skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at WhatsApp until 2019 and worked on technical stuff for the WhatsApp part of the zero-rating deals. Part A is definitely part of that, but AFAIK, your part B, network prioritization was never part of the deal.

Facebook does a lot of network peering though, and has PoPs in Brazil, so there's some potential that Signal goes over transit and WhatsApp goes over peering, but peering is not (or was not, when I was there) a requirement for zero rating. I think AWS may peer in Brazil as well?

WhatsApp likely works better than Signal on congested networks because of the protocol design, timeout length, and DNS fallbacks. These are things Signal could improve on. If your network is so congested that packets are delayed 30-60 seconds and DNS always times out, I expect WhatsApp to still work, but not a whole lot else. That's solvable for other services, but it takes time and determination and accepting the use case as valid and important. Of course, all that and WhatsApp was still inaccessible for a significant amount of time today.
"We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later."

???
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Single point of failure is the oldest anti-pattern in the book. Goes back 5000 years.
I think everyone (who is reasonable) agrees the vaccine is the most effective tool we have against covid based on current scientific studies

However this article about Ivermectin is not well reasoned:

> As infection rates soared, some people were taking excessively high doses of the medicine every day, hoping to stave off COVID-19, but in a few rare cases that move prompted liver failure.

>Other patients were unknowingly given the "kit" drugs by doctors in private hospitals instead of more standard treatments — and some of them died.

These quotes from the article don’t support … anything. People had Covid, they took a treatment, but some died? Really? Could they at least pretend to use some statistics or even an antidotal control group?
That glass is bullet resistant.
>It's a bit like the police asking the library who checked out a specific book.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/05/nsa-surveillan...

https://slate.com/technology/2015/06/usa-freedom-act-before-...
Sure, it’s Apple’s right to charge whatever extortionate fees they want on their platform. They just shouldn’t act surprised when governments around the world start hitting them with antitrust lawsuits and new regulations.

Or how about this: maybe they could do the right thing even if they make less profit? Because they make limitless amounts of money as it is? Nah, that doesn’t sound right.. it’s better to keep on inviting the wrath of higher powers so that they can juice the earnings per share.
Why did they not use it? Was it that the idea was inherently flawed or that the implementation didn’t live up to the promise? Remember how people said the iPod was just another music player, the iPhone wasn’t much different than earlier touchscreen devices or PDAs, etc.?

Circa 1998-1999 I was using a mobile device with a touchscreen and wireless broadband to surf the web and send email while sitting outside. Clearly the idea was good even if Handspring and Ricochet never managed to deliver it with few enough compromises to see mainstream success.
This is controlled descent. Wonder if anyone checked GPS/GLONASS/Beidou at the time and tweeted about it.
Yes. It is true. If you enter Facebook into Facebook. It will break the internet.
That is a separate problem of legislators giving unfair advantages to large employers who can afford to implement 401k and for some reason are given tax benefits for restricting the choice of investments one can make.

If there were no 401k, and all there was were IRA for everyone, this would not be an issue.
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> Ars Technica has a lot of reports about this, if you wish to learn more about it:

with all due respect, your links don't seem to be relevant. I skimmed the first few and none of them look related to the question of "did the government give phone providers/ISPs money with no strings attached?"

>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/big-telcos-slam-...

appears to mainly talk about unbundling rather than whether strings are attached to government grants/subsidies. at the end there's discussion about them wanting to receive grants similar to south korea, but doesn't say anything about the actual terms of the money that was given.

>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/comca...

talks about how bad broadband coverage is, but nothing about the conditions attached to government funding

>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/06/monticello-appea...

talks about municipal ISP, not about government funding

>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/isps-reminded-to...

Comes close but seems to be isolated to a single entity, whereas everybody seems to think all the major players are doing it. Is AT&T taking the money and not spending it on broadband, in contravention of the terms of the grant? If so, was there an investigation substantiating this? Or was it simply a case of people expecting them to spend it on gigabit fiber but instead they spent it on copper lines for rural residents?
For context, this was captured during a holiday drone light show. Apparently some people are letting their imaginations run wild from the confusing clip.
>The purpose of my question was to lead to the inevitable question of what the purpose of identifying a senator's gender was, at least in the context of the comment I was replying to.

Gender is a large part of one's identity
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Check out MasterClass.com It's subscription, but some has amazing content by world-class instructors including courses on story telling, film making, writing, etc. https://www.masterclass.com/categories#film-tv

Watch TED talks and check out some of the books about creating/giving TED talks. Watch Steve Jobs' presentations too!

Read this fabulous post: "Nail Your Startup Pitch: Use Pixar's Story Formula to Win Over Investors." The key element of the post is the Pixar Story Formula (classic story arc). Proven formula! Once you learn it you'll start to see shadows of this story arc everywhere.
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Plan in analog - get off the computer - put pen/sharpie to paper or index cards and plan out your story's spine. The go deeper and flesh out out. When you have a rough plan for your story arc then move back to digital. I'm not kidding here. Analog planning works! It allows you to focus on the story and not the glitz of graphics, fonts, colors, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s7fe4t4T1I

Good luck! [edit: typos]
Oh yeah, archeology is a noble end unto itself:) I just would have felt bad if you didn't discover that most of these old toys can still be found in the modern world
Use something like Coinbase Commerce and abstract away the need to choose one and just build on top of it

https://commerce.coinbase.com/
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One thing I do know is that if there is an open source spam filter which is widely used, serious spammers will put their spam through it to see if it gets through.
>does not mean that there aren't worse industries than the rest, or that you should somehow take no moral responsibility in choosing a job.

Only person suggestion that was you. In fact if you say, "well my job isn't as bad as Facebook," well then you're ignoring or passing the ethical dilemmas in your own industry, aren't you? Facebook isn't a free pass to ignore everything else. That's like saying, "well Stalin was pretty bad and we aren't as bad as Stalin, so we're probably ok." Not ok. It's really easy to justify working in immoral industries. I would wager that in the US, you have to do it just to put food on the table.
Are there any browsers for Solaris 2.6?

I take pride in striving to live up to the "any browser" dream, but I've yet to test any on that platform.
Ew, yeah, that's a pain
e.g. custom firmware
Now you can find any color schemes without having to build them manually! ;)
Five eyes lies:

This is a conspiracy theory because the genome was first published in January 2020. Tests for covid were developed on the basis of that knowledge.

It's a conspiracy because the Chinese would not only have had to have the genome long before this, but start mass production of PCR tests for Coronavirus long before the first official cases on an industrial scale.

It comes from an "Australian cyber security outfit Internet 2.0" and is based on open source data for contracts for PCR tests.

So it was all secret but also open source. Conspiracy.
Phone calls are essentially dead technology, kept alive by people who can't or won't install an app. Thus the price is whatever squeezes out the most revenue out of the residual users until the well runs dry.

In some countries this process is happening faster than in others.

Entire economies have been built on the principle that the price of a call or message is 0 and you only pay for data used (if any). That is the future that is coming, even for the US, but it might take a few more decades there.
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> Hisatoshi, who went by the nickname Poppo, took
> up the study of Butoh, an avant-garde dance form.

Calling Butoh a "dance form" is certainly one attempt to describe it.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/9ms7MGs2Nh8
Sure, you are automating away the jobs of lawyers and paralegals and secretaries, janitors, marketing people, sales people, etc. Most automation jobs have ethical problems in that, if successful, they permanently remove jobs from the job market. I should know, automation is what I do, but a different industry. Also, I'm sure if the lawyers on staff make good money, as good as private industry, they certainly won't in about 5-10 years after automation has taken over. So basically you're helping to put thousands of lawyers who spent $200k in degrees to specialize in startup legal work out of work, plus all their support staff they would ordinarily hire and give benefits (healthcare/retirement) to and the families those employees support.
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You were never able to trust companies.
As sad as it is to admit it, it is not surprising to me. Worse, given the nature of my job, it is almost a given that some of my searches and queries are a part of an undesirable list somewhere. It is a problem. I am not trying to diminish it.

But the real problem is that general population has zero to no issue with it. They barely comprehend the scope of what is happening. I am not sure it registers at all. Last time I talked to my wife about it, she said she has nothing to hide and I had to resist the urge to just plop her internet history open to make it a teachable moment. I had this conversation once before. It is not fun and I don't want a repeat.
That's on top of paying for the internet itself. You must be young. If international calls are what you are looking for, calling cards and prepaid phones have been easy and cheap since a decade before these messaging apps. Then there was Skype and desktop messaging, and VOIP.
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For your father, maybe a Chromebook wouldn’t be a bad idea? They’re easy if you’re coming from Windows.
> no hope of altering classical DNS

Does DNS support extensibility?

If so, an option could be responding with a fake answer like 0.0.0.0 + some TTL, plus an extension that tells modern clients "hey, this is actually a SERVFAIL but please cache it for the TTL".
Hi, lead author here. The Rust GPU project is certainly some great work! We cite it in Section 7 of our paper.

The Rust GPU project is working to satisfy a necessary condition of unified shader programming in Rust: the ability to compile Rust code to GPU-executable kernels. However, in its current state, it does not provide interop between the host (CPU) code and GPU code in a unified way. Programmers still need to create separate host and GPU representations of parameters (and keep these two definitions in sync) and use API calls to communicate between the two halves of the code.

Similarly, Metal's GPU shader code is written in (a subset of) C++, but Metal does not meet our definition of a unified shader programming environment for the same reason.

Our work investigates the next step in this process: once we can translate host language X to GPU-compatible code, what else do we need to accomplish to unify the host and GPU halves of shader code into the same programming environment.
> In the limit, some shells (GNU Bash for sure, and I think also Korn shell?) support connecting to a remote TCP endpoint via the /dev/tcp/ special prefix.

EDIT: I'm wrong; Solaris has a `/dev/tcp` but it doesn't do that (details below courtesy of the person who corrected me)

Original (incorrect) comment:

Forget the shell: I'm 90% sure Solaris implemented that exact feature directly in the operating system, so you should absolutely be able to do this without any additional software, assuming that it was implemented by this version.
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I'd like to read more about this. Can you recommend anything?
At the time of 2.6 that was not the case. Cpio, tar could open archives created on other platforms. bash had readline. awk, sed, find, xargs - handing no ills spaces newlines etc. Dd would let you handle errors. Pretty much every gnu tool was more flexible and allowed you to do things that the sun tools just wouldn't.
Even the least attentive of American high school students are familiar with this
quote from Lincoln:

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I
could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it
by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.

Also, no reading of GP would suggest a moral comparison unless the reader was
actively looking for one.
My favorite part of Solaris was hidden within initsvc file in /etc .. there you would find this this comment:

#
# Run inetd in "standalone" mode (-s flag) so that it doesn't have
# to submit to the will of SAF. Why did we ever let them change inetd?
#
/usr/sbin/inetd -s

I think of that poor soul who wrote that cynical, almost pleading comment often. Somehow they got it in past the peer review (or at least, the review(s) must have agreed enough to let their dirty laundry air out). Why? What did they change, and who is the "them" !? Will I ever know? And yet, I have a particular soft feeling for the commentator, because I know I've let my innermost thoughts and feelings leak out into my code sometimes. We're only human.
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I recycle them at best buy or hand them down to a family member (often the case, except SSDs as those are usually dead). Far from perfect, I'm sure some of it makes it to a landfill. But probably better than nothing.

Just to clarify though I don't replace all those components every year, it usually ends up being one or maybe two things a year. But if I do one component a year my system can end up lasting indefinitely.
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Formal proofs are a waste of time. You're more likely to make a mistake in the proof than in the code. How do you prove that the proof sets the right expectations? What is the point of proving that software meets certain requirements if these requirements are the wrong requirements and the problem was solved in the wrong way (the problem was solved, but it was the wrong problem; the user did not need that feature to behave like that)? Coming up with the requirements during implementation is the hard part; that's what most developers get wrong. Implementation is easy.

Formal proofs might even make software worse since they lock down requirements; potentially in a sub-par way. Not to mention that requirements change. Good code needs to be able to handle changing requirements.
> (; x, y) = newS

> Now x has the value 4 and y has the value 5.

I believe this is supposed to be a and b here (matching the names of the fields of the struct). That's what the NEWS.md [1] implies, and that's what intuitively makes sense given the ; syntax.

> Install package?
│ (@v1.7) pkg> add Example
└ (y/n) [y]:

Surprised it defaults to [y] option, especially since packages can be pretty heavy with artifacts and lots of dependencies to precompile. One accidental extra Return and you might be sitting there for five minutes.

> keepat!(v, i)

Not a fan of the name. The ! indicates the mutation as the article points out, but keeponlyat! would have been much clearer and immediately obvious, enough to more than justify its length IMO.

Lots of nice quality of life improvements in this version. One that the article doesn't mention is `julia --project=@myenv` [1] - being able to specify a shared environment as the starting environment for the REPL.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.7.0-rc1/NEWS.md
I am of the firm belief that all atrocities committed by "Humankind" should be taught in a "in-your-face" manner in Schools. Only then will people awaken to our baser instincts and agree to steps to prevent exercising them. The current "Politically Correct" etiquette of sweeping all unpleasant things "under the rug" is very insidious and is reminiscent of Orwell's "Memory Hole".

In particular; "Unit 731" was the worst of the worst (even the Nazis were repelled by them). They were granted immunity from prosecution by the Allies and were never held accountable for their unimaginably horrific crimes.
This is an accident, and in peacetime.

Relying on WhatsApp for anything important (like your business) is madness, and I hope this serves as your wake-up call that giving the US government and a giant US ad network veto power over your basic personal and professional communications is not a good choice.
So which people are going to fix global warming and save the whales? The ones smashing windows, the ones burning tires, or the ones who use profits from lectures on BLM to buy up a ton of real estate?
Been there, tried it, failed.

It is extremely hard to monetise. I tried doing this once: the first time I made $250k for someone, and I got $50 of that...you really reconsider whether it is a good business.

Tbf, it would probably be much easier to do today but the easiest way to monetise is to just work in investment research (and I did that too, didn't care for that either...so am a dev).

Also, you can't write what I wrote above using your real identity (and it is very hard to build credibility without using your name, imo). Companies are extremely litigious, and it isn't worth the flak from people who don't want to know (again, been there...I spent a long period in the mid-2010s trying to stop people investing in a fraud...didn't work, just made people angry).

Maybe I will give it another shot this year though. The market has changed. And I have had a few people ask me for a newsletter when I do long answers.
Solaris 2.6 came with Netscape Navigator on a CD.
Thanks, I'll see if I can resolve that. Sorry, it's been quite some years since I've messed with CSS much (just bought this template), so I'll try to resolve this. I didn't realize it was quite so JS dependent. :/
How does the author come to the conclusion to break Facebook down and regulate it after the outage ?

There are a lot of power outages in the world by companies that are regulated, sometimes even state-owned.
They will have to if you delete your WA account.
$137 million? That's a lesson. Don't do business in California.
They're fine, about halfway through the expected service life. I haven't bothered heating or cooling them, they're just boring old lead acid, floating away out back.
I'm not even sure that's an industry, but in the US, a surprisingly large number of charities take up to a 90% administration fee. If that's your industry, you probably aren't doing a very good job if those sort of things exist. I wish you luck though, it's a friggin travesty that a 90% administration fee is even legal.
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You're making massive assumptions about my background.

Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu literally said yesterday his country is preparing for war. I think he'd know.
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Yes? From what I read they had an entire datacenter work on this for multiple days.
The alternative is to ask the user what they want to do instead of defaulting to billing you. Or provide the option of refunds.

And pretty sure that explanation is incorrect or has changed. I have never used Page Rules and was still billed.
https://i.imgur.com/IaSoR0w.png

1 article about the whistleblower and 2 about the outage. Both about the outage also mention the whistleblower, so you could say that's 100% of coverage at least mentions the whistleblower.

Also 1 out of 3 tweets also mentions the whistleblower.
To be fair those kids are not paying for netflix and a browser is an app or a siri command away. There are people who watch tv and others who pay the cable bill.
>Facebook cannot be compared to any other industry.

As far as ethics? As deplorable as Facebook is, there are way worse industries. The defense industry just made trillions murdering people in Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years for starters, and that's trillions from middle and lower class Americans and the sons and daughters too. I think someone calculated that Afghanistan alone cost $300 million a year for 20 years. That's alot of money taken away from the betterment of the country: schools, safety nets, infrastructure, a lot of things that were neglected. The incarceration industry also comes to mind. I'm sure I can think of others if you asked.
Other than the other users? I haven't figured it out, as other services offer better experiences. I guess it is the openess around irc.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...

Sorry, 20% market share in the U.S. since 2017. Mac taking a big leap ahead.
Alternative operating systems like Asahi Linux are apparently not far enough along to give you anything meaningful, but here are some benchmarks of Linux virtualized under QEMU: “vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly fast”

https://www.sevarg.net/2021/01/09/arm-mac-mini-and-boinc/
What's the syntax to test it? I definitely have a /dev/tcp inside the Solaris VM, is there a way to point it to a particular port?
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Games usually handle internationalization and accessibility much better than most software.

This includes audio localization (something no 'Enterprise' software has ever needed AFAIK), and multiple colour palettes for different types of colour blindness.

Sometimes video games are the only software with reasonable localizations I ever find installed in a particular computer.
If I’m understanding this correctly, the statement is “There is a set of provably true assertions that are held in every n-dimensional geometry, except for n=4”

If so, that’s fascinating. Has there been any proofs around why a dimensional ordinality (if that’s the right term) of 4 is different?
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