skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious way the author used Slack for 2 people until I saw their SaaS is a plugin for Slack.
As I mentioned in my other comments, startups selling a SaaS spend so much time writing copies and doing sales pitch of how their SaaS product is a must-have that they start to believe that also others SaaS are must-have.

SaaS selling to SaaS might turn into a Ponzi piramid scheme if left unchecked.
can't one just order the biological material by mail?
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What kind of talks are these? I'd be surprised if the audience represented the general Whatsapp userbase.
Surely if you know that the hashes will have an ~even distribution you can quite quickly make some assumptions about roughly where the key will be?

I'm not entirely sure I'm sold on the speed gained by splitting files vs doing a simple seek operation to an offset [1]. There's probably a bunch of time lost searching the filesystem through a file/folder structure?

Also the simple act of converting the numbers from ASCII to binary should save a bunch of disk space too (and make searching quicker)?

Great write-up though, good to see a bunch of solutions tried.

[1] http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/fseek/
Can it extract the correct line number from tracebacks, compiler / linter output etc? I wrote this tool, but I know George Nachman has added some features since I wtote it:

https://github.com/dandavison/iterm2-dwim
use Signal or Wire and get those you care about to use it too. assumes that you're able to live with the fact that those who don't migrate with you will be unable to messange you. I went through this by uninstalling WhatsApp (when I deleted FB) and informed everyone about it. Many agreed to install Signal and have grown to like it. Many of them I had to help during the process and keep them using it by updating them about security bugs and posts about the benefits and the growing popularity of Signal (such as this one https://www.politico.eu/pro/eu-commission-to-staff-switch-to...).

Some didn't migrate, but they are still able to reach me via email. I'm OK with that outcome of having lost some of those who didn't care.
Is it so hard to make masks? What's the bottleneck? Can't we just throw money at it?
My favorite example is the Edison phonograph. I see no reason why someone like Newton could not have invented this. We could have have recordings of Mozart and Beethoven playing the piano.
> There have been people killed by the blades of drones already.

You'll need to provide a source for this. I haven't managed to find any stories that match this.

I have found a half-dozen stories where a drone has crashed near or into a person with minimal injury, which could be a concern, and doesn't agree with the OP. ([0], [1], [2])

I have not managed to find a single death.

Whilst extensive testing does show serious injury is possible in extreme circumstances [3], the risk is negligible. Death wasn't something this FAA-funded research found was likely even in extreme circumstances.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/drone-crashes-into-virg...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26921504

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/germa...

[3] https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2017/01/ictas-droneinjuryrese...
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Hello Ace,

I appreciate all this great work done so far.

Thanks a lot for the great help and support on SaaS businesses.

Cheers,
Orkhan
co-founder of nextsale.io
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Emacs integration with the clipboard manager, clipmenu.
Hello Phil. Thank you for checking it out, your comment, and the good luck wish. Long way to go, so I'll take all the good luck wishes I can get. Cheers mate, Ace.
Yep! I'm not on it and never have been (I've been through all the IM systems over the years - MSN, ICQ, IRC, Skype, Hangouts, GChat, GTalk, AIM Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, iMessage literally used every single one, forced to use the memory hog Slack at work) and thought I didn't want to jump on the next bandwagon since SMS fills 99.9% of my needs, and if not, just email me.

Turns out that people don't bother communicating with you if you're on SMS, and can never be bothered to write an email.

This implies that the communication they were going to send is not important. If it were, they'd write an email. And people don't like the cost of MMS and soon stop sending me stupid pictures.

I can archive email + SMS, not any of the other chat systems.

I hardly get bothered by any notifications or interruptions or silly photos unlike my wife's phone that is constantly binging and buzzing and silly comments from "family chats" and work chats eg. "lol rofl haha random internet picture"

It's refreshingly quiet.

If others can't be bothered to find a method to communicate with you, they can't be very sociable? Their friendship and social interaction with you seems to be tied to an app. That's not a social cost - that's a social price.
> To be fair, Epic's approach doesn't require many resources other than just money.

People massively underestimate the business affairs aspect of getting people to come onto your platform. It requires really good people, and a lot of them.

Google seem to have made the same mistake.
Profile-specific aliases are easy.

In your .zshrc (or .bashrc), just use the value of $ITERM_PROFILE to set (or source a file containing) the aliases you want:

[[ $ITERM_PROFILE == “AWS” ]] && source ~/.aliases.aws
Think of this way,,,

AIDs while changes genetics fast evading immune system its hard to catch and takes decades to show up. It took us 35 years to come up with a vaccine and that was due to our degree of knowledge of the immune system works at the time.

Now, we have something easier to catch than the flu that requires hospitalization to treat. Or in short words, myopic Trump is wrong; pushing for a World-Wide vaccination effort funded by the US is not only securing USa but securing the world.

This is the first case where we will have to pull together to vaccinate 7 billion people. Its not optional.

Any idea how many tons of steel to get 7 Billion new needles? It might be 5 million tons. That is about 5% US production or about less than 2% China production. But, the real costs is not in the needles. Its the logistic costs of trained medical personnel to deliver the vaccine.
And, to be clear, I'm not referring to the country of Mongolia today, but to the extent of the historical culture of the nomadic people of the steppes.
That sounds wrong. Is your DMARC / DKIM / SPF set up wrong for your email provider or something?

Are you constantly marked as spam?
The rendering engine is largely irrelevant to me as a user on mobile. (Though of course having the actual one would be better.) Firefox sync is the meat of the deal.
I don't think you're giving enough neccessary information here. Is his role just chunk out the code, help with backlog and fix some bugs? Or he's going to be responsible for making strategic tech decisions and then communicating with entire future tech team about them? Obviously the latter is a much worse fit for a part-time, low-commitment employee.

What about these features he'll have to compete - are they well-defined? Has he done similar things dozens of times before, or will he have to research it as he goes together with everybody else?
More pompous than pretentious.
This line in the Rust book is what made it click for me: "Rust can figure out definitively whether the method is reading (&self), mutating (&mut self), or consuming (self)."

This was from the methods chapter but I think it applies globally. You either borrow to read, borrow to mutate, or consume (and possibly return a different value back)

I'm sure there will be more nuance but I think this is a good conceptual foundation to begin with.
Insane EDM-TRAP beaat composed this year 2020
Enforcement of traffic rules shouldn't have to be a problem, but when fines are seen as revenue, that may create perverse incentives for the people who implement the rules. Yellow lights staying yellow for just a bit too short is one of them.
Same experience here, do not enjoy fast paced games over streaming, and can't imagine what is would be over the internet... Image quality also take a hit obviously, video compression isn't magic.
It's more correct to say that WhatsApp's privacy model is a dumpster. The simplest way for it to improve would be to not demand full access to all contacts to work properly. I would be much happier if I could select the handful of contacts I want to actually WhatApp with and get the full experience, lik eother messaging apps.

That would mess with their metadata collection, however.
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Is the back-end of WhatsApp like the back-end of the Facebook and Messenger apps? I.e. loads of teams, lots of redundant code, massive attack surface, constantly breaking, etc?
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We’ve got a right wing government in charge that doesn’t believe the government should do anything.
> The interface provides no way of knowing whether or not your messages are being backed up.

The interface is clear about it on your side:
https://postimg.cc/gn3LxBNz

If you mean the other side, then the only valid assumption is: yes, the other side of conversation backs up your messages. This is unavoidable and for the general population having a backup is more important than the edge case where the backup is abused.
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> still only 2.6% reduction of that massive 2.9MiB ... in total.

This is unfair argument from my point of view. When we deployed a 30 % improvement for fonts (woff to woff2), people argued that fonts is just a small part of websites. When we deployed a 30 % improvement for PNG-like images in WebP lossless, people argued that they are only a small part of the traffic. When we deployed a 15-30 % improvement for CSS, JS and HTML with Brotli people argued that those are only a small part of the web. When we deploy improvements to video, people argue that 'yes it is a lot of data, but it is buffered so people are not waiting and they care less than for other types of data'.

Let's review each technology within its scope.
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I work a decent bit with ML and even with that I'm just waking up and read that as the news Network so apparently pretty easy to confuse
Nitpick: Turbo C in DOSBox doesn't work by default. Options - Directories point to C:\TC\ whereas Turbo C is actually installed in C:\.
Posting this in the hope someone can critique the methodology.

It all looks sane but it's not my field. The CFR and r0 are absolutely terrifying however so I'm interested in hearing opposing points of view.
The "BluePill" (STM32F103) is also good, really small and pretty cheap if you don't need the Arduino compatibility. You will need a dedicated programming tool (ST-Link), though. At least that's what I use for more than half of my WS2812B related projects.
imgcat and image displaying is amazing; I use a matplotlib backend that renders plots inline in the terminal, makes remote working much nicer.

Along with imgcat there’s it2dl. Downloads a file from the remote system browser-style. It’s much more convenient than scp, especially when several sessions deep.
But if Firefox only competes with Chrome, and the regulators are angry because of Chrome, why would Google not simply shut Chrome down? I mean that I don't see any reson why Chrome needs to compete against Firefox.

I can see arguments why Google needs to compete against Facebook: Those two compete for advertising customers. Funding one, two, a few browsers makes sense if the goal is to keep eyeballs on the web rather than letting Facebook tempt them into a walled garden. But why would Google care which of the browsers has most success? And if Google doesn't, why would regulators care?
Luxembourg saves on the barriers/checkpoints/controls that people actually paid for their tickets.

That said, it's a very small country and so the infrastructure cost are very contained. Also it's balance/budget is probably in the positive as well.
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Isn't email usable over 2G and spotty networks too?

I find the VOIP calling on it laggy and delayed (listening to my wife's calls with her mum who hasn't realised that the default on her iPhone for calls is now WhatsApp as it has hijacked the default "phone" behaviour...)
As someone who hasn't done much c++ in over a decade, but who loves rust, I often find the extreme focus on comparing to c++ to be a bit jarring and unhelpful.

As someone who's worked more with JS/ts/java, I find the borrowing system's guarantees far more interesting wrt concurrency. Yet that's often little more than a footnote in long articles about how rust is safer than c++.
Yes, even if they're a tad bit on the large side of what I'm looking for they're still looking quite compelling - unfortunately relevant models are not on sale in my region and the pricing becomes less attractive after shipping and import duties.
Well your example is kind of perfect.

Around 70% of the Firefox users are blocking trackers. And Statcounter is using trackers for their stats.

So the stats are very misleading.

They might even prove that Firefox is very privacy aware.
100% agreed, that's what I meant by "I think the issue is not about part time, but the commitment itself". We very often try to rationalize things that are more "felt" (sense of commitment) to more tangible things.

In this case, the author might feel that the person is not committed, and might attribute it to the part time as way to reason/explain that feeling that the other person isn't committed. Chances are, they would most likely feel the same if the person was full time. If the person was highly committed, they wouldn't even start to rationalize this way about part time, and it'd be a no-brainer decision to hire them and make it work.
The material completely fills the tube, so there's no space for dust.
It can become much more convoluted than just having a function used in many places. It usually takes the form of multiple levels of inheritance. And it's a pain to deal with, and somewhat of a pain to refactor as well.
Probably a chicken-and-egg thing. As long as we get there? :)
Hello Orkhan. Nice to see you here. You are very welcome pertaining to the little help I provided, you are the one doing the real work, so onwards and upwards mate.

Cheers, Ace.
Or worse, the natural progression should be that they diverge, but because they now share some kind of "reused" code in a library or class, an abomination is added to one or both users, just to keep the original "shared" feature.

Great fun.
Don't confuse marketing with how the company actually acts.
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I can understand why you guys are worried about this but what is the problem with trying it and seeing how it goes - you could also negotiate with him about different time schedules and maybe a small amount of time on his days off should it be necessary.

I have no problem with the word passionate but in the end will you be happy with this person's contribution for what you are paying them. If not you need to let them go during their probation/as soon as possible.

You really have nothing to lose and you probably get a well rested developer who can work hard for the 3 days. I would go for it but set boundaries and expectations - for example I would prefer to have him in full time for the first 3 weeks of every month say rather than this odd schedule.
Personally, that's enough for me. I've been using Firefox on iOS for at least a year or so, together with Lockwise (their password manager).
Thanks for the link, didn't know the guy.

Although the last question/answer is painful to hear, those filters aren't working...
There's a significant difference between "this works for all your current pictures on Facebook" and "you need to choose to upload some specific pictures on this specific app to use this feature".

The latter will get you a far better information on what people want to see turned into 3D.
Vote with your wallet?

Anti consumer companies shouldn't get your money.
Thank you - did not know that. Will adjust my Slack reminder then.
This was high school and I was 12 at the time and recall it like yesterday, even the desk I was sat at, types of chair, table - most vivid.

I'm sure university and high school teacher levels are at a different level and equally we are talking late 70's and with that - things have changed much - even at universities I dare say.

Also, not all teachers are the same - you have good ones, you have bad ones, you also have good ones who have bad days and with that, even bad ones can have good moments.
"top Google results" is different depending on who's searching.
Like pytorch?
What Mozilla is doing with Firefox regarding privacy is mostly a sham. Lots of talk but little action.

First off, if they were real about privacy they'd include uBlock Origin by default (and why not HTTPS Everywhere for good measure as well). Their current tracking "protection" is an absolute joke that explicitly whitelists Facebook and Google, the two biggest offenders when it comes to privacy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112398

They should also remove Google Analytics from their website, or at least the pages that the browser will automatically load on first use or after an update. While Google claims they have some special relationship with Mozilla regarding this and they won't use the data for any other purposes, it's hard to trust them - Facebook for example used to say that phone numbers would only be used for 2FA and yet somehow they ended up being used for advertising.

They should also make the telemetry opt-in instead of opt-out like it is now. Their current way of doing it might actually be in breach of the GDPR, as any non-essential data collection and processing must be opt-in.
Even better, it also maintains multiple windows!
Keep seeing people who are privacy focused complaining about apps that rely on phone numbers for sign up and identification. Honestly would think if you're concerned about that then handing over your phone number should be the last thing you're doing.
their broken input sanitation suggests exactly that. e2ee is just a marketing gimmick if the system as a whole can easily be pawned in other ways. NSO, FinFisher and all the other players peddling exploits to low-ranking LE are having a field day with WhatsApp for reasons that have nothing to do with e2ee. WhatsApp is as much snake-oil as Telegram, and OP was right in calling it a dumpster fire.
Radio comes to mind. All the physical pieces to make a working, if extremely limited and inefficient, radio communications system were there since forever. People knew how to make electric current since ancient times. An antenna is just a piece of twisted metal (and in a pinch, almost anything can work as an antenna). But to get from that to a wireless telegraph, you'd either need a lot of dumb luck, or some understanding of how electricity and magnetism behave.
We literally need to rethink our blase attitude to public infection control. Self isolation for cold and flu like symptoms should be mandatory.
Right, so the post could be called "dismissive". It's hard to see it as openly glorifying anything though, so the charge of pretentiousness only works of one adopts some extra context.

If you assume that everyone who is dismissive is actually wrong and just pretending to know stuff, then I guess being dismissive is pretentious.
Why wouldn't firefox be able to add those preferences by default?
Thinking about it, you would need a 64-bit value to point to the offset because of the size of the file.

But an index file of 64-bit offsets could easily be seeked to read the value of the offset based upon the first 2 or even 4 byte offset.

Though with 4 bytes, that becomes a 4 gigabyte index file! But that would probably be much faster as you only do one seek in one file, then another seek to the main file, then search a much shorter distance to the result!

If the system has enough ram, the operating system will cache the files anyway and will be pretty fast i think.

(can you tell my first job involved writing ad-hoc database systems?)
However, it seems like this is a discussion we're incapable of having here, which comes to the same thing.
You don't have control over the services that "pushes". So yes, we can figure out our own streaming push feature as you describe. But getting an existing item (e.g. chrome) to push to your custom server is impossible.
What does 'consume' mean in this context?
Equally possible that many things are discovered and due to historical time, those discoveries get lost and only measured as invented when discovered and documented.

How much has been invented and only counted as invented as it was written down and known about.
>That's a terrible reputation for any company to have.

Part of me wonders if this is due to the fact that google doesn't hire traditional sysadmins.

It might sound weird, because convention has become that you can "dev" your way out of "ops" and that SRE is the new hotness- but consider the fact that (as a gross generalisation) developers don't like maintaining stuff, it's much more beneficial for your own sanity and to present to management: new things! especially shiny things.

Sysadmins however think the opposite; how can we take $legacyThing and make it better, always the eye on maintenance and longevity. SRE's solve for reliability but not maintainability or longevity.

EDIT: guess I hit some peoples nerves, could someone elaborate on why?
I don't use tmux locally, but I find iTerm2+Tmux invaluable when it comes to managing my servers. for each of them I have an ssh command that automatically opens all the windows and panes for that particular server. It even persists colors I give various panes so I don't accidentally work in the wrong one.

Saves a bunch of time!
Yes, as I do more rust, I love the fact I can safely parallelise more than I love the memory protection.

Before Rust, I was close to saying that thread-based parallelization was almost impossible to do safely, and was moving to only doing process-level parallelization.
Yeah, we are not in that context, aren't we?
Firefox without addons is like pizza without tomato sauce. Sure you can do it, but...
> Zoom is one of the only actual profitable companies discussed, but the author tosses them into the list of disasters like WeWork. But let's unpack that: They IPOed at $36 a share, and they're down to $88, and the lesson here is "oh man, public markets hate startups"? ...like, really?

Two weeks after the article it is up to 105.51 pre-market for Monday 2nd March after a high of 120.54 Friday 28th Feb. Now while there resurgence has happened due to COVID-19 it's still there.
Doesn't Twitter do the same thing? When you sign up for an account these days if you don't hand over your phone number in sign up it claims your account is a spam account within an hour even if you haven't posted yet.

Always presumed it was a basic way to collate alt-accounts to real people in the back end.
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You seem to be saying that one cannot be sure of ones own position and not be pretentious, is that what you mean?
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I'm not sure this distinguishes between wellbeing and post-traumatic stress disorder.