your use of a FFT 'window' - again, what size should be used for the frame/window?

If you have just two samples of audio at 40khz, I understand that the max frequency you can capture is 20khz. But, given just two samples, I can't see how you can separate out the multiple lower frequencies that could be present. To do so, you would need more samples (i.e. for a longer period of time, not a higher frequency of samples). So my question is, how many samples do you pick to do the FFT on?
From later in the article:

> This contribution was based on the understanding that Syngenta would retain commercial exclusivity for the technology, including large agricultural setups in developing countries.

The sub licensing agreement has several hooks to ensure that.
There’s no clear separation of “political ads”:

- candidates can be serious or not so much, but it’s unclear where the line is between the GOP and Vermin Supreme.

- PACs represent the bulk of “political” spending: it’s also unclear where you set the line there; clear attack ads are not the same as a more generic charity defending the environment and supporting a candidate; you can’t ban one without banning the other, or you have to define clear rules that allow “Vote for a candidate that supports your values” but not anything more specific, where using the same symbol, colour, font, as a specific campaign becomes a problem.

- If you ban any communications about the environment, gender equality, etc. commercial companies who bolster their ecological credential or empower women are becoming liminal and problematic when they really shouldn’t.

- None of those questions can accept a US-centric answer: Facebook hosts political ads from 190 countries, where all of the above is slightly different. What counts as controversial in other countries would definitely surprise you.

What counts as true, another argument in that debate isn’t clear: a lot of political promises like “we have the budget to pass that reform” can seem… “very bold and optimistic” to some fact-checkers. Facebook has struggled with fact-checkers in the past and felt it was preferable to downplay their role, given that previous scandal.
You can check at http://commodore64.se/wiki/index.php/Commodore_64_Memory_Map what kind of stuff goes in the zero page for Commodore's kernal and Basic.

In particular, Basic puts the whole "get next byte" routine there at $0073. It is self-modifying code where the address of the next program byte is the operand of an LDA instruction. Placing the whole routine in zero page saves enough cycles on incrementing the next program byte that it's worth spending 5% of the whole zero page on it.
Huh? I wasn't trying to excuse the body count of Socialist experiments or something like that. Pointing out that the Nazis were decidedly anti-Socialist is not a defense of Socialism any more than pointing out the SPD was decidedly anti-Communist is a defense of Communism. The Nazis weren't "doing Socialism wrong." They viewed Socialists as traitors who signed the Treaty of Versailles to further the agenda of the internationalist Jews.
>Message-ID is not unique per message

Thank you for saving me from the heartbreak of finding this out later. Seriously you just saved me a ton of time.

>A UIDVALIDITY change should blow your whole cache. In practice they are rare.

So even in a huge pile of mail, everything would have to be reprocessed. Since it's so rare, I'm definitely going to set up metrics to monitor when it does happen.
Do you have any insight on how people store the mail? Do they actually use the UID to reference it or is it used as more of a cursor?
I think thats a dark secret of a lot of products. You disclose all this stuff to be “transparent and cool” and then your support inbox or forum is full of non native speakers and other people that fundamentally misunderstand everything said
Because Trump bragged about it with the whole "we're gonna have a space force!" rant. Probably just made sense to make it public now.
Getting your first 10 customers
That's assuming you would recompile the user. Using a constant instead of a function breaks ABI if the size of a struct changes.
Nice! I'll take a look. Thanks for the advice.
Wow, to this day people are still having clock speed size contests. It's not so simple. The Z80 has more cycles per instruction.
There was a very inspiring response from the original founding Facebook team about Sorkin’s movie (right around the time they had the entire company go and see it): like most people here know, starting a company isn’t glamorous, at all, certainly in 2004-2006. Servers going down, impossible hiring; they remember a blur of incessant crisis. They thought romanticised version of that story where they look good, say witty things and kick ass was surprising but inspiring for them.

Zuckerberg has gone through media training and can be very good when he’s prepared for specific questions (see his public Q&A). He’s also notoriously focused and happy to delegate. Asking him to come talk about Libra and ask questions about Cambridge Analytica is an easy way to get vague answers.
I'm still amazed how relatively easy it is to bake your own sourdough bread, and encourage everyone to at least give it a try. After a few practice rounds, the total time you need to put in for a loaf is about half an hour (<5 mins work, 8–12 hours waiting, 20 mins work, 2 hours waiting, 5 mins work, 5–7 hours waiting, <5 mins work, 30 mins baking, done). I'm following this recipe [1]. Just yesterday I made this one [2], I think my 10th try.

[1] https://www.hobbshousebakery.co.uk/blogs/recipes/140081991-s...

[2] https://pub.hrmnn.net/25/847d8c01/DSCF6085.jpeg
Care to share an anecdote?
>> There needs to be the luxury of time and the space to fail, two things we don't have.

But once we have those, won't they be considered not luxurious, instead, standard?

And won't the argument still be that we lack the luxury we need?

I think we should improve the handover instead of pretending there will be no handover.
Transploration or the art of escaping the corporate meetings
One of the first recursive algorithms I learned was the solver for the Tower of Hanoi problem. I was stunned about its simplicity, solving a problem most people couldn't with just a few lines of code:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi#Recursive_solut...
Trusted code has to be free from vulnerabilities to be immune, so it's still an issue even for trusted code. And I'm pretty sure neither webassembly nor other sandboxing methods can fully mitigate speculative attacks on out-of-order CPUs within the same address space, you'd need a programming language with a compiler designed from scratch for it.
Sure, we should not find this dodging acceptable, but shouldn't we start by using this standard on the politicians themselves first? At least Zuckerberg is offering a service we can opt out of, that's not the same for what the politicians do.
What was the product if I may ask?
I'm currently on holiday in Bali and YouTube is now showing me ads in Indonesian.

I'm astounded that YouTube has spent billions of dollars over a decade on the best software engineers and still cannot manage this simple optimisation.
A New Home for KernelCI
I have setup a crawler acommpanied by a discord bot to notify me and my friends about new posts on each faculty class website. These posts usually include stuff like exam results, schedules and other notifications. Really helpful. Stopped us from manually checking each website when we anticipate schedules and results for each exam.
>inverse square cube

You mean inverse cube root? I believe the geometry ain’t easily upgradeable this way.
> This was one of the biggest scams related to Facebook.

It actually wasn’t but no one will listen to people familiar with what happened.
The idea with an ABI (an Application Binary Interface rather than an API) is that there is no need to re-compile, existing binaries still work since the binary interface stays the same.
That's awesome. I ran into this situation in C#, and looks like it is useful in some cases.

https://zpbappi.com/curiously-recurring-template-pattern-in-...
I’m curious what specifically you would want improved in the REPL.
The real tragedy of the C language is that VLA are not implemented safely in any known implementation. They are so natural to use! Any pair of malloc/free on the same scope could be cleanly replaced by a single VLA declaration.
In Germany every political party gets a fixed number of slots for TV-Spots basically free of charge ahead of an election. There is no other political advertisement allowed (only the parties themselves are allowed to advertise). Unfortunately neither newspapers nor internet advertisement is as strictly regulated, but I feel like it should be eventually as well.
The loudest bird known sings right in a potential mate’s face
Lots of ioccc code are beautifully done. Especially the best self documenting ones.
Telegram is not encrypted for for group or direct chats unless the user creates a secret chat. So although telegram is probably above signal in usage, I would guess encrypted chats are not
Have you looked at the possibility of doing it client-side ?
IIRC they also invented their own algorithm, so not properly reviewed.
comment bait
I like influencer marketing where people just do things because someone they are entertained by does it

I was surprised at how effective that is for conversions

Its been hilarious to watch grifters think they could do it just by having followers
The free license for golden rice allows saving and replanting seed - thankfully big biotech wasn't quite that obviously evil in their big positive PR for GMOs act. The caveats are that doesn't cover imports and exports (all consumption must be within the country that grows it), and it only covers subsistence farmers and low-income food-deficit countries according to the FAO. As a general rule, food-deficit countries aren't going to be able to grow enough rice to supply the country because the definition literally requires they can't grow enough calories of food to feed their population. I'm not sure what hapens when a country loses its LIFD status or a farmer has a good year and makes over the threshold to grow it in other countries, but I presume it's not good for anyone except the company owning the patent rights.
I raised that point at Facebook when I joined (I had lived in Finland soon prior and didn’t speak a word of that terrifying language). My back-of-the-SQL estimate was several percentage points of ads were shown to someone who couldn‘t understand them.

It took six months for the company to ask someone to investigate further; he confirmed my estimation and had “the most impact anyone junior had within two months of joining the company”.
You seem to be referring to the arguably beautiful effect of code.

Are you seriously praising this monstrosity of preprocessor macros, integers used as magic booleans and compiler specific builtins as beautiful code??
We like to think that, but we do a lot of rediscovery of techniques and approaches that were invented in the 60s/70s.
Kashmir is seething – and somebody needs to step in before it's too late
History of Yard Lumber Size Standards (1964) [pdf]
With Satya at the helm of Microsoft,
I don't think, there will any drastic change in github.
So it's business as usual.
The problem lies with the people ordering the ads. They're the ones that pick who should see the ad.
Nim generates C, C++, Objective-C and js - so yes, you can target Android and iOS
And in Perl6 / Raku

my @fibs = 1, 1, * + * ... ∞
The true beauty of Logo comes in the realization that you can add your own words to it, and that all these specialist words you devise are themselves first-class citizens of the language, of syntax and status equal to its generic builtins. Hence:

TO CIRCLE
REPEAT 360 [FD 1 RT 1]
END

TO FLOWER
REPEAT 20 [CIRCLE RT 18]
END

and so on ad infinitum, until you arrive at a complete custom vocabulary that concisely and precisely expresses the particular concepts and behaviors of interest and importance to you. In doing so, you move from thinking algorithmically (which is glorified spaghetti) to thinking compositionally, which is the key to scalability – managing complexity as your needs and ambitions grow.

Whereas Algol-y languages treat user-defined vocabulary as second-class citizens, beneath their own privileged built-ins. Which is a ridiculous of status when you consider which is actually important to the user: precise, powerful, tailored words that describe their particular problem, or the crude primitive undifferentiated building blocks that the language dumps out of the box?

The beauty of bottom-up programming (as any Lisp fule kno:) is that endlessly tests your own understanding of the problem domain: to define effective, productive words you must have some idea of what you’re talking about; you can’t help but learn the foundations of the problem space as you go. There’s a basic humility to this approach; there’s nowhere to hide laziness or ignorance.

Whereas in top-down programming it’s much too easy for highly-educated highly-paid absolute know-nothings to bullshit eternally, constructing great theatrical class architectures; grand mechanical castles in the sky that look all very difficult and impressive to observers while never saying anything relevant or useful.

That key switch from algorithmic to compositional thinking is not a natural conceptual leap for self-learners – it takes a carefully directed prod at a particular point in the learning curve to jump those rails – but it opens up worlds. #PlatosCave
Nothing dishonest here. A criminal enterprise purposely creating a phone with hidden OS to cater to the criminal market. No privacy conscious person buys a black box $1200 phone that costs $700 every six months. This doesn't mean all encryption is for criminals, rather the story is about for product being for criminals.
I read this one on Saturday (bought it from Amazon after I saw it posted here earlier in the week). It's very good at detailing how UNIX was developed in the early days and how it exploded after 1979 with V7 - and in a way that isn't difficult to read whatsoever. There are some sections about the inner workings of UNIX I already knew - but skimming through those allowed me to catch a few historical gems I didn't know.
The Color of Noise: What Do Hues Have to Do with Sound?
This is very true -- there are also echoes of how politicians prepare talking points in response to journalists' questions these days. The person being quizzed isn't actually prepared to answer questions, they come prepared with a set of themes to talk about and will seek to massage their answer to almost any question to one of those prepared themes.

The other interesting thing specifically about televised Congressional hearings is that Congresspeople have very little time -- AOC had 5 minutes, if I recollect correctly. This gives the person being grilled an advantage -- by simply taking his time with his answers he can run down the clock and be done with AOC's questions.
> If listening to a request and executing a command is understanding, then computers have been understanding us for a long time. Even without the latest advances in AI.

I think this is a reasonable thing to say, in the limited way he has defined ‘understanding’. People forget what a titanic achievement that user interfaces that allow us to communicate our intentions to a computer and receive a relevant response actually are, whether it’s using a voice or clicking a button.
Thanks! It uses PixiJS for rendering, the rest is custom JS.
For what it’s worth: it’s the same here and I only allow ads from Google and Facebook.

Google’s system isn’t perfect but I can x-out individual ads. I’m hoping that Google will move away from a purely embedding-based targeting system into something more deliberate.

Facebook has [1] which is the closest to what you are asking for, although not used nearly enough to justify more investment in improving it.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/
People talk about CEOs with "vision", and usually it's a substitute for a more concrete explanation of what the value-add of non-technical upper management is.

Reading this exchange is fascinating. Jobs doesn't spell out the future - he doesn't know it either - but he has an unwavering faith that computers will be central to it, and can even quite effectively explain how and why. The interviewer seems in retrospect hopelessly naive, but he no doubt represented the mainstream opinion of the time. For Jobs to understand this and bet his career on it (remember, most people betting their careers on computers would have been able to find work even if they had never left the science lab or big corporations - Jobs was speculating on a completely different future) shows, I think, that he deserves the place and high-regard in technological history he has been given.
Did you know it was used on one of the album covers for Joy Division?
I appreciate your help, but I feel like its unlikely to be in there since it wasn't really obfuscated - it was meant to be clear in some sense of the word and had a bunch of comments explaining it.

The comments sounded natural, but lined up so each Nth column was a space (or punctuation) all of the way down the code. None of the things I am seeing in that list seem to have quite the same layout.

There was some comment about it like "some people feel code should be beautiful to enjoy debugging" or something along those lines but I don't really remember.

I have been looking for a long time though and really wish I had saved it properly when I first saw it.
Whatsapp is popular outside of usa and China

Imessage is default messenger for ios

American android users become the excluded
Your neurons don’t understand who carol is either, they’re just automatically responding to stimulus.
Cheating, hacking, solving puzzles. What's the difference :)
But yeah, it's not exactly 9 pixels.
The targets of the surveillance and the people running the surveillance are both in country. It's ridiculous to say it's fine just because the cameras are outside the border. If Elon Musk launched a laser satellite and started vaporizing Tesla short-sellers, would we say he's not guilty of murder?
Digitizing Food Distribution in Kenya
Number 2 seems particularly useful for devs, As they are ones who suffer most of writing complex SQL queries using "ORM".
It's actually made me more likely to use it, now that I can be assured that there are adults at the helm and they won't ever do any sketchy things because they are running low on funds.
>Ads don't have to be targeted to be revelant.

They pretty much do. Non-targeted ads will either require an unreasonable amount of effort to disseminate or they will not be relevant to the vast majority of people that see them. Contacting different sites about a specific topic to show your relevant ads is going to take an incredible amount of work.

What's probably even worse is if we get a situation like on YouTube, where it's just the same 5-10 companies buying ads for their products. This means that content creators will advertise NordVPN on their site, even if the product itself is bad, because you only have these few options to choose from.
See How Indian Army Helped These Bikers in Zanskar: World's Most Isolated Region
We were talking about the company selling the products being responsible for collecting the products, not for whether there were voluntary collection schemes.
I don't know a ton about jemalloc internals, but it is true that a lot of modern mallocs use some mechanisms similar to GCs. There's some pretty major constraint differences though.
If you have an identical twin, is your twin "as much you" as you are yourself? If not, at what point between the fertilisation of that single egg cell and today did you become distinct persons?

How does that compare to creating an exact replica of you today (assuming that ever becomes possible, which personally I doubt)? At the moment of replication, which of the two is really "you" (can anyone, including you, tell?), and how will that identity develop into the future as the two have divergent experiences? If one of them is destroyed, is the remaining one automatically "you" from then on?
Pre-authorized payments for bills (phone, gas, electricity etc). There are so many upsides to this:

- Zero stress

- Avoids late charges

- Improves credit rating (see previous point)

Edit: formatting
But isn't the problem the person who ordered the ads? If they pick a geographic region, but not a language, then don't those ads make sense?
> It scares me how much history is slipping through our fingers, how much is already lost.

And with digital, this is even worse.
Why would a patent troll sue a rice farmer with no money in a developing country?
Not ‘hyper-targeted’. Cambridge Analytica never did that. The (non-technical) salespeople kept saying they were to impress (non-technical) campaign managers but there wasn’t anything like that.

The “Do so” is a far better example of what they really did: develop a talent for race-based dog-whistle type messaging that _anyone_ could see but where one group would respond differently. The main differentiator that Cambridge Analytica would introduce was Social media vs. traditional press to split messaging by age-group. They tried to improve it using magazine subscription and car brand (from credit reports) but it wasn’t much better than using party registration datasets.