skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are over 3,000 emojis defined in unicode, which is a very large vocabulary in which to become expert.

Most of those emoji aren't commonly used. There's a falafel emoji; no one's going around adding a falafel to the end of their messages trying to impart some hidden meaning.

> There is no well-defined meaning for any of the emojis, even the "simple" common ones.

There's also no well-defined meaning to a shrug or an eye-roll, but it's still a useful way of communicating emotion. Semantically, an emoji isn't used like a word. It's used like a gesture or facial expression. In practice, the message is usually quite clear — clearer, in fact, than if an emoji hadn't been used, since in the absence of tone-of-voice and body language text can itself create ambiguity.

> They mean different things to different subgroups, and act as an "in-group" credential in many cases.

Do you have an example of an emoji meaning different things to different groups? In my experience they have a pretty consistent meaning across our culture — even the more abstract ones, like an upside-down smile. The only barrier is "whether or not you're familiar with the typical meaning," and that's the case for any expression or colloquialism. If I say "they're like two peas in a pod" and you have no idea what that means, that doesn't mean it's an in-group signifier. Granted, familiarity with emojis correlates with age, but that's the same with any linguistic shift.

> They are visually very indistinct, and can be difficult to distinguish one from another for people who have less than perfect vision, or color-blindness.

I'm sure there are accessibility options which people can configure on their phones to minimize this. Large-text mode, for instance, or a high-contrast emoji font. Text itself is a medium which isn't very accessible to vision-impaired people, and we have developed solutions for that.

> For people with autism or other non-neurotypical processing they can be completely unintelligible, rendering the communication even less successful than "traditional" language.

Autistic people also have trouble understanding the meaning of facial expressions and of metaphors sometimes, but that doesn't mean that those shouldn't be used in conversation. It just means that everyone should know their audience.

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I don't think you've raised any serious practical issues — they seem to be all special cases, such as "what if you're talking to an autistic person or a blind person or an older person." Under those circumstances I would communicate differently, same as if I were speaking to a deaf person, or emailing a blind person, or talking to someone with poor English skills. There is no universally-viable way of communicating, but emoji typically reduce ambiguity and add layers of expression to a message, so in most cases they're a good choice.
Matt Pharr recently released an early version of PBRTv4, which has been rewritten extensively to make heavy use of Optix and the GPU. Given that he previously wrote a series on rendering Moana using PBRTv3, I wonder if v4 could be used as a comparison?

https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2020/08/19/pbrt-v4-released.html
There’s lots of comments about roaming charges and dialling codes here but despite using 4G/LTE I’m assuming this is a closed network - you won’t be able to call an astronaut without going through NASA.
I'm using it, but I need to restart it several times a week because it stops playing video. For comparison, I only restart Opera/Chrome for updates once in a few weeks.

And I still hate the "many tab handling" in ff where it makes me scroll.
Same here, My switch happened over the weekend. Still looking for a convenient way to have profiles that are like chromes user button, but overall I'm happy to escape Google's grip.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/canadian-research-...

Or google Havana syndrome pesticide
Exactly. Both tweets should be flagged for glorifying violence and threatening behaviour which is against Twitter's ToS. [0]

But it seems the 'rules' are enforced more on one person over another. You probably can guess why that is.

Downvoters: So these tweets are not signs of threatening behaviour and shouldn't be flagged or don't violate Twitter's ToS? Explain your case.

[0] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/violent-threa...
In 2015 I was curious about the article distribution on Wikipedia so I scraped and visualized some data. At the time I was frustrated by the writing quality and I wanted to know how much of Wikipedia was 'quality' and how many of the 5 million articles were in subjects comparable to a general encyclopedia volume.

My images are here:

https://imgcdn.dev/i/c6fJ8
https://imgcdn.dev/i/c6VRy
https://imgcdn.dev/i/c6Wn2

and you can compare that to some Wikipedia hosted comparisons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#/m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
> No, I think it is a pretty clear example of rent-seeking on Google's behalf.

If anything, rent-seeking would be the other way, but that's still a big stretch.

The phone manufacturers know that searches are valuable to search engines, so they charge for it even though they're not doing anything but being a broker for their users. But while that is getting a cut (literally seeking rent), calling it "rent seeking" is a stretch, because clearly that brokering and OS space is naturally valuable and the phone companies aren't just injecting themselves into someone else's money-making process.
No one wants to invest in part-time entrepreneurs. This is a pitch deck, it should only show reasons to invest.
Generally I would disagree with the immediate point/logic of your argument... However I will note in this case that your justification is that your idea comes from socialism: literally the worst human idea EVER, comparable unfavourably to genocide, and responsible for about 200 million dead people in the 20th century; again, worse than genocide.
What about the secret nazi base on the far side of the moon [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky
Windows Phone had its annoyances, but I wish they'd held onto it - particularly now with more and more M365 subscription-based ecosystem push. A highly securable device with solid versions of Office, Teams, Outlook, Authenticator and other MS-owned products could actually be viable, and if they keep on with the ARM-based Surface Pro X family then ARM-based processors in phones wouldn't be a big stretch.
Escaping Science’s Paradox
> I do.

Wow, I'm happy for you and only a little jealous.

I wish I could play them well, too. The sound and feeling of butchering them is what makes me dislike the experience.
Dumb question: What gives NASA the authority to build anything on the moon?
All it does is make me think that they aren't full time, and may not be committed. I also have questions about IP concerns.

These may not be serious issues, and they can be easily answered, but this statement is a distraction. You want your pitch deck to answer questions, not raise new ones.
That's true. Didn't think that part through. Still, even in cases where there isn't overt jamming or filtering, it seems like the ability to set up direct, long-distance connections would make a big difference in how the internet is structured.
Well it's going to look more obvious at different times of the year. Especially in the fall and winter.
That's the wrong point. Key distribution is the weak point in many (most? any?) crypto systems (and analogously, SSL certs), and that's where you have a trade-off between super-high security (opengpg ring of trust) and decent security (lets encrypt).
That’s annoying yet pretty predictable, at least we’ve still got https://pi-hole.net/ as an option until DNS encryption becomes widespread :/
Haha... Nokia must have been in serious debt to you know who...
Thanks for the encouraging words! I'm a bit lost at the moment in this regard. And there are still lots of work and life to deal with in the present. The career transition is certainly not going to be smooth and it will involve a lot of work. As much as I'm somewhat looking forwards to it (if it can be realistically executed) I should start sorting things out and optimise my work/life before taking in this challenge.
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It doesn’t. Disable your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the one which is leaking.
To make you analogy more accurate, this single employer would be paying the employees not to work for anyone else. And in that case, yes, the employees would be the ones that have the power since they are getting money for nothing.
Its disappointing and was announced a while ago.

I really wish they would have kept it alive much longer... Azure Machine Learning is way more complex and Codespaces not yet available for normal people.

Only free alter alternative with private Notebooks is Colab.

Paperspace Gradient is awesome, but the free version requires public Notebooks.
A great example of why you need defense in depth. Ideally you'd be running the local firewall on your box, as well as an external firewall.

That being said, this is not ok behavior on Apple's part. There shouldn't be a way for traffic to go around the firewall like this, even if it is just Apple apps.

Because as Apple well knows, once you make a backdoor, someone will figure out a way to exploit it.
different but feels reminisce of Google double-dealing by not-clearing their browser storage cache when asked to. two days old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24817304
Ugh, it's like Reader all over again.
Predicting Football Results with Statistical Modelling
I love to use Python as counter example of C++'s complexity.

Have been using Python on and off since 1.6 and not only is the documentation also quite impressive, when one sums up language reference + library, just like ISO documents, its changes between versions make a Pub Quiz a very easy task.

The language is probably the new Basic, but to achieve 10 dan in Python there is plenty of stuff to chew on.
Thanks! The current version requires around 18GB of total GPU memory. Right now I am heavily bottlenecked by the memory transfer costs, but there is some low-hanging fruit to amortize them by doing much more compute per snapshot transfer. After that, I'm very curious to see what the profiler will show.
If e2e is outlawed, it would be illegal to operate the matrix.org server (which is one of a universe of federated Matrix servers) - but the code would still be legal.

Also, peer-to-peer Matrix is in the works, with working prototypes - the client sort of embeds a server... Enforcing illegal e2e would require going after each user - lots of fun !
Sadly, it is. The IE7 era, perpetrated by Google.
The problem with LFPP is you need to understand age demographic trends, institutionalization trends (both positive like higher-ed and negative like incarceration), and some other things to extract much meaning from it. A demographic bulge hitting retirement age and a wave of mass incarcerations and a massive surge in higher ed enrollments all can have the same manifestation in LFPP, and all the same as a massive wave of layoffs without replacement opportunities elsewhere in the economy, but I can't think of any purpose for which one would look at employment statistics, particularly as a policy guide, where you'd want to treat all those things as even approximately equivalent.

The fact that U-seried generally track together is a good thing, it says that they are indeed different measures related to the same underlying concept. It also makes the points where they do diverge interesting and noteworthy.
"You don't need kernel extensions, we'll provide APIs for you! We won't abuse the power that gives us, promise!"

...and now Apple has altered the deal and we must pray they do not alter it further. Disgusting. Predictable, expected, unsurprising -- but still disgusting.
Hmmm a few of the kiwis I went to school with all got citizenship.
This is one of those tough cases where software cuts both ways.

Some people are smart, informed developers that install a trusted tool to monitor their traffic and have legitimate reasons to want to inspect Apple traffic. They're dismayed.

Most people are the opposite and this move protects the most sensitive data from being easily scooped up or muddled in easily installed apps, or at least easily installed apps that don't use zero days.

Is the world better or worse due to this change? I'd say a touch better, but I don't like the fact that this change was needed in the first place. I trust Apple, but I don't like trusting trust.
Thankfully we don't insist that every real life meeting room monitors and reports our activities. Kind of amazing to me that we don't insist on a better justification other than "because we can" when it comes to virtual spaces.
Yev -> Great question. The problem does lay with the abuse of the unlimited services. We've been offering our unlimited backup for 10+ years now and our only price increase was from $5 -> $6/month after 10 years of keeping them steady. It's possible to provide the service, but we have some natural "gates" that were built into the product to help mitigate abuse. Primarily our unlimited backup service is for Mac and PC computers – we don't back up NAS/Servers/Linus machines.

That helps quite a bit because it reduces the outer-bound of how much data can store with us from typical Mac/PC devices. Granted we do have people with 80+TB backed up with that service, but that VAST majority store A LOT less. The average is low enough that we can continue to provide the unlimited service - kind of like a buffet model. Some will eat more, most will eat less and buy a drink (Extended Version History).

Keeping it to Mac/PC only does make Linux, NAS, Server folks unhappy, but thus far no one has been able to crack the code on an unlimited, fixed-rate service that can back up those devices economically, but if we figure it out we'll let folks know :D
By being in a country that is a nuclear armed superpower with veto rights on the UN Security Council. Stuff like outer space treaty only matters when the bigger players are willing enforce it.
I suppose this is a consequence of Little Snitch moving from a kernel extension to Apple's new system that runs in user-space. :(
Yep, that's right. I can see how that would be confusing though, thanks for the feedback.
I'm sure they would need something rad-hard for the system to last any practical amount of time. My guess is that Nokia would likely subcontract some of the electronics to companies that have experience in making rad-hard versions of existing technologies like BAE Systems or 3d Plus.

Thermal management is definitely hard, but this would be pretty run-of-the-mill thermal management for most space companies. I know this still means expensive but it's not an extreme thermal challenge like the Parker Solar Probe (keep things normal temps in a REALLY hot environment) or JWST (keep a very large structure at a VERY cold temperature)
I bought an Alcatel flip phone without GPS capability. Cost me $40 minus the price I got for selling my iPhone. Now my data is useless!
But Microsoft did change. I have read here, but can't recall the comment, the attitude within MS changed drastically.
Completely agree. Most business data is noise and most of the signals are already discovered as simple rules and heuristics. On the other hand, if you have a strong signal in your data, even a simple algorithm like linear/logistic regression will be able to help. What I’ll call “signal hunting” is probably the best use of DS resources and also the hardest thing to do.

I’ve done my share of experiments with ML/AI and where I’ve seen the most interesting value has been NLP applications (such as categorizing customer comments or assigning categories to products based in description) and finding “factors that influence behavior x” which then can be turned into either a model or a few simple rules.
Monopolies are not illegal in the U.S.

Leveraging your monopoly in one market to constrain business in another market is.

Microsoft wasn't prosecuted because Windows was a monopoly, Microsoft was prosecuted because it leveraged that monopoly to block out other competitors (you could not buy a PC without a Windows license, even if you wanted to put another O/S on it).

IBM wasn't investigated because it dominated mainframes, but because it leveraged that domination to control other markets.

AT&T wasn't prosecuted for antitrust because of its monopoly on phone service in the US…the US government had effectively granted AT&T that monopoly in the first place. It was prosecuted and broken up because it leveraged that monopoly to box out competitors across multiple markets that intersected with the telephone system.

Google’s weak spots are not their monopolies in search nor ads. It’s having leveraged those monopolies in the browser and mobile phone markets. If I had to guess, they will offer to separate ad spots on search results into a separate market place, offer to spin off Chrome and Android to foundations funded initially by Google but expected to stand on their own (ala Mozilla/Firefox) after some time period, offer to separate ad placement from ad serving, and generally rearrange the chairs and org chart with a series of consent decrees requiring regular reporting to Congress or the DOJ.
Firefox is unusable on Ubuntu.

They have a years old bug they can't / won't fix that causes stock Firefox to be at 100% CPU constantly, regardless of what you are running.

I finally switched to Brave and amazingly, it manages to run basic websites at minimal CPU. And it isn't like I am running some rinky-dink computer. I have 32GB of RAM and a Ryzen 9 3900x.

EDIT: Single tab of the front page of reddit, no add-ons, nothing loading, Firefox goes between 7% and 21% CPU. Meanwhile I have 20 tabs open in Brave and it is sipping between 0.7% - 3%.
Google kills the Nest Secure, its $500 home security system
The rent seeking is on the other end.

Google pays off phone manufacturers to sign onerous contract preventing them from installing other app stores or displaying other options on the home screen or during the setup process -> They then collect rent from the companies that have to offer their apps on the Play Store.

From wikipedia, "An example of rent-seeking in a modern economy is spending money on lobbying for government subsidies in order to be given wealth that has already been created." In this instance, the phone vendors are the politicians.
Yev -> that's really interesting. Do you want to publish your data and maybe we can compare notes ;-)
A better question: are there any agreements forbidding anyone from constructing something on the moon?
TDD base stations require synchronization (around 3µs) to avoid interfering with each others, but this does of course not apply if there is only one BS or if there is any other way to sync them (e.g. SyncE + IEEE-1588v2, G.8275...). See https://docdb.cept.org/download/220ac21f-b44b/ECCREP216.PDF

As far as I know 3GPP2 cdma2000/EV-DO also need GPS because the codes are synchronous (although I am not familiar with those technologies).

Apart from that, 3GPP FDD base stations only require a stable frequency reference, not a time reference (LTE/WCDMA base stations are not connected to GPS !)
When a comment like this pop up, I launch this Chromium instance I have installed but never used, and it takes several seconds to launch (from an SSD, so that's no the limiting factor), while Firefox opens almost instantly. I think some operating systems (at least Windows) pre-cache frequently used applications and their data so that they start as quickly as possible. Maybe that's what you notice everytime you try to switch?
As there will be only one cellular network, inference coordination and timing is relatively easy to solve. You just use PTP. No need to GPSS Everywhere.
their website is totally broken on my browser (Firefox 82 with uBlock Origin)
Hi all, I recently built this tool that enables developers to automate merge workflows for Github. I am always annoyed that even though CI automates running of your builds, it leaves the post execution process to be manual. This tool monitors your CI pipeline and takes appropriate actions based on your configuration post CI completion.

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> As long as all unsafe code obeys the aliasing and lifetime rules, rust protects completely against UAF. Zig has little protection.

This is the most relevant part to me. As someone who will probably never write a line of either myself, the way I will work with languages like this is thorough libraries or extensions of higher-level languages like python or ruby. To that end, safety is the most important factor to me, with performance very much second. While rust has unsafe operations, these are relatively easy to audit if the code is open source.
Ok, so to the programmer, Zig may be more ergonomic than C or Rust. But until Zig can offer the safety assurances of Rust, I'm still rooting for Rust to take over the world as the dominant and de-facto low-level language.
I'm not sure what the right reaction should be from the Foundation, but as as someone who has only seen the official website a couple of times, I wouldn't have noticed that the community website wasn't an official one.
The two things that make me periodically think of switching from Firefox to Chrome on MacOS are (1) spell checking and (2) handling of multiple profiles.

Firefox uses the same open source spell checker, Hunspell, that Chrome, LibreOffice, MacOS, and many others use, but for some inexplicable reason have a terrible dictionary. I've ranted on this before [1] so won't do so again here.

I get the impression that the poor handling of multiple profiles is because they expect you to use multi-account containers instead.

Those are fine if you just want, say, to access multiple instances of the same site without using the same cookies for each, or want to make it harder for cross site cookie tracking, but for most of the times where I want to access multiple instances of the same site I also want separate bookmarks and add-ons and history for each instance.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819714
YOU don't lose that right, but the corporation is never given that right
If I install Little Snitch, it's because I trust Little Snitch to be responsible for my computer's network traffic, over and above anyone else.

I recognize that this won't necessarily apply to all users or all apps, but there needs to be a way for the user to designate trust. Apple services and traffic should not get special treatment.
The net effect, paradoxically, is that this encourages and supports low quality. Or perhaps it redirects the resources towards those who need it most, and the average quality improves?
not "salty", since I never had one, but Windows Phone seemed like a good thing which at least locally was making some inroads when they gave up on it again.
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The solution is simple, just look at the tricks these apps are using and use them to implement malware.
Because it is on the idea stage without funding.

My guess is that it will stay that way. That said, it is probably feasible to do some parts of it, similar to the 3x3 project Ruby has. I wouldn't be surprised if numpy glue is a lot more tractable for optimization than Rails, but the interaction with C libs would pose some serious issues.
But the article's graph shows exactly the opposite. According to the "true unemployment rate", the job market has fully recovered from the COVID shock and is sitting at where it was in 2017-18, whereas the official unemployment rate indicates that there's still a problem. I assume we can agree that there is indeed still a problem, so it seems like the official statistics have it right here.