skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so now the deadline is May 15 instead of February 8th, but what exactly will WhatsApp be changing? My understanding is that with these new changes, WhatsApp will no longer need permission to share my contact list with Facebook.

Though importantly, if I didn't opt-out before, WhatsApp was already sharing this information with Facebook.

Right now I don't allow WhatsApp access to my contact list. It means all my messages are to phone numbers, which is a little inconvenient, but not overly so.

Come May 15th, will my app just refuse to open my messages list unless access to contacts is granted?
If sexual harassment really exists a lawyer will be glad to help. Companies that don't take care of it end up in big trouble - to your lawyers advantage.

Sexual harassment is one of several things that the legal system takes seriously.
There are issues with almost every assertion and conclusion in this post, but I will limit my critique to the idea that the downward movement of BTC is capped at the % of BTC people are willing to sell. It's simply not true. The spot price of BTC is a function of what people are currently willing to pay and what people are willing to accept. If the primary source of demand and liquidity in the BTC trading markets collapses - which this article argues is Tether - the price could rapidly collapse even on small trading volumes.

If you add in the fact that these exchanges allow trading on margin, you could have a situation where people are forced to liquidate their holdings regardless of the current price. It's the perfect storm for a flash crash.
You can also trigger wake words like "Ok Google" or "Alexa" by using _harmonics_ of normal human voices that are outside the range of audible sound. The key is that the mic can't differentiate between the harmonics and actual speech of normal human pitch and so the trigger is set off, but the sound isn't audible to humans.

I don't have a link to the paper handy (sorry!) but IIRC I found a white paper on ArXiv called "Dolphin Attack" or similar that demonstrated this. It was a fun read.
Not OP, but Beat Saber and Project Cars 2 work flawlessly in VR via Proton. Pretty surprising tbh. And of course Half Life Alyx is natively supported.
If they could replace all humans they already would have. They still employ people in the EU, so it can't be that close.
For every anecdote of an isolated case of union abuse, there are probably hundreds of unheard cases of corporations abusing their workers. But that doesn't matter for most people, simplistic logic says therefore all unions are bad and capable of corruption, and ignoring that most of the time, the status quo is far, far more exploitative for the average worker. Once again, perfect becomes the enemy of good, and conditions do not improve.
Only issue is I don't think there's anything preventing the price going sky-high in coming years, for most of these TLDs. For a throwaway it doesn't matter, but could really hurt if you start relying on one.
Hmm this appears to be an alt-az mount. If they made a future version as an equitorial mount it would be even better for radioastronamy, and if it's strong enough astrophotography too. They're a lot more complicated though so it's understandable why they didn't go that route.

Especially if this is meant more for geostationary satellites and I'm guessing most satellites like NOAA aren't too bothered by the slightly rougher tracking. Plus I guess the passes are fairly short anyway...
Google employees walked out to protest the golden parachute offered to two serial sexual harassers on their executive team and the conditions that allowed people like them to rise consequence-free through the ranks at the company.

That you believe it's a "fit" thrown for causes that "don't connect with the average person" is reflecting pretty poorly on your priorities. Nobody wants to believe your boss is skipping over you for promotions because you rejected their sexual advances.
Why flatten? Just a few supersonic booms near ground level would shatter much glass. The facades may be rated for storms and thunder, but the pressure gradients of low flying supersonic jets?
Thanks! They're listed in the menu of the desktop app as well: Help | Show Keyboard Shortcuts
Set up a recurring calendar reminder. Maybe boxing day or new years day and give yourself a fresh start to the year with some donations.
> If you're using multiple dating apps and paying for premium, you could be paying, what, over a $100 a month easily?

In the scheme of things this seems like a relatively small price to pay. People in relationships tend to enjoy significantly higher life satisfaction than single folks. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I believe the gains are on par with an extra $20,000 in income. (Not to mention all the actual savings that go with consolidating two people into a single household.)

If premium dating boosts increase your chance of a relationship by even 5% per annum, then $100/month probably is worth it.
I just donated to let them know I'm interested in their continued existence. I feel bad - my wife and I have been a user of Signal 100% for the past 4+ years and we wouldn't want to use anything else.

For some Signal related education, listen to the Security Now! podcast from 2016 - Steve Gibson dives into the protocol underlying Signal, "Open Whisper Systems".
Tether: Unchained Credit on the Blockchain
totally agree with you.
young people don't have to worry about stuff like managing their money because they are backed up.
it's a shame grown ups with families can't find this backup in the community.
once more capitalism shows it's ugly side.
What a profoundly disconnected notion of what police do. Stopping violence and reckless behavior (e.g. driving drunk) has nothing to do with protecting the interests of capital.
Workflowy for Vim
The statement “This update does not expand our ability to share data with Facebook.” seems to be perhaps carefully worded based on a technicality that they, WhatsApp, are not the ones sharing the business conversations with Facebook, but instead Facebook is giving the businesses themselves tools to share them with FB for ad targeting.

From earlier FB announcement (https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/privacy-matters-whatsapp-b...): “When Facebook acts as a hosting provider to a business, it will use the messages it processes on behalf of and at the instruction of the business. This is an industry standard practice among many companies that offer hosting solutions. While Facebook will not automatically use messages to inform the ads that a user sees, as is always the case, businesses will be able to use chats they receive for their own marketing purposes, which may include advertising on Facebook.”
Facebook and Whatsapp can absolutely exist and sustain itself if accounts were paid and cost a couple dollars per month.
He has about the right level of empathy.
In today's day and age, planning for a trip can be overwhelming. The amount of information and data out there can make the process very fatiguing. Select a location and answer a few easy questions to automatically discover a travel itinerary. The end goal is to combine AI, data, and maps together to simplify the traveling experience.

This product is still in a very early stage with many features in the works, but we want to get an idea of what the community thinks about the overall concept. Any feedback is much appreciated!
How about actually paying for the product, like it was when I signed up?
Thanks to this stack of comments I finally understood why my college friend appeared to feel better days before he took his life - he made his decision and was at peace with it.
I got a handful of matches on Bumble (5?). No one actually messaged me, so it was both a waste of time and ego-crushing. Tinder was the crap-shoot you expect it to be for a long term relationship.

I only had good luck (LTR 3 years and counting) on Coffee Meets Bagel, which limits your matches each day for both genders to try and make things less of a numbers game.
Do you feel that she doesn't hold up her side of the deal? Did you ever talk about what you expect her to do?

Why are you still together?
This might be the first Swift framework I've seen with halfway decent documentation. Always seemed like a huge barrier to entry for working with Swift server side.
What makes you think that Signal doesn't have AWS instances in other regions? (I haven't checked but given their popularity, I'm sure their servers are not just in the US anymore.)

> They can do sealed sender stuff all they like, but when 10.0.1.1 sends a 17-byte message and the server then sends a 17-byte message to 10.0.2.1, and a minute later 10.0.2.1 submits something to the server of 48 bytes and then 48 bytes are forwarded to 10.0.1.1... traffic analysis based on a tap of a Signal server isn't rocket science.

True, though with a bazillion connections going in and out of Signal's AWS instances every minute and additional domain fronting by AWS, the NSA would probably have to be inside the AWS datacenter to carry out their traffic analysis and even then it doesn't seem like a triviality to me.

Compare this to someone hosting their own Matrix node (which you're mentioning further down): In this case, it is clear that every message sent to that node has something to do with the node's owner. More generally, reconstructing a social network in a p2p network (without onion routing or anything like that) is much easier than doing this in a centralized network where all messages get routed through a central location. There's a reason why the guys from GNUnet have so far spent two decades on getting p2p right. (Though, of course, anonymity is just one of their concerns and not their only one.)
The Great Grift
Take a look at bugcrowd and hackerone. Ton of resources and opportunities, even to make some money.
This has been my experience too. I kept wanting to like Vivaldi for being the only tree style tabs alternative but everytime I switched to it I encouter lags at some point. I don't remeber the history panel specifically but the thing you said about main UI thread sounds like it. Eventually I decided that tree style tabs are bad for my productivity anw then I stopped seeing the apeal of vivaldi. Atm my favourite browsers are yandex for the minimalistic UI and Edge. Both have big addressbar font which is my thing. Yandex also has an Opera root I believe, it has the "turbo" mode. Privacy wise probably both are as bad as Google Chrome.
Eh, I reckoned it was kinda implied in my reasons for wanting no NVIDIA.

I also didn’t say “must have more than 4GB of RAM”. :-)

(A funny fact about it all is that I purchased the Surface Book a few years back simply because its hardware was so good on paper for what I wanted to do that I was willing even to switch from Linux back to Windows. Admittedly I would never have done it without WSL existing, but still. Anyway, a few years later I’m hankering to get back to Arch Linux and i3, or perhaps Sway now. The Surface Book has been good hardware, except that unit #1 was developing some problems at the age of 19 months, #2 was basically DOA, #3 had Battery 1 disappear after four months, and a couple of weeks ago #4 at the age of 2¼ had its Battery 1 die in a more unpleasant way: the computer will spontaneously lose power typically 1–4 times per day. But I have probably used it an average of over 10 hours a day, and regularly very heavily at that, except for its dGPU which is almost untouched.)
Neither of your examples requires anything from the program regardless of what language it's written in, let alone what arg-parsing library it uses. Quotes are evaluated by the shell; your program gets an argv.

(Yes, Windows is complicated by having two different built-in parsers for argv [CRT and shellapi] because the kernel itself doesn't have a concept of argv. But if we're talking about .Net programs then the runtime makes that choice and gives your entrypoint an argv, so again quote-evaluation is not in the program's purview.)
ClojureDart
In most UK workplaces with union recognition, the contract is negotiated between the employer and the (recognised) unions, but applies to all employees. Closed shops are illegal, so free-riding on the union is quite straightforward.
It’s entirely your choice whether to recognize people’s right to define themselves how they want, or to wring your hands in “intelligent” consternation at something you don’t seem to have put much effort into understanding and likely doesn’t affect you in any significant way.

No doubt it’s become an ideological battleground that regularly sees real ugliness from all sides, but, again, it’s your choice whether to let those people define the issues for you.

All that aside, I think it’s a big mistake to equate Le Guin’s work (even Left Hand itself) with either a) brainless SFF lit with nothing more to say about being human than the average D&D campaign, or b) an expression of the modern left’s identity politics doctrine, or something like it. Maybe you should give her bibliography another look.
Why would people want competition on a union? They don't work like corporations - competition weakens them.

I think this fundamentally misunderstands the purpose and function of a union.
I wonder if this interact with
https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/linux/blob/master/0102-in...
I don't think that those who read the manual do: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/wal-intro.html (unless they care about quick crash recovery)
> The amount of money & electricty wasted to generate a BTC is otherwise unrelated to the price of BTC in dollars or other assets.

Isn't it _directly_ related? If I'm a miner and the BTC I'm mining doubles in value I can afford to spend 2x as much money on hardware/energy and still make a profit.
I appreciate your comprehensive answer, it's very helpful.

Question:

> "you'll starve, or poison, the brain long before you manage to starve out a cancer. (Yes, Ketone bodies are a thing, but that happens alongside your body mobilizing everything it can to feed the brain, not instead of.)"

Layman here, but my understanding is that depriving the body of the ability to replenish glycogen stores that are normally used for energy forces the body to metabolize fat in order to produce ketones, which in a ketogenic state, the brain is entirely fine utilizing as a primary energy source. Thus, if in a ketogenic state (or on a strict ketogenic diet), the body isn't being starved, just consuming stored energy reserves.

Am I oversimplifying the concept?
Why can't you just buy the cable channels you want, instead of a bundle? Because they want to be able to show a certain number of subscribers to their advertisers, and selling subscriptions / bundles gives them that number.

A magazine contains ads between the articles, and that's where most of the revenue comes from. If you just bought one article, where would the ads go?

Selling a subscription gives some stability and ability to forecast revenues, and hire the right number of writers, sign leases, pay pensions, etc. Selling articles individually would lead to wildly varying and unpredictable income, and lead to the worst imaginable kinds of clickbait.
This was back in 5.1 and I haven't really played around with 5.3 at all. I did kind of remember reading true integers were coming to lua at some point, hence why in my post I wasn't sure if it was still the case.
Even if unions are affecting no change, their are able to give the workers at least some power.

Who knows, maybe they'll make Amazon to allow unmetered bathroom breaks one day.
There are essentially two types of economic regulation. Blacklist regulation and whitelist regulation. Whitelist regulation works like an elevator, or more accurately, an airplane. You can reason over it, and speculate over the effects of adding new items to the list. It is a constrained problem. The blacklist style results in more innovation, but also more chaos.

Hayek may not have realized this himself, but he was certainly talking about the blacklist style when he said this. In further support of this idea, the repeal of Glass-Steagal, which precipitated the 2008 crisis, essentially moved the investment banking system from a whitelist to a blacklist, and the result of this, was a bunch of insurance companies maximizing their correlated risk through a convoluted series of loopholes because that is always the goal of a limited liability enterprise. This was the event that made the equations invalid.
>So the US, Europe and others could agree to ban it at the same time.

Ah yes, like how the US and Europe agreed to ban drugs? How's that working for them?
I had no issue donating to Signal.

I use the Privacy app and generated a merchant specific credit card for Signal. This is the best way I have found to do online transactions. You don't even need to use your actual name or address when making a payment to a merchant since Privacy acts as a proxy for you. https://privacy.com
I always laugh when vinyl is described as more “pure”. There’s nothing more pure than math, and that’s digital PCM audio. Sure, it’s stored as discreet samples, but that’s not how it comes out of speakers. The digital->analog converter will give you 1:1 perfect representation of the original waveform as long as you sample at 2x the highest frequency desired and there’s a low-pass filter in place.
Never said you need an exotic model to build a product nor that you couldn't do exotic things in fast.ai. Fast.ai is just a leaky abstraction.
> isolated abuses

It's not isolated abuses, it's a feature of unions.
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Well that's a convoluted mess. Here is the game plan on the other side of the bargaining table:

- Conspire with others to not pay top talent market rate and not poach employees

- The end.
I'm really not that knowledgeable about the alternatives. I would say that this is a very rudimentary form of IRC in terms of functionalities, but with encrypted connection between the nodes and making it easy for a user to run its own node. It offers a basic video conferencing feature as well.
Voting this down is nonsense. It is useful contextual information explaining why some people make the claims they do.

The groupthink runs deep; people who don't even understand what they're downvoting. Sad.
Were there any police reports? Was he arrested for battery? Honestly it's pure hearsay otherwise. We can't really be expected to take the word of jilted ex lovers at face value, sorry.
That's the thing, they make it so that the results aren't too good.

For example bumble promotes profiles that are new in an area. In theory that sounds good, if you move somewhere it gives you a little help meeting people. In practice, this means that a huge number of profiles I see are just people at the airport. It also means that I get most of my matches when I'm traveling. This way Bumble gives me the dopamine hit of getting multiple matches per day (which never happens at home for me), while reducing the risk I'll get into an actual relationship and leave their service.

That, plus their shady handling of user email addresses, has gotten me to prefer other apps
This is a really dark interpretation and I think doesn't fully consider the facts on the ground. Such cameras are liable to capture minutes per day of footage from a tiny minority of individuals conspicuously holding up their phones and talking to an agent.

Statistically probably zero minutes of your life will be captured by parties using this annually while you are constantly captured on security cameras everywhere you go in public.

Your concern is approximately like a gut shot individual worrying if they might or might not get a splinter.
It is possible that it avoids having the Signal Foundation fail the public support test, usually a requirement that a public charity receive at least 1/3 of their donation revenue from donors giving less than 2% of the nonprofit's overall receipts. Failing this would cause the foundation to be a private foundation.
"misinformation" is the new term to introduce different reality.
Probably not much -- the main win is not having to fsync files unrelated to your work, which is great for desktops which run multiple unrelated tasks (browser, terminals, rss readers, email clients, steam/game updates, package downloads). But I have to imagine SQL databases are typically run on systems dedicated to that singular task.
Go work there and then tell me they're not exploited.

Edit: This was flippant because I was annoyed. There are a lot of people who work in well-paying jobs and have never really experienced what the labor that enables their relatively privileged lifestyle actually feels like. They often weigh in with "well, get a better job" but not only is that not an option for everyone, it means you're devaluing absolutely critical work. The snobbery among people who fail to see that is aggravating.
Yes, Lua 5.1 was a very good version. Lua 5.2 made some significant changes in how global variables work, which lead to a split between Lua and LuaJIT [1][2]. Lua 5.3, with true integer support [3] and some UTF-8 support made for a compelling reason to update. Lua 5.4 is out now with support for a more deterministic way to release resources.

I think LuaJIT being mostly stuck with Lua 5.1 is a cause for the lack up uptake on more modern versions of Lua.

[1] Mike Pall, creator of LuaJIT, disagreed with the direction that Lua 5.2 went and remained with Lua 5.1 semantics.

[2] I personally found Lua 5.2 a "meh" version and didn't bother upgrading.

[3] Including some functions to pack and unpack integers and floats into strings, in both big-endian and little-endian formats.
Other people getting their employer to pay them more doesn't harm you. There are already people in warehouses that make that much. The warehouse I used to work started at $18 (for general labor, and like double that for mechanics and machine operators) and that was a decade ago.
>"Bad for their business model" because Amazon has tremendous power

this goes to the question of history, are things structurally so determined that if you remove someone or something from history another would rise to take their place. If Amazon had not existed to take advantage of open source like this would someone arise to do it? I have to think yes, it would be bound to happen eventually, it's a weakness in the model and would be exploited by someone, and when it was exploited people would respond by doing sort of like what is happening now.

If Amazon was not here, someone would be making the history of open source exploitation rhyme.
https://app.element.io/ -> click "create account" -> create account. The default is for a matrix.org account which is totally fine for anyone who can't/won't dig deeper.
My mum is such an aunt, she makes no secret of often being baffled by her smart phone, she doesn't know all the right words, but she's curious, she tries, and really appreciates apps that are easy to use, with her in mind.
The most recent drama was about a researcher having her quitting ultimatum called by a manager. It wasn’t anything to do with sexual harassment or anything about underpaid or unsafe workplaces.
yep was a FW HW issue: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18184#event-420318...
The Internet is not broken
delays not cancels..

Either ways, my WhatsApp was deleted yesterday, FB early last year...

Now I just need to wean off of Google...
That is by design, really. The working poor in this country have been ideologically divided by moral wedges such as abortion for decades now. Few poor republicans and poor democrats would like to admit that they are in the same economic boat, and as a result typically the former votes against their own economic interest on the grounds of their moral principles.

For the wealthy in this country, the political footballism is the perfect machine to ensure their position on the economic ladder remains at it's lofty heights, and inequality continues to widen by the year. I really don't think republicans like Mitch McConnel care at all about an issue like abortion, they just use it to drum up votes from their base in order to further their economic policy goals.