skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it helped Huawei build to their audience segments for their ads product? [0]

[0] https://ads.huawei.com/usermgtportal/home/index.html#/produc...
SSH you run on your own server, not theirs..
Yes... I remember using pidgin for that, and I believe there was some kind of proxy I used to link up IRC too. Those were the days.
There's a bunch of online stores now which sell very cheap plain-color clothing. Once you have your sizes figured out it becomes very simple to keep replacing things - my biggest problem these days is determining what cotton-weight I want my next 10 T-shirts to be in.
It's not a fool-proof link though. Tons of public access points, work/school networks, and multi-tenant home networks.
Where it applies, the 'quick unpick' is my friend there. Obviously doesn't apply to printed things. I've received a lot of snobbery in both directions when hiking though.

Edit: they're also one of my favourite tools for reworking automotive wiring harnesses.
Matrix uses its own voice/video for 1:1, which is very nearly ready for prime time (we've been iterating a lot on it over the last few months, and are about to declare it open for business).

We embed Jitsi for voice/video conferences, but we're experimenting more and more with native Matrix conferencing over the course of this year.
Its its not on Strava..: Recovering a corrupted fit file
The stakes are so high for Amazon to tell the truth here. If they were lying then there would be outrage among users, media, competition, etc.

I’ve dealt with many people from Amazon in my professional life and based on their handling of customer data I believe Amazon take seriously the trust customers place with them. Amazon believe the Alexa and Echo platform will grow their retail and service relationships with customers.

I don’t think they would throw that away to fool us all into believing a fake mute button - for what?
That's exactly right. "Dozens of court cases found no evidence" is a Reddit fake fact.

In reality the evidence wasn't examined in courts. Nor in the Senate. The riot and breach on the 6'th made sure of that.
> First of all, no matter how good Apple’s ARM core truly is, there is no way in physics that a fanless quad-core Apple M1 is going to outperform an 8-core Intel Core i9.

Well, just two months in, and this claim didn't age well at all.
I have been running an open source MathJax-based mathematics pastebin[1] since 2012 and I had received 2 donations for it until recently. Then a mathematician tweeted[2] about it convincing others to send some donations. After that kind gesture by him, I received 3 more donations. So pretty sure I can't make a living out of donations. :-) But I still appreciate them because they help in covering a portion of the hosting cost.

Also, I never seriously expected donations for this project because I don't work much on it these days apart from cleaning up spam from time to time, complying with legal notices and occasional maintenance. I added a donation button only to see if someone would use it. Apart from covering hosting cost, I think an important side effect of the donations is that it provides some additional motivation to continue working on the project and develop it further which I indeed plan to do as soon as I can find the time for it.

[1] http://mathb.in/

[2] https://twitter.com/daveinstpaul/status/1345082256361193473
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Worth pointing that This is a piece of report from November 2020!
Quite a lot of independent benchmarking has been made since.
This is not unexpected. Releasing those documents is part of the covid relief bill as stated in the article and the US gov agency have six months to comply. Who of the representatives was such a X-Files fan to include this in the bill will remain for the curious to find.
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Is it possible to do the right thing and be working at Facebook?

I think we can take as a given that every engineer at Facebook could easily get a job elsewhere. To be a Facebook employee is a conscious choice.

The bigger question is - should you avoid working at companies that are a net negative, or should you stay there to try to improve them?

I don’t know the answer, but I don’t see Facebook improving and I wouldn’t personally work there, for ethical reasons.
I have the impression that Apple's privacy marketing was just an opportunity grab because they noticed they were doing slightly better than competitors. The recent reveal of MacOS calling home and lack of any significant reaction is a strong indicator this was all just lip service.
What makes you say that about the UK? As an American, I’ve always been envious of what I perceive as the UK’s greater electoral flexibility, expressed through systems like snap elections and Parliament’s role in appointing the chief executive.
Social media platforms are powerful, not critical. If all the platforms disappeared tomorrow, our lives would not be disrupted (personally I think we’d be even healthier, but that’s a personal view). This doesn’t change the fact that these networks can reach and move the masses.
I also don’t believe that these problems would be solved by creating alternative national platforms controlled by governments: why should users migrate from fb/twitter/...? Governments wouldn’t spend huge sums on engineering engagement and addiction (as they shouldn’t).
> The reputation of people working there still is damaged

Most people need a job in order to continue to eat and to buy shoes for their children. They can't just quit. I don't judge anyone for working the job they can get.
Removal requires 2/3 of the Senate. It’s unlikely that every member of a party would vote for removal without a clear, major violation.

So the only way your scenario works out is if the Senate has 70 or so members from the party opposing the President. A split like that is very unlikely.
A quick search on twitter shows that not to be true.
Pretty obvious but really sad and scary at the same time. "You decided you no longer wanted to interact with Donald Trump. Of course you should now fear for your personal safety. What did you expect?"

Yikes, what a world we live in.
Yeah Matrix is great (I don't like the Vector/Riot/Element client much though, I wish the other clients were a bit comparable in terms of their development as Element seems to take up most of the attention). It's not very efficient with screen space, if you have a LOT of chats open (many bridges!) it's hard to find what's what.

But the E2E verifications I do find troublesome. I constantly have to re-verify contacts, it's way too much in the way of smooth communication. I wish there was a way to auto-enable (but warn of a key change) them like Whatsapp does. It's not as secure, but you really have to be a crypto geek to constantly compare fingerprints whenever they change or get added. I often log in to different devices (different browsers on machines at home, work, test phones etc). And everything has to be validated. Whatsapp and Signal handle this way way better. This way it just won't make it to the mainstream. I can't expect my contacts to click buttons every time I log into a new browser or clear my cookies.

In the end I just got sick of all these crypto warnings and I ended up switching to something else again. I re-try Matrix every once in a while but it's still not there. Also, for me E2E crypto is not a major thing as I run my own server anyway (which I trust). But some of my friends want it switched on as they also use it on other chat apps.

PS: Not trying to blast Matrix here, but I do find this a problem for adoption. Otherwise I think it's way better than any other chat app.
It would be more appropriate for signal to open up to the xmpp fediverse
Looks to me like they realized that Disney+ is their most important project, and are rotating their A team into it.
This is probably little known outside of Slovakia:

There is an still ongoing huge political and criminal scandal: a shady mafia-like figure (Marian Kocner) has (allegedly) ordered the murder of a journalist. The journalist and his girlfriend were shot and during the investigations Kocners phone(s) were found (or more exactly another shady person gave them to the police). Not only were undeleted Threema messages extracted, but also (allegedly) many deleted Threema communications were succesfully extracted and presented in court.

While Kocner was in that particular case exonerated in first instance (it's now in the Highest Court), the messages were leaked to the press and led to the abdication of the then prime minister (Robert Fico), the loss of the then ruling coalition in the next elections, and now because of those decoded messages, many judges, prosecutors, politicians, policemen etc are locked up and investigated - Marian Kocner directly gave them orders through Threema. The former head of police has even hanged himself in the prison a few days ago (because of a different, but connected, scandal). While this is more about the general state of affairs in Slovakia, it's interesting how the compromised security of an app they thought was "fully" secure has impacted the Slovakian political landscape.
Yeah I’m always ready to pack up and head to the Ecuadorean Embassy
These comparisons speak like Telegram sometimes don't encrypt the messages which is false. It always does, difference it store them on the cloud.
Thanks for sharing! Looks nice, there is even android app.

Looking through their android app it seems to be similar to google meets, I will definitely keep this in my bookmarks!
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>The Schrodinger equation is linear

Is it though? Or have we just found a linear approximation to actual reality?

Also, the other day, I read in another HN thread that there are situations (Bose Einstein condensates) where the potential may depend on Psi thus making the equation non-linear (since the potential multiplies Psi).
It is a bit harder to use but, what's more important, not as feature-rich and doesn't have literal billions of users. We are looking at the issue of getting someone to switch selfishly, convinced it's about them not being able to figure things out. Instead, it might be that they want a more polished app or one that has all of their contacts, not just us.
> Canada is bringing 400,000+ new immigrants per year until 2023 for permanent residence status

Canada is adding > 1% of its population in immigrants every year? I am curious if that is sustainable politically and economically. I suspect this will only drive down tech wages even further and put pressure on local housing markets, utilities, healthcare and social programs.
> Canadians haven't really embraced ruthless capitalism fully.

You write that like it's a bad thing.
From the very little research I did signal handlers actually use the same stack as the user-space thread it runs on, unless sigaltstack is used to set up a separate stack. Although it's probably possible for the kernel to adjust the stack pointer over the red-zone before returning to user-space, so the signal handler can run safely.
At this point, this is all sounding like big corps trying to ingratiate themselves with the new administration, since Democrats control Congress now.
Good desktop client might not be absolutely necessary IMHO.
WhatsApp does not have one right?
Care to actually respond with some substance instead of snark? I'm genuinely curious about the Jackson Hole type of meetings. Are you saying her talks are indeed of some great value and insight, and not about access?
I was tired of seeing 7+ Adobe background daemons, launchagents, helpers, brokers, core sync, etc crap that they decided must be running constantly. I made a script that fires every hour and if no Adobe apps are running it just kills all those useless processes. My machine is so much happier now.
Kissinger is 97. I was shocked he’s even still alive
Once this pandemic is over I'd like to pay a visit to your world!
Some time ago I learned a reason for that: It is hard to protect material, color or cut for cloths. What however can be protected is the company logo. By putting the logo on they therefore prevent copies.

And then it's of course signalling - by showing specific brands, you send a message.
Not really. Our first attempts at universal healthcare involved general strikes from doctors and the government standing its ground. Some of the most important legislation and infrastructure in Canadian history was done under minority governments have to work with other political parties.

I would say it would it comes down to a much healthier government with more churn and not two different flavours of the same political party. I only found out this year that in certain states the ballots contain options "Vote all Democrat" or "Vote all Republican". Enshrining political parties like that into an electoral process reminds of the Soviet Union.
Hey Paul/Ben-

Always enjoyed working with you both, and sitting on panels teaching. Small world, I'm back working with Dave Recordon again.

I'd love for all the hard work that was left on the table to get resurrected, I continued to work in Caja-style JS sandboxing for a few years after OpenSocial.

Cheers,
:max
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That would have removed a large piece of the competitive edge for them. You don't swap out your core advantage.
I think in a lot of industries the work "speaks for itself" like a creative agency or people producing widgets. For creative work you can walk through the assets produced and everyone can theoretically see that there is value being created. I believe software development gravitates towards heavy processes mostly because it's hard for "decision makers" to accurately gauge good software from bad, or even understand what progress is being made at all.

Having more engineers in decision making positions certainly helps, but I think it boils down to whether the organization is set up for trust.
Theseus also slayed the Minotaur of the labyrinth. Maybe they want to kill a monster.
The wording here is a bit weird. He was not censored, he broke the TOS and was therefore blocked from using a platform.

Censoring would be proactive from FB, they have actually allowed him to breach TOS before without a ban, and only this time they enforced the rules we are all subject to.
> but you can't have NAT without a firewall

While it is true that most NAT arrangements are provided by firewalls, it is quite possible for a device to provide NAT with no other firewalling features at all, so not be considered a firewall. In this case the device would just be a router that provides NAT.

Some confuse NAT and firewalling because NAT effectively implements a default-deny-all-not-initiated-here rule in one direction which is what most home users want in a firewall.
A problem is it's not really the trolly problem because the punishments if things go wrong accrue to different people than the rewards if they go right.
>I expect a theory predicting otherwise to bear the burden of demarcating exactly where the boundary between "macroscopic" and "weird not-macroscopic" lies

My feelings exactly, I really don't understand why such a relevant comment is being downvoted.
" Business software maker Salesforce.com Inc said on Monday it had “taken action” to prevent its tools from being used by the U.S. Republican National Committee in ways that could lead to further violence around the country’s presidential transition."

Why are you editorialising?
What is the deep state's track record of investigating itself? Say, if various state officials from all levels to the very top conspired to weaken the capitol security at that critical time, will the state agencies be able to unravel that?

I'm not holding my breath, likely only lower levels and gullible laypeople will be purged.
Is there a reason you believe USD, EUR etc. has value, aside from "other people believe it has value"?

Bitcoin at least has a utility built into it, facilitating transfers and 100% guarantee that limited amounts of btc can be created.

Fiat currencies and btc are not the same but the underlying principle is the same. Demand and supply. If there is no demand its value will plummet.

2007 crash cause swiss frank to sky rocket in value. For no other reason then international crowd started buying franks to store their wealth in it not USD.
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what makes is weirder is that theranos wasn't really testing. They were sending the samples to established labs. You could have maintained their test database in excel.
Since public servants are mostly lawyers by now, I don't think a board with more of them to regulate internet content is too appealing. Maybe just for Facebook, I don't use it anyway, but not for every platform.
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As far as I can see from the blog, it's a technical blog. I would expect its regular users to read to the end and it kind of makes sense to put the conclusion at the bottom.
I take it you think it is a stupid idea. Why? I am genuinely interested.
At least it sounds like the red light would go out in this case, so you'd have some indication that something is up.
I agree with your comment for the most part. But this line is pretty misleading:

> the one we created when we kidnapped millions of people in Africa and stripped them of their original culture

Nobody was kidnapped. Individuals were bought from already-existing African slave trade markets(markets which had been run by and for Africans (and Arabs), preceding any European commercial relationship.)

Although you may have used the term kidnapping liberally (& with some artistic license), it is fundamentally not true & very misleading.

In Africa, buying and selling slaves was widespread at the time.

I think the treatment of African slaves(& their descendants) in America is bad enough without having to exaggerate the origin.
You're right.

Honestly I just need to take a break from the web for a while.

I've been feeling pretty enraged lately, especially when dealing with people who seem dedicated to ignoring reality.

I appreciate the warning.
burning down businesses and public buildings, many of which the rioters themselves paid for and will pay for again when they're rebuilt

Citation needed.
There is a lot of critique that people don't read anything besides the headlines and sometimes it's suggested that this is one of the causes for the spread of misinformation. I think that Twitter even warns you before you can retweet something to make sure that you read the entire article, so you don't spread whatever they consider to be false. But there is the same problem with fact-checking. People just search for it, see the headline that it was "debunked" and assume it's not true, without reading through the actual article. Here are some of the examples of articles, that suggest the story is not true, but once you get past the headline, it basically says the opposite:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/25/trump-kee... (https://archive.md/EK0rq)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-suppressed... (https://archive.md/hhWnv)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dems-impeach-gop-president... (http://archive.md/HNgc9)

I don't disagree that it doesn't happen, but it's not always that people just "don't care about the facts". Sometimes it's that these so-called fact-checks are - to put it bluntly - complete garbage. When there were claims about the voter fraud circulating throughout the social media and Facebook and Twitter was putting the warnings on such posts, I happened to actually read those fact-checks, and let me tell you - they weren't good. Most of the time it was either a straw man or it had nothing to do with the actual claim that was being made.

People laugh at conspiracy theorists, but most of them are not any better.
Last time I checked I still had well over a dozen users on my ts3 server during the daytime. It'd be really sad to lose the community.
Standing requires an injury.

Moreover not all ballots contain votes for all candidates.
Proud American here.

I don’t love that WEF study and I could spend a lot of time picking nits with its methodology, but for the sake of argument, let’s accept it as broadly true.

Why do Americans believe what we do? It is partial brainwashing by the media. But it is also a very real national story of immigration for economic activity.

The foreign born population of the United States is currently around 40-50 million the majority of whom are citizens or permanent residents. That’s a lot.

New York is a representative gateway city. The percent of the population of New York City which is foreign born was 36% in 1900. It was also 36% in 2000. These are people who came here for economic opportunity. Their lived experience is that the US afforded this opportunity. Now certainly the US isn’t the only country that offers such an opportunity, but we’ve been doing it for a while. We’ve had waves of immigration come from Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, Ireland and the U.K., East Asia, South Asia and Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

My grandmother came as an immigrant from Germany, off a farm with a grade school education and worked as a nanny on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I now live on the Upper West Side and my kids nanny from Guyana got her citizenship about five years ago. (And she literally lives on the same block in Queens my Scottish grandmother did when her family came over.) And there’s nothing special about my story. It’s fairly typical.

That report cited in the parent shows a statistic that it would take on average 5 generations to move from the lowest income group to the median. I have no reason to doubt it. But I believe that largely is a story of slavery, racism, Jim Crow and the economic backwardness (until they 1970’s) of the American south. It’s shameful. You can understand why we might not want to celebrate it, preferring to look at the voluntary immigrant story.
That's Sunny Balwani, the former COO of Theranos, not Chandrasekaran.
That is probably true for the Janitor. It's less true for the (non-entry level) engineer there.

They not only have other choices, but also are implementing the policies.
Oh no. You shattered my remaining slither of hope in mobile app market.
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In many countries you can't get burner number since every SIM must be registered with your ID.

This phone number requirement is the biggest letdown ...
The non logo version of those products will be more expensive than the logo ones. For example, a non logo Hermes or Chanel product.
Not true, you can have a donation link on your page and projects just fine.

t. another Finn
I think both you, and the parent you're responding to are correct. Amazon is not evil, they're merely self-interested. This can lead them to do some evil things, but they are not a cartoon villain, twisting their mustache in shadows.

On the other hand, it's important to verify claims, and Amazon should be very happy about this verification. It proves that their claim could be trusted. Some other conclusion could have just as easily been true.
A major vote counting center shut down mid evening. They never shut down until completion - except this time.

Once observers were gone, count resumed. Unusual activity occurred, recorded by surveillance cameras.

During this period, a freak consequential spike in tally occurred - for one candidate.

If that doesn’t get at least your curiosity, no point in continuing.
More than a few months, I used that for years. Even after Google announced the shutting down of their XMPP service, it worked for years.
It's a pun: https://threema.ch/en/faq/name_origin

On the one hand, it's harder to pronounce than, say, Signal, and it has no inherent meaning like, say, Telegram, but look at Whatsapp...
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Nice! The list of clients/servers: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now/
You bring up a good point, it's not about consistency and fairness, it's about control.