skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment was not talking about euthanasia at all, but putting up smoke screens is easier than reacting to the concerns of people.
The confusion seems to stem from two kinds of privacy goals here: Metadata privacy towards third parties (i.e. who is calling who; Signal explicitly does not provide this) and reciprocal location privacy of two calling parties (i.e. I don't know where I am called from and vice versa, only who I am talking to).

Signal's conscious choice is to interpret a user adding another as a contact as an implicit signal to mark them trustworthy enough to forfeit the second kind of privacy in exchange for better voice quality (latency and bandwidth) as well as to lighten the strain on their resources.
I really wish a lot of things started with the conclusion or TLDR. I have ADHD and I have issues reading to the end of an email without skipping and quitting before the end.

I mean, I know there is a certain way to write research articles and that they aren’t exactly meant for people with attention problems, but without people like you I’d never see the conclusion. Hell I might even look for it and then not find it and forget all about it.

I kind of knew exercise was good for me though. I even like doing it. The real issue is to begin to exercising instead of just thinking about starting it for a whole day without actually getting started.
Adding this to it : https://stripe.com/jobs/culture#culture
They are the source for a lot of journalism..

A bit of focus on exclusives.. pay for them, vet the story and the person reporting, journalists would fall over themselves to subscribe to that.

Or maybe I read too much bbc
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It has not hit the ergonomic standards necessary. It's like when speech recognition accuracy was 90% - that was high but still not ergonomic enough.

I bet there will be a breakthrough in interfaces (likely aided by AI) though that will make visual programming a lot more widespread
Apart from the 'x' part, this is basically CSS.
They are not monopolies. They own a segment of users but NOT a segment of advertiser budget. They compete with each other for their true customers: advertisers and their money. If one platform gives a higher ROI than another then more advertiser budget will shift to it. Sure, most large advertisers will diversify but even a 1% shift means billions in this case so worth having people try to optimize.
And yet our schools require kids to sit still in the morning before classes start when a few minutes of running around would do them a world of good. Madness.
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I use both 192.168/16 and 10/8 on my computer. One is for my regular LAN and the other is for my 10G link to my NAS.
Aren't their conclusions small and inconclusive? The 'effect of exercise' in this case is, indeterminate.
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> There is no magic recipe for success in R&D — and anyone that tells you they are able to outperform the market at scale as it relates to R&D outcomes is lying.

This is complete nonsense. This logic applies well to stock and bond valuation, where you have armies of traders optimizing from public information. It's a pretty frictionless market

It's like telling a parent their kids can't outperform the market at scale in science. Of course they can. They just can't outperform the market at scale in math, athletics, leadership, foreign languages, science, and everything else all at the same time.

In virtually all other domains, you have better organizations and worse organizations. I've been in organizations that do R&D brilliantly, and ones that do it horribly. Did the ones that do it horribly die because of market forces? No. They did other things better.

An organization has many pieces: R&D, marketing, branding, advertising, legal, engineering, sales, strategy, finance, logistics, etc. Most organizations I've worked at were really good at maybe one or two of those, in most areas, followed industry best-practices, and were pretty bad in a few.

I can promise you that MANY people can outperform the market at scale in relationship to R&D outcomes. We just can't outperform the market at scale in ALL of those areas at the same time. Organizations and individuals have areas of focus.
Eh. Results weren't conclusive.
You may be thinking of Nintendo. They packaged up a Super Mario ROM from the internet and sold it on their classic games store.

https://youtu.be/zR1uEwjx7VI
This is cool! Here’s a blog about a similar project I have been working on which uses panoramic images taken very close together to let you move around my parents’ basement: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=69545.msg141953...
Run them around before they get to school?
You have the time to dredge up sources and check their veracity every time you read an article? Often sources are private but verified by the journalist. This is why journalism exists and has a code of ethics. You can’t just look every claim up on Wikipedia.
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The Latex package says "Maths input can also be simplified with Unicode since literal glyphs may be entered instead of control sequences in your document source." So it at least includes a similar idea.
Coinbase may have an official API, doesn't mean they support the Python implementation of their API, hence the 'unofficial' as in 'not maintained by the coinbase dev team'

These implementations are there for devs to save time and simply import the API implementation as a module and use already made functions to do the API calls
I didn't realize EVs still have a 12V battery, I always assumed 12V accessories are ran directly of the DC-DC converter.

Thanks for pointing that out!
ByteAutomata in C#, parser hard-coding system (in addition to Java and C++)
Yes, that's really just abstracting away the control flow I was depicting in my simple diagram. It's treating "while" as a higher order function of sorts, with its own input(s) of type "data flow diagram connecting types Xs and Ys". That's the best you can do if your language only really deals in dataflow, as w/ LabVIEW ]. And that's really what leads to the difficulty you mention with pattern matching. Pattern matching on a variant record is inherently a control-flow step, even though destructuring variables in a single variant should clearly be depicted as data flow.
It's part of a live video platform for a gaming company which needs extra information to be overlaid on top of their live stream (for the customer in-video frame performance is incredibly important: the stream run at 30fps (so a maximum of 33ms per frame) and the overlay information has to be generated in 11ms or less)

We did originally consider writing it in Rust (it would have been my personal preference) but the consensus was that since the rest of the tooling for this customer is in PHP we didn't want to add a skillset they didn't have internally if they were to move away from us in the future (we aren't big on needless vendor lock-in and prefer to compete on quality and service).

We experimented with PHP7.4 and Symfony / Laravel and found that we didn't have the performance leeway we needed, even with preloading / opcache.

We opted for Either Swoole or Phalcon, tried them both and found that Swoole was more to our liking and was somewhat more performant than Phalcon in our real-world testing.

We are exposing Swoole directly to them within their VPC, so we were able to do away with NGINX as a reverse proxy as well and have Swoole handle the HTTP request phase and HTTPS. We were able to make heavy use of Swoole\Table to save superfluous trips to Redis and run a Redis synchronisation process in a coroutine thread when the concurrent number of network tasks drops below 16.

Our end service response times (including network overhead) are around here:

- Mean response time: 4ms

- Fastest: 2ms

- 99th percentile: 9ms

- 999th permille: 10ms

One unforeseen side effect is that it has a crazy amount of scalability built in by default, the 8core machine the process runs on can easily scale up to 15,000 concurrent requests (as in 15,000 requests per second) without going over 15ms for response times, and can scale up to 45,000 concurrent requests before things start to "break".
There is a fundamental difference between a CEO at company operating at GSK's scale and for example, a few hundred person startup biotech. It's a mistake that engineers and domain experts make to assume the CEO always needs to be technical. In small companies, this can be a benefit because the CEO is effectively the leader of everything and often has their hands in a lot. But that just does not scale to a company the size of GSK. The challenges of leading a company of the size of GSK are fundamentally different and start to look a lot more like the challenges of leading other big, multinationals.
> The next release of djbdns will be backed by a new security guarantee.

I was a bit curious about this wording which seems quite weasel-wordy at first glance, so these are the snapshots of the page that have been saved by Archive here https://archive.vn/https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html

I did a rough diff of the two first saved snapshots (which span 2009), and got this:

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

The djbdns security guarantee

-I offer $500 to the first person to publicly report a verifiable security hole in the latest version of djbdns.
+I offer $1000 to the first person to publicly report a verifiable security hole in the latest version of djbdns.

@@ -14,17 +14,25 @@
-Bugs outside of djbdns, such as OS bugs or browser bugs, do not qualify. The vulnerability of DNS to forgery does not qualify. Denial-of-service attacks do not qualify. (An attacker can easily take down the Domain Name System, or selected parts of it; this is not news.)
+Examples of problems that do not qualify:
+
+
+
+ Bugs outside of djbdns, such as OS bugs or browser bugs. (People could seize control of BIND 9.1 through an OpenSSL buffer overflow, but that was a bug in OpenSSL, not in BIND.)
+
+ The vulnerability of DNS to forgery. (BIND's port reuse makes blind forgery much less expensive, but this is a quantitative difference, not a qualitative difference. The DNS architecture needs cryptographic protection.)
+
+ Denial-of-service attacks. (BIND 9's fragility makes denial of service completely trivial; but an attacker can easily take down the Domain Name System without using any of BIND's bugs. The DNS architecture needs to be decentralized.)

I don't think this looks unreasonable in terms of actual consequences/definitions, but it is interesting how much effort and verbiage he spends on pointing out the flaws of other DNS servers.
Sigbovik is a joke journal. A very serious and very good joke journal.
> Matrix allows you to host your own server, federate messages in real-time between servers, and still benefit from end-to-end encryption between multiple client devices.

This sounds like XMPP so nothing new.

What sets the Matrix apart is that they have the money and spend time and effort to get their clients into good shape. The E2E verification is a prime example: looks simple and works well.
Also OpenRA is an engine so is supports Dune 2000 to some extend. This game is less famous but I love the tactical opportunities offered by the various type of soil.
I picked the last 40 years up to the present. Seems a decent length of time to me.
On a congested upstream, DOCSIS unfortunately seems to behave like this due to contention for and the insufficient granularity of upsteam transmission timeslots.

This effectively means that even if your share of the total upstream link of a network "collision domain" (shared coaxial medium really) is low (i.e you're using less than 1/n and accordingly should not be experiencing queueing in the modem), you might be seeing latency spikes due to having to compete and wait for transmission timeslots.

My local DOCSIS link is experiencing anything between 0 and 60 milliseconds of latency which I suspect is mostly due to this (since it's inversely correlated to upstream bandwith).
I did consider it recently, but decided against it as it would mix last-touch with last-tagged-touch attribution. If you fail to tag a campaign link it would be good for the conversion to not have data, so you recognize the error and tag the link.

If I were to do localStorage I would only do it if the first touch and last touch tags (even if empty) were saved as separate values. That just means slightly more coding which I haven’t gotten around to. Pull requests welcome :)
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I like ncdu.
Superficially similar, yes, but my point was just that it may seem from your bunching up the links together that all refer to the same thing, while they don't.
"Since each variable has a corresponding color, assignment is easily represented with background colors. For instance, A denotes the assignment of the number 12345⅔ to the variable #F00BA2. Note that this could also be written as rm -rf /, because we are removing the arbitrary indirect association between text and meaning to focus only on the clear meaning conveyed by the formatting."
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I consider it similar to drinking water. You have to try pretty hard to get to the point where you're doing too much of it.
Just curious, how do these illegitimate keys get obtained to begin with? Is it some kind of payment fraud where keys are obtained through fraud and the payments then get reversed? If so why don't the keys get invalidated when the associated payment is disputed?
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"Facebook bought WhatsApp - guess we're moving the family group chat to Signal"
Looks like it’s getting hugged to death now, but I’ve been looking for an alternative to Google News for a while now. I want an aggregator that doesn’t “learn my preferences” and tries to collect balanced coverage. Thanks for building this and I can’t wait to check it out.
Birds are singing, dolphins are swimming into river deltas, the spring is cold and rainy, the sky is blue, the Earth is clear from them miserable humanoids - all for the first time in living memory. Even in the whole history! Hail Morona!
HN has become a place for smart idiots. I hate you people so much.
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I think this hits the nail on the head but I wanted to add a few examples of what I believe to be this effect in practice:

* Roman numerals vs Hindu-Arabic numeral system [1] (aka base 10 number system)

The Roman numeral system is essentially a 'base-1' number system with other symbols attached to represent larger numbers. There are only a finite number of these larger numbers (V, X, C, etc.) so, in effect, the representation of a number grows linearly with the number itself, compared with base-10 which grows logarithmically.

* Logogram [2] vs. Alphabet languages

That is, pictographic languages vs. alphabet-like languages. HJK languages have upwards of 3k [3] pictographs to memorize compared with less than 100 characters for English and other alphabet like languages.

* "Unix vs. Windows"

Maybe a weak comparison, but Unix systems prefer small tools that compose well with each other via pipes using standard text. Unix's focus is on the command line and lends itself to automation. Windows environments focus on single person usability with pictograms, visual aids, etc. Obviously automation can be done in a Windows-like environment (including X) but, as the old adage says, "those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logogram

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters#Number_of_c...

[4] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Unix
And a license that's going to run you at 1700€ the first year and 440€ on renewal. It's spare change for a successful company but I have to wonder if it doesn't hamper adoption, especially when there's a seemingly obvious free and open source alternative like Lazarus + Free Pascal
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Very cool. If you liked that check out their Sorcery series of games. I played them over and over for weeks. Highly addictive!
> why Unicode has

Because the distinction did already exist in the originating repertoire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23029871
The paper's date is March 31st, so that it can be read on April 1st....
Perhaps this is a game dev stealing keys from their employer and reselling?
At least in Sweden all children are given supplements, up to at least the age of 5, and just anecdotal, many of friends and grownups in my extended family do so too.
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I’m a Bristol native (though I grew up in the Italian city of Milan) and I absolutely love the place, particularly the Old Centre this article refers to.

Whenever I go back I make it a point to stay well within the Old Centre area, usually just a block from St Nicholas’ Market (which is a truly beautiful area).

When all of this is over I look forward to going back. I recommend anybody who gets a chance to do so to have a visit. It’s a criminally undervalued destination.
Folks, this is Larry Sanger. He was a cofounder of wikipedia, but left around 2002. He's been on the same war path ever since then. No one takes him seriously. He's already tried founding multiple alternative wikis, and has accused commons of harboring child pornography.
As someone with ADHD, I've noticed that I can stick to a schedule and control my symptoms throughout the day by exercising first thing in the morning. I'll run to work and for the first portion of the day, I can focus effortlessly, and after a short workout or bit of cardio at lunch I can extend that a little bit into the afternoon. It's vastly helped my mood and my ability to maintain an even keel.

I'm happy to see this posted, it's always been told to me that exercise is as or more important than my medication or organizational skills when it comes to managing my disorder, and when I can get myself to stick to it, it's a pretty amazing difference
Bug #1 doesn't seem solved. They just narrowed the window for the race condition.

I don't see how you can fix this without the client first calling db.Ping() if within some proximity to its estimation of the connection's expiration.
> How many people actually prefer WFH

Everyone paying ludicrous rent in SF proper who can now move, saving thousands per month
Spending more on marketing than R&D has been a favorite thing to zero in on but it's not really a useful metric. See here: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/23/an...
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See related, the Dribbbilization of design (2013): https://www.intercom.com/blog/the-dribbblisation-of-design
> Imagine if Alphabet was broken up, Google search can still afford to run a research lab, as can youtube.

Is Youtube even profitable?

Doesn't Google make 90%+ revenue from ads?
I think you’re confusing innovation with technological innovation. There’s plenty of ways to innovate without advancing technology. There’s also plenty of fields of research unrelated to technology.

Even if you were only concerned with technological innovation, referencing well funded non-technical companies doesn’t negate the existence of any of the well funded technology-focused companies.

Also, Theranos is a perfect example of private equity funding technological research. The fact that it was a scam doesn’t take away from the interest it’s investors had in new technology.
What good is technology if you can’t bring it to market? The CEO that hires smart and listens to their VPs don’t need to know the technology. Often the “smart people” are the worse CEOs. I would be willing to go as far as saying that Cook may be a better CEO at this point in Apple’s life than Jobs would have been.
> G2A told Polygon at the time that it intended to use either PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, KMPG or Deloitte to perform the audit. Unfortunately, according to a blog post issued on Wednesday, G2A couldn’t come to terms with those large firms and just did the audit themselves.

I wonder what the story is there, and I doubt those are the only companies capable of auditing.
Which is itself inferior to Whitespace [1], which uses only spaces, tabs, and linefeeds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
Does this apply to jemalloc?
And that is exactly my point.
Maybe there are two type of soft power. The first type is where a company makes a globally popular product. The second type is where a company makes a globally popular product that is recognizably "of its country". TikTok is the first, McDonalds/Hollywood/NBA is the second?
Code as text can be taken as a subset at one extreme end of the continuum of visual programming. And if you take it that way it would seem to be always possible to find a more dense representation than, say, 11pt monospaced text.
Algol-60 (and its younger cousin Algol-68) did actually use boldface to distinguish special keywords such as "if", "begin", "true", etc, from the namespace of ordinary identifiers. But that was only used in publications, not in machine-readable source code, since few encodings could support boldface. Instead various stropping[0] methods were used in the implementations of Algol. Today there is really no technical reason why rich text can't be used, but my guess is that syntax highlighting serves a similar purpose without complicating file formats and parsers.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stropping_(syntax)
I just stared playing Mindustry [1] after someone on HN recommended it a few days ago and I'm hooked. My understanding is that it's roughly a Factorio clone, which I haven't played. Should I go play the original? Glad the developer got what they were owed here.

[1] https://mindustrygame.github.io
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Not really. Wood or coal stoves are still very much in use in villages. At least that's what I saw living in many developing countries for the past two decades.

Btw, burning biomass would not change the problem. Wood and charcoal is biomass too.
Every individual Matrix room is a multi-master, non-ACID database which uses its own data as security- and privacy-related configuration. Given how hard this is to get right, I'd really, really like to see Jepsen tests and a security audit done on more than the crypto aspect of Matrix.
> Mobile payment platforms have been ubiquitous in Africa for many years, but nobody would say that Africa's banking system is "advanced"

I'm not a fan of mobile payments myself but I would say that compared to the US most of Africa's mobile payments are indeed more advanced, yes.

If I understand correctly many poor people in Africa are de facto banked (as long as they have a mobile phone, which has become pretty achievable right now), while a very large proportion of the US poor population is de-facto non-banked, with all the extra financial hardships that that situation entails.
Does it still get counted as a new session if the domain is an excluded referrer? I thought not.

In any case, I agree and these workarounds are never worth the data doubt they introduce. There are ways to track internal flows without utm tags.
Of course they 'work'

Covid is spread mainly by respiratory droplets, masks act to catch those droplets at source, it's simple logic.

Whilst only a properly fitted P3/N99 mask gives absolute protection from infection via inhalation, community mask use is an important pandemic control measure to keep the reproduction rate 'r0' to a minimum.

That the advice from WHO and some governments has been muddled, illogical and inconsistent does not detract from the truth.