skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems exceptionally misleading. Playing with the filters on https://www.w3.org/TR/, we find out filtering to latest documents (to exclude cases where there are multiple versions of a single document) brings us down to 953, excluding non-normative notes brings us down to 573, we can likely exclude all semweb-related specs to bring us down to 480 specs.

And that's still including 199 working drafts, not all of which have any implementation (and some are unlikely to ever have any at this point, essentially long-abandoned).

The web platform arguably has problems with scale, but it's nowhere near that extreme.
Boeing 737 MAX killed 346 people. So, it seems that death is not a deterrent.

The mails from the case are good to understand the internal discussions: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/10/737-max-sca...
They do. HTTP/3 is over QUIC, which uses UDP (on ports 80 and 443, as it should). That effort has been spearheaded by Google.

Edit: Also, putting everything on port 443 is a major security and privacy boon. Internet service providers can no longer just block ports for services they don't like.
It matters as the total budget of a movie needs to be recouped. The vast majority of albums are likely made using a few thousand dollars [0], if there isn't a break-even the artists potentially have other avenues of making money such as gigs/concerts if not making the limelight in the future.

Movies such as that of the Mission Impossible series and the Avengers series cost $150M-$350M per movie to make [1] [2], without a theatrical release and/or a temporary pay-per-view model via Apple Movies or Amazon Prime (or most of the world being on a $20-30+/month Netflix, Disney Plus, etc. subscription, which is not the case yet), there wouldn't be much interest in financing such movies.

[0] https://sonicscoop.com/2017/05/25/budget-record-album-2017/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_%E2%80%93_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Endgame
Are you saying the original owner can destroy the token they already gave you? Regarding social recovery. I wasn't talking about recovery in case of data loss although that is a legitimate concern I was talking about loss through theft.

If everyone suddenly had at least hundreds of dollars of value on their desktop that could be stolen and easily monetized by any software also running on said computer then the entire planet becomes a target rich environment full of badly secured computers. Buy or break into an addon used by 10k people. Steal an average of $200 in digital goods per user and walk away with 2 million dollars.
I tend to do this. Download the book from library genesis, then buy a physical copy.
Does that have any interesting 16-bit software you might want to run on Linux?
> to not share as much information as possible with as many researchers as possible in order to help as many as people as possible.

this presumes that the stolen information would be used 'to help as many people as possible'..

Also, 1st country with viable vaccine/treatment/etc will have a huge geopolitical bargaining chip & it will likely be used as such no matter the country of origin.
As actors in the World, we are machines that turns sensor data into a linear stream of actions. To the extent the decision process in not completely random, there exists a metric that ends up maximized by the decision process, sometimes referred to as 'god' or even 'God'. The vast majority of economic decision processes in the modern economy are driven by one metric: money, sometimes referred to as 'Mammon'. A corporation is an aggregation of human / computerized actors that work to maximize the corporation metric: money earned by said corporation.

The discussions are very simple: Course of action A makes us X$, course of action B makes us XXX$. Therefore course of action B is taken. There is no consideration of other effects besides, perhaps, a quantization of risks. Risk of losing the 'good guys' facade, counterbalanced by PR expenses, or risk of being sued, counterbalanced by legal expenses.
I'm not sure if you're being obtuse. But rewriting your stack in a language no one on the team knows because someone on HN said it's a better fit for your usecase is something no good engineers/managers would think is a good idea. If a potential hire thought that was a reasonable thing to do, that would be a major red flag - a sign this person lacks experience, and any kind of business understanding.
The end game is masks, tests, and contact tracing until you have an effective vaccine. We can run an economy under those conditions, just as other countries are starting to do already.

After a couple years if a vaccine looks nowhere close, maybe that's a time to reevaluate, but right now we have several that look promising in the relatively short term.
Jesus Christ, the crap we're spending time on.

https://www.theolognion.com/programmer-starts-a-blog-doesnt-...
> ~/.zshenv

Technically it's $ZDOTDIR/…

Also note from the official documentation:

> `.zprofile' is meant as an alternative to `.zlogin' for ksh fans; the two are not intended to be used together
That's my favourite explanation so far. That's how I would put it to the student:

Yes, that's a perfectly correct operation. When you take 1/3 of the first table and you put them toghether with 1/3 of the second table, you get 2/6 of both tables. However, that's not what mathematicians mean when they use the sign "+". Let's explain the difference with examples:

* At your table, Bob is 1/3 of the table, and Sandra is 1/3 of the table. Bob PLUS Sandra equals 2/3 of the table.

* Sandra is 1/3 of the table. Alice is 1/3 of the other table. When you put the two tables together, Alice and Sandra are 2/6 of both tables.

The first operation is what mathematicians call "+". They write "1/3 + 1/3 = 2/3"

The mathematicians do not have a good name for the second one, so let's invent one: "1/3 1/3 = 2/6"

What's better with this explanation, compared to the "ratios vs. fractions" thing, or the units thing, is that you do not have to introduce a separate category of numbers that sound very similar but act differently.
I gave a time in my original post: 1-2usec. Printing a handful of doubles with a cold instruction cache using the standard stdio headers takes longer than that due to all the special casing.

klodolph made some handwavey claim about synchronization overhead that are clearly false. It doesn't even make sense to me since the device being printed to will need some sort of synchronization and syscall.

Both you and klodlph are also making handwavey claims about formatting speed in Linux.

You both need to measure before you argue. I find it extremely rude to argue from a position of ignorance as both of you are doing.

"Well gee, I dunno but you're probably wrong". It's so asinine.
If you're working with, say ML workloads, daily billing is laughably broad. Some workloads run for an hour or two, and cost a ton.
Yeah, this was my first time with Lua, but previous experience with nginx and it was one of those times when an experiment exceeded expectations. It's a bit annoying Lua comments are -- and nginx are #. I got those mixed up so many times and wasted a cycle. I wish there was a syntax highlighter for this hybrid language.
I'm sorry for that. As Streamable states: ads will be shown as soon as video becomes popular. But they didn't state exactly how popular. I couldn't find any other convenient method to embed small animations with fine quality and ability to pause them. Any recommendation is appreciated.
Poking around, I also found this interesting article about Buckley, Vidal, and the movie The Best of Enemies: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/buckley-vs-v...
It is a problem with medicine.

Normally, we would not only want a proof that something works but also verifiable explanation of HOW something works.

Medicine is a problem because we don't understand how many of the chemicals work but the problem is so important (and also it is big business) that we just let it pass and we are happy that we can get some results even if we don't completely understand how we get them.
That may be quite cool for demos and entertainment. But no way in the office - eye strain after 8h day must be severe. I would spend same money on 27" e-ink display once such is available.
Britain never excluded German or Russia from Global Trade when they were controlling it when they were not trying to take over everything. Germany and to a lesser extend Russia were perfectly able to grow rich in a British controlled world.

The same goes for China in the American controlled world.

The reason the Soviet Union did not have access to global commerce is that they spent inordinate amounts of money telling everybody how they would destroy their countries, had a communist party controlled by Moscow in every country, were refusing to pay Russian debt and were questioning the concept of private property.

Russia neither had the sea ports or the shipping industry or the international partners to control commercial trade. I am sure they would have loved to do so.

> Sure, we have all agreed on some common exchange rate for goods using it, but this is backed by the "full faith and credit of the U.S. government". It can be argued that faith and credit is ultimately backed by the war machine behind it.

It is not backed by the war machine, but rather by the Federal reserve controlling its supply, or at least the effect of its supply in the market and by the US economy as a whole. To some extend that economy is secured by a military, but even if 90% of the US military went away tomorrow, the $ would not lose its value.

The $ would lose its value if China decided to blockade the US from international trade and destroy its economy, but we are pretty far into the world of hypothetical and ignoring nukes besides.

Britain controlled global trade with small % of its budget, and an even smaller % of the budget of the whole empire. The US could do so to, but for political reasons it spends like crazy on the military, but that does not make the most of the military necessary to keep up the value of the $.
Zettelkasten and LaTeX and vs Code = Productivity++?
I discovered on the demo day at this founders community I am part of - https://www.superfounderhub.com. We are part of the same community. Not cross-marketing :)

The attack happened and since I had spoken with their team once I decided to integrate quickly.
You don't apply, don't get hired, or don't get promoted, depending on how effective their hiring processes are.
Please consider that just because Facebook is allowed to trade dollars in a digital way, it doesn't mean that they can produce dollars. Production is still in the hands of governments. Privacy wise I'm full on your side. But I still think it's also a benefit for governments - they'll lose on one side but gain on the other. Cash is a burden for them.
Actually there's at least one streaming service that does 3D: Vudu. https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/movieslist?FEATURE=3D

I have no experience with their 3d, only their HD (they call it HDX because marketing) which is perfectly fine for a streaming service.
Can’t they anyway? No doubt they harvest offline data such as loyalty cards, points, etc. Gah.
I have no idea what you think "stolen" means -- but whatever definition you are using, it is antique and not up to the task of describing the activity of theft as it exists today.

Nevertheless historical usage includes, "stealing someone's idea", etc. which is as least an applicable sense.
It is worth pointing out that Libgen doesn’t have everything, just a portion of books that have been digitized by publishers. For older and now out-of-print books, or for genres like poetry where only a few authors are ever given the ebook treatment, you won’t find that content on Libgen unless someone does the work of scanning it. And even if someone does scan it, you’re going to just get a PDF or DJVU file, not a beautifully formatted EPUB for your e-reader.

I have been a Libgen user and contributor for many years now, but I find myself simply buying more and more physical books, since so much of what I want to read is not available on Libgen or anywhere else digitally.
Cargo-Guppy: A Tool to Analyze Cargo Dependency Graphs
Facebook internal memo by Andrew Bosworth, VP
June 18, 2016

The Ugly

We talk about the good and the bad of our work often. I want to talk about the ugly.

We connect people.

That can be good if they make it positive. Maybe someone finds love. Maybe it even saves the life of someone on the brink of suicide.

So we connect more people

That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.

And still we connect people.

The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good. It is perhaps the only area where the metrics do tell the true story as far as we are concerned.

That isn’t something we are doing for ourselves. Or for our stock price (ha!). It is literally just what we do. We connect people. Period.

That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it.

The natural state of the world is not connected. It is not unified. It is fragmented by borders, languages, and increasingly by different products. The best products don’t win. The ones everyone use win.

I know a lot of people don’t want to hear this. Most of us have the luxury of working in the warm glow of building products consumers love. But make no mistake, growth tactics are how we got here. If you joined the company because it is doing great work, that’s why we get to do that great work. We do have great products but we still wouldn’t be half our size without pushing the envelope on growth. Nothing makes Facebook as valuable as having your friends on it, and no product decisions have gotten as many friends on as the ones made in growth. Not photo tagging. Not news feed. Not messenger. Nothing.

In almost all of our work, we have to answer hard questions about what we believe. We have to justify the metrics and make sure they aren’t losing out on a bigger picture. But connecting people. That’s our imperative. Because that’s what we do. We connect people.

Shortly after the leak Bosworth distanced himself from the post. https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17178086/facebook-growth-...
What really kills me is that they clearly shot the screen on a turntable (0:30) which would be the perfect time to show the on-screen image rotating, but no. Black screen.

Too hard to connect the cables for that shot? Didn’t bring a computer to the photo studio?

Another option: short animated loop to create depth from parallax. But the key thing is it needs to show the monitor as a whole along with the image on screen, all moving together. https://imgur.com/eh5u6Gu
Ah, yes, that would definitely be a better way to write it if you were to go forward with the unit approach.
The essay makes a very good point about the availability of documents/data, but from what I have seen working on ERP projects and business processes I don't think attacking this problem top-down from how businesses works is a good idea: a lot of documents produced can be mostly useless artifacts of human interactions, and most businesses have highly inefficient processes. Would you train an AI on current HR recruiting practices for example? At its worst you have businesses with so much sales power (a purely human process) that their internal processes can be an absolute mess and still go fine. What an AI trained on these data coud output? Meeting recaps that are never read from meetings with already questionable value in the first place? Random reports and strategies meant to praise egos?

A huge part of the business world is service over service over human interactions that are far removed from the core value production and are side effect of these very interactions. Sure at their core business must produce something, but apart from industrial or software processes, the enterprise world is mostly a giant social game, with success linked to the execution of sales, marketing and sometimes lobbying, so not much to AI-ify from that angle.

Edit: just to be clear on the tone it's not meant to be bitter, in fact after a hard time learning this world it can even be fun.
If the private platform is de facto the primary source of news for the majority of the population, this affects the public in incredible ways. I don’t understand how the US Congress does not recognize and regulate this.
It's not really "my view," but I read a rather convincing argument for it.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-china-tea-trade-was-a-paradox-of-...
When you describe capitalist processes, some people take it as if you are making a morally charged argument.
Can't read the article, but I've seen a lot of my friends unfriend other people that have political opinions that differ from theirs. And the ever so popular post "If you disagree with thing xyz let me know know so I can unfriend you!"

This isn't Facebook's doing. People self-select monocultures.
Agreed. And it works between companies as well as between people within companies. The system is set up so that only those who push the boundaries and exploit externalities can compete.
I think this linus tech tips video shows it better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EA2FQXs4dw
"If anyone seriously thinks this sounds like a good idea I’m truly curious to hear your reasoning."

I don't know if it is a good idea, but I don not share the view that being a private entity makes it lesser than government entities.

I see governments and private entities as being built by people, and those are flawed just the same, governments even more so, since they are the perpetrators of the greatest evils of modern times.
Google and T-Mobile join up to make RCS support work better across carriers
To try 4074 version

Linux:

* https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime-text_build-4074_amd...

* https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime_text_build_4074_x64...

Windows:

* https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime_text_build_4074_x64...

* https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime_text_build_4074_x64...

MacOS:

* https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime_text_build_4074_mac...
This is the most relevant comment to this discussion. News orgs have been profiting off the same negative elements of human society for decades.
The discussions in this article are never shared with employees, it is just a matter raised in closed high level board meetings. Companies never discuss openly negative positions, and if they do it is only to dismiss them.
Support guys and some devs who work with American firms.
Interesting. The repo the linked repo was forked from was just transferred from https://github.com/AarogyaSetu/aarogyasetu_android (now 404) to https://github.com/ubuntulover09/aarogyasetu_android ...

EDIT: and now the fork's gone too. :D
That leads me to another question: are there people/companies who will not hire someone who has been an employee of FB?
Github repositories of the Italian ones: https://github.com/immuni-app
Well done. Looks quite good for the level of simplicity.
- Imagine if penguins actually had an ability to create portals to other side of the universe? It actually makes sense that they don’t show us that capability because we would quickly try to steal it from them...

- Imagine if Chinese have actually invented coronavirus? It would actually make sense to start it in their own country so that nobody would realise it was their invention.

- Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams
yup, and we need to think about the timeline. At very early stage of this story, only limited phones support NFC, So wechat/alipay can quickly occupy the market with the QR base solution.
When Can You Meaningfully Add Rates, Ratios and Fractions? [pdf]
The first part of this article touches on a key ingredient concerning mathematical models: assumptions.
How to Use WhatsApp Web on Your PC
I thought this was going to be a take on "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" but how scrappy startups should be building a house like in a ghetto where they make do with anything they can in contrast to building a mansion where the ornate fixtures and appliances are highly expensive, specific purpose, and more refined quality. Boy, was I off!
I, too, agree. Facebook is just an extension of the open society.
The statistic about higher education is less interesting when you factor in the stats on vocation-education programs (which are mostly men).
I've recently been toying with #[derive] macros in Rust.

I have to say that framing reflection in terms of deriving an implementation of an interface is pretty powerful. But C++ makes it harder to do this than Rust, because you need to mutate the class definition to insert these methods in C++, but the Rust definition happens outside of the class (as vtable pointers are not contained within the class but passed around separately).
Point to nearly anything that has dramatically changed modern life and you will see the arm of the state involved: GPS, internet, the airplane, etc. The best argument I'm aware of for private enterprise producing really novel products is Bell Research, however they were a regulated monopoly, not a competitive industry and the state authorized 10% additional charges for investment.

You can make some arguments about things like iPhones but that device depended on a huge state funded or regulated infrastructure to be useful (e.g. cell towers, internet), and it was essentially a very polished cobbling together of different components (microchips, batteries) that were developed from many decades of state supported / regulated monopoly research.

Business is very good at taking something off the shelf and making money with it. It's very bad at sustained investment that might not be profitable more than a few years away.
Warning: The website starts an internet speed test as soon as you click on the link.
I think it depends on the quality of the text. Richly-detailed and well-written (read: well-edited) descriptions as well as quippy dialogue are all welcome, but the mountains of poorly-written copy you find in many visual novels are a chore. I think a lot of writers fall to lawyer-ism, which I define as the idea that you can convince someone of anything ("My characters are deep! Their relationships are meaningful! My world is complex and well-constructed!") so long as you just keep talking at them. It doesn't help that some are often translated from or imitating the Japanese expositional style, which can be long-winded.

Control, FFXIII, Fallout, Animal Crossing: Fun to read through all the extra text/dialogue!

{Vast majority of visual novels}, Mass Effect, Tales Series, {Vast majority of story-based gacha games}: Not so much!
Thanks. They specifically want to keep us to integrate our tech - but with huge modifications - almost like building from scratch. The deal is more of acqu-hire than acquire the product & users.
That's already a security hole.

The only thing missing is a rogue website abusing it.

There's no guarantee you will never connect to any rogue website that abuses this government mandated backdoor.