skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
light way, but not available everywhere: export the chats one by one, as per https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat...

Saves them as text files, copy them off the phone.

hard way: root the phone, copy the database, decrypt it with https://stackpointer.io/security/decrypt-whatsapp-crypt12-da... and the key on the phone. The decrypted db files are overengineered sqlite databases.
How does your product differ from MS SQL's integrated R, for someone who only needs MS SQL Server support?
What would be an example?
Back in the 1990s people would say things like "it's not about profits, it's about eyeballs", but of course you couldn't pay the rent with eyeballs. Yeah, getting attention is important, but only to the extent that the attention can be translated back into profits for someone else--sales, ad revenues, though votes and donations and getting people into the streets is a return for those seeking political power.
I started getting messages from Indeed on Whatsapp that I never signed up for. It was tolerable tbh (I'm looking for work) even though their results were shit.

One day they spammed like 20 messages in a row, so I blocked them. If blocking was not allowed, I would just uninstall Whatsapp.
> The reasons for the GBSD are historical, political, and to a significant extent economic.

There is nothing historical about communism and its desire to take over everything. Putin's origin is from pure communism, just like every other leader in any country that used to be in the Soviet block. Does the author really think that just because they changed clothes and names, they changed their identity?

Lower the guard and a punch will follow. Cold War was not won and it's not over, it's merely extended under an unspoken armistice.
Yes, if privacy is the main concern. As far as I’m aware you don’t even have access to onion pages at all without brave and so with brave at least you can view and read parts of the internet that were previously hidden.
I would explore small starter plans - a couple of published charts / stories per month - or even one per month. IMHO, a lot of marketers like myself are professional story tellers and use data extensively. We'd love your product, potentially. It isn't news, per se, but we still use data viz to communicate to the public. I can't justify $199/mo. but wish your team well with the concept.
> people will report it and nvidia will whitelist them

That approach doesn’t work in general. Look at “Manage 3D settings / Program settings” in nVidia’s control panel. They only have presets for very popular software like Adobe After Effects or Premiere, benchmarks like 3D mark, or AAA videogames.
Bitcoin is very clearly a speculative investment. Practically speaking, very few people have any interest in using it as a currency.

The narrative is "HODL" for a reason, not because everyone wants to use it as a currency.
This seems very likely to be true.

The question is - is it realistic that the rate is two orders of magnitude higher?

Do we have benchmarks for either?
And smaller dish has larger beam width, making it really difficult to track the signal.
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That is from its peak. Even after the whole market losing 30GW, natural gas production on the 14th was higher than the 9th.

The cherry picking is that natural gas energy production increased dramatically to make up for the collapse of wind power on the 9th. Yes, it dropped 30% on the 14th, but from a dramatically higher point.

On 2/15, natural gas energy production was even higher at 44GWh. Wind went from 23GWh to 3Gwh.
>The NFT advancement is that it proves some sort of proof of ownership.

It's not even ownership, at least in the classic art collector sense or in the sense of having a meaningful degree of control over the work. Torres retains ownership of the copyrighted work. What he's selling is a transferable limited license that doesn't even include any commercial use rights.

What's a little mind-blowing to me is that the terms of the site don't indicate that the license is an exclusive license. The buyer gets no legal guarantee that Torres won't sell another such license in the future.
In these early days we perhaps spend more time thinking about this question than any other. After speaking with hundreds of news publishers, the truth seems to be that certain topic areas have "staying power" while others are more fleeting. For example, rental price trends, real estate trends, economic data (e.g. unemployment rates), environmental issues (e.g. air quality)are always relevant. The other nuance is that these topics have constantly updating data feeds since the the realities of the world are constantly changing. Kind of like the Pareto principle.
Well, the PC was truly booming when U8 dropped and I hoped it would recapture the Garriot touch from the 1980's.

U3 was my intro which was a huge world and an epic grind for gold. U4 blew us all away with its depth. Remember at the time titles like Bards Tale and Wizardry were the main go-tos for party based RPG. So U4 was truly epic with it's NPC interaction and depth of plot.

But this was still the 1980's when Apple //e's mostly dominated the computer game scene. The big switch to PC happened around U5, but for those of us still shelling out money for the franchise, it became repetitive with U6 and U7. Odd that Garriot would blame EA for the NFL cycle when Ultima started to feel like it.

Ultima Underworld was a fun preview of 3D and a refreshing departure from the tops down U# series, but U8 just ... hurt. I had bought my first Pentium machine and was quite disappointed with how much of a departure it was. You literally leveled up by whacking things, anything, thousands of times. The plot was lame, the game play was uninteresting.

But I was already bored of Ultima titles by that point, so it was more tedious than reviled. I think until UOnline, U4 was the high watermark, IMHO.

Great article though, it was written with care by a fellow enthusiast of times long gone.
If you have not watched the seven minutes of terror video produced by NASA, you absolutely must. It details exactly how they put these amazing machines on the surface of Mars.

https://youtu.be/Ki_Af_o9Q9s
Yes talking to a lawyer is a good idea but while you do that, make sure you are also doing a few things:

- Don't talk to the company at all. Don't explain anything. Don't say anything. The burden of proof is on them, not you. The more you talk, the more you are putting yourself at risk because the whole "Anything you say can be used against you" is really a thing. Even if you want to help them, don't.

- Being quiet is not an admission of guilt. Let them say whatever they want. Let them try to make you feel bad. You just don't respond with anything.

- Document everything you can in terms of your departure, timeline, what events occurred few weeks/days before your departure from the company. Write everything down. You may forget a few things later. Be specific.

- Stop talking to those other devs as well, at least about this issue. Better to not talk to them at all. Be very quiet.

Best case, the employer is just trying to find a scapegoat to blame for their own failures. They may move on if you don't fall for their blame game. Worst case, they are preparing legal action against you. In both cases, do not talk to them or anyone else about this issue except a lawyer who represents you.

EDIT: Btw, if anyone hasn't seen this video [0] at all, watch it. It is a great explanation by an attorney on why you should never talk to law enforcement without an attorney. Even if you are innocent and mean well.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Compared to the group of people doing alright, yeah, they are a minority.
Right, but if I track ROI I will notice and the value of the ad spend goes down. I may decide not to buy the next round of FB ads - there are other places to place ads, and I'll keep trying until I find the ones that work. If someone else gives a better ROI because while they have less reach they prevent your click-fraud I'll go with them. Sure I lose the FB only customers, but I may be able to get enough to grow my business, particularly if I target repeat customers well and so I don't need to constantly attract new customers my smaller ad spend (including word of mouth) may make me more profitable in the long run which is what counts.

The above gets even worse when I tell my brother-in-law that he shouldn't bother with FB ads for his new pet food store, this other platform is a better value.

Thus it is long term to FB's advantage to make their numbers real. I can't say if they will or not, but it would be to their advantage.
I found this tidbit from the interview interesting:

> I’m an independent person; I’m apolitical. We want to unify India.

I've started noticing more in the world how sometimes, people promote their stances as "apolitical", "independent", or somehow outside of politics. This has the powerful effect of implying that those stances are natural and un-opposable.
It's not a dystopian martial law and you're not summarily shot or arrested. Maybe it's different in the UK, do they arrest you there?

It's about not being selfish and helping contain or flatten the contagion. It's about thinking about others and not just yourself.

> it's existing as a human being

A selfish human being, yes.
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Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
i see your point but you have to realize how unique the situation is. No skyscrapers in Texas are built to withstand earthquakes (that i'm aware of) but if one did happen I wouldn't blame the building codes and builders for the destruction and demand that all buildings be retrofitted to withstand earthquakes.

The entire state of Texas was under a winter storm warning at one point. Texas is a very large state with significant differences in climate from North to South and West to East, having the whole state until a winter storm warning is unheard of.
Compuserve had a multi-player game called British Legends (also known as MUD 1) in the mid 80s. I very fondly remember paying $6.25 an hour to play at 300 baud. You can still play it here:

https://www.british-legends.com/CMS/
That number will only ever increase - bitcoin not only fails to grow in size with productivity and population, it actually shrinks.

It's massively deflationary, which is a terrible thing for a currency.
Exactly this. Companies can use these numbers to appear bigger, richer, more popular, more successful, etc., than other platforms and we just trust they're reporting accurate numbers.

I also wonder what we could do to change it. Do you think someone independently verifying the numbers would help? Who do you think might do it and how?
Wow, it's not unusual to see comments being contradicting each other by switching the side in the distance of one smartphone's screen.

You cannot just state one thing from the side of later comer, and later switch to the side of early comer. That way you are saying 2 things...
I get the impression reading articles like this that the farm bills would certainly negatively impact farmer. See this quote from the article:

>The country’s capital city has seen over four months of protest after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government enacted agricultural laws that would adversely affect farmers across India.

However, from speaking to people and watching interviews where people discuss *the actual bill itself*, the only answer I ever hear is something along the lines of, "this bill *could potentially* lead to things that are bad."

I'm asking from a place of good-faith here, but what separates claims that the farm bill is bad from blatant fear-mongering?
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> because every mapping service directs them to an automated exit-only gate

You know that you can easily fix this, right?
Why does blame need to be assessed at all? Snow is to blame, ice is to blame, mother nature happens.
From it's inception Apple made technology useable.

The Apple ][ was an appliance, the Mac even more so. That was happening during an era where a lot of computers still shipped in kits.

The iPod was a better UX on top of existing mp3 players Asians OEM were making (5 buttons and a tiny liquid crystal screen).

The iTunes store was Jobs spending an afternoon downloading music on the internet and figuring out he was saving less than minimum wage doing so.
300 days of restrictions.

If your country is less restrictive, I'm happy for you.

It's been illegal for me to have a friend over for 100 days.

It's illegal to have a picnic on a park bench.

So yeah, I'm not doing this any more. If you think that's selfish - cool, I'm selfish according to you. I'm not going to kill myself for your social credit score, stop trolling.
Nice progress. Still waiting for KWin to support adaptive sync in the Wayland session, then switching to it will finally be a good idea.
Tibia comes pretty close The older versions, anyway. Apparently it even started as a copy of Ultima. Never found anything close to it either. Every kid in my school played this game... It was like an IRC client with a fun game embedded in it.
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If one wanted to sell magic beans on the blockchain, how would they go about it?
> it pretty much does the opposite. I don't imagine that this will be a popular comment on here

Silicon Valley and HN talk the talk of innovation, but they back monopolists. Time and again you will see this. Peter Thiel argues for this in his "Competition Is For Losers" talk.

The constant theme is this: we want innovation so far as it can bring about abrupt and massive growth and lead to a single company dominating a market. Uber, AirBnb, Facebook, Google, Amazon. These are all businesses backed by VC that are by design monopolies. They create the market and own it. Or, like Uber and AirBnb, they overturn the old order and toss up a wall around it. Profit is at odds with competition.

Once a business reaches a certain size, the organization no longer needs innovation. It's much easier to buy rather than build. Building requires figuring out product-market-fit and it's much cheaper and faster to buy a company that already figured that out.

That's also why you can have a world-class R&D lab like Xerox and see all of your innovations brought to market by outsiders (Apple + Microsoft in the '80s). Your organization is not necessarily equipped to understand how to utilize the innovations it creates. It doesn't understand how to sell or market the inventions. So it doesn't.

> If you truly want innovation, then what you need to do is to take away the personal cost of failure

We already reduce financial risk with bankruptcy laws. Reducing risk is one thing, but if you lean too far into that with VC money you can end up with WeWork or Theranos. Or any of the 2000s dot-com. Businesses that are little more than inflating worthless assets for some fraudulent payoff.

Reducing risk isn't the key. You need skin in the game. But more important, you need people with drive. People that like winning more than they hate losing.
Sorry to keep coming back, I don't want to start a flame war here. Difficulty of horizontal scaling is a property of two things:

1. how your solution is designed (your point, and I agree this is often done poorly)
2. the problem / work-load you are trying to scale (my point).

It might be that your problem does not "shard" very easily. You cannot fix this with solution architecture, at least not easily. Horizontal scaling of a relational database is very difficult, for example.

Edit:

Another example. Can you rewrite NGINX in a slower language and use horizontal scaling to fix it? Of course not, because that horizontal scaling would itself leverage NGINX (or something like it)!
> throw is not at all like GOTO

They are the same thing.

To see it clearly, replace each exception with a label, each "try" by a
no-op, each "catch" by a label statement, and each "throw" by a GOTO
statement.

try:
foo()
catch BarException
baz()

def foo():
...
throw BarException
...

Is like:

CALL foo
GOTO end
LABEL bar
CALL baz
LABEL end

LABEL foo
...
GOTO bar
...
RET

Either you have relatively simple exceptions and the equivalent GOTOs
would also be simple enough to be not "considered harmful"; -or- you have
complicated exceptions, which is really an ad hoc state machine, and you
might be better off making that explicit rather than hiding it in a
tangle of try/catch/throw control-flow logic, eh?
Oh, one other thing. Many volunteers are maintaining and guarding hiking routes and cycling routes. These get damaged easily (I just did that yesterday myself) and these volunteers sometimes carry a big burden. The big companies don't have an interest in these routes "by the people, for the people", there is no money in that. If they get more often damaged, it will not be regarded as funny by these important long-lasting volunteers.
Are you disagreeing that Rust makes it easier to write performant software?
It sounds more like the weights are data like an image, and the engine is the image viewer.

Or like the bitstream to an fpga not the vhdl.

vhdl really is source, so it comes down to if nn weights really are more like vhdl or more like the bitstream.

It seems like the closest analog to a source for nn weights is training data and scripts.

In that case, it seems fine to license the weights seperately, just like the source to an image viewer or audio player, yet not some image that is displayed in it.

I'm not so sure about shipping them together under a single name as a single product. Maybe that act causes them to be obligated to provide the source to generate the nn weights?

I would love that, not because I value their data but because it would mean it was only their own attempt to mis-represent that now makes them have to give away their store. If they had simply packaged up their fork of Stockfish plus proprietary nn model honestly and in good faith, there would be no problem. Maybe they couldn't get $99 for that from very many people but, oh well!
It depends on the tech stack you are currently using for your SaaS. I would not develop this from scratch. For example: If you are using Laravel for the backend, you can develop this feature "easily" using Laravel Passport (https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/passport)

If you are using Keycloak, the solution might be in this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52230634/issuing-api-key...
What we need is a subset of HTML features that are known to work across all major browser. From Firefox, Safari /WebKit on other MacOS, and Chrome.

Or something that compiles to the compatible HTML code for those platform with 100% accuracy.

Unless that happens, you are dealing with godzillion number of edge cases in hundreds of different System Browser.

But even if such language or subset of feature exist, it will still not be as good or as be limited compared what is possible on top of current Electron. Which means from a user perspective, the Dev is optimising for something they rarely cares about; download size. Given memory CPU and Memory usage to electron.
Too much inflation is obviously bad, but it's also bad if the most attractive investment in an economy is the currency itself. If a system actively discourages people from investing or spending their currency, things grind to a halt. The people who benefit the most are those with the most idle cash. The people who suffer the worst are those who are forced to spend their limited cash on basic necessities.

To be clear: I'm not advocating for unchecked inflation or runaway spending. I think the current US inflation rate is too high and excessive stimulus spending is ill-advised. However, investors have been investing their cash in assets and investments to avoid inflation long before Bitcoin was invented.
What happened to Glen? He's clearly angry at media like NYT for narrative spinning and reporting mistakes. This entire article is about how they hastily reported Officer Sisnick was killed by the mob, but as of now we don't definitively know how he died yet. That's basically it. Almost all of his reporting is taking a microscope to US left media and policies, while blatantly failing to report on any egregious errors with US right media and policies.

It's like siding with Putin because RT will find some sort of dirt on the opposition.
Buying something with a currency, and paying taxes, are both other people buying the currency off of you. In one case they're buying your currency with goods and services, in the other they're buying it in exchange for protection. McDonalds gives you burgers because they want your USD. They want your USD because everyone wants their USD. That's how fiat works; the biggest difference between Bitcoin and USD is that Bitcoin is deflationary, while USD is managed by a central bank.

World currencies regularly collapse. What people fear might happen to BTC has already happened to the Zimbabwean dollar, the Argentine peso, and many others. It even happened to the denarius during the crisis of the third century. Even with stable currencies, there is plenty of risk to be had in FOREX trading. So... saying that BTC is a lot like every other fiat currency is not so much a complement as it is a neutral observation.
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