skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, my entire EU rolodex has shifted from WhatsApp to Telegram and Signal over the past month.

Now, my friends-and-neighbors lean heavily towards the software industry, so this most likely does not translate immediately across WhatsApp's entire EU user base.

On the other hand, software people tend to be on the leading edge of new trends in technology.

Europeans tend to care a lot more about privacy than their American counterparts, and I doubt that Facebook's rather ham-fisted approach towards EU markets and their associated regulators is going to play well in the medium-to-long term.
You don’t think the governor completely shutting down restaurants for months on end[1] has anything to do with that?

[1] Without evidence that outdoor spread is a meaningful risk at all, I’ll add
US got its initial Latino population from conquering bits of Mexico; and while in the US Latinos were a separate ethnic group from Anglos, the internal "racial" divisions in Mexican society between criollos and mestizos were important enough to collect data on.

(And criollos considered themselves "white" and were unlikely to mark themselves as "Hispanic" if it were presented as a separate option.)

US ethnic relations are weird.
I wonder how much the Steam release for Dwarf Fortress will help that? Tarn is explicitly focusing on a default iconset and better UI, although the release date is set as "time is subjective"...
Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
My impression is that the author is analyzing the successful social networks. Think about all the ones that died in the process of Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, etc getting to where they are? All of those lacked ways to "building social capital through signaling".

I might be wrong though, didn't put a lot of thought on it, but friendster, orkut, myspace, and many others were not quite as good in signaling or proof of x as the ones that are now well stablished.
Some really interesting perspectives from that half of the political sphere lately:

"Yes, it's rewriting history, but it's for a good reason!"
"Yes, it's censorship, but it's for a good reason!"
"Yes, it's deplatforming and dehumanizing half the population, but it's for a good reason!"
"Yes, it's removing and limiting the rights we've enjoyed for hundreds of years, but it's for a good reason!"
"Yes, it's treating people differently based on the color of their skin again, but it's for a good reason!"
"Yes, we're hiring people based on the color of their skin rather than their ability, but it's for a good reason!"
"Yes, we're accepting people into college based on the color of their skin, but it's for a good reason!"
and so on...

Every evil regime thought and were constantly told they had a good reason for what they were doing. It wasn't like they were a bunch of evil people that wanted to do evil. They always were given the justification, the "good reason" for doing evil. They thought they were doing it for a good reason. They were never able to disconnect themselves from the brainwashing and really just actually look at what the factual reality of what they were doing was.

I don't care how much "good reason" you think you have, it doesn't make censorship not censorship, or racist policies not racist policies, or rewriting history anything but something straight out of 1984.

"We are not in the business of rewriting the past, but we want to update the record" - stuff like this just oozes doublespeak.
To me, the two most important symbols in a programming font are the 0O vs 1l.

I've been using the same 2 fonts for maybe five years and recently got confused looking at a lowercase "L" or a one (1).

Cool website.
Paywall workaround: https://archive.is/wHV3C
Measured in milliseconds typically.
> why programmers and code editing software they normally use stuck to the typewriter/punchcard mindset as far as code formatting and the choice of fonts are concerned...

Because computers used to display exclusively in monospaced fonts and coding adapted to that, including use of character position in lines for visual alignment. There've been more recent moves away from that (both elastic tabstops and indent-only-and-never-align are approaches) but they haven't become universal so if you ever deal with code that isn't from a tightly controlled group with practices against position-based-alignment, you are going to run into code that uses it.
I went through and read your comments on full nodes, and I don't believe you have addressed the issue of UASFs nor have you addressed topics like privacy, trustlessness, and self determination. Most anyone who can afford to do hobby computing can run a full node. You miss the point of crypto networks unless you realize that the people are the network.
Both XNU and Windows have a decent amount of C++ in it.

Sure, people avoid some parts of C++, however there is a reason why they use C++.
Tempest? Ok... decent read, not about the Utah teapot.
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A group of my tech-unsavvy friends were enraged by the privacy policy update and decided to move from Whatsapp too, but decided to move to telegram instead, in spite of me warning that telegram is not encrypted and that if privacy was your concern you should consider signal. I bet they didn't read the privacy notice update and I wouldn't be surprised if they got their information from some Whatsapp forward that misinformed them about the actual contents of the privacy update, ironically.
Turns out there's a lot of misguided and uninformed people too perhaps worse off now than when they used Whatsapp in terms of privacy considering telegram isn't end to end encrypted.
Totally agree. I had a couple groups which were moved from WhatsApp to Telegram and they work great. So I’m aware (and happy) this happens but also I’m that kind of special early-adopter user who cares about things that non-tech users don’t.

This is something I want to highlight. I know we’re not all product managers but as people working in tech we should be able to take different perspectives and understand that what matters to us doesn’t matter at all for the 99% of the people outside our tech world.
also https://briskreader.com/link/pIjwTjcMgRo
This sounds like a great idea, how long until you allow people to have a peek at it? Any plans for a beta tester program or anything like that?
I am so thankful for that unicode change. 2.x's unicode was a problem for me.
Looks like a phishing attempt to me: “download this binary to order burritos”!
I am going to buy a new car soon and I think it will be the last time gasoline will be available for me. I'm going 4x4 so there's not much EV options.
I would imagine that, pre-COVID & WFH, the salary to housing ratio would probably be worse, though. Tourism jobs, particularly seasonal ones, don't pay all that well.
Sure, but the first polar launch from Florida since 1969 happened this August on a Falcon 9, so they do have a role in making this a reality.

Did anyone else fly that trajectory actually since August or is it SpaceX only so far ?
Afaik landlords & property managers can/do use criminal records services screens before renting though.

(No need to downvote this observation...)
It doesn't offend me, it just isn't related to the point I was making. You replied to me as if that sort of test is relevant and I don't think it is. The analogy to bash is similarly not suitable for this kind of argument - bash has never had any ambition to be a general purpose programming language, perl very much did. Unfortunately for perl, perl's own efforts in that regard pretty much eliminated the possibility of that ever happening. Python's trajectory hasn't been that, even with the travails of the 2/3 transition.

'look at how perl did things!' is just a really strange approach in a discussion about the Python 2/3 thing. That operation was successful, the patient died.
https://papermau.blogspot.com/2016/05/commodore-pet-2001-pap...
> Network effect is the moat that is insurmountable according to those that believe big tech should be regulated like a utility.

The network effect in messaging apps is significantly lower than it is in other cases because people are not going to carry two brands of cell phone in their pocket but they very well might have five different messaging apps on their phone.

> It seems less clear that the market can deliver a solution for people that post untrue things on the internet.

It seems less clear that anything could do that ever.
I am of the opinion to be able to change names frequently (lawfully ofcourse). The problem is if you try to change jobs or buy a house, even though its legal to change your name, the system is designed with a constant identity.
> As a french person I object to this. It's all about culture, not face features.

I mean... yes? "Ethnicity" is a cultural category, not a genetic one. Specifically, its boundaries are socially-constructed, and the US is unusual in constructing said boundaries mostly around blood-quantum and hypodescent rules. e.g. the distinction between "Arab", "Jewish", "Circassian", &c ethnicities in Israeli identity documents is based on the specific criteria of those groups.
99$ for 3 bottles from American Airlines a month? I'm struggling to understand who the target market is.
keep in mind a lot of body builders will also do unhealthy things to reach their aesthetic goals, like steroids.

congratulations on your cut
$50,000 in sales? How could that possibly be worth it for them.

Yes, I know the article says they "want to engage with customers", but that's hardly enough money to make that worthwhile.
I don't really want to go through a whole sex analogy for consent, but suffice to say that "they consented once at the very beginning without an actual understanding of what was going to happen but it's fine because they're already assuming the worst case scenario" would get one thrown in jail.
Oh well as long as buzzfeed claims there are links it’s ok to call someone a white nationalist
As a Torontonian living in SF I was amazed at the high quality of produce and dismayed at the low quality of restaurant food, even at $15-$25 per meal.
With the ActivityPub plugin (this one to be specific: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/), your WordPress site implements the underlying ActivityPub protocols and becomes an Actor that can be subscribed to by other ActivityPub installations.

Other CMS plugins may be worth looking into, or it may be worth looking into having your favorite CMS implement these protocols directly.
> the execution was so out of touch it's bizarre

This more or less describes Facebook's entire corporate ethos at this point. Almost all of their products are now clearly driven by PMs who are so focused on random metrics that they make various awful tweaks to the UX, all of which are clearly intended to drive some metric.

Case in point 1: Instagram replacing the "notifications" counter with a link to their "shopping" function that no one wants or uses.

Case in point 2: Trying to add a GIF on Facebook messenger opens up another entry point to Rooms, the video chat. No one is going to start a video chat from the keyboard, Facebook. (Then again, I'll bet 0.5% of users accidentally started one, so the metric is up! Ship it!)
Serious question, what exactly does a smart fridge do for you? Unlike with other appliances like stoves, I usually don’t interact with my fridge other than to put food in, or take it out. Do people change the temperature in their fridges often?
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You don't lose consistent indentation at all with proportional fonts (N-leading-spaces provides a consistent horizontal position.) You do lose consistent non-indent alignment (N-leading space plus M-other characters doesn't consistently result in the same horizontal position for constant N+M, or even constant N and M, M>0.)

For python, this is not a problem, as consistent indentation is important, but alignment is not (I use proportional fonts for Python and YAML all the time, and the only problem is how annoying the ASCII Art labels someone put in some of our YAML are without consistent alignment.)
For what it's worth I think you are wrong. Decentralization is a complicated technology that needs a lot longer to mature than I think most people realize. But once it is mature - and we're getting close, imo just a few years left - it'll move way faster and more efficiently than the centralized world ever did.

In many ways it feels like decentralization is the same as discovering the internal combustion engine before modern alloys existed. We have to invent a lot of extra stuff to make decentralization practical, and we will, but the vision definitely started many steps ahead of the technological progress.
I used vfio to boot a accelerated windoes vm for a bit. It worked well and was fast.

But. I hated giving up a entire monitor to Windows.

What I want is to be able to come and go from windoes. And run windoes in a window, where it belongs.
Social media aggregators intended to post messages to many clients have been tried before, but they have consistently failed because the social media companies, notably Twitter, changed their APIs to frustrate the possibility.
I find it strange that this article defines relaxing zoning codes as "progressive." I suppose that the author is writing for an audience that equates "progressive" and "good" but in any other context supporting strict regulation that restricts property rights isn't really "conservative."
Russia and Israel track "ethnicity" based on, respectively, self-identification and the internal membership rules of each ethnic group.
All of Facebook’s moves have been tone deaf for quite some time, perhaps intentionally so. I think they see themselves as too big to fail. It also seems like there’s something factional going on, the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing.
Residential and commercial are completely different problems. If that restaurant tried to move locations, they'd experience the same problem as a new one opening: you start paying rent immediately and wait years for city permits and approvals before opening. When tenants can't leave, landlords can charge whatever they want.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bi...

Also, ya know, covid shut downs.
Back in ~1969 they did drop stages on Cuba IIRC.

Other than that no one really drops stages on neighbors - China drops them on their own (evacuated) villages on land and other rockets are often designed the way they are due to the need of not dropping stages on people - Shavit launching westwards or PSLV/GSLV staging in a specific way to avoid dropping stages on some inhabitted islands.
Alan Kay's vision of computing sounds a lot like Ethereum. Self-sufficient objects with their own URLs communicating and interacting with each other to form larger units. He was convinced this was the only way to scale large complex software systems.
I think the major threat to WhatsApp is not their ToS debacle but by national governments of countries like India or Australia. I imagine if Indian govt asks them to not enforce this ToS and WhatsApp does not oblige then comes a scenario where it can be blocked and all the govt needs to do is ask its citizens to start using Signal because except for the network effects, there is nothing in WhatsApp that can not be match feature wise in Signal.
Here's the thing: I don't want to work in UTF8. I want to work in Unicode. Big difference. Because tracking the encoding of my strings would increase complexity. So at the earliest convenience, I validate my assumptions about encoding and let a lower layer handle it from then on.

I understand you're arguing about some sort of equivalency between byte-arrays and Unicode strings. Sure there are half-baked ways to do word-splitting on a byte-array. But why do you consider that a viable option? Under what circumstances would you do that?
How to Monitor Wind Speed with MQTT
Once I failed to control the drone because of the wind, I want to measure the wind speed to know whether it is suitable for the drone flight in the wild. How to measure the wind speed in the field and be viewed anywhere? It requires the MQTT communication to get the speed of wind.

In this project, I want to simply introduce the MQTT and show how to build an MQTT network to get the wind speed of a specific place.
There used to exist applications like this, at the time (i.e. the 90s) when apps didn't have automatic updates. What happens now is that the same company that runs the server and makes the official app updates them both at the same time to change the protocol, causing the app that supports all of them to break until they update it to support the new secret protocol. Then people stop using it because it's breaking all the time.
This reminds me of when I was trying to learn Latin. I used a book called Lingua Latina per se Illustrata. It was entirely in Latin but it started off with simple words which you'd understand due to it being in the Latin alphabet (obviously) which Western language speakers use, and it had illustrations to show you what was happening. People could eventually read larger Latin texts from going through the Lingua Latina series of books.
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This has the distinct flavor of a Kaizen approach to continuous improvement. Well done! Love the idea of using shortcuts for this. I learnt. Thank you.
No by all means, make random claims and don't back them up! It's a much better use of everyone's time
Didn’t know rich gated communities were all about up-zoning.
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In major cities in the US it absolutely has, even given the decreased interest rate.
My personal theory is that FB managers have been seeing complaints for years without a lot of follow through, and this has led them to believe that customer complaints were either overblown, or that they were too important for people to actually quit.

That or product got tunnel vision again. Wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened.
I am curious about the phrase ‘little village, big hell.’ What does it mean, exactly?
Put it this way: claim a use-case you believe the unicode view does better on than an array of bytes. Since you're making the positive claim, this should be easy.

I guarantee you there will be a quick counterexample to demonstrate that the claimed use-case is incorrect. There always is.

You may review the gish gallop in the other branch of this thread for inspiration.
> It feels like gone are the days of a person passionate about some culinary niche or ensuring their workers get a livable wage following through on that passion and filling the city with new and interesting food options.

They will be relegated to food trucks. Although this sounds like an issue with expensive cities in general.
Greed motivates corporations to try to provide people with what they demand. It can be channeled for good if consumers inform themselves about what products/services better their lives and actively choose them in the market.

The growth of the health food market - or at least some subcategories of it which are genuinely healthy - would be an example of this happening.
Nice to meet you, indeed. My family is Mexican and I haven't seen them eat these tacos yet.
I have really bad news about how federated email is in practice. It turns out if gmail rejects you as a source of “spam”, you’re dead as an email provider.
NVLink is part of OpenCAPI since version 3... in fact OpenCAPI 3 is based on it.
Been using DDG and just discovered this search engine. It works pretty well. You can add it to firefox with this extension: "add custom search engine"
The starship design evolved quite a lot since October 2019 when this Arthas published. Was it even to be made of steel back then?
The dose makes the poison. The universal nature drastically increases the proportion, from a single-digit minority to a majority approaching 99%, who stand to benefit from increased redistribution. From there it's a spiral to complete redistribution.
-$50,000 is probably less than an ad on CNN.com would have cost, so I guess they come out ahead.
I was hoping these would be functional models. Since you can probably cram an Esp32 or Pi Zero into these cases and run an emulator at native speed, you can create semi-functional replicas of old computers: https://3dprint.com/48212/3d-print-retro-apple/
HN is written in Paul Graham's Arc language, specifically, a language built in Racket.
Thinking of housing markets in general, should existing residents be allowed to consider a city 'full' and ban additional housing units? Or should everybody have the right to live there, with a free market determining the price and number of new units built?
Where were you going? The SF restaurant scene is great
Matrix is far closer to being "the email for instant messaging" -- Signal-like double ratchet encryption by default for private rooms, federated in a similar way to email servers (but much simpler to manage as an admin), much nicer group chat UX, simpler identity key verification (it has Signal-like QR codes but it also has emojicode verification which is nice if you're not in the same place when doing verification), has an open specification, multiple client implementations, a couple of still-in-progress alternative server implementations, it even has bridges (which have pretty decent UX) to other social networks like IRC, Slack, Discord, and so on.

Signal is far from an open standard. I use it and am quite happy using it, but with the knowledge that Moxie has publicly said many times that he does not believe in federation or third party clients (and will implement client blocking as well as using trademark suits if the problem gets big enough). And it's fine to have that opinion, I just disagree with it and you shouldn't sell Signal as something the lead developer has said they're explicitly against.

For folks saying (read: hoping) that Signal may become federated in the future -- I think it's a much safer bet to just use Matrix since it's already federated and has at least equivalent privacy guarantees (or even larger if you self-host your own server) and hope that Signal will peer with them in the future (which I personally think is about as likely as Signal becoming federated itself -- namely, it's very unlikely either way). But you do you.
I guess the way I see it, computers have already changed every aspect of life.
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Every circumstance. Why do you consider it unviable? What problems do you think having a Unicode sequence solves?
Of course you can still contact them, but it will be harder and people will include you less in their conversations.

Whatsapp does a lot more than what regular sms does, including working video calls across platforms, working multi-person chats with file attachments, etc. Don’t say e-mail does this, it doesn’t, as you will need more than a phone number that you already have.

Here everybody asumes that you have it, if you don’t, you’re on your own. As an example, my communication with my car insurance company over an incident I’ve recently had is happening over Whatsapp.
The Planetary Society Lightsail 1 mission was a 3U cubesat and went down really quickly from LEO once it unfurled its solar sail - IIRC it basically multiplied its cross-section 300 times.
Maybe a trial. See how it goes and expand if it's successful.
I use a similar approach, but instead of TV, I use the build-in text to speech tool of Mac OS X (you can set up a keyboard shortcut[1] and then select any text and computer will read to you). I choose usually a longish-article, or sometimes a HN comments thread, and then a few minutes in I've dozed off.

It's a little tricky to choose the right length (i.e. not being awake enough to notice when it ends, but also not too long so it reads to me for hours).

I'm not sure if this is healthy... It works for me as a source of entertainment, but I can fall asleep without this too. I've heard that bringing a computer into the bedroom is definitely something not recommended for anyone seeking work-life balance.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem...