skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of defeats the market for your product though. Assuming the US govt is going to stay non-rogue for the lifetime of the product you are buying to defend yourself against all threats, might be a tough call.
I tend to use hypothetical conversations in my head to analyse my thoughts, but otherwise feel my thinking is more abstract than verbal. So I'm not sure I agree with the dichotomy this article is presenting.
That's why we have Thread Pools.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_pool)
Plastic pollution: 'Hidden' chemicals build up in seabirds
Video streaming engineers at Fox Sports are preparing for the big game
I'm down that rabbit hole right now. The HBO series Chernobyl made me start up S.T.A.L.K.E.R. that's been sitting in my steam library for years. That game made me check out the film Stalker just last week and that made me pick up Roadside Picnic just the other day.
One Month of Microsoft DKIM Failure and Thoughts on Technical Excellence
As software continues to become a structural part of society that becomes more and more evident.

Civil engineers cracked the problem mostly by been able to say know and know that they had top-cover.
If you can turn a blind eye to the absolute horror show that Whatsapp calls a UI you probably deserve whatever befalls you.

Now I'll plug my friends company as an alternative for secure messaging (and because I like purple UIs) https://www.cyph.com/
To be clear, I'm more angry at Jonathan N. Pruitt, the fraud.

Looks like he hasn't retracted these papers from his Pubs list:
https://labs.eemb.ucsb.edu/pruitt/jonathan/publications

But still, there is no fucking way that you get three papers into your research and then figure this out. Having done an MS, PHD, and postdoc in evolutionary biology, including sociality in insects, I can attest that one scrutinizes every (insignificant) data point.

And fuck off Did I read the article.

If you see fraud and don't say fraud, you are a fraud.
~Taleb (I think)
The America Invents Act was signed into law in September 2011. This was exactly the time to do something about patent reform. There was a lot of discussion about it among tech companies at the time, but little leadership and no unified message on anything beyond, "Trolls are bad." Congress was not likely to (and did not) revisit the issue for some time afterwards.
Copyleft, and AGPL specifically, seems like a good fit for large applications, whereas more permissive licenses work well for smaller libraries.
What is most surprising to me is that someone like Jeff Bezos is rubbing shoulders with the masses on WhatsApp.

If I was him, I would have spent a couple million rolling my own, with gateways to web, email, and SMS.
I want people to be capable and independent, they should be up front and honest about things but if someone is too stuck on the minutia of "how and how much" in terms of communication then what's the point?

On top of which, to be perfectly honest, the people I work with are barely a step above strangers to me, so the last thing I want is to hear about their personal life. I certainly don't know or trust these people enough to trust with anything more than "I've got personal/family/medical issues, can you work with me while I handle these things?" and quite frankly I don't want or expect anything more from my coworkers than that.
> why ... would you use it in the first place?

People's trust in FB has eroded greatly over the last three years. That may be all there is to it.

In addition, however, the post clearly says it was a trial. The people who pushed for it were not necessarily the ones who had to eat the dog food.
Work–The Tragedy of Our Age
Magnetic nanostructures for emerging biomedical applications
Finally a company that is actually making the world a better place.
Huawei overtakes Apple in annual race to Samsung’s smartphone crown
Have you seen sources of WhatsApp?

Do you trust claims made by Facebook about privacy and encryption?
In fairness if the US went totally rogue their are few nations they couldn't wreck in short order outside of the ones with a credible ballistic missile program and nuclear warheads.

In that hypothetical no-one wins.

I'm sure there is an obscure plan for that somewhere in say the UK MoD filing cabinets.

I know the US war gamed invading Canada as both a training exercise and contingency plan.
it was very slow, almost a minute! but it has a custom build script, that looks like it’s not really made for incremental builds? it looks like there’s also bazel support, which i would guess is much faster, but i couldn’t figure out how to get it to work...
Book Review: Human Compatible by Scott Alexander
With international Copyright "borders" being built in to online streaming services, what is a good option for legally streaming the Super Bowl in Europe?
2020 Democrats Are Already Giving Up on Congress
Is there any platform where this could be done, or any proxy that one could trade in order to place this bet? I would also gladly put US$1000 on this.
Ask HN: My non-savvy friends are telling me to buy stocks. Is a crisis coming?
Hi everyone,

To me it seems like everyone is suddenly talking about stocks, like how the US markets are at a all time high yet I hear my friends who do have any interest in stocks and don’t follow the market saying that they are buying in to ride along to the top just because. And it is starting to ring some bells in my head because that situation was very familiar in 2007. Are you guys leaving the markets now or making any preparations for a potential crisis?
I get what you're saying but how does that help with small name or indie artists like Blank Banshee or Trevor Something for example?

What you're suggesting is definitely feasible with the larger acts that have been around and have been thoroughly psychoanalyzed.
I'm not sure everyone replying is familiar with the Roli Seaboard. It's keyboard shaped, but it's a bit like trying to play a piano made out of jello and encased inside a wetsuit. The movement & pressure of the gel gets interpreted as pitch, vibrato, velocity etc. It's trying to do more than your generic MIDI keyboard.

https://roli.com/products/seaboard/
Why Dyson Stopped Selling on Amazon
From Monitoring to Observability: Distributed Tracing with Jaeger
This 2% number that keeps being thrown around is based on dividing the number of confirmed deaths (which is likely to be relatively accurate) by the number of confirmed infections (which is almost certainly a massive underestimation). It's basically meaningless.
CERN IT administration is sometimes pretty idiotic. When I was still in physics, they replaced the well-loved homegrown Hypernews system with Microsoft something, a move welcomed by no one.
Ultrafast Microscope Works Like an HD Camera for the Quantum World
"it has a higher lethal rate than Influenza"

That is not known at this point.
Are all of your friends on Telegram? Were you a member of any Whatsapp group chats?
p5.js and p5.play where what I used to make a SHMUP.

https://nortyspock.github.io/Viktor/

Before that I made asteroids.
https://nortyspock.github.io/asteroids-p5/
Correct, but with the current virus alertness people would just rather not go near the person.
s[3] could return a proxy though. Probably still not worth the complexity.
The games have (I checked and they, and now lots of clones, are still online) descriptive names, and word of mouth make people search for them, and search engines do find them.

They are all simple stupid games (think floppy bird, although games in question are not that one)
The company (Leaning Technologies) exists from 2012. This specific technology is new and we have multiple commercial early adopters already signed up. We also provide porting tools from C++/Java to Javascript/WebAssembly which are mature and used by many customers.
I'm surprised CERN has tried it in the first place. I mean, if CERN can produce things like ProtonMail, it can definitely conjure up massively superior alternatives to facecrook.
Xbox One Dashboard and UI Updates Teased with Insider Program
I disagree with reasoning of this article. Not inequality is the reason for our economic woes. If all people on this earth would be living in conditions of the first world, our resource problems would be significant. Of course there are the big corps with a disproportional impact, but these big corps produce because they have consumers.

> the consumption of the world’s wealthiest 10% produces up to 50% of the planet’s consumption-based CO₂ emissions, while the poorest half of humanity contributes only 10%

Without these inequalities the percentages would look better, but certainly not the absolute environmental impact. On the contrary...

What I agree this topic could increase the inequality and people least responsible could suffer the most. So until this inequality isn't addressed, refusal to take part in this discussion might not be a bad choice. Any conclusion and measures here would only affect later generations if you don't want to start a war and kill a lot of people.

Maybe we get lucky and we are we will refocus this consumption, have better technologies or more sensible policies that we don't have to.
It's a weakly typed language problem, static vs dynamic typing has nothing to do with it.
You got any sources for that b/s?

Like the hospitals being almost finished resorts? They are building these things from the ground up, there was nothing there, you could even see this in those live streams, from multiple camera angles.
If by manipulated he means continually improved through competitive pressure to on the whole deliver a better experience for less cost than the competition, then sure.

All drugs are always on the table for doctors to choose from. It’s their responsibility to choose wisely and responsibly, even in the face of for profit nudges to behave a certain way.
I'm just going to leave this here in case people still think this guy has anybody's best interests in mind. Is it true? Is if fake? Make your own conclusions.

https://medium.com/@anton.rozenberg/pavel-durov-sued-senior-...
You’re probably more susceptible to misinformation than you think
Unicode Consortium added a transgender flag emoji and more gender-incl designs
How to Make Programming More Exciting and More Fun
Heyo! goober author here! Thanks for the shoutout!️
Godot[1] is free and open source, similar to Unity, builds to mobile, desktop and web. It supports 2D and 3D, as well as VR through some addons. It has a built in python-like scripting language called GDScript that's easy to pick up and understand, and you can also use C#, C++ or many other languages through bindings (even Javascript[2]).

It's a really impressive effort for an open source project. There's a channel on YouTube called KidsCanCode[3] (not just for kids!) which has a load of project-based tutorials to build lots of types of games.

[1] https://godotengine.org/

[2] https://github.com/Geequlim/ECMAScript

[3] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNaPQ5uLX5iIEHUCLmfAgKg/pla...
Liability for Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Digital Technologies [pdf]
Was the issue with Telegram sending password via SMS already being fixed? That's was the argument number one against it, if you fear any State adversary. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/12/myste...
Using more permissive licenses for smaller programs is what the FSF recommend:

"It is not worth the trouble to use copyleft for most small programs. We use 300 lines as our benchmark: when a software package's source code is shorter than that, the benefits provided by copyleft are usually too small to justify the inconvenience of making sure a copy of the license always accompanies the software."

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html#sm...
Reminder for everyone: Work towards your goals, in a world full of distractions
Remaking my curriculum vitæ with modern web technologies
Time to push for Briar[1], again[2]

[1] https://briarproject.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17695266
Yeah, the screen space in memory started top left and ran to the right horizontally and then down vertically.
That's ridiculous. There are plenty of Reddit apps out there, for example, and they are just fine.

Telegram folks are just afraid that obscenity laws will be used against them by officially-not-censoring-but-actually-pretty-curious-about-everyone's-communications governments, like UK, France, Italy, and so on. "Oh, you cannot police your underage nudes? Law says we have to do it then, hand over the keys or shut it all down. We will absolutely not use these keys for anything else, honestly, uh-uh..."

That's the charitable reading that doesn't insult anyone's intelligence. I still don't particularly trust Telegram not to cooperate with authorities anyway - any centralized model is doomed to, at some point.
For a while I wanted to manage my CV in a more flexible way. I stumbled upon a great article on CSS-Tricks that made me think I had no more excuses to procrastinate. In this article I present my solution along with some considerations.
It took a lot of time for most C++ compilers to get good at removing abstraction. It was so bad that Stepanov wrote the abstraction penality benchmark to name and shame compilers.

In particular vectors with class type iterators (as opposed to using raw pointers) paid an heavy penality. Is it possible that your vector used raw pointers as iterators?
AI Fraud and AML Summit London 2020
End to end encryption has its disadvantages. If only 1% of communications use it then in only 1% of communications require the users consider it necessary and worth it. And there's nothing wrong with that.
you’re probably right. obviously you can model it in go (just use a ptr!), but it doesn’t feel as natural.
Rising rents are squeezing middle-income Americans
Works with Signal flawlessly.
I specifically use it because while I'm committed to writing free (as in freedom software), my downstream users may not be. I'd rather they didn't have more options than I do if they decide to compete against me. Free software empowers the downstream user, so I kind of think of it a bit like surfing. You potentially have all this extra energy, but that energy can crush you if you don't walk a very tight line. As the upstream author you have a bit of an advantage, but it's easy to squander it if you don't think carefully about what you are doing. I'm always a bit perplexed when people write free software but intentionally avoid copyleft. There are lots of places where permissive licenses are the right way to go, but also a lot of places where your are just creating an uneven playing field with yourself in the worst position.
With the current state of ICANN, it seems like migrating from .org is a good idea.

If migrating to .io is a change for the better, I do not know. Why not something more traditional like .com or .net?

Edit: Disregard completely.

The guy evidently lost the domain through some mild incompetence, and never managed to restore it. Boy, does that have to suck.
I've always wondered about whether the AGPL is a good fit for software that isn't accessed over the network. At first glance this would appear to offer the exact same rights as the GPL in this scenario, however you then have the protection of the AGPL if the software was ever incorporated into a networked program.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Are there pitfalls to using the AGPL for a regular program that I'm not thinking of?
Why is CERN of all places using facebook or doing business at any level with facebook?

This is not some "anti-americanism" or anything. Facebook is a shit corporation, and CERN of all places should have nothing to do with it, besides maybe a public verified page to announce things and similar activities.

As an european and as an EU citizen, this is disgraceful.I don't think people actually realize what (should at least) kind of resources and talent CERN has. They should have their own mediums of communication and team management, etc.
That chart was interesting. Interesting how the growth of yahoo groups memberships really dropped off right around 2014.
The tyre model in Rfactor 2 is something to behold, relatively cutting edge let alone for a video game.
I was willing to let it have my phone number, which is the thing that would cut down spamming (as a hard-to-generate-in-bulk identifier). I just wasn't willing to give it my contact list.
Isn't taking the population of Wuhan as 11 million cherry picking? You could choose the population of central Wuhan and get a higher estimate or the population of Hubei province and get a lower estimate. Presumably the distribution of Japanese people evacuated does not match the distribution of people in Hubei province, since many will be tourists (more likely to be in the city centre). Moreover their chance of being infected will depend on where they were staying: there is an epicenter.

But yes it does indicate that the real number is much higher than the confirmed cases. It's really hard to track an outbreak of this magnitude especially when many people are carriers showing mild symptoms. It's actually a good thing if cases are being severely underestimated as it implies a lower death rate (deaths are harder to fudge).
Sure, people who are happy customers of quaternions and don't feel driven to understand what's under the hood, why change?

The pitch in the OP is (I think) intended for people who feel pressure to understand why it works. Geometric algebra can be built up yourself by picturing actual rotations, one dimension at a time. It's physical from the start. Quaternions are a finished math system that you have to reverse-engineer to understand. Some people like one approach or the other better.

Some geometric algebra people are kind of true believers. That's probably not helping the notation get traction.
Too much of my life is being run through WhatsApp beyond my control (family, work, school) - to the point that if I avoid WhatsApp, I miss a lot. In fact, I avoided WhatsApp for a very long time until I realized the reason I'm always out of the loop -- in very significant and life impairing ways -- iis because I don't WhatsApp.

However, I splurged $50 for a 2nd hand "whatsapp only" android handset. It's not very comfortable, I check messages once a day, but at least I'm not left out.
What does support for 'send as from Gmail' mean though? Doesn't Gmail allow that with any address you forward to it? Does it mean an SMTP server?

And what about when forwarding it not to Gmail?
It doesn't really help to know that it's dangerous. I might be overly pessimistic, but from my anecdotal evidence, it is very difficult to get users to move from one messaging platform to another. And once you have gotten all of your close people moved from say Facebook Messenger to Whatsapp (In my example) as it's more recognized than, say, Signal - it would be close to impossible to get everyone to move yet _again_ in the near future in the fear of some security flaws.

Other people just don't care as much...
Google does not allow usage of AGPL code.

https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/
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That is also true.
> We use workplace too and this mirrors my experience precisely, especially the bit about notifications.

I have a solution for you: https://imgur.com/a/QnIsBUw Even better, if you go to https://my.workplace.com/groups/ you will see a list with all groups you are part of with options, for each group, to control the notifications, follow settings and leave the group. On the same page there is a button to bulk manage groups.

Both my personal fb feed and the workplace feeds and notifications (both when I used to work for fb and now at the current startup), are fairly clean, with only things I care about. Yours is noisy because you let it be noisy.

At fb, our team had a public group for support requests, a main internal group for team wide comms (release notes for each service we provided, on-call reports, welcome messages for new peeps, social stuff) and a number of groups for each individual team, or service, or even inter team projects. The noise on my feed was minimal.
IBM’s latest free tool will auto-label images for AI training
The problem is that many users think they are using E2E, because that's what Telegram advertises. Those people needed security, and looked for it, and are now vulnerable.

Besides, security and privacy should be the default. It's not like the user experience of WhatsApp is drastically worse for having E2E.
The point is that that rapid fracturing was unexpected.

No one really thought Trump and Brexit would happen, and Turkey was looking like it might join the EU.

The problems with “we’re all besties forever!” are clear now, but that’s hindsight.
> Yes, It may be least convenient for you but not for a majority of users who don't want/need bots.

No one's going to make them use bots against their will.

> Telegram has bots and lot of it is just spam.

Bots can't even initiate conversations.

> Facebook has decided a B2B sort of model for bots for this specific purpose

Which almost certainly will be used for Spam because that's Facebook's line of business.
Well it might be partially due to culture. Large parts of population is skeptical to the modern western medicine, and rather use traditional Chinese medicine practices.
Image the Hollywood re-make of 2001: My God, it's full of stars!
Prices are regulated is the problem!

Prices should be ‘regulated’ by REAL price transparency and consumer choice! The prices will self regulate based on the market.

AND insurance can be privately bought to protect against the chance that you get stuck with something expensive. Just like insurance against your house burning, car crashing, or dealer getting a blackjack.

The idea that regulating the price through government will lead to more efficient system with lower costs and better outcomes is a fallacy. Even NASA is being outdone by private space exploration. Government regulation simply can not compete with a truly free market where consumers have access to information, prices, and can make decisions for themselves.

CHOICE is what is required to optimize the solution. Regulation is mostly a fallacy. Regulation is required for certain protections, but not a reliable means to get the system to deliver the optimal outcomes and the lowest costs.
Why are people still recommending Telegram over solutions like Signal

Usability, freedom.
You don't need to understand the root construction of Quaternions to use them in game code anymore than you need to understand the root construction of the Reals to be able to do arithmetic in game code. Just treat them as opaque values that have certain operations you can perform to get certain results and be done with it.
I recently used the iText Library for PDF parsing in java.
Everything was alright until I discovered their AGPL license.

https://itextpdf.com/en/how-buy/agpl-license

Since our product was proprietary, we had to remove the library since our product would also come under the AGPL license or we would have to buy their commercial version, for which we can get a "quote"(https://itextpdf.com/en/how-buy)
Even worse, the current top comment (clarified further by one of its children) is saying that they only had 150 active users per week.
This is a terrible article.

- There evidence for Bezos's phone being hacked is pretty poor.

- The "backdoor" was not a backdoor. It was an ordinary bug. Whatsapp cannot pledge to not make mistakes. He can claim that it was deliberate all he likes but he doesn't have any actual evidence.

- Other apps have bugs too. Telegram may have fewer but that's because it has far fewer users. They claim 100 million. WhatsApp has 1.5 billion.
Well, AI in 2001, surveillance state in 1984… It almost seems like these are chapter numbers in something like the 1984's inner book about how the modern world works.