skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the one for coronary disease?

"Total coffee consumption was not associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease or stroke." Are you even trying here?

> but that doesn't really detract from my overall point

Would anything? It is looking to me that, in your mind, nothing would detract from your overall point. That, to your self, your ideas are inviolate. Which is my overall point, and which our continued discussion has only strengthened.

> all-cause mortality

My very first comment referenced all-cause mortality, and I have be consistent this entire time. It's quite O.K. to have goal posts, and I haven't moved them at all.

> I think my broader point stands.

I'll take "I'm right because I say I'm right even though I'm wrong for $1000 Alex". I mean you didn't even blink when your link that you provided supported my point rather than yours? I don't get how you didn't pause for even a second to think "What if I'm the one wrong here?".
He seems like an amazing guy and that we need more people like him in tech, esp in leadership positions. However, I'm not sure why he was so against monetization. If whatsapp was still an independent company, they would have to monetize somehow. Why cannot FB monetize? As a user of whatsapp I wouldn't even care if the showed ads in big group chats. As long as there would be zero tracking or leaking of data and ads would be solely based on location and maybe chat info.
Reminds me of the Ratatouille monologue

> In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau’s famous motto: Anyone can cook. But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau’s, who is, in this critic’s opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau’s soon, hungry for more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout maybe?
Because it sounds like you aren't acquainted, Drew Magary is an ex Deadspin writer where his common articles were, basically this. He's basically a man who has been paid for at bare minimum the last 8 years of his life, probably longer, to write needlessly aggressive rants about the most trivial of things (In his past sportswriter life it was The St. Louis Cardinals), or anecdotes about his daily life that people care about a whole lot less than he thinks they do. He's a one trick pony, and his one trick isn't actually good.

I appreciate OP for putting his name in the title so I would know enough not to click the link, not that anything written by him belongs on this site in the first place. It's the equivalent intellectual stimulation of an Adam Sandler comedy.
>I'll believe it when I see it. I could believe them getting rid of the touchbar, but bringing back magsafe?

They already brought it back in the sense of reusing the trademark for their snap-on charging.

They might want to expand on the use of the name, plus it's removal has often been lamented by users and in reviews.

The new magsafe might even be similar to the iPhone/iPad tech (e.g. one can imagine it snap to the back of the screen).
If "hella" is 10^27 then clearly "hecka" would be the correct name for 10^-27.
His car had to wait 13 years at customs before the law passed btw, despite all his influence.
Agreed, I had to explain to my friends (some even lawyers, who felt very strongly about this) what this change actually entailed regarding message encryption.
Kraken has margin trading, which allows you to hold negative positions in BTC. However, this means you are borrowing the BTC that you're selling, and the interest on that is rather high (0.01% per 4 hours). You also need to keep EUR or USD as collateral in the account to cover potential losses when the price goes up.
> you will feel wildly uncomfortable long before any of these are extreme enough to seriously impact your health.

Radiation, disease, drugs (chemical poisoning), falling, can all pass the point of inevitable death before you notice that they are a problem.

People frequently die unnecessarily of heart attacks, because they don't realise that the symptoms merit an urgent response.
> Many cloud providers use KVM-the-kernel-module, but an in-house replacement for QEMU.

Which are typically closed source, which is quite a shame.
I guess it wasn't Durable.
Why is the abandonment of users for WhatsApp not generating the same kind of death knell articles like the M1 is doing to Intel that we have seen recently? Are there more people with a vested interest in shorting Intel than there are for Facebook?

If so many users have switched to Signal in such a short time span that it brought the Signal infrastructure to its knees, you would assume there would by naysayers climbing over each other about the end of WhatsApp. If they are there, they have not made it into my news feeds, yet.
I wonder how many users they’ve lost for this shift to happen. On what metric is it based?
Right, but reducing the number of ops wouldn't get you there, that just adds more branches in the critical path as the same amount of functionality needs to be overloaded.
>Here's an alternate solution to that problem: build a laptop with 20 hours of battery so that people aren't sitting on the couch with their laptop on the coffee table and a power cord dangling across the living room floor.

That's a non-solution, since a large majority of the people will use the laptop on their office desk/home desktop, and prefer to have it plugged in while so.
Germany still pays for SMS, nobody here uses MMS because its so expensive.
Phew. I hope this means Signal gets back to normal soon.

Also, Signal should introduce some kind of paid subscription with a few critically important qualities:

1. Anonymous payment that binds subscriptions to users without retaining anything about who paid. Like a prepaid GSM SIM. All Signal needs to know is that the current terminal uses a paid subscription.

2. Ability to buy a cheaper bulk/family bundle. I use Signal to talk to family and close friends and would like to pay for myself and my parents, at the very least.

3. Price it differently in different countries. $1 in India is as heavy as $10 in US. This is super mega important.

4. Setup dedicated servers for subscription users with a much better service level. The service collapse that happened today should not happen again. There should also be an option for a fully encrypted backup that Signal cannot decrypt just on the server side to store personal conversation logs.
Hmm not trying to flame the fire, but it's kind of coincidental that the day Whatsapp delays the privacy change is the same day Signal servers are down.
Yeah you can parade around with dirty underwear on your face and it’s completely acceptable. It’s both comical and sad that people treat any crappy face covering as some kind of immunity and any pretense of social distancing is gone.
I love what you did here. Great mnemonic!
Talking about tone deaf...that blog granted with a cookie popup, regardless of firefox tracking protection, a plethora ublock plugins, AND the "I don't care about cookies" FF plugin (I have Forget Me Not in the background)
Wow, this is quite upsetting.
I make way more in my unionised engineering role than I did previously working at a multinational software firm, and more importantly when I have problems with the company I have access to support and legal advice. Making bank working on software is great until the company starts to stuff you around, or some executive takes a dislike to you
I'm not the guy you were talking to. I'm a third party explaining your interaction to you.
That's just objectively false. Look at all the cases of sexual harassment coming out where the perpetrator had been doing it for decades to dozens of people without any consequences.

Getting sexual harassment claims taken seriously is an uphill battle and often harms the careers of the people who complain.
I love this collective blitzkrieg against Whatsapp & Facebook.

90s called and we want our internet back. Now I hope that we will see a revival of the simplicity of the 90s, where the power is handed back to the people, where you could write desktop apps using Visual Basic and write a webpage in HTML with frames.
Probably due to the blackout provisions of the contracts to carry hometown sports.
The word “dumping” in this context is a well defined term, not a colloquial English word.

Making cheap products from cheap materials (at a presumed profit) isn’t the same as loss-making pricing schemes even if the high level motivation to beat competitors is the same.
Covid Lockdowns May Have No Clear Benefit vs. Other Voluntary Measures
Yep, I think consistency is key here...

Especially when it's used as an embedded language in a C/C++ app, or an additional Lua API alongside other APIs that exist already.

Having to convert back and forth between 0 and 1 based indices is very annoying, and error-prone. You can make helper methods to abstract some of it, but that only gets you so far, and it's annoying (at least I found it that way) having to context switch your brain depending on what part of the call stack you're looking at.
Assuming we establish communication relays between the Earth and Moon, Moon dwellers would probably be able to use the internet (albeit probably with a laggy connection by Earth standards). While remote socialization during the pandemic has been far from ideal, I think our last year's experience collectively has proven that socializing digitally is somewhat possible and might prevent (or at least mitigate) the worst effects of isolation.

If there are any physicists/engineers reading this that have the appropriate expertise to potentially work on something like it, I'd be super curious to hear your thoughts about how it could work.

Assuming we're supporting a Moon colony of nontrivial scale (~100 people maybe?), what would the experience of connecting to Earth's internet be like for the colonists? What infrastructure would we need to create to make it possible and/or improve it?
Keeping a few theoretical physicists to develop paradigms to calculate things, but firing anyone who would use those paradigms to calculate things. Yeah, great plan, I'm sure that will be helpful.

Citations are heavily biased towards papers that open questions, and against papers that answer questions. Compare the value of a paper that uses a new technique to answer one question to the value of a paper that uses established techniques to answer a thousand questions. The former will get many citations, but the latter is the one you'd want to read, most likely, if you wanted answers to questions.
"This means we will always protect your personal conversations with end-to-end encryption"
/ https://blog.whatsapp.com/giving-more-time-for-our-recent-up... /

Why is "personal" present in that sentence?

EDIT

Finally, here's the real reason for the changes:

> "While not everyone shops with a business on WhatsApp today, we think that more people will choose to do so in the future and it’s important people are aware of these services."

My wife recently started to complain about the new instagram UI and that there are shops _everywhere_, and that the UI has reorganised buttons so people will find themselves at shops if they follow muscle memory.

Apparently that's the future of WhatsApp.
best site I've seen to track global vaccine distribution. Its quite amazing that the US is injecting 844k doses per day.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
At my job, there is a problem that's classically solved with a bunch of regexps and run of the mill text parsing.

The ML experts in my company keep telling me maintaining these regexps is too costly dev wise, and that they can use ML to adapt to changes in the real world, and get a better result faster.

After nearly a year of work, buying some fancy new computers with giant GPUs, and countless meetings to describe the problem space, they have something that's around 60-70% as accurate as the current state of the art, and say they're close to closing the gap.

Meanwhile I add a new regexp or tweak an existing one and cause them to go back to the drawing board because I've "changed the entire problem description".

Sometimes I feel like I want the job where the only criteria is that I'm using the fancy new toys. It seems like more fun.
Just donated as well :)
WhatsApp had a $1 annual fee and 400M users prior to FB acquisition. Just FYI.
can you explain more about the alias feature? what makes it special? Because I think this could be a killer feature as I have that exact same problem when signing up to websites
The First Reason Why JavaScript Is Better Than Java
Here's an experiment you can try at home. It doesn't prove that humans or frogs won't notice extreme temperatures, but it does show that it would be reasonable to believe that it's conceivable that some animal can only detect relative temperature.

1. Prepare three bowls of water, one cold (but bearable), one hot (but bearable), and one lukewarm.

2. Place one hand in the cold water, and the other hand in the hot water.

3. Wait a minute or two.

4. Place both hands in the lukewarm water at the same time.

5. WTF, is this hot or is it cold?
that's some technical pov, lol
Cast(l): Compile JavaScript to Lua
So, Threema?
Wash, rinse, repeat.. the FB MO
You just load up the map for the kind of lobotomy you want to simulate and say good bye to loneliness.
I have a dual boot machine with windows 7 on it. I boot into windows about once a year to try something or another.

The machine is from 2013 and was pretty good back then, Latitude laptop with a Core i5 and 8GB ram. I still use it regularly as a personal linux laptop.

Getting to my point, this laptop is still good enough for normal use 8 years after I got it, and even if i was a daily windows users, what reason would i have to try and install windows 10? So it doesnt surprise me that many just keep the version their computer came with, and have kept their computers since windows 7 days.

Also, having just had to try windows 10, it really is a bad user experience compared to linux, mac, or windows 7, if nothing else because of added novelty for no reason. The only compelling thing about it for me is WSL, which I would definitely appreciate having on the same machine if I had a MS office heavy workflow.
Looks like your information is out of date by one hour.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25797229
The entire country should be united against the eastern district of Texas. It’s insane how much money and opportunity those idiots have cost the entire populace.
don't forget that you can use the Signal protocol in Skype with Skype Private Conversations and delete your own call metadata afterwards as well.

edit : which presumably drives licensing income from Microsoft to The Signal Foundation, which I am presuming is better than nothing and if like me you can start using Signal protocol for calling your family elders via Skype without friction, and I simultaneously create widespread adoption of the Signal protocol, I can't see any downside myself anyhow.

https://az705183.vo.msecnd.net/onlinesupportmedia/onlinesupp...
If that could be implemented fairly (scaling costs based on total revenue so small-time businesses aren't locked out of the system, without giving non-producers/patent trolls a free $0 patent) then that seems like a good compromise.
I often find I get better results from Google when I'm making purchasing decisions, identifying where I can buy a product locally or for a good price, which disappoints me because that's data I definitely don't want Google to have about me.
Alice Corp forbids patents for a normal, noncomputer action just taken on a computer (calculate interest, but on a computer!), but allows software patents otherwise.
> I can never remember the order of code names...

Me neither, don't worry about it :)

> I read something like "stretch or later"...

Well, they're really irresponsible if they're writing like that. All of the places I've seen, downloaded debs either write Debian 9+ or Debian 9+ (Stretch and later) or any similar fashion.

I didn't encounter any Debian $codename only compatibility notes. I also don't write $codename only readme files, etc.
Honestly, 10% is less than I would have thought, and is something I’d trade in a heartbeat for greater benefits.
A bit of an aside but I had no idea you could set your status to a series of twenty images in whatsapp and I have no idea why this feature exists - granted I don't tend to non-professionally use messengers for communication so I'm a bit out of the loop.
What algo are you using to manage the trust system?
Can do it in 4 questions:

1. What do you need to protect?

2. What is the complete list of tech stack technologies it depends on?

3. What are you doing to protect that important thing today?

4. Who do you need to protect it from?

If you can't answer these, the answers to the rest of the questions really don't matter.
It just works.

I'm too lazy to deal with all the crap W10 in whichever incarnation brings.

It is very customised and locked down to basics, thus very minimal in resource usage, both memory and storage.

And it's not my main platform. I can dual-boot it natively, or the same install in a VM as needed.

I need to use some crappy applications which perform better under it, than on some Linux.

I don't like to have my strings pulled, and so on...

So...shrug?

Oh, yes, almost forgotten: It looks like Windows2000!1!! ;->
But this will not solve anything else about patents, there will be less reason to license them and such as the amount of time they can run for without any special income through the patent will be much less. Thus giving companies and inventors with a large capital a larger one up on the people that patents are also supposed to protect.
Chrome OS regularly uprevs the kernel. And updates drivers etc with it. Most of these are open source.
I've seen it theorized that SteamOS was less a flop and more a shot across Microsoft's bow that had the intentional effect. It briefly seemed like a war was brewing over the Windows Store or the Steam Store being the main outlet for PC game purchases, particularly games developed by MS studios. Seems that all but disappeared when the Steam Machine came out.
ConsenSys is hiring JavaScript Engineer
> "I've had crappy manual jobs" and "I've been in a situation where crappy manual jobs were my only viable option" are very different situations.

?? Why would anyone work a crappy manual job if it weren't their only viable option?

Like, I'm sure there are exceptions but it seems unusual, since if you have better options, you'll pursue those instead.
> If whatsapp was still an independent company, they would have to monetize somehow.

No, they wouldn't. This thinking is what has lead the world where it is.

Say you have 2 billion (10^9) users paying $1 per year. You follow inflation. That's 2 billion a year. That covers a lot of workforce, and a lot of servers.

This idea of infinite growth boggles me - how can people with math background insist on such impossible thought?
Still there is this weird cognitive dissonance amongst software engineers in non-FANG companies that union is somehow bad and that preventing people working over the weekend for free is detrimental to the industry.
I know that but it's not that they had $400M in revenue. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25666270

FB never charged for whatsapp for a good reason.
Biden appoints MIT geneticist Eric Lander as science adviser
You say “tone deaf”.

I say “manipulative and evil”.
Like others have said - I think the documentation glosses over how the "rerender" function totally and drastically changes this from a "React alternative" to "backbone with JSX".

The point of React is not the JSX, but rather the unidirectional data flow and automatic re-renders due to prop changes -- essentially modelling your application as a "state machine" and eschewing the need for a "view model" or manual synchronization of DOM state to application state.

With the "rerender" function I fear any nontrivial application will devolve back into the tangled web of event listeners we left behind when moving to React.

Personally - I think a library like this is only useful for a very narrow audience: people with an affinity for JSX that are only building webpages (not web "apps") with some basic progressive enhancement features that can be kept track of pretty easily.

I don't mean to be overly negative here - I just suggest that you alter the documentation to be more clear about the differences/limitations when compared to react. The existing docs/example is almost (unintentionally, I'm sure) misleading in my opinion.
A macOS Node.js module/app that generates a random Google Street View desktop wallpaper.

https://github.com/mhulse/kludgy

Note: I have not ran this code for some months now, but last time I ran it, it worked OK.

I had a lot of fun building it and reverse-engineering the Google street view API was a good challenge. Overall, it was quite a bit of work.

https://github.com/mhulse/kludgy/wiki/History

(This is my first post here, but I read this on Hacker news newsletter and thought I'd share.)
That's a bug bounty programme, which I agree is useful but not quite what I was talking about.
> but part of being the elite, successful few is being able to garner that support, whether through personality, luck, etc.

Exactly. I have to agree with this. The top players rise to the top.
That’s more dependent on language syntax IMO. When you have traditional C-style loops, maybe. When you use ranges, iterators etc. it doesn’t make any difference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CvErhrFwuo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE8XmHAP4j4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAK5DZwrS70

For each BLM case there is a one or more similar for other ethnicities with all video evidence that gets no further media coverage and no justice to the victims.
The cooling system would need to work in a very minimal atmosphere.
Lua it's very popular on routers because it's using on some device vendors like Linksys and some opensource distributions like OpenWRT
we've been at this for two+ years and making a ton of progress but it's been a continuous, unfunded slog, and we continuously think "maybe it's better to just shut things down and join an already funded startup?"

but then the people work with us tell us how important our work is to them / the community and it encourages us to push through... it's kind of bittersweet
> It is particularly unclear what probative value the PTO proceedings have in light of the fact that invalidity is not an issue in this case.

How can invalidity possibly not be a factor?
Apple had to set up Facetime proxy servers because a company had a patent on what was essentially “direct communication between two devices on the internet”.

Amazon’s patent on “one-click” buying.

Just utter nonsense that any company would be allowed to hold such a patent.

Apologies: I’m mobile rn and would otherwise research the actual details, but it really gets me riled up and I had to comment without citations.
But we've addressed this repeatedly, with submarine crews, Antarctic populations, iceberg outposts. It's manageable.
M1 Macs no longer able to install iOS apps not available in the Mac App Store
Drones can detect Covid-19 from the sky and sanitize surfaces
The customer/product is always wrong!
Lua was mine too, also via games. I’d installed custom firmware on my PSP and after getting my fill of emulators and rampant piracy, I wanted to see if I could make a game. Getting the C-based toolchain working was far beyond 12yo me at the time, but there was a “Lua Player” homebrew application that would load scripts off the memory stick.

I didn’t get far with it and to be honest I remember very little, but it did set me off down the rabbit hole of learning to program, and now it’s both my career and a big passion.
Even if you downloaded all ads in advance and ran all the logic client side, basing ads on chat info would inevitably leak information if the ad was ever clicked.
ext4 is getting better just as Fedora has moved to Btrfs