skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only noticed the difference while traveling abroad. I assume like most things the builders are customer driven and clearly there is no market for it in many places??? Or that we are relatively peripatetic and mobile compared to other parts of the world.

Another weird observation is the flush performance of European toilets. They don't clog up:

https://www.hunker.com/13400906/what-is-the-difference-betwe...

Flush Performance
Most American toilets use siphoning or sucking action to forcibly draw the used toilet water through toilet trap and into the attached sewer plumbing. The neck of the toilet hole is small enough to facilitate suction, a design choice that often necessitates the use of a plunger in the case of a clog. European toilets typically utilize a washdown flushing system in which water inside the toilet is forced out through water flowing from the rim of the bowl. The neck of the toilet hole tends to be larger so there is less of a chance of clogs, but the bowls may require more frequent cleaning from any leftover residue.
I felt a bit restless but it wasn’t really a big thing for me.
That you're not tied to a single provider/client/platform... Also for some people it's just a nicer, more on point, communication platform.
But for most people the barriers are greater than the benefits, so it's not a viable solution in today's world.
It is that or a low paid but cozy government job.
Regardless; imagine your bank or the company that builds a bridge having "move fast and break things" engrained into their corporate culture?

If you want to be taken serious as a messenger app, you need to align your corporate culture and processes to reflect that.
Pardon me if it's a stupid question, but out of curiosity:

Is there any way to keep DNS up in case BGP goes down for any reason? Like a fallback nameserver hosted elsewhere/not affected by Facebook's ASs?

Is it technically impossible or did Facebook just assume something like yesterday would never happen and kept things simple instead of complicating things?
You take that chance daily by not prefixing your code with a construct that would make it fail compilation in any other compiler but your special one that solves all UB. You are writing C that other people will compile with their own compilers–sometimes they are going to miss UB, sometimes they'll catch UB that you miss.
Totally agree. I feel scammed every time I have to change the currency during the payment process. Some time ago, I don't remeber when they changed it, you used to be able to opt-ou of currency exchange permanently per credit card. It was a very well hidden setting and I had to google the deep link every time to find it. Nowadays you have to explicitly disable it for each and every transaction.

I'm pretty sure though that most PayPal customers have no clue about this practice or just don't care.
i guess adverserial attacks towards the employed ai-model or some form of physical obstacle (net) would be most efficient but emp or directed energy weapons are probably more reliable
I had a very bad flu in 2017 or so and could not smell nor taste for at least 4 months after I had it.
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What if Chrome broke features of the web and Google forgot to tell anyone?
Yeah, I did. What you wrote was almost certainly a mistake (although, it's not guaranteed: one can image a macro expanding to such a tautology). But this is far from a convincing argument that all warnings indicate mistakes.
Main reason is that in many countries there isn't much in the way of stock market so there is no other way to indefinitely keep money but by building big, permanent stone or brick buildings that can survive centuries with minimal maintenance.
No difference except you did it from source and spent the build time yourself.
Regarding the built in speaker, I have a disk called AppleRock ‘83 that has 4 or 5 sampled songs (Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, ZZ Top, etc). Plays through the speaker, no mockingbird. The audio is amazing.
Yes, there is a lot of blame on governments for relying on WA.

But let's be real here, Facebook is also marketing WA as a better alternative to sms, mail etc.

So if Facebook wants to position WA as critical communications infrastructure, they should maintain it as such.
The Times and Telepgraph have been minimising Covid since day one, even providing a platform for groups such as "us for them".

Right now there are no mitigations for Covid in UK schools.

One of the things safer schools campaigners are pointing out is the risk of long Covid (as well as hospitalisations etc).

Example of Covid in one area of the UK
https://mobile.twitter.com/DmodosCutter/status/1445303921300...
Would you propose a national price cap on transaction charges? It would be hard to justify intervening in this way, given that there is plenty of competition and rates are not very different. Any transaction (even cash) has associated costs.
FWIW I think Apple's apps do actually go through review, but the issues that crop up (non-public API usage, etc.) get swept under the rug (don't quote me on that though). Similar to how third parties blessed for private API usage probably get their apps through review.
This poster agrees with you. It only took them a single weekend to get them done this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28756358
From what you are saying, I don’t see how trait curiosity is a thing. It implies people are curious when they say they are curious.

As opposed to task curiosity which seems to be real curiosity in the sense that you actually need to act on it to be considered curious.
Times headline is overblown and often something less dramatic once you dig into it, realizes reasonably aware skeptical reader.
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> It's a very safe drug. That's why is so important. But media lies and vilification of a 3rd world drug I guess are more important.

What's the angle, though. Cui bono?

Edit: Thanks for the downvote. If you come up with conspiracy theories, you have to explain this, not me. It's step 1 of a conspiracy:

Who benefits? How?
> …but there are highly vaccinated populations with high infection rates, right?

Israel is about the highest examined and it is not high enough to know how a control group of vaccinated verse unvaccinated individuals would fare in a place where any other individual was vaccinated or bellow 12.

95% was in a retail lock down environment. In the current environment I am having hundreds of interactions a week with the unvaccinated and if I were unvaccinated would have far fewer, obviously a test run in this environment should achieve less than 95% and may appear that vaccination causes COVID because the economy is running on acceptable risks.
How do you know?

She could have had a mild case, or it could be something else.
It would be nice if the release process also added the hash of any built binaries to a distributed append-only log. That's sort of the approach that sigstore and rekor were made for, to enable Binary Transparency, and they're already being used in the Arch Linux package ecosystem:

https://github.com/kpcyrd/pacman-bintrans
Doe you honestly believe that Facebook and its subsidiaries don't have a major impact on the world?
Operations teams don't need permission from some apparatchik to enter the office when production goes down. If they can't get in, they drill.
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Same here. 3 layer glass in Norway, with AC and ventilation system. 250mm isolation in the walls and 350mm under the roof. Because of this I have almost no energy bill. It was expensive, though.
It could still be any/some of these. Unlikely, but possible. Taking down BGP would just be a cover-up of something bigger. If this was a more honest company I'd call myself a tinfoiler, but since we're dealing with Facebook... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My kids slowing down my career
You're either her doctor or you don't know her medical status for certain. Shutting up would seem to be the rational behavior.
>>texting is faster and better than voicemail.

Personally, I find voice coms higher bandwidth and overall faster then texting/email. And email with sorting, filtering and searching capabilities is miles better then texting for me.
Missing out on geography, e.g. availability of materials in the surroundings
I think shader specialisation is handled pretty well in circle. Since you can essentially run arbitrary C++ code at compile time, selection and specialisation of a shader can even depend on hardware specific benchmarks. There is an extensive repo with examples here: https://github.com/seanbaxter/shaders. One example decodes a sprite sheet stored as a png at compile time and creates a specialised compute shader for it. You can also easily implement a control UI based on reflection of uniform shader parameters.

Anyways I understand that under different constraints (adherence to C++ standard, can't easily implement a whole C++ frontend and interpreter) this becomes much harder.
What's the angle, though. Cui bono?
On the art and science of making buildings sound natural
Safari users will mention, especially mobile Safari. And while they are not all that impressive in percentage, they account for the very large share of the money in play, quite comparable with Chrome.

If something works for both Chrome and Safari then yeah, everyone else is either taken along for a ride, or just left in the dust.
This feature is coming: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/11/22619664/whatsapp-android...
I found this summary of Long Covid research quite intriguing and nuanced: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/long-covid-much-more-t...
There is some overlap with fascism, its followers weren't the brightest stars in the sky either. But the source of authoritarianism is most often fear. Fear of being left behind or taken advantage of or something similar. Doesn't really matter, but it results in the want to prescribe rule for others, finding flaws in others and having a clear image of an enemy.

The question if companies are able to stand for any value at all is thoroughly answered however. I think a business environment that has accepted this fact is more attractive to work in, but that probably comes down to preference. I evade larger companies which ascribe values to themselves with care.
Nothing new here. 90%+ of people don't understand that either they're suffering depression from isolating from other humans, or in cases of healthcare, symptoms don't suddenly appear months after a disease or vaccine for hundreds of people like some episode of House.

The 1% of legit cases are being let down because were being dragged down by the same mass hysteria that linked vaccines and autism.

Chances are this isn't even covid related but an abnormal autoimmune response I'd bet, but given I'm only trained in statistical analysis I could be wrong.

People are always look for something to blame and given the hysteria it's not shocking they are blaming the magical bioweapon that will catch you in your sleep...
"In the United States a 50-year-old house is considered old and is torn down to make room for another flimsy yet expensive structure."

This is terribly written.

Go to a city like San Francisco where there are thousands of houses over 100 years old who are still holding up well. Go to Boston and you can find ones even older. Hell, even in new cities like LA there are plenty of 1950's built houses that make up most of the housing stock. They aren't build "well" by modern standard (no shit), but they are built very solidly.

There is nothing about a wood frame house that makes it intrinsically "flimsy" or "poorly built".

Go and check out the concrete and brick houses in Asia and tell me that those are intrinsically "well built".
"only 5%" is one in twenty.

Right now the UK is getting something like 30,000 new cases a day.

This adds up to a lot, last time I checked the UK was only behind India on total cases.

For whatever reason the people running the UKs actions are doing the opposite of protecting people.
If that reason were true, you'd see new buildings now being built american style, now that we have wide access to the stock market, but it isn't happening. Even single-family houses are built with bricks.
This is going to be one of those cases where the professor makes a well-nuanced detailed well-researched sympathetic statement, the press turns it into a headline that makes him sound like an insensitive clod, and everyone just reacts to the headline instead of the full statement, isn't it?
This reminds me of Superfest (German for super hard) glass [1] which was produced in East Germany. It was optimized for durability so bars, pubs, restaurants, etc. didn't need to constantly buy new drinking glasses. But sadly after reunification production ceased as capitalism has no need for drinking glasses that do not break.

[1]: https://digitalcosmonaut.com/2020/superfest-ceverit-glass-dd...
Paypal's API is one of the biggest nightmare I have to deal with lately(1). As much as Paypal has sucked, at least it was super simple to integrate before: just set amount, freq, period, return url and ipn url and that was pretty much it and that's why even noobs loved PP and integrated it everywhere.

The new API otoh, no it has to render button dynamically using Javascript, with some very confusing REST api, API keys and tokens and a sandbox mode and endpoints URLs which change frequently for no reason. Even the page down button does not work on the API age, just to give you an idea how bad this whole thing is.

It's like the team who made the API and the sellers (the end-user) have never spoken once to each other.

(1) https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/overview/
I think he’s referring to houses built post-war till now. Read the article.
> $137M very obviously incentivates people to engage into frivolous litigation.

The risk of frivolous litigation does not even register as a problem. The amount a company pays in damages is a factor of the corporation's size, and a consequence of what it takes to actually make them fix a systemic problem so that no one has to live with it.

Otherwise, corporations could foster extremely toxic work environment and company cultures and any consequence would be written off as an operational cost.

Also, mega corporations like Tesla do have their own dedicated HR and legal departments, so I'm sure they can handle an occasional court case.
If you get caught with that, it's going to be <<super>> serious jail time.
Ugh. One of my pet peeves is the generation of release notes from commit messages. Commit messages and PR descriptions have a different audience (i.e. contributors) from release notes (i.e. users).

For example, take a look at ESLint's autogenerated changelog [1]:

67c0074 Update: Suggest missing rule in flat config (fixes #14027) (#15074) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
cf34e5c Update: space-before-blocks ignore after switch colons (fixes #15082) (#15093) (Milos Djermanovic)
c9efb5f Fix: preserve formatting when rules are removed from disable directives (#15081) (Milos Djermanovic)
14a4739 Update: no-new-func rule catching eval case of MemberExpression (#14860) (Mojtaba Samimi)
7f2346b Docs: Update release blog post template (#15094) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
fabdf8a Chore: Remove target.all from Makefile.js (#15088) (Hirotaka Tagawa / wafuwafu13)
e3cd141 Sponsors: Sync README with website (ESLint Jenkins)
05d7140 Chore: document target global in Makefile.js (#15084) (Hirotaka Tagawa / wafuwafu13)
0a1a850 Update: include ruleId in error logs (fixes #15037) (#15053) (Ari Perkkiö)
47be800 Chore: test Property > .key with { a = 1 } pattern (fixes #14799) (#15072) (Milos Djermanovic)
a744dfa Docs: Update CLA info (#15058) (Brian Warner)
9fb0f70 Chore: fix bug report template (#15061) (Milos Djermanovic)
f87e199 Chore: Cleanup issue templates (#15039) (Nicholas C. Zakas)

I'm reading release notes to get a feel for how the new release might impact me. This takes so much time to scan, because there's so much useless cruft (to me, as a user) I have to ignore.

What's worked very well for me is to simply have an "I updated the changelog, if applicable" entry in my PR template checklist. Then when I cut a new release, I simply add the release date above the release notes currently listed under "Unreleased", and they'll list all relevant changes, reviewed during the pull request to verify that it is relevant to users.

[1] https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
The EU capped intra-EU calls and SMS prices a few years ago: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/intra-eu-c...

Perhaps too little too late since everyone now uses messaging apps for practically no cost.
Covid itself creates an auto immune response.

It's estimated one in seven kids will suffer long Covid.

The symptoms aren't the symptoms of depression.
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But humans, even the smartest ones with great knowledge and experience in their field, make mistakes. Considering such a big outage last occured 13 years ago, I think it's perfectly normal for an experienced entity (whether a human or more likely a team) to make a big mistake in this time window.
Within Europe monthly free SMS to other European countries have been a common theme for a while. The main reason I see nether SMS not WhatsApp being popular today around here is how much more a app like Telegram does and how some of these apps actually protect your privacy. SMS is flawed, and WhatsApp everything but private.
> in junior high and HS (back when they had Morse code tests!)

I was in the same framing of age and schooling as you describe, and in an affluent area as well; perhaps the difference between your technology classes and mine was that mine were not "ham radio oriented".

Not that I'm disinterested.
We don’t build flimsy houses in the Netherlands, and we invented the stock market.
When I visited family in Canada, I found that the floor plans of the houses there were much more attractive than most found in Germany, but what I also said is: The quality even of the door to the house is less than the quality of the door to my toilet.

My dream would be: North American floor plans with German/Swiss build quality. Those would be the best houses in the world.
Calls can be listened to and texts can be read by Governments. In my opinion that's unlikely to change so there will always be a good reason to use apps like WhatsApp or Signal for communication.
Because people won't buy anything else - and why should they?! I mean (at least in Europe), the cost of the actual building materials is dwarfed by the cost of the plot on which the house is built, the interior fittings and above all the labor costs of building the house. So going cheap on the building materials is simply not worth it...
The problem is that these corporations don't pay correct taxes and corrupt agencies don't do anything about it. This is causing centralisation as they have huge competitive advantage over honest businesses.
All matter particles have a resonant photonic wave state (Energy state). The two differ by how their waveforms are compressed or expanded in time. The above wasn't my hypothesis, can't recall the author, but it came to mind when reading this paper's theorized source.

Based on movies of active sunspots, I can imagine those giant twisting magnetic fields on the sun's surface possibly being a source of unusual type of energy -- possibly emitting an unusual type of matter or photon.
I think it's the design. It should have been fault-tolerant to possible issues exactly like this, and should not allow the configuration to go live in the first place, in case the person or team pushing the configuration makes a mistake (or a sabotage attempt).
I think for drones of this kind you can set up mini phalanxes. They don’t quite move at the speed that a missile moves, and the caliber necessary to destroy a drone is much lower than that necessary to disable a missile.
Well, chronic fatigue syndrome is out there and has been suspected to be triggered by viral infections for long time. The community actually became quite hopeful when long covid came up that someone would finally listen. Maybe your friend has even found remedies among these long-term sufferers.

The people in CFS documentaries look as bedridden as those with long covid to me. So why does long covid get this much attention, while CFS remains obscure?
It only takes one exploding drone to create an open window, though.
Give it (say) 5 years, do the comparison again and note how many of those people have burned out, being unable to handle the fame/power/money. There's always an advantage to being "ordinary" and once someone's achieved a certain level it can be really difficult to sustain it.
Some guy says it's overblown and this is ranking on HN? Personally, I know several people who are not normally complainers or full of shit who have had some wild effects for 9-12 months after a bout of covid, including visual disturbances, extreme exhaustion, and loss of focus or mental acuity. I really don't doubt my friends who've suffered this. They're not the kind of folks who think they have made-up diseases or tend to malinger.
Good points. Then it should just tell the user that they appear to have no internet service.
My guess is that the industry has been developed in one way and there is too much history, infrastructure and experience to change.

In Europe builders know how to build brick houses because that is what they have always done. In the US they are built from wood because that is what they have always done.
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> In contrast, houses and most buildings in Europe are much sturdier, being built with stone or cinder blocks or brick for the whole wall and inside walls.

I don't know the stats, but cinder block construction is very common in Florida. The house I grew up in is cinder block, which helps with hurricane protection.

I currently live in California, and one of the big surprises when moving out here was how much of the construction is simple wooden frames. I wouldn't extrapolate that to all of America.
At what point will taxes be collected at the EU level?
The question is why the Times/Telegraph (and their low-IQ equivalents such as the Mail and Express) are so keen to downplay Covid.

My hunch is that their owners are losing money on property investments and are desperate to get employees back in the office, who knows.
What's New:

* https://docs.python.org/3.10/whatsnew/3.10.html

* https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html
Its one of those weird reddit comments that the bots always make in default subs "Always have a plunger", "always buy a plunger"

I always wondered about this... I'm 31 and have never needed to use one, i assumed it must be super common in another English speaking country but never knew why.
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"Nothing but gyp rock, chip board and vinyl siding. The cheapest materials you can buy!", my grandpa would lament whenever we would drive past freshly erected sprawl.

He was getting a little senile at that time, so he would say it a lot.
That ccc.de page was taking forever to load for me.

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Yo5NdrVto
Ok, if you are a colonist building a house in the Wild West, that's a concern, but in the 21st century?! In the 21st century of course you can say "we always did it this way", same as with the Imperial System, but then you shouldn't be surprised about articles like this.