skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite the fact the article makes it clear this problem is way to detect, it doesn’t matter. Facebook created the problem, they don’t get to just say, “it’s too hard” and throw their hands up. If they can’t fix it then they should scale back their operations until it’s a manageable size.

Imagine I’m out in a park firing guns into the air and you come up to me and say, “don’t you know those bullets might come down somewhere and hurt someone?” And I say, “do you know how hard it would be for me to calculate exactly where each bullet would land and where I can aim it safely?” Would you just walk away and say, “oh yeah, that’s too hard of a problem to solve, carry on”?
Same here. I’ve tried both a self-hosted deployment solution and AWS Amplify. Both of them has used private repositories on Github. No SEO juice to Github, only to my domain :)
> Our software works with any pair of headphones.

On mobile it looks the gaming version of Immerse is only available for headphones made by a few manufacturers. Which version should I choose for AKG or Sennheiser?
Interesting that the answer to that question names the file as .bash – I do this too, but I didn’t know anyone else did.

I do this because my shell scripts use bash specific features, and I want to distinguish them from portable shell scripts that use POSIX shell features only. The latter being the only files that really deserve being named as .sh in my eyes :)
ITT: folks whose livelihood depends on that Facebook Ads campaign manager payout, vs. those of us who would rather live in a world free from this sort of manipulation.

DAE miss AOL?
Does it have to be a shell? I would be fine with having bash as a shell for basic stuff like piping and a non-interactive scripting language for actual scripts.
Sorry to hear that.

Swype was _by far_ the best keyboard for all-screen smartphones, and I miss it very much. It was markedly better than any other swiping keyboard implementation, as well as a substantially better feature set.

If MS silently switched Swype recognition and features into its Swiftkey product, but maybe kept Swiftkey's prediction engine – the only good thing about it – I would be happy to buy it again.
> Shit Zuckerburg uses Signal. Nothing surprises me anymore

Why would that surprise anyone? He had Moxie implement the Signal protocol in WhatsApp.
Multi-SQL, Promise-Based, TypeScript Wrapper for Snowflake SDK
You have to start earlier than that. In the 1950s, Iran became a brutal dictatorship under their Shah ( who got there with an Allied-sponsored coup during WW2) via a CIA and MI6 sponsored coup against the democratically elected PM, who wanted to nationalise British oil interests to fund social programs and improve Iran. The Shah brutally supresed opposition, until one day it became too much and in the 1970s a revolution by a communist and Islamist coalition overthrew the old regime ( the islamists came up ahead and Iran became an Islamic Republic). The US has been against them from that moment on, and Iran has hated them for enabling the Shah, and continuing meddling ever since. ( Bar a small and very illegal episode known as the Iran-Contra affair, where the US sold weapons and spare parts to Iran in exchange for off-books cash, which was funneled into the terrorist Contras in Nicaragua, to circumvent US Congress restrictions on help to the latter)

It's fascinating reading, i encourage you to look up the details yourself.
Step 5. The longer the buffering, the greater the sneeze.
I was expecting a HTTP header...
n2t-wasm: Emulator for the nand2tetris computer
It’s also subject to laws.
That's more or less what Perl is (a more coherent language).

Perl may look ugly, but it doesn't have the escaping problems that Unix shells have. And most of the usual shell features (listing files, launching commands, etc...) are built-in. It is also available in almost all Unix systems, maybe even more so than bash.
What is old is new again. This exact idea has floated for pretty much all messaging protocols that have had some kind of programmabilty already.

We can even imagine an email-based microblogging hack. Edit your boop (that's the new tweet) in your favorite MUA: the subject is the short text, the body is the long text. You can even put images and attachements in there. Send yourself this message, with a well-known prefix: it ends up in a specific IMAP folder. Have your third-party server that pulls messages from this folder and displays them in a "nice" view, so that anyone can browse and subscribe. To reply to boops, just reply to it in your MUA along with a copy for yourself and it will be present in your "Timeline" and in theirs. To address someone, send them a copy.

In a perfect world you could anonymously authenticate to anyone's IMAP server and read that "boops" folder, and even subscribe to it if you want. But I don't think any existing provider will ever implement something like that.

Email and RSS have all the fundamental building blocks for so many usecases already, but we keep reinventing the wheel again and again. The abstractions work. Imagine every company had to reinvent the whole TCP/IP stack every single time.
That is a pretty good piece of music. Having always had a special liking to old school music, this instantly got added to my music playlist.

Got more of similar stuff?
Of interest, Sennheiser with dearVR provides a free vst plugin for spatial audio which is really fun to play with! https://en-de.sennheiser.com/ambeo-orbit
What's wrong with hugo + self-hosted nginx on a VPS?
https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/moaapb/does...

"At Vivaldi, we are committed to protecting our users from online trackers, and we would not want to enable any kind of user behavioural profiling. The FLoC experiment does not work in Vivaldi, because it relies on several hidden preferences being set, and we do not enable these options in Vivaldi. Our future plan is to prevent the Floc component from functioning, no matter which way it is implemented."
Thanks, y’all, for all the votes and comments. You made this middle schooler’s day.
This to me feels like that event, the exit of your sister from your life may be considered somewhere on a spectrum of post traumatic stress - stress that's formed the development of your thinking and feelings patterns - and not necessarily considered as a dis-ordered or dis-eased state.

MAPS.org did highly successful research for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in treatment of PTSD in veterans; ~80% of non-placebo participants who had average of 17.5 years of treatment resistant PTSD, after just 2-3 sessions with MDMA (100-125mg) - with non-MDMA sessions initially and afterward for integration etc - no longer had PTSD after just 1 year; Rick Doblin, the founder of MAPS - Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies - had said from his own experience he realized the most important part of any psychedelics you take is doing the work to integrate whatever you unlock to have access to again.
Can't wait to try this!

It's great to find an article on something that looks fun just for the sake of doing it. Would love to see more like this on HN.
Well put! These are the moments which everyone remembers and refers back to when the next troll comes along and claims that Apple must allow third party app stores.
Damn, you should make a new post for this article if it hasn't been posted yet
Our 55" TV with a 5.1 sound bar setup is more than enough. Unlimited pee breaks, snacks and comfy seating. No need to dress up (or at all).

Compare that to a 20-30 minute car trip one way + parking + walking to theatre, expensive snacks, loud-as-shit misbehaving kids interrupting the movie etc.

We've paid for every single Disney+ "premium release" and haven't regretted a second. I don't think we're going to a movie theatre as a family ever again - as long as there's a simultaneous digital release.

I'll go solo to see my AAA R-rated blockbusters if cinemas ever open again.
In this specific case, I'm really glad they're exercising their power, because they seem to be doing it in the best possible way, and have forced governments to do the right, privacy-preserving thing.

And I think having this power is OK - nobody should be forced to help the government implement something unethical. There may be scenarios where this goes horribly wrong, but the contact tracing framework is a case where it went perfectly right.

Yes, the QR-checkin feature is something where an exception could make sense, but given what it would pave the way for, I'm glad they keep the rules strict.
I guess you can use that approach for pretty much anything in the world. You can totally use it for brainfuck.

However, good systems impose elegance without users having to create complex standards around it.
The point of the protocol is that both Bob and Alice can claim they were publishing a fully random string of bits and there is no way to disprove it.

I don't see how the known pass phrase achieves that.
If you're trying to make a case that Apple is my ally against government, I understand but disagree that Apple's privacy policy makes them my ally.
I would pay good money for a ready to use distribution/setup that supports this incl. making sure it continues to work after updates
If there is one thing we’ve learned from this pandemic it’s that apps will not save us.
It's particularly interesting considering Israel's ambiguous nuclear capabilities for which international entities have more than simply closed an eye; let alone the shallow, steady claims Iran would be in possession of nuclear weapons "within few years" since 1980s. Needless to say, it is within everyone's interests to keep another player from joining the nuclear club so that they will continue to have the advantage in negotiations, understandably so. This is not the first time and presumably not the last: when will Iran break?
Siri has not been "powered by Nuance" in several years.
Yeah, and all championship results are on Dvorak keyboards. [1]

[1]: http://www.recordholdersrepublic.co.uk/world-record-holders/...
This is a very insightful comment. I wonder if the production capacity has indeed remained intact or if it has actually been partially destroyed beyond repair. Some companies will have gone out of business. The products these companies sell will have experienced low demand during the pandemic, but their demand may rise when it's over. Will that trigger a sharp rise in prices? If all restaurants in my town closed except 1 and we all of a sudden want to dine out, I don't see how that remaining restaurant won't raise its prices when it gets flooded day after day. It's a simplistic example, but even restaurants can take months if not years to open (think licenses, contracts, hiring, training, etc). The last remaining restaurant from this simplistic example would have sustained high demand over a considerable period of time, enough to continually raise prices and not see a drop in demand
You are.

https://www.infor.pl/prawo/bezrobotny/status-bezrobotnego/27...
I disagree entirely. Parsers are an excellent plays to start using Rust - this would allow them to move that code back in-process, improving performance, without compromising on security.

It's exactly the sort of thing this post is talking about. I'm not advocating for a wholesale rewrite, that would be ridiculous - but there's very obviously certain areas of attack surface that are harder to sandbox and are great candidates.

Besides, Firefox is even older than Chrome, and at least as complex, and they began the process of replacing core attack surface. Google could put 10x the devs on such a thing.
After seeing what Facebook would let the Russian government do, who in the U.S. government would cross them unless they had momentum for an antitrust suit and that includes a Supreme Court ready to enforce a pro-citizen regime.
The contract they initially signed said they won’t collect location data and now they want to collect data without signing a new contract.

They even acknowledge they made a mistake in the initial contract.

What’s the issue here?
> Shit Zuckerburg uses Signal

Was this ever confirmed?

Is it possible Zuckerberg just installed it to check out the competition? Is it possible he has it installed as a WhatsApp backup, if FB/WhatsApp is down (exactly the sort of thing the CEO of FB/WhatsApp needs to be prepared for)?

And we've concluded "Zuckerberg uses Signal"?
Could be; my French is rusty as hell. /o/ is how the written "o" is pronounced in Spanish.
The Mundell Difference
That's assuming one retires at 65. It seems most people in this industry retire closer to 50. I'd say I'm a third of the way in. Many people seem to make senior developer in 5 years. It's all politics though.
AFAIK in my jurisdiction the QR codes are a simple number, which the app reports along with the names of the people who have checked in or you are checking in. The number represents all the data that UK code is trying to convey. Not sure why the UK code needs all of that within itself rather than having a lookup table of some sort the number points to.
Yes, it is. Apple iOS is a walled garden, which forces developers to pay to Apple huge fees.
Sounds like lot of self help book. lot of ambiguous words but noting useful to OP
That is of course true, but also a legalistic take, as Iran not signing on to the NPT, or indeed leaving it, would not make Western powers go "oh ok, so it's fine now".

The reality is that most of the non-nuclear states are largely happy with the arrangement of living within the US nuclear umbrella and acknowledge that more nuclear weapon states do not benefit the common good, the nuclear weapon states have no interest in losing their monopoly (and are arguably breaking the treaty by failing to pursue disarmament).

The difference between Iran and North Korea is that the political system in Iran is much more nuanced, and makes it much harder for them to pursue a "lets acquire a nuke at all costs" policy, so they have to play it smart, and acquire the ability to build a weapon without actually doing it.

The difference between Iran and say India is that both the US and Israel justifiably see Iran as an antagonist, and in addition Israel is able to command significant political capital in Washington.

- Israel justifiably sees Iran as an antagonist, and they have a significant influen
HUL tops the title of “D2C Top Dream Companies to work for”
Interestingly, if I am gifted child in a neglected place selling myself would be a way to get out. Limited options make a bad looking options look good.
How do I get an email address list for my area?
> If you can encode something as a number, then you can encode it as a prime number with enough padding.

Isn’t this what godel’s encoding does?
Someone from my company tried to use it but they said it was wayy too overpriced iirc
Just so long as we're clear that the final conclusion ought to be that no-one should have that data; rather than "ok, let's give it to the government, my next door neighbour, and the nearest cat as well then"
Although it has entered the public consciousness as fact, it should go without saying that most work on repressed memories etc has been bogus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse

>In 2006, psychologist and attorney Christopher Barden drafted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of California signed by nearly 100 international experts in the field of human memory emphasizing the lack of credible scientific support for repressed and recovered memories.
There probably will be at some point in the medium term as Tesla transitions to a more boring and less growth focused company.

But Musk has siphoned so much wealth out of Tesla because of his extraordinary compensation package that it makes you wonder if they will survive over the long term.
If the lookup table was stored on the server, requesting the data would effectively provide the user location to the central server. This is the part that isn't allowed.

I suspect the lookup table is too big to store on the device itself.
Should there be anything wrong?
You do not need an internet connection to scan the code, which is an advantage. I imagine this is why they’ve included a check and why the code is so large.

It’s worked first time whenever someone I’ve been with has scanned it.
I'm not sure the problem reflect anything, while updating a data structure like this is fairly standard, the lesson counter is reset globally, which is not a common operation.

For me the problem is too artificial to be meaningful.
The survey foot is going away soon, and not a moment too early. Having two feet with a mutual ratio of 499999/500000 seems rather confusing. But to be sure, the survey foot has apparently not been used much since 1986.

https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
VR movie watching is surprisingly good, works well with the few 3D movies that exist too because it can just send a different frame to each eye rather. Definitely can lose yourself in the film in the same way you do at the cinema.

Check out Big Screen too, lets you watch movies together with people in the same virtual space, might not be great for an IRL movie night but its great for a remote one.
I think psychologists / therapists are also to blame.

I faced some kind of trauma as a kid (who hasn't), and while visiting a therapist to see if therapy was right for me regarding my lack of sleep and depression the therapist constantly tried to make me believe I was molested as a child and was blocking that memory or had forgotten it.

Maybe he was trying to do his job well, perhaps it's a common scenario and I showed all the signs of being such a person, but it didn't sit well with me at all. I didn't remember any such thing. No one in my life stood out as someone who would so such a thing. I could have forgotten such an event but so could anyone on Earth. I really didn't like this suggestion and how commonly it was repeated and the questioning of my memory and sanity. I eventually thought therapy is not for me and left and I imagine I'm not the only one with such an experience.
Tech Stack of a KISS SaaS
I think this prediction is laughable. There are many people around the world who absolutely cannot afford a high quality picture and sound system at home, but can easily pay the occasional price of a movie ticket.

Example in India. The average ticket price in a high-end movie theater is ₹239 ($3.18), most tickets are priced way below that [1]. The cheapest 4k 55" TVs I can find on amazon.in cost around ₹35,000 ($466)[2]. And these units will have the absolute crappiest screens and even worse sound. Anything smaller and you won't have a screen big enough to replace the theater-going experience.

I think your perception is distorted by the extreme high price of movie tickets where you live ($15 would be insane here). However TV prices are comparable. So obviously the TV looks more attractive to you.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/319496/movie-ticket-pric...

[2] https://www.amazon.in/AmazonBasics-127cm-inch-Ultra-Smart/dp...
We don't need a new journalism, we need a new economic model to support the old old journalism (pre-1990s).

The three foundational planks that we've since lost are (1) strong newsroom editorial control of content, independent of revenue, (2) long form & investigative journalism as a stable, viable profession, & (3) journalists and journalism outlets with reputation (able to counter-balance the weight of those they report on).

The greatest tragedy of Google and Facebook has been that they appropriated advertising money that used to support actual journalism, and in return offered us free social and utility apps, but definitely not journalism.

IMHO, we should just say the hell with it, tax advertising revenue, and fund journalism as a public good.
I'm sorry but I don't really think this is appropriate. Not only is he copying the maps Tolkien made himself, he is also copying his style and font typings almost 1:1...

If this was open source work, sure. But he's charging quite an amount for something I personally consider plagiarism.

EDIT: For anyone unaware, he's selling these on his personal site.
I use a set of G.hn ethernet over powerline adapters in my (small, rented 2 bed) flat. I can get 200 Mbps with no latency, packet loss or drop outs from the modem in the living room to the office upstairs.

This is a distance of about 10 meters with 2 brick Victorian internal walls in-between. No matter how much you spend on WiFi equipment you can't get more than 20 Mbps with high packet loss here.

Even downstairs, with no walls to worry about, only 5 Ghz is usable. 2.4 GHz is completely occupied by neighbours, and the lower 5 Ghz channels are all crowded out because of compatibility too.

I hate WiFi with a passion.
> but instead a firehose of propaganda.

Perfectly sums up current state of affairs on social and mass media.
Calculus will die before algebra, will die before geometry.
Biscuit, Better Than JWT
Daddy Elon is why!
`if` and iterations were two things that annoyed me about bash enough to write my own $SHELL. It's not a transpiler though so I can't realistically use it for production services. However for quickly hacking stuff together for testing / personal use it's been a life saver due to having the same prototyping speed of bash but without the painful edge cases.

Not suggesting it's suitable for everyone though. But it's certainly solved a lot of problems for me.

https://github.com/lmorg/murex
Non-idiomatic ClojureScript, 10 lines:

https://gist.github.com/raspasov/0521706c3f963a9209152bfb2be...

IMO The problem is poorly defined. Data structures should avoid control flow instructions like "reset_lesson_position"
There was never any point in facebook being any "force for good" or "revolution" as people might have hoped for. If you read investors reflections on early FB days strategic meetings, you see the picture much more clearly. Tech gets cheap, people are dumb, surveillance pays, what's not to like about this business?
> my answer is "any programming language,"

That would be a terrible shell. Changing directories, listing them, moving files, running programs are all simple no-brainer operations in any reasonable shell, but are non-trivial in any programming language that's not designed to be a shell.
I feel like I’m overdue for learning she’ll scripting properly. I’ve hacked around for years google as I go.

What resources would you suggest for decent training material?
Facebook shouldn't moderate anything;

Facebook content should drop in value to where it belongs: personal updates from friends and funny videos;

People need to start voting on actual policies each politician/party proposes, not based on Facebook information from unknown accounts.

Will that be enough?
It's a Kano Computer Kit.
It is and actions were taken:

“As a result, we’ve taken down more than 100 networks of coordinated inauthentic behavior. Around half of them were domestic networks that operated in countries around the world, including those in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and in the Asia Pacific region.”
Mate, what do you think 'contract law' is?
If (western) governments had chosen to prevent the epidemic, apps would have helped, but they decided to let the virus spread, just slowly enough.

Also (western) journalists love stories about 3M deaths, surveillance apps or fake news, much more than success stories.

So yes, apps had no chance to save lives. Korea or Singapore show they could have, but we didn't let them.