skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this idea, but as someone that isn't that involved in Discord. I would love to see a top hits list of current communities using Hyper.
Here's the thing - there's an actual reason that is beneficial to 90% of their customers that they do this. Let's take my wife. She got her lenovo laptop because it was silver and really thin, and had a touchscreen. She doesn't know what specs are - the laptop is just a tool.

When she goes to do a google search, google's page keeps pushing chrome in her face. While she's trying to search for listings of gigs needing translation from Mandarin, Japanese, or Cantonese into English, the page she's on tells her she needs to click here and install chrome. She doesn't know what a browser or a Chrome are, so she thinks it's something she needs to do for the work search. Bam - she's now using Chrome. And he doesn't even notice the browser changed. Nor does she care. She never meant to install it or switch to it. Google is a bad player, and windows will check and once in a while ask if she wants to switch it back. Good. Me, a firefox user - I have literally zero issue clicking "no, leave my browser alone" twice a year.

She uses some office apps for spreadsheet type work, and msword. She uses some windows functions like copying files, and backing up her phone.

Telemetry lets microsoft know what she's doing, where she's getting confused or going into a loop pattern to do something, and when she tries something and gives up after it not making sense. They use that telemetry to improve their programs for people like her. Me - I turned that off. It's as easy as downloading winaero and clicking "disable telemetry" and "disable ads."

This is not illegal because it's literally what 90% of Windows users want. People who don't want that are technically apt, and it takes about 2 minutes for us to turn that off. It's just a default for 90% of the users - a correct one.
> But at this point I doubt Netflix is willing to risk it as there is simply to many streaming options.

Well, but as you point out, they aren't using IAP at the moment so there's nothing to risk.

An interesting question is what would happen if Apple decided to play hardball and demand Netflix use IAP again, with no external option, similar to what is required for video games. Honestly, my money would be on Netflix pulling out of iOS.
I find it astonishing that robocalls are still an issue in 2021, especially those coming from abroad. How can it be that hard to force authentication to use the phone network and permanently block malicious carriers?
Unicode 14 just came out. If you are using collation, NFD, ... you need to update your libs.
Totally. Just like it's weird that more cigarette companies don't advertise outside schools.
The literature on dual-stock firms' returns is also delightfully mixed [1].

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3006669
I think android you looks liem fisher-price ui. Like the kind of OS UI you'd see for small children.
I dispute the "mental health benefits". Alcohol progressively disables parts of the brain. It literally the opposite of a mental health benefit. In fact, it will make problems like depression significantly worse.

I believe that the idea that people are to blame for their alcohol problems is totally false and basically a conspiracy by the alcohol advertising industry. The problem is alcohol, not the people consuming it. It naturally induces almost every person to want to drink more alcohol while inhibiting their ability to make good decisions such as about continuing to drink.
Far more than some of scary
diseases that we eradicated last century.
But why do you need to acquire the non-voting shares to acquire the company?
I'm not quite sure this is the case, given that Netflix seems happy to share that data with Google on AndroidTV/GoogleTV devices.

The thing that's lead me back to piracy is not Netflix itself, but the proliferation of streaming providers, with their exclusives. Let me pay for the show I want, easily, and I'll pay for it. Make me jump through hoops and subscribe to services I don't want, well, it's just as easy to torrent it. Netflix didn't screw this up; it was every studio wanting to lock viewers into their own service.
> Is it, though, in this day and age?

Yes.

> It seems that, in the developed world at least, ideas are promoted and normalized via mass media and/or the Internet

Sure, and mass protests are how marginalized groups leverage the selection biases of the mass media for their message.
>we're going to treat four simultaneous meteors as impossible. Which is great, but then one the day, five of them hit at the same time.

I think that suggests that there were not bigger fish to fry :)

I take your point on priorities, but in a company the size of facebook perhaps a team dedicated to understanding the challenges around 'from scratch' kickstarting of the infrastructure could be funded and part of the BCP planning - this is a good time to have a binder with, if not perfectly up-to-date data, pretty damned good indications of a process to get things working.
The original comment in the thread has that information, and it's nothing to write home about. Maybe it has improved since, but it's not like they're running a network of supercomputers.
You really were unable to come up with a single example of how this outage could have impacted people’s lives in drastic ways?

I invite you to see life through other people’s eyes every once in a while. I promise it’ll be worth it.
> Yup, they make a new chat app if the previous one is down.

Continuous Deployment.
But every time there are more people than the previous time. This means it's getting harder for everyone to switch.

And then there's this: I have no idea about other countries, but over here in Russia, instant messaging got somehow consolidated over time. I used to have to run ICQ (as qip), Mail.Ru agent, Skype, and VKontakte (in a web browser) to be able to talk to everyone. Now Telegram and VKontakte cover 99% of my IM use. Some people do use WhatsApp, but not in my circles, thankfully. Some people have managed to delete their VK accounts without inconveniencing themselves and others much, but I'm not able to do that. Overall, the more users a social app has, the harder it becomes to switch away from it. Also — those old IM services only had one-to-one chats, but all the current ones have group chats, which make switching immensely harder. Can't imagine myself switching away from Telegram in the future for example.
Comparing this to the civil war is ridiculous. They were literally invited in by the capital police because it is a public building. The south is not at war with the north. The only shots that were fired were from the capital police. No one brandished a firearm in that capital except the police.

“But what if…” is a pointless exercise because the past has already proven that those things didn’t happen and is just a mechanism for a bunch of people who desire authoritarianism in this country to justify making a free people less free.
You like it when people take advantage and kick a competitor when they're down? How ruthlessness has been normalized.
There isn't a platform, but I am aware of this shop in LA which does something similar: https://suayla.com
Why is the earth's core so hot? (1997)
Thanks, I forgot about that. But I found this from Investopedia about stock price and mergers/acquisitions:

In most cases, the target company's stock rises because the acquiring company pays a premium for the acquisition, in order to provide an incentive for the target company's shareholders to approve the takeover. Simply put, there's no motive for shareholders to greenlight such action if the takeover bid equates to a lower stock price than the current price of the target company. [1]

If the buying firm doesn’t need approval from the Class A shareholders, what would be their incentive to buy those Class A stocks at a premium?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/203.asp
I believe the opposite. Pretty much the entirety of the push towards authoritarianism I see in my life today comes from the left
You're getting the spike protein mRNA in you one way or another. Only question is if you want to go the low risk route or the high risk route (and your risk of hospitalization is non-zero, it runs at about 2% for 20 year olds, even though death rates are much lower).
I think texasbigdata is talking about backup tapes and maybe mistyped tectonic plate

Backup tapes and in production servers are kept at different colocation sites to protect data from fire and other catastrophes of that level

Using colo sites on separate tectonic plates would protect you from catastrophes on a geological cataclysm level
easier to just strand a few chinese cargo ships in a few canals
I've been using it for quite some time although the searches not as good as google but some of the results that are censored in google might be found in DDG
I love that movie. And I think there is a lot to that point. But, it’s fiction.

And if I may indulge my own biographical fiction thinking, I think his secret is that nobody believes that he is lying to them. Everybody believes anything he says. Nobody trusts a genius. And there is the paradox, a genius can never convince anybody of anything, but a simpleton can convince everybody of everything (e.g. The Usual Suspects).
So ... cloudflare has inserted themselves far more deeply into the discussion awhile back.

With the new DoH Chrome setting turned on by default (DNS-over-HTTPS), AFAIK they are now the default resolver bypassing your network settings.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/encrypted-dns/dns-...

[2] https://duo.com/decipher/google-makes-dns-over-https-default...
The only thing I liked about this company was Camille Fournier and her tech talks. I still like Camille Fournier, not this company.
I kinda see your perspective; but I also mostly view them similarly to e.g. BackBlaze blogs - sure it can be viewed as taking smack about Samsung and Seagate drives failing, but I seem them as "things fail; what can we learn from it / here's our observations". And yes a little bit of self-advertising, but again, most tech blogs are, one way or another.
The Facebook Situation: Circlejerk
I think this is an interesting case where people just want different things, and so the thing that they want is "better".

Some people really just want Python+extras and don't want to worry about getting a fortran compiler. Conda is great for this.

Other people really don't want a big meta-install system that bundles a bunch of dependencies. Maybe they're on Linux, they target a single platform, or they want to use a package not in conda that works with a more recent version of the dependencies that conda bundles.
“Curios” is a word, so I guess that’s more about relying too heavily on spellcheck.
Apple’s value is the set of customers who sign up first on iOS rather than web (edit: and who couldn’t be nudged to the web). I’d guess the number isn’t the full billion, but enough that Netflix doesn’t want to lose them.
Psychedelic Therapy: A Roadmap for Wider Acceptance and Utilization
Jesus man! We’ve lockdown some business for months, they are back, they found alternatives like delivery and you’re telling me that one day without WhatsApp or Facebook is going to be a tragedy?
Tech left that phase because there was no way to pay the bills.

Servers cost money to run--equipment, bandwidth, power are all a thing. The only viable way anyone has found to pay for that is ads. So, here we are.

You pay for the product or you are the product.
Blink is Chrome's engine. Blink is not Chrome. The Brave browser also uses Blink, for instance. Microsoft has been in the browser business for a long time and takes security updates seriously, to the point of force-updating people's machines which people gripe about.

Firefox is great yes, viva la resistance. Unfortunately I'm seeing more sites with quirks on Firefox so I tend to use both Firefox and Edge.
because nonvoting shares still represent economic ownership of the company. for example, they get pro rata dividends if dividends are ever declared.
Topical :)
> "apply STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication to, and perform robocall mitigation on, all foreign-originated calls with US numbers,"

This won't affect anything that is actually a foreign number (which wouldn't be used for robocalls anyway as people wouldn't answer it, with the exception of some Caribbean countries that have three digit area codes instead of the typical +CC format). It will just block foreign phone companies from pretending to have US phone numbers, which seems like it should have been done long ago.
How hard is it to migrate to IPv6?

Now imagine the phone network, which hasn't seen a major core upgrade since SS7 in the 70s.

It's Hard.
Believe it or not, there are places in the world where FB products (WhatsApp specifically) are used as the primary communication platform for most people.
You sent something to me … to me … that is my message with your Ip. I can delete it from my system. Ri have full right to do so. Republish it no. But delete yes.

Otherwise someone send me a child … or to everyone …
Yes. The telephone in your house belonged to AT&T, and you had to rent it from them. It took a lawsuit for them to allow other devices to connect to the phone network. Today's vendor lock-in is no different.
What I usually do these days is change the display size/DPI.
Settings > Display > Display Size set it to Small or Smaller.
> If the buying firm doesn’t need approval from the Class A shareholders, what would be their incentive to buy those Class A stocks at a premium?

Supervoting stock usually converts into regular stock on transfer. For example, Rent the Runway says "future transfers by holders of Class B common stock will generally result in those shares converting to Class A common stock, subject to limited exceptions, such as certain transfers effected for estate planning purposes" [0].

Delaware law is also developed in protecting minority investors' rights [1]. (The situation varies from state to state [2].)

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1468327/000119312521... S-1, page 59

[1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/04/26/controlling-share...

[2] https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/corporate-struggles-...
> No two devices on the internet are directly connected.

I get the need for brevity and simplicity in a post like this, but is there really a need for obviously false statements?
> It's too bad traditional PL theory people and DB people don't mix a little more.

The only ones who do mix seem to be the ones who work with type theory or category theory! I predict that we’ll see an absolute revolution in about 20 years, after successive cohorts of undergrads are exposed to this stuff and slowly carry it out into academia and industry.
There's an in between situation where someone is looking for correlations with a crime, but they are simply searching so much data, that they inevitably get a huge number of very close, but invalid matches.

This tends to be a problem more and more with ever increasing databases that are convenient to access.

People have intuitions for coincidences that are not appropriate for vast amounts of data.
The virus is a zero day unauthenticated remote code exploit against postfix. Dunno how we're so far into this thing and people don't get that yet.
Smart people are good at pattern identification and making predictions based on the perceived patterns. The problem is when pattern identification is not based on evidence. The evidence gathering process is where curiosity is more relevant.
I can't actually find a good source for blue whales not dying of cancer. I do see lots of sources claiming the rates are way lower than in humans, and that is indeed interesting. It's evidence that we could do better at suppressing cancer, but I'm very convinced that cells that can evolve eventually deciding to go rouge isn't something that be precisely stopped. Just made less likely
Ooh like the Backblaze storage reports, but for clothing manufacturers.. I dig it!
It just comes off as crass. Next time Cloudflare's CDN eats itself and starts vomiting up private customer data, Facebook can do a blogpost titled 'Understanding how Cloudflare exposed the private information of untold numbers of its customers'.
Papers 1 and 3 are about correlating _duration_ of FB usage with happiness. Look at the papers referenced here [1] for the same effect as applied to TV. These papers, sans the new controversy over the mental health of young women on Instagram, _don't_ actually point to any stronger of a conclusion than "consuming large amounts of media is correlated with bad mental health".

I'm not saying that FB and this huge corporate capture of the internet is _good_, but making arguments like this doesn't actually make coherent sense.

[1]: https://buddingpsychologists.org/binge-watching-mental-healt... (I didn't read the article, but I did skim the referenced papers)
> How can it be that hard to force authentication

Without partitioning world telephone connectivity? Easily.

> and permanently block malicious carriers?

By any reasonable definition involving unwanted traffic, ATT is a malicious carrier. Do you see the problem?
Was banging on about this with some of the people probably here over 20 years ago. Not sure what this issue with FB was as I'm not on nanog anymore, but if it's bgp, it's a short list of likely events, as I foggily remember.

- someone big redistributed their static routes for FB into their announcements to peers.

- someone who has mapped peer filters and their prefix lengths has figured out how to announce smaller prefixes for FB routes and have them propagate.

- someone with enable somewhere in one of the major ASNs (like 701 back in my day etc) is doing a straight forward attack on FB.

- someone inside FB messed with load balancing and prepended a bunch of their routes internally and redistributed the long AS paths themselves and just broke shit with internal routing loops.

I have no idea how people unbefunge routing problems now that you have to coordinate multiple teams on the phone to get anything done instead of just one router guru just logging into everything and fixing it. I would be useless at it now, but this is not a recent problem. If it's still a problem, it will always be a problem.
When I hear Facebook leadership talking about the VR vision, I’m reminded of IBM in the early 2000s encouraging employees to claim their second life avatars and setup cyber customer briefing centers.
How long do you wait?

How do you know if you waited long enough to see negative effects (think caches, your own and caches of others).

Waiting too long with a bad config also costs you.
Wasn't there a fuss about Robert Bork (Supreme Court nominee) having his video rental records disclosed? Long before the Patriot Act.
A world war would be better than a disruption in the newest generation of chip production?
This topic was pretty hot at the last AAHPM conference. I think for end of life cancer patients the ability to confront mortality and impending death with ease is pretty insane. People no longer needing cocktails of drugs to cope- being able to mentally process something like being told you are going to die and leave your kids and wife/husband behind is an impossible task to expect anyone to just get over- the results from study's on this alone are pretty groundbreaking.
PCR-positive results don't necessary guarantee evidence of infection.
Maybe this is not a popular opinion but I think that Apple do provide the value. They created the device, the OS, the marketing behind it, the physical stores, all of that. The iPhone is an iconic device because of all the investment Apple put into it. Yes, there are also the millions of developers and apps out there.

But the one thing that Apple did right (for me and I guess most iOS users) is that they kept control over the UI & UX. This was my main driver into getting an iPhone. The fact that I interact with Apple and not just every developer in the world. I want to keep that interaction. What I don't want is for most apps to force me to enter my personal info (email) and card details store them somewhere "securely". I want to have a single vendor I trust (arguable this might not be Apple atm). But for me and for most ppl I know that single place is the thing that is the driving factor to keep in the eco system.

What I don't understand is why developers feel entitled (maybe the wrong word) to harming my UX by requesting external payment methods. Again, the investment for this "great" eco system comes from both sides and Apple do deserve a % of that. Maybe 15/30% is not fair but this is the free market. You can always decide not to develop for iOS - nobody is forcing you. Except your customers who I feel in this case developers/companies ignore as per the given theory above.
I think a lot of public high schools in the USA teach complex numbers and linear algebra. Maybe not at the level of finesse or rigor of a high-quality college course, but what does that matter?

US education frequently doesn’t even touch computer science. Some schools have after-school programs or AP CompSci, but it’s somewhat rare in my experience. Why not start teaching that, instead of banking on the hitherto dubious value of existing quantum computers?
Interestingly, the South had contended the North drew first blood by electing Lincoln,
which the South perceived as an act of war.

Also, OP article is unresearched junk.
> Why not just check the predictions?

Isn't this what the paper does in the "Forecast skill evaluation" section?
Ooh, interesting.

Now comes the difficult question, buy or make? The links you provided are certainly better than I can do, but making art is an enjoyable experience in its own right.
For sure. And maybe it's not a direct U-haul model, but more focused on micro moves within certain geographic areas to start.
Love to hear the reason for the downs.
My takeaway is that people who aren't self aware are less likely to be able to change for the better. Which I can agree with. How does one become self aware though?
Downvote. Deep, propagandist misunderstanding about what government and rule of law actually is, what "control" means, the function bureaucracy serves, and of individual politicians and political decisions.
Slightly offtopic but my ISP has been having issues all over the country, I’ve been down 8 hrs. From the few people who could get customer service they aren’t admitting to any large scale outage either just following the usual “reset your device” script which is suspicious.
This is one heck of a story!
Resolvers typically cache successful "does not exist" responses for no more than 1-3 hours. (And authoritative servers often have a lower negative TTL.)

(There's a corner case related to DNSSEC that can make it go higher, but that's being worked on, and isn't relevant here.)

In this situation, the nameservers were just down. I haven't done exhaustive research, but the resolvers I'm aware of cache that kind of thing for no more than 15 minutes.
Hi,
great product although I wanted to know what differentiate craftmypdf with pdfmonkey or apitemplate?

Anyway, I'm also building the same but in image & video https://duply.co
Devops like Telegram because it has proper bot API, unlike many other competitors.
What ever became of RCS? Wasn’t that supposed to support a good number of these features?
I really question the “old master” idea. Especially in art and art history.

Most artists (art consumers anyway) are very big on newness and rejecting tradition. Art historians even more so.
as someone who generally runs dev versions of Julia, I can very confidently say that 1.7 has a ton of really nice goodies. It's not a ground-breaking release in the way 1.5 and 1.6 were, but it does have a ton of small changes that just make the language smoother.
Humiliating experiences.
I would like to know how much pollution was created for that vanity url.