skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just thinking about this today. How great would it be if we could write native code in TS syntax. Everyone knows it and it's easy to learn. It would mean that TS would be the only language you ever need to learn. TS is going to be here forever. I do believe this is the future.

Every new language comes with great new features, but then layers some weird new syntax over the top, as if it's doing it just to be different, or avoiding being too similar too JS because it wouldn't get approval from the hardcore language crowd. I get how it's fun to play with something new, and get that rush as things slowly start to click, but I'd rather just build stuff.

I was always thinking: what are the minimal changes you need to make to TS code to have it run natively with a borrow-checker. If someone did this, you would then have the entire JS dev community writing performant native code, and we could have a quantum leap in performance of everything.

And now it turns out someone has. Kudos!
Yeah, particularly when it's real-world "off the rack" garments rather than couture items. Most fashionable items will still look good 5-10 years later.
If you have "several messaging apps" on your phone, I'd wager that you are using a messaging app by the government. Unless you have SMS disabled and talk to Grandma in her Matrix server, I doubt anyone is truly "safe" from government surveillance.
Your power user status gets debuffed every time you fall for a Microsoft trick.
Everyone shouldn't be required to meet the highest standard of protection. Everyone should be required to meet the highest standard of protection that can be achieved with neglible risks.

COVID infection has significant risks that rule it out as a medical intervention, even it is sometimes beneficial. Vaccination is virtually risk-free.
Don't worry, soon jab #3 will be required to be fully vaccinated (like in Israel... this is not some hypothetical), and we'll get to start this dog and pony show all over again. And yes, the societal stability and wealth inequality have a lot to do with this discussion. The government insists on spending social capital that it doesn't have; against a population that does not trust it. Just like deficit spending catches up with you, spending social trust capital catches up with you too. Except it's much faster and a lot more destabilizing.
Got any links from reputable sources for those claims?
I quit FB for a bit over a year then came back because I missed connecting with people. I was quickly shocked by what I was actually 'missing'. The thing that jumped out at me was a former elementary/high school classmate who was literally arguing for vehicular manslaughter (murder?) -- that protesters should be run over at high-speeds for blocking the freeway[0].

Now, that's one post from one person. Yes, it's an outlier, but there was a ton of truly corrosive shit people were posting. I quickly found that for me, getting out of FB altogether was the best option. I deleted my account a while back and I don't miss it.

I get that people can actively curate their feed and use FB as a tool for communication, but for me, that's far too much effort and wasn't worth it. I'm actually quite sad -- the promise of what FB could be falls far short of what it is.

[0] https://www.startribune.com/500-gather-near-u-of-m-to-protes...
I also consider lifetime usage of clothes when I buy. Eg a laminate belt that breaks after a year is inferior to a more expensive full leather belt that I have worn every day for 3 years with almost no signs of wear.

Interesting that they consider 20 uses to be the average. It would be nice if they kept a public list of best value fashion that was durable and long lasting, that would be good for the environment.
The problem here is "other people".

I'd like to use irc as a messaging platform, but almost noone uses it anymore. If all your friends and family use only whatsapp, you have no choice.
CS is way more than just programming. I can promise you that if you pursue this path you will learn tons of stuff you had absolutely no idea about. You may not realize how little you know... At my local university the strongest students were writing their own chess engines in C++ in the first half of their first semester. The second year their own ann libraries.

Not saying you shouldn't do this - I think you should because CS is tons of fun - but thinking you can do it without spending time and effort on it is naive. If you have money saved why not take an extended vacation and run through as many CS and math courses as you can?
And as thanks to your hard work, putting your lives at risk over the past year, you're fired.

What? You say you're immune because you already had it? Doesn't matter.
I was just making sure kids would go to school and had a sense of national pride. I helped them be involved in their communities.

Was I a nazi? Well, yes, but I don't see how my work helped gas the jews 1000kms over there. I was just doing community work as a nazi and helped a lot of kids stay in school. Are my actions may have made people higher up have a better control over the population and future soldiers, in my opinion, not really.

/s
I bet they never tested taking out their own DNS.

IRC does use DNS at least to get hostnames during connection. I'd be surprised if it didn't use it at other points.
Is it, though, in this day and age? It seems that, in the developed world at least, ideas are promoted and normalized via mass media and/or the Internet, and protests are rather the outcome of than than the cause.
If your life gets negatively affected by whatsapp being unavailable, order a new life instead.
At least install Signal, Telegram et al and wean everyone else out of fb-wa.
Nonsense. You have no evidence to show they're not illegal.
Let me rephrase this:

If China takes over Taiwan, how soon can USA build a united force with Japan, Australia, South Korea, probably British, India etc to take it back, like what occurred in Kuwart?

This might set all of us back 2 decades but other options will be worse?
Whatever you think of Zuckerberg, Ayn Rand, or politics, it's unquestionable that Zuckerberg and Facebook have built, bought and maintained useful services used by billions. That's literally what the featured tweet is complaining about - Whatsapp is so crucial for so many it's like a utility.
engineers will tell you that not everything is reversible even if theres no specific cqpacity issue
ICQ was once the king of the hill, then Msn messenger, for a short time google talk, then WhatsApp. People find alternatives, things change all the time
This is from May of this year. Fast Company put out an article at the time that said it's not true: https://www.fastcompany.com/90634247/no-a-texas-company-is-n...
I seriously doubt those people couldn't just call normally instead
Today I learned. Thanks for the info! You know they say the best way to get information is to be wrong on the internet. Someone will come fix you up pretty fast.
What I meant is their true motivation and intentions (war efforts) were different than what they made it appear with the VoC capital raising.

EDIT: in "The World's First Stock Exchange" [1], the author outlines this historical context of conflict between Netherlands and Spain, which spurred the VoC and - considered to be - the first stock market.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18847884-the-world-s-fir...
It's the aggregate experience is and its influence on society that is more important than the experience of an individual user.

Twitter may seem like more of a war zone, and that's possible, but you have to actually measure things. I suspect the dark corners of Facebook are darker than Twitter, because Facebook is more siloed.
The current US federal government has no public good will left to burn. You have to be deluded to think they do.
Great idea, I think this have a big market especially seeing big news sites currently have an audio.
Like the product & idea.
Quantum computer algorithms use mathematics that we don't teach our kids
Great points! A-B seems to be in more dire straights than were presented.
It would be pretty irresponsible for emergency services to be dependent on WhatsApp or anything of its ilk.
> > for an experienced programmer a terminal renderer is a fun weekend project and far away from being a multiyear long research undertaking.

> You shouldn't automatically assume something is actually bad just because someone shows a [vastly] better proof-of-concept 'alternative'.

Apparently you should. I can confirm that the first quote is a appropriate assessment of the difficulty of writing terminal renderer. Citation: I did pretty much exactly the same thing for pretty much exactly the same reasons when (IIRC gnome-)terminal was incapable of handing 80*24*60 = 115200 esc-[-m sequences per second, and am still using the resulting terminal emulator as a daily driver years later.
Which is fine- but that also means it isn't applicable to the current variant.

If you say it's too old to study the current virus, it's also too old to justify any treatments or policy with the current virus.
it's reasonable to discount for comorbidities with covid deaths.

how many vaccine deaths occurred among people with 3/4 comorbidities?

assuming vaccine deaths are lower, and the long-term risks for the virus and vaccine are both unknown, why would a risk-based analysis suggest the virus is safer than the vaccine?
Amusingly, your comment is the actual lie. iCloud backups are an opt in cloud backup solution. They are not enabled by default and myself (and many others) have never used them.
Site is unusable on mobile because of the ads
Give us the dirt on how google does it's disaster planning exercises please! Do you do these exercises all at once or slowly over the year?
Adults realize what unchecked authority is like, and that this isn’t it.

They also realize that a global pandemic has left no country untouched, and even enemies are desperate for vaccination.

Finally, adults realize what a privileged position we’re in and that insisting rights are being trampled (whose rights?) doesn’t make it so
Although:

> there were no significant side-effects shown by any of the volunteers taking prucalopride in this study.

So, you can experience them and if you do they're acceptable (medically speaking, I'm not sure how acceptable I'd find them experentially). The supervision level is light touch, the volunteers weren't rigged up to a drip in an ICU.

I'm not advocating this drug, you may as well purchase some 5HTP from your choice of shop, but it doesn't seem dangerous at all. Exercise and diets have similar warnings and possibly worse side effects.
Few weeks ago I had to reach the Westjet Customer support team for some help with my itinerary, after waiting on hold for over three hours and without any call back the only way I was able to reach an agent was via WhatsApp as they seem to have a higher response time over there. Three days later I received a call from an agent mentioning that he is returning a call... If it was not for Whatsapp I would have missed my flight as they wouldn't be able to make those changes.
Wait I was told that the truck driver shortage was purely a Brexit issue? How can it be happening in Texas as well?
I created a programming language and this blog is powered by it
and irc folks have splintered now to irc4ever hardcore, matrix preachers, mastodon tooters, other small social media jesuses and so on. oh, and discord lunatics. Can't wait for that walled garden to crash.

Good thing is that there are choices.

Bad thing about the good thing is that there are too many and we're stretching thin.
1. If Taiwan loses, the fabs will be scuttled.

2. If China loses, they will bomb the fabs on the way out.

3.
Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it.

Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing glorified bikeshedding, and providing an explainer of how BGP works that can be gleaned by reading virtually any introductory text on it, and using it as a marketing opportunity.
I don't think so. MS documentation references this article -https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/l...

which states "The Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) is designed for Windows 10 devices and use cases where the key requirement is that functionality and features don’t change over time. Examples include medical systems (such as those used for MRI and CAT scans), industrial process controllers, and air traffic control devices."

I know MS can behave like the bad guy at times, but "disabled hospital and air traffic control equipment" isn't the kind of bad any company intentionally aims for.
Network effect, so businesses have no one else to depend on.
Well you've been living under a rock I guess. Try reading all the recent WSJ articles. Many of us who despise Facebook deleted our accounts long ago.

Books to read:

- "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now"

- "Surveillance Capitalism"

- "The Attention Merchants"

And those aren't even the most scathing ones about Facebook.
Just out of curiosity, in that taxonomy how would you characterize Reddit?
> I take it you haven’t actually tried to do this?

What is “this?” I’m talking about cheap and simple early interventions that delay or even avoid needing to put elders in a home by avoiding the negative effects of badly managed healthcare. Incidentally, this level of care is the vast majority elder care that gets no funding or attention; instead, the focus is put on the hard cases or intervention when it’s too late and too difficult. What are you talking about?
The problem nuclear power has had is nuclear reactors are a great tool to build materials for a nuclear bomb. If everyone accepted them then access to nuclear weapons would have been a lot easier.
Yes, plus it's pointless trying to get my family to use Signal - they don't want to download an additional app to talk to me.
Both my mobile and ISP have gone down over the years many times more than fb, and often for much longer (last year it was a solid week), and I live in one of the most connected points on the west coast.
The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium (2019)
(2014) - according to the copyright notice.
I've no background in the field but tend to agree. "Humans have thousands of different kinds of sensor mechanisms, and here are two of them" - seems like an award that could be given repeatedly, no?
People dying of COVID are usually heavily sedated with a tube down their tracheae.

They don’t have last words, they either get better or die.
That same dark pattern exists on MacOS, even though it's less widely used https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748596
Vivaldi is an interesting browser... it's developed by some of the people that used to work on the original Opera browser. Opera was sold and now also uses Chromium, but it's closer to Chromium (and Brave) in terms of UI and features, than to Vivaldi and the old Opera.

I've tried it, but it tries to do a lot (email client, notes, very customisable, etc) and sometimes I would get overwhelmed with all the options. It also seems to use more resources and was not as fluid as other Chromium-based browsers (at least on my machine). I've heard that they rely a lot on javascript so it's easier to maintain the UI and features across all platforms, but the performance suffers a bit.

Brave is closer to Chromium and Chrome (UI, features, etc). If you try it, keep Brave Rewards off, ignore the crypto side of things, it can be a nice Chrome replacement if you don't need all the Google stuff (sync, etc).

In any case, if you're happy with Vivaldi, then keep using it. I don't think it's a bad browser, but sadly it doesn't fit my needs.
Hahaha... I can relate to that. Email is synonymous with Gmail now, something that only dads and uncles use. :-)
I feel like it just confuses the issue with a bunch of unnecessary babble about DNS, theres better ways to read about how BGP works without confusing a bunch of different things. The only part of the article that was relevant was 'Routes were withdrawn' - the rest being a consequence of that.
What I don't get is why there is no dead-man switch mechanism in place to roll back the configuration automatically unless someone confirms it positively. Kind of how screen resolution rolls back if you don't ack it. I used to always run a "(sleep 600; iptables -F) &" when messing with remote personal stuff just in case I lock myself out.

I suppose with something like BGP it would be very difficult to get such a fallback working given how distributed the system is, and even more difficult to keep it exercised and tested.
not just in the building, but are there any microsoft enabled security doors between you and them
see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748596
May give Firefox Mobile with uBlock origin a try. Site works perfectly for me
Your account got banned due to scraping of the website.
Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook
It is immunity which confers safety. You can achieve immunity by vaccination, but if you've already had covid, you have better immunity.

Many countries recognize this

When the government requires people to get a medical procedure, it had better be necessary, not just for the population, but also the individual.

If there is no benefit to the individual, it is unethical, and probably illegal, to force a person to get it.
>> I really wish they'd focus on just making be best HW/SW that they can and respecting the user.

They can't increase revenue any more without "monetizing" the OS and users at this point.

It just doesnt take a trillion dollar company to maintain a decent OS and office suite. It never did.
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reading krebs suggest they couldnt do anything because all the security ran through the same computers keeping facebook.com

they basically ran into a footgun
Instead develop a system to auto upgrade users to latest release with security patches like iOS, G is focusing on the tweaking icon/layout with a new "(im)material design".
Wouldn't they be at 100% if they dropped the unvaccinated?
As a one-time guelphite, seeing the University of Guelph in that TimeInDaylight tool link caught me quite off guard!
I vote they hire user BitAstronaut when he finishes his degree in a few months. Seems like a pretty cool person.
International calls might be too expensive unfortunately.

The phone call might be right before ventilation rather than last words too.
Can you share some examples of some net positive things McKinsey does? I generally hear the bad stuff?
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I mean... they're in the business of keeping websites online. It's natural that they document these events both for their own research and to market their product.
Same here. I'm not a FB fan but I still use it. I do have a few old friends or acquaintances who post pictures of their families and vacations. It's not the most intellectual content but it's certainly not toxic and it let me stay in touch with people.
If you are a cheerleader for "solving" aging / death, are you prepared for forced culls, or being enslaved to the medical industry forever?

The earth can only sustain so much life, and we're already running into issues in the west as is.
All very amusing. But most amusing was that facebook employees' badges wouldn't work. Hilarious. Can't get in the office if facebook.com is not reachable. (or whatever the unreachable service was)
No- it's about whether a 4% reduction (or 40%, or whatever marginal rate) in transmission is cause for termination, when we know that "compliant” employees, in a near 100% vaccinated population will still transmit the virus.

More so if the argument is that the hospital patient population is especially vulnerable.

We don't even know if the likelihood of transmission is reduced enough to affect over number of transmissions.
It's merely an informative blog post on a topic many people are interested in. I see nothing wrong with Cloudflare just explaining what happened, even though they had nothing to do with it.
My experience on Facebook is the same, but I also have the same experience on Twitter. I follow really smart people who are in tech who have interesting things to say. That's all I see on Twitter.
In many circumstances, WhatsApp works better -- like, a lot better -- than normal calls. Also it's often subsidized.

They probably could have paid extra money out of pocket to call normally and get a substandard experience.
now adays, sharehooders maybe be just as quiet as everyone at facebook knowing making a big deal could lose them value, and theyd rather sell.

shareholders aint much these days of cancerous growth
It’s massively viral news about the exact stuff they specialise in. I’m not too surprised that they’d be putting out content. After all, Facebook is hardly in a position to do so ;)
To cut a long story short, the media lied. Apparently fuel stations in the US have even run out of fuel and had to close due to the ongoing shortage of truck drivers - it just didn't turn into a major crisis like in the UK because it was only reported on by specialist outlets like Bloomberg, so almost no-one knew it was happening and there was no panic buying to cause more widespread shortages. Plenty of mainstream US publications covered the UK problems, but none of them seem to have published articles about the "fuel shortage" closer to home.
Oddly enough, 1nf is differently defined depending on which person or database you're asking/using.

Is it

. just to be rectangular?
. values are atomic? (and what does that mean)
. no such thing as nulls? good luck with that
. no duplicate rows (good luck with enforcing that in intermediate tables)
> It's arguable of course, but it the email he justifies it by end-user interests and he probably means it.

Perhaps I’m just cynical but I can’t help but think all of the Apple execs have had “best for the consumer” drilled into them for the purposes of the antitrust issues that are inevitably coming. If I were a shrewd Apple exec trying to posture against antitrust litigation and/or regulation I’d be sprinkling “best for the consumer” at every possible opportunity. Memos. Emails. Slide decks. Fucking everywhere. There’s no down side to mentioning it and a ton of upside if the document ever becomes public.
Except the global pandemic has left the vast vast vast majority of the world's population untouched.
In international airspace, and nowhere near Taiwanese airspace. I hate these sensationalist media beat-ups. When a bomber actually does enter Taiwanese airspace finally, the world will say "So what? Haven't they been doing that for years?"

"The Boy who Cried 'Wolf'" springs to mind.
Normal telecom services do not offer free international calls or video conferencing like WhatsApp. You also would need a sim card and phone plan. WhatsApp just requires wifi.
Most normal people don't have death wishes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/kamala-harris-s...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/18/im-not-taking-it-joe... (listen to the video)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-to-join-california-...

I'm not making this up. This is mainstream news or primary sources.

EDIT:

Donald Trump has been quite clear about the utility of the vaccine and proud of its development and availability under his administration.

If you haven't seen these before, and didn't know this until now, despite this having been one year ago, ask yourself why? Is it because you were fed a particular narrative?
This is more or less how I trade. It's not like they're going anywhere. Their stocks will be back, and probably just as fast as they went down.

A 5% dip is absolutely nothing though. It's not going to harm the holders in any way, and it's not even enough to benefit those who buy on the dips since almost all stocks eventually go through more significant episodes.