skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zuck s been busy fighting Tiktok with tooth n nail. He knows he lost his prime users to Tiktok. No youngsters use FB anymore.

But FB can do this in India and its ok ?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-executive-supported-in...
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Apple had a very odd obsession with Java right after the NeXT purchase. WebObjects got converted and they tried to do a Java Cocoa. Both were worse than the original.
Why they have not done the same in India? They must be having more users in India than in US.
This is less meaningful when the vast majority of the services are only sold to people using their hardware.
Damn near every time a subject that isn't software that I have good personal knowledge of comes up there's I notice a few big grayed out walls of well thought out and nuanced text.

The worst cases seem to be when there's an article (seems like it's always on Medium) about some complicated multi-part technical thing going wrong, a top level comment slings blame around as if they know exactly where to sling it and uses a PopSci understanding of the subject matter to justify it. Then someone who actually knows the relevant industry says "well actually it's a little more nuanced", proceeds to explain and then gets down-voted and flagged for it. Seems like a great way to send the message that technical knowledge and experience is not welcome here if it's going to go against whatever the convenient narrative is. What it definitely doesn't do is instill trust in comments about things I am less familiar in.
I agree with you on the latter two points, but for the first one, it sounds like the application is using IE's rendering engine built into all versions of Windows. So the executable is super small given that all the heavy lifting is in libraries already on your system.
I would absolutely love to have a new web browser out there. The internet needs this. Is it Windows-only? That seems slightly odd.
Sure, could be. Maybe it was even Zuckerberg's idea, who knows. Regardless, the strategy is to pressure the CCP to allow better China market access by imposing restrictions on access by Chinese companies. And just like the CCP, this administration is picking targets strategically and using arbitrary and ambiguous reasoning:

Did the CCP really ban Facebook because of censorship or was it actually a protectionist move? Is the Trump administration threatening TikTok for the reasons it says or is it really about punishing China for its trade policy?
I don't think anyone's arguing that it's not legitimate for a country to ban a company on national security grounds, but that this is stretching the definition of what constitutes a national security threat.

Which companies currently banned in the US would you say are comparable to TikTok in terms of the threat they could potentially pose?
Most techies earn a lot more of the people they're supposedly fighting for. Compare the salary of an average Amazon warehouse worker to any developer, and you'll find a staggering pay difference.
Are you saying that CPC gets to ban Google, Facebook, Twitter & a ton of other non-Chinese online companies but the US government does not get to ban Chinese online companies, even in the name of fairness both in terms of trade and information flow? Chinese companies have to obey the CPC's orders that infringe users' privacy. Whether or not it is right for a country's government to spy on its citizens, the current arrangement is assymetric.

If TikTok were made in India, then you would have a good point.
It's just using the MSHTML.DLL rendering engine built-in to Windows, sadly.
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Lots of us just in time buy from a local grocer (read one you can walk to in 5 minutes or less).

I didn’t realize how much of a quality of life aspect this was for me until the lockdowns. I miss being able to pop over to the shop, see what looks good and make a meal.
Why were "they" upset? What as the context?
I think it is a common misconception that banks use database transactions the old fashioned way.
They seem to be more like eventual consistency. I initiate a transfer and there is some check about available balance (although with various overdrafts, etc. it is unclear how strict), then it is marked pending and eventually the transaction succeeds or fails days later (an international transaction).
I didn't know we had apps back in the days of the Cold War.
To be fair.. the computer in the 737max was being used to patch over the 737max being bad at flying.
Thanks for this write up - the cognitive model of “productive struggle” is exactly the thing I was fumbling around in the dark for. This was really well explained and something I’m going to carry with me next time I run into a similar situation in the classroom. Much appreciated!
Updates are a cost compromise.

Each record is stored in 2 * [# of nodes] * 3 + [backups] places. In our case that's 15 places before we talk actual backups (online, offline, and cold storage).

I'm actually a huge fan of immutable records conceptually, but I am unable to make a business case for it outside the most vital tables, that need amazing audit histories. The costs are just too high, and a lot of data not valuable enough.

I'll acknowledge that if engineering time was lower it would be an easier sell, but in large databases you're still talking about at least a quadrupling of space through every layer: What's the dollars and cents argument for that?
People are smart. What they don't always have is good information or the ability to know what they don't know.

I'm very weary of "people are dumb" arguments because they seem to lead to "and that's why we should dumb down our product, remove their freedom and treat them like crap" with an alarming regularity.
"It works for me, looks good to me" is why we have so many sites with low contrast text. Very annoying indeed.
Us is only replying.. China protectionism has always been way stronger than any other peer.. try appeal China administration about a ban and good luck even reading something about that in their China internet
And it perfectly runs on macOS by using Wine.
Smells like PR-speak to me.
RMS didn't overplay anything there. His GPL idea has just become too influential and they started fighting it.
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Allegiances shift over time. I like to remind people of The Living Daylights (1987), in which James Bond helps a bunch of Islamic fundamentalists blow up a plane.

(it's a Soviet plane running drugs, so it's OK, and the Mujahedein involved are run by a chap who went to Oxford, and are fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, so that's OK too)
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Time to plug the osdev wiki, a very cool read even if you're not planning to write your own OS. Here's the beginner mistakes page: https://wiki.osdev.org/Beginner_Mistakes
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> GDPR requires you to delete the information you have about people...

And so does common sense.
Isn't this copyright violation?

Or am I just misunderstanding what copyright applies to?
North Korea supposedly still uses numbers stations to contact infiltrators. Though, they may just keep the stations as a way to ratchet up tensions with South Korea, given that numbers stations are a bit anachronistic. Who knows! It's interesting though.

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200829002300315

https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Cod...

They've done it before as well (better source + more detail, but less current):

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/world/asia/north-korea-sp...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
from an european perspective: removing slavery as a central component of the colonization of america seems like revisionism.
Epic does do UI/UX studies. It's got a lot of legacy code to plow through, combined with regulatory and customization demands that lead to best UX practices having to be bypassed sometimes. Striking a balance between too much information and having a clinician miss critical information because it was hidden behind a click or hover bubble is always a concern.

Regarding the campus, the theming is actually quite cheap. The bigger expenses come from employee QOL stuff like roomy underground parking to keep cars out of the snow.
Zooming in is quite easy.
My concerns are largely over the precedent that might allow banning end-to-end encrypted apps over "national security," but there is an argument to be made on 1st Amendment grounds.

There are two 1A considerations here: whether an "app" is speech, and the speech of TikTok's users. If courts decide that TikTok is a "public forum," then there would be precedence to prevent the privation of this public forum in the interests of free speech. [1] On the other consideration, one of the landmark cases regarding software, Bernstein v. Department of Justice, ruled that code is speech, and this directly lead to the end of export control on encryption. [2] This has been further affirmed by a ruling in favor of the video game industry against a law banning the sale of games to minors in CA. [3]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/482/569

[2] https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/04/21-40

[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1448.ZS.html
> You can find many workarounds using automation services like IFTTT and Zapier. Because I was unhappy with all solutions,
I think you can get most of the advantages by just assigning users their passwords. Users either have a password manager to store the assigned password in, or they’re totally insecure and can’t be trusted to make up a password. Either way, just assign something random to them.
1. China has many industries that outright ban participation by foreign companies.

2. Following Chinese law includes following whatever arbitrary whims the party decides to enforce—including forced IP transfer.
Can you elaborate? As an experienced numpy user, I don't really have an intuitive feel for what you describe. Numpy isn't really math it's mostly an array library for splitting, merging, reshaping arrays, swapping dimensions etc. and applying operators on all elements at once.

Outside of the things under np.linalg or np.fft, I cannot think of much really difficult math in numpy.

To grok numpy what you really need is a good mental model of the multidimensional array, reshapes, reductions, transpose and so on. But this isn't really math, it's more data wrangling and kinda boring and tedious "data chores" we need to do before we get to the interesting parts of the job.
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Unless they got banned so hard that they were erased from history and memory, mobile phone apps were not a thing during the Cold War.
> How does a search engine sell more hardware?

Because your claim about them being a hardware company is incorrect.

They market themselves as a privacy focused company. Privacy is all about software and services, not hardware. Search is something they could add to their portfolio to strengthen their privacy stance.
Doing what you set out to do and then moving on. How to do this in a way that is sustainably profitable and prevents someone else from coming along and eating your lunch for as long as possible, is something I would very much like to learn how to do.

Is there something wrong with just doing one thing well, making some money from that, and then moving on to do something else well and making some money from that too? I know it's an old-fashioned idea that something you do in tech might not continue to bring in rental income indefinitely...
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This is what happens when someone hears the phrase "one size fits all" and immediately thinks to themself, "Hey, I'M one size!"
> It doesn't get removed.

Are you sure? Only after they were called out publicly for it. [0][1] Explain why they had to own up for their actions on multiple counts of censorship to content that doesn't please the CCP.

> Just because people repeat it again and again doesn't make it true and it takes literally three seconds to check if it's true or not.

Took literally 3 seconds to find this: [2][3]

Since there is clear evidence that have done it before, they can definitely do it again (and have done), especially at sensitive content that the CCP dislikes.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/tiktok-says-it-doesnt-censor...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/28/tiktok-sa...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks...

[3] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...
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Psono – open-source password manager with new website
No browser consistently applies HTML standards and nothing but HTML standards. In this case, your complaint is probably about the browser prefixed property and value, -webkit-appearance: button.

This is a good article about Overriding Default Button Styles that also touches on why one should use a genuine <button>:

https://css-tricks.com/overriding-default-button-styles/
This is conflating things. At a database level it is absolutely ACID compliant, full transactions are used for situations like you mention within one bank.

The fact there may be interplay between custodian banks and various triggered events has nothing to do with the type of database consistency features of an RDBMS.
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Not supporting websites from a fairly big country with a strong economy is a failure on their part, either way. I bet they support TLDs like TV (Tuvalu), or IO (Indian Ocean Territory).
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This... has to be copyright violation.
IANAL, but I doubt that imagined alternate histories constitute a legal precedent.
The corporate bullshit (quotes at the end of the article) is again off the charts. Who are they trying to fool?
If they specialize they can find a niche that the large players don't cover. I have seen a few markets that were not specialists. They had the same American food selection that everyone buys (obviously in different areas the exact selection is different, but within the region none). The same name brand spaghetti sauce (but only of the 2 name brands, not the 10 in a supermarket), onions, ground beef you buy in the large supermarkets today, but at higher costs.

The Kroger chain you visit killed all of the above (except for the gas station convenience stores which are a smaller version of the above)
While I love reading about insights from behavioral economics I don't completely understand the internet obsession over psychological biases, mental models and other related topics in this cluster.

I'm often trying to understand how to actually apply this kind of knowledge into my daily life. I think Kahneman has himself said you can't protect yourself from it even if you are aware of the biases.

A lot of the interest in these topics seems disproportionate relative to their applicability.
LDAP is a stripped down version of the X.500 directory, but I wasn’t aware that had anything to do with SQL. X.500 is hierarchical, not relational, and it doesn’t have a query language as such - http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk/x500book/Chapter.5/Chapter5b.htm#5.... - neither did the original version of LDAP (RFC 1487 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1487 RFC 1488 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1488). The text representation of filters didn’t turn up until RFC 1960 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1960.html (1996) and it’s just a rendering of the ASN.1 structure.

I thought SQL descended relatively straightforwardly from SEQUEL.
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No, typing can be the bottleneck
Solution should be a generic CRDT implementation with concepts of change log with unique identifiers for each participant and operation. But we also need a filesystem/operating system support for merging. As otherwise you will need to have a unique file for every operation to cope with merging. Or you have app specific merging and no data interoperability between apps.

My "small" wish would be to have a local but replicated data format for a text file. So I can edit it in any editor while still retain the history and allow for collaboration from multiple devices. I'd love for it to be shared between devices using dropbox and iCloud depending of the user.
I agree on the spectrum, the distinction I'm trying to make is one that Bacon wrote about in the seventeenth:

https://archive.org/details/advancementofl00baco/page/254/mo...

> "For if a letter should come into the hands of such as have a power over the writer or receiver, though the cipher itself be trusty and impossible to decipher, it is still subject to examination and question, unless there be no room to suspect or examine it."

I doubt many slaves' heads were shorn looking for messages (and if they had been, the eavesdropping would be, as in QE, obvious), but overlong images are begging to be flagged by a linter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24341108 , and anyone who naively stuffs plaintext there should hope no one ever runs strings(1).

Anyway, as mentioned above, I don't care if the general case is called steganography, I'm just curious what then the specific case (of writing that has a "cover story") would be called?
> The most popular consumer apps (FB, LinkedIn, blogs, photo sharing, goal trackers, slack, basecamp etc) shouldn't be centralized in this fashion

The evil CAP theorem enters the town here. Consumers want things to work fast, it doesn't fit the decentralized approach.

> Databases we have today aren't designed for the kind of consumer applications we use today

Consumers don't really care what kind of database do you use. They want to open the page and click the button, quick, now.
I'm sure they'll let you play as a native American and win right?
Despite the branding, this isn’t actually a copy: it attempts to summarize each hours-long course into a handful of bullet points. That probably changes the expression enough that it’s original in the eyes of copyright law, and the underlying ideas are not subject to copyright.

IANAL, but I suspect they’d have a larger issue with using all of these celebrities’ names and likenesses without permission.
So this is just internet explorer with no back button?
> Regardless of what you think about TikTok, the banning of an app in the interest of "national security" is largely unprecedented.

Every legal action was unprecedented at some point, until a precedent was set. That alone is not a strong argument against the TikTok ban being just.

In addition to that, note that the EFF post you linked to mentions Lawfare's primer [1] which explains the legal case for the divesting order. In short, Congress delegated some of its constitutional authority over foreign commerce to the President in 1988, explicitly empowering the President to prohibit mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers that threaten national security. TikTok's acquisition by ByteDance falls under that authority.

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/tiktok-and-law-primer-case-you-n....
Do diamonds burn? I never found a definitive answer. However if they do radioactive C14 could be released this way.
vfvv eerv eeaf rere gere rsve nerb vrbe lrgv!

as we used to say in the KGB
So you're just using the MSHTML.DLL emulation, or copied it from a Windows install? Either may not match the full Windows experience...
Why am I being downvoted? Currently available betavoltaic cells are rated for about ~20 years[0][1].

[0] https://newatlas.com/city-labs-nanotritium-betavoltaic-batte...

[1] https://citylabs.net/products/
Strange. I think I made no value judgements or what-ought-to-be statements, just what-is observations.
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The comments attributing this to zirp are spot on. This is also the effect of the popularity of passive index investing. The average person has been told they should buy index funds, so the perceived safety and growth of tech monopolies trickles down and overvalues anything on the s&p.

It's also worth realizing that finance is very global. If the whole world of reasonable investments were not also in countries with zero rates, there would be a huge painful exodus from the US market now. The fed is very wary of this and it's what has kept the rates nominally above zero.

Some smart volker-like creature will raise rates somewhere. That place will become a great place to live and invest. It just hasn't emerged.
Needless to say, it's inhumane to let staff work to exhaustion, which is the only sound strategy when the targeted rate is kept secret.
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Compost, and then recycling (paper/tins/glass mixed where I am) and rubbish in two bins in the same drawer thing.

That's part of the problem really - after compost and recycling I'm left with very little waste, so anything that there is can sit there a while. I tend to empty it because it's been there a while rather than because it's full.
> You can even call them nazis without it getting removed

Which is why there is something called "Blacklisted tags" and it has been used towards QAnon posts [0] and on BLM posts. [1]

Some tags get shadow-banned so that it doesn't appear on TikTok. The users here take a new hashtag so that it can be searchable. This form of censorship still applies to TikTok.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/25/21338615/tiktok-qanon-has...

[1] https://time.com/5863350/tiktok-black-creators/
Sitrep: F-35 upgrades aim for more compute power (and maybe new software)
Gitsta is work in progress; nothing to show yet, sorry.

I had looked at holochain earlier, but to be honest I found their literature a bit difficult to grasp (with a quick read). But I was aware though that they're trying to solve the same problem.

My view is that once you are able to reduce the amount of data an app has to deal with, you might even be able to rely on plain text files, yaml collections etc. for data storage/exchange; and fed into a db engine for faster querying.

I'll look up Junto, thanks for the link.
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As long as it allows creating custom plugins, the sky is the limit.

And when I say editor, I don't just mean editing marketing blurb for some website, you could have something like Three.js's online editor to make 3D scenes for example.

I'd imagine it would be useful for remote learning as well, like a super-powered Codepen.
Anyone else feel like AWS's primary goal isn't actually to make money but to put us all out of a job, but it doesn't quite know how to do so
The best part about this is it's difficult to figure out how the detection mechanism works to counter it, and I really like the idea, but isn't it easy to just add random noise to the a post to give it the right amount of entropy?
Thanks for reminding me about pico8. What a lovely platform.
Wasn’t this debunked? As I recall, after some digging, it came to light that the amount of power offered by a typical-sized battery from this company even at 100% efficiency would be on the order microwatts. There was even an article paid for by the company with an illustration displaying 100 uW on the unit.

I’m not at my computer and can’t easily dig up sources at the moment, but I doubt they’re hard to find.
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In this case they are probably using "obligated" in the context of repaying a debt of gratitude.
Pip is a pure python library, you don’t compile it.