skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always find it remarkable how people bash on IM without proposing alternatives. Should we all write our own libpng, libtiff, skia, cairo? Even libvips uses some imagemagick facilities for some of its functionality (file format support is just not there). While yes, processing images is complex and some formats are nearly Turing-complete (or outright turing-complete like the container/MP4 derivatives) saying "This software contains vulnerabilities therefore we are going to remove it" is an attitude we could have less of. If you replace your local imagemagick with some cloud service - don't you worry, in addition to your cloud bill growing the cloud service _also_ has to deal with IM vulnerabilities, containerization, sandboxing and all the other good stuff. And is lilely saving money by not going all the way on the above (if I had a dollar for every time a vulnerability could be injected into a service where images can be uploaded and the image renderer starts going out to the internet to embed something into a PNG).
Luckily we have data and not just anecdotes and humble opinions. For example, see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0: ‘Wearing a mask’ exhibits a significant impact on Rt in three methods (ΔRt between −0.018 and –0.12)'

It's not a silver bullet, of course, and there are some situations were masks will be useless: for example, when you get in a closed room with no ventilation with other people for a long time, masks won't do too much. Or if you get together to have dinner with others and take your mask off, well, they won't do much obviously. But masks are effective, and a pretty low cost intervention to reduce the incidence. That's a fact.
I disagree. You’re not losing any rights. People act like being able to say/do anything on these private social media platforms is important and censorship of it harms our society - but society seemed to function much better and be much less divided before these platforms arose.
My subscription to http://start.me has been worth every penny I pay for it.
DDG pretty much just whitelabels Bing.
>And these orgs now don't have any excuse of doing nothing about those human rights abuses.

Money still exists. Real WTA test is to see if they continue suspension once post covid PRC opens up. PRC already cancelled WTA events prior to suspension, likely past 2022 pending on how covid pans out. Short term this is cost free marketting WTA. IOC, FIFA, NBA, film studios still has costs, and they still choose China.
13% of the blackmail found in photos controls 50% of Big Tech policy decisions.

Hi, Ghislaine Hoch.
Agreed. From my observations of Polish Twitter and FB, tweet screenshots shared on Facebook generate more engagement than the original tweets.
I am mostly avoiding GUI stuff in my work, but from my experience
when you combine css animation with "infinite" then you get a constant CPU load, is it worth it? Are there more efficient way?
Sorry, I should have developed the comment a bit more.

Transmitting and date rates are determined by multiple factors, many that are known. Risk groups, ability and convenience to do social distancing, population density, ventilation, weather, population movement patterns and more. In this case we got Kansas city vs St. Louis, through the article is trying to making an argument about the world in general.

Graphs like this are basically pointless except for one thing. They imply that there might be a benefit of masks, and thus while its not evidence of effectiveness its is not evidence of the opposite. It is what researcher use as support for doing further studies that later accounts for known factors. If however one uses it to jump ahead, someone else can create a similar graph in a different locations and time to create the opposite conclusion.

(Small note about the time period). It is worth looking at the period between April and August. The two lines swap places which each other. St. Louis started out with a higher rate than Kansas city, and end up with a lower rate afterward. This is a pretty common pattern and follow the old "even out the curve" concept.
Hi, Thanks for the extensive reply - a lot to digest and reflect on!

First of all I think a broadly agree with the direction of your argument. In the early 2000s the decision was made to focus on single core performance and SIMD extensions rather than embrace a massively multicore future. I guess Intel got burned by Itanium and decided that 100% compatibility with existing software was essential.

I think that road has run out now. Single core performance improvements have slowed and big SIMD is dying (hello AVX 512!). Desktop core counts are stuck but on the server you can use 128 core EC2 instances. How long before this appears in a box on your desk?

Massively multicore GPUs have taken over ML but having tried to use GPUs for general purpose computing there are huge issues - eg the overhead in transferring data and limited GPU memory sizes. The good news is that if you use the right tools you can use say OpenCL and write to run on both CPU and GPU and take advantage of increasing core counts on both.

So I think we’re on the cusp of a change: much higher CPU core counts and developers having the tools to make use of those cores.

A couple of ps

It will be interesting to see whether someone tries putting lots of simple in order cores on a single die (I think there are early RISCV attempts at this).

The transputer in the 1980s was an early experiment in massively multicore CPU systems.

The Arm team knew early on that memory bandwidth was key and focused on that with the Arm1 (and were rejected by Intel when they asked for a higher bandwidth x86 core). The rest is history!
Stolen ETH goes here to get a shave and a new suit, then it can go wherever it likes

https://tornado.cash/
"Public figures are exempt from the policy, Twitter said"
Palindrome day is different in different countries, like Mother's Day.
It is not speaking up, it is just complaining.

Speaking up is aimed at fixing the problem. People who "speak up" do it because they believe it is necessary to create publicity around the problem to get it fixed.
Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
publishing usualy mean "making public" so showing photos in a private context is obviously not public.
It is hard to believe this would perform better than a Lazzaroni tin.

And I don't recall ever finding one of these things in a hotel room, even in Europe.
Funding the campaigns of prosecutors who refuse to prosecute crimes sounds like it falls into the destroying the fabric of society bucket.
The changes to Instagrams algorithms are, just like those of Facebook, to optimize "engagement". Where I believe most platforms fail is how they measure their improvements.

For the first weeks, or months, people just sort of deal with the new algorithms, because Facebook, Instagram and so on is part of their rutine. Engangement goes up, because people stay longer, as they can find anything. Over time, engagement then decreases, as users are increasingly annoyed. They starts to use the platform less and less, because the content they originally came for is hidden away. At that point the platform has moved on and is no longer seeing users leaving as a result of some change made months ago.

I'd be extremely surprised if Facebook has the attention span to tracking changes to their platforms over longer periods of time. As a result they focus on sort term improvements, because that's what they reward internally, without considering what the cost will be next year.
The URL is full of dashes and underscores, clearly not standard Base64.
LOL — thanks for a lighter spin on the discussion!
With the caveat that matching process might mis-match things when the same song exists in subtly different versions and there isn't a good way to manually override it when that happens.
And at that point I usually look it up in wikipedia or on my left arm, because I'm not sure anymore
Regulations in DeFi would do nothing but turning it into traditional, permissioned finance but on blockchain. Nobody wants that.
You can't find many things that Russian government deems inappropriate in Yandex. Yandex, Google and Bing(DDG is basically Bing proxy) just have different sets of biases.
First, there’s a difference between moderation by prioritization vs blacklisting.

Second, if I search for “the Pirate Bay website” I’m pretty sure there’s an objective result that should be there at the top.
Maybe the Pfizer dose just needs to be higher like Moderna's
Let’s be clear, is Epstein a public figure?
Or just put in what you can afford to loose. No hand holding from regulators needed.
It creates the situation where these two functions appear to be identical but they are not:

A = x * y + x

A = y * x + x

It is an interesting subject, and in general you would want to balance usability, people's expectations, and succinctness.
Arm's marketing department doesn't consider it an abbreviation any more.

The progression of the Arm brand goes something like this:

* ARM (abbreviation for Advanced RISC Machines)

* ARM (not an abbreviation for anything, but looks like one)

* Arm (current name, still not an abbreviation, now looks like a word)

* arm (what the current logo looks like, even though the company name has a capital letter)
Reading guide:

DeFi: Decentralized Finance

DOA: decentralized autonomous organization; an organization represented by rules encoded as a computer program that is transparent
When you have A=xy+x from math perspective it looks like assigning a value to a variable. When You use A(x,y)=xy+x it looks like math function definition. You can look at it as if used variable assignment syntax and changed underlying semantics to the function definition syntax. I suppose, people are familiar with classic math syntax and it will be difficult to change their beliefs. But I also believe, that smartphone usage can change people habits. When function body defines the function signature, it is much easier to move around the function definition on small screen devices, define function, edit, and so on... I advice to watch promotional video for KatLang predecessor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya8beSCx1IA It is still available on Windows Phone marketplace as IlCalculus app. Next goal is to develop Android app and I believe then it will be much easier to convince you, that implicit parameter declaration is the future feature of the clalculator.
New tab page or more recently I've set my start page to a procedurally generated weather forecast image file hosted at weather.gov it works really well and it loads instantly which is critical for any start page in my opinion
> Where are the regulations, audits and security checks for this thing?

Missing by design. It is telling that a currency dubbed "USD tether" which (let's pretend) is backed by USD 1:1 magically excuses you from all regulations you need to abide by if you process actual USD.
> Your suspicion should make you conclude that you have nothing of value to contribute

It is quite rude to tell someone that they have absolutely nothing to add just because they confess they have trouble seeing a benign motivation behind your post.

Clearly they have something to contribute: a viewpoint that is their own, that they are willing to talk about without undue animosity.
Calling her a Nazi or fascist would have been fine as that's understood as an expression of opinion, calling her a swine is clearly an insult and insulting someone is a crime under civil law (not sure how this translates to the US but it's not something the police will arrest you for but something the insulted party can take you to court over).

There's a common misconception in Germany that there is a law about "Beamtenbeleidigung" (insult of a public official) but the truth is that public officials have no special protection in that regard per se, it's just usually easier for them to sue people (esp. when you insult a police officer as they're literally the police). There are some caveats when insulting government officials, especially foreign government officials, but insulting a Nazi politician on Facebook is not any different from insulting a celebrity on Facebook.

The problem with social media is that it can be difficult to find out who to sue and compelling a foreign company to release the likely incomplete information they have on a user in an attempt to identify them isn't great. I'm not saying the law in question (NetzDG, requiring social media companies to block such content in Germany) is a good solution to this problem but it's certainly not the worst.

If anything, the problem with NetzDG is that it allows users who are able to avoid revealing their identity unambiguously to engage in Holocaust denialism or Volksverhetzung[0] and have their posts still be visible with a proxy if blocked (allowing Nazi groups to organize and operate hidden in plain sight) or when the content is deleted for those crimes to just be swept under the rug and make it harder to report to the actual authorities rather than the social media company. Social media companies like Twitter have also made it nearly impossible to report ToS violations in Germany as the report button immediately funnels you into NetzDG technicalities users aren't meant to understand like which specific law you believe the offending post violates.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
On the other hand, there are numerous cases where Facebook has been compelled by German courts to restore posts they have deleted under their content policy to protect the user's free speech rights. Something like that is unthinkable in the US.
I don’t think you got the perfect syntax. Being both implicit and order-based is just begging for mistakes. Your Grace~ operator is esoteric, making it quite impossible for a casual reader to understand what’s going on, and being just another unusual thing for the reader to keep in mind about the language. This sort of thing is slightly mitigated by tooling support (an IDE-like thing that reminds you of the order), but it’s generally a bad idea to depend on such tooling for sane operation.

Meanwhile, `A(x, y) = x * y + x` is only slightly more verbose, but extremely clear as it matches standard practice in mathematics and is easily familiar to programmers as well. I think it’s fairly unambiguously a superior syntax for use. Short and non-repeating is not all there is to life.
If you just want to train your new hires:

- prepare good documentation

- be on a call with them when you have to explain stuff verbally

- be available in text chat to answer their questions

No need to be always on call like this.

I can only imagine this being used as yet another control tool for paranoic managers who want to make sure employees are always "working" at the desk.
There is, in fact, evidence that she has been silenced.
Atomontage launches early version of cloud-based volumetric graphics
> a market leader with 2 billions users

2 billion of low-value users; FB users are accounted at $150 a head; out of 2 billion users it's account for, only ~100 million would part with a $1 / month to use the application - less that $12 a year per paying user. WhatsApp doesn't have any other monetisation strategy, there are no ads, and the markets they are in are extremely sensitive to fees for payments, for example.

> It's just doing so in India.

Everybody is doing so in India thanks to UPI. Google Pay, virtually unseen outside Tap and Pay in other markets, has 35% percent of the market in India - Whatsapp has a high 0.27% percent of the market in Sept 2021, up from 0.01% previously. https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/upi-top-3-retain-...

India payments competition is ruthless thanks to low barriers of entry.
CoinTracker (YC W18) is hiring a Growth Engineer to help people build wealth
That one is kinda different. They renamed everything. It's not like transferwise is a product of Wise. It's transferwise is now called wise. In 10 years or so people will look at you weird when you call it transferwise. Branding and naming takes a while to catch on.

WWF to WWE - It tooks years for it to fully take hold. Sure some people will automatically think of WWE when you say WWF but not all will. And at one point it was called WWWF.

Datsun to Nissan - Honestly, you say Datsun to anyone they'll have no idea what you're talking about.

Marathon to Snickers - Very few people even remember this.
> Faraday cages are non-directional.

Per-se, yes, agreed, but I was wondering whether the transmitter and receiver antenna couple into the surrounding screen differently. The degree of coupling may de-tune them differently. If so then the setup which most accurately represents the intended use would be with the receiver inside the screen.
Well he’s dead. So in general you always have to be careful.
Record Number of Cyber Attacks over Black Friday Weekend
This comment begins with a call for larger sample sizes, segues to a single anecdote about a colleague, and ends with a sweeping conclusion that's contrary to most empirical research.

I'm not trying to be a dick, but maybe this demonstrates the flaws in a lot of our casual reasoning about public health measures.
> This should be built into the operating system

I agree, but I doubt it will happen. It was already a battle to get the permissions in android as fine-grained as they are. Even though they are fine-grained now, the permissions don't mean anything when every app demands that you give it everything it asks for (even though it clearly does not need them to work).
Try it if anyone other than trump. He is quite unusual. But any others.

The communist is on the other hand … could she be the exception not coming out as the bad ladies to apology, to be suicide or what.
That website looks like something Kendall Roy would have done.
Google used same tactics to grow Chrome market share. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
IEEE 754 is published and publicly available for anyone to purchase. It's not freely distributed, but that's far cry from unpublished work or something available only for members of the cabal.
Well, looking at the E-books category, I can see quite a few well-seeded entries... unfortunately, most of them seems to be focused on finding G spot and/or having great oral sex (not saying that's not valuable, but!) Almost nothing that caught my attention, and having no sub-categories in E-books means that for every title I find I'd have to wade through pages upon pages of irrelevant results...

Would be nice to know the alternative. Downloading everything and then deleting things that you realize you didn't actually want (after looking at the full contents) was a quite convenient UX.
I dont understand the FizzBuzz thingy. I mean isnt it just about who has the fastest print method? Correct me please, but this problem has period 15, so if you just write:

for (i=1;i<n;i+=15)
{ print i;
print i+1;
print 'fizz'
print i+3
...
}
You have the fastest , dont you? (if the ending n is important then one can just write 15 of such loops/endgame depending on the modulus). Since there is no 'if' the branch predictor should be on your side.
OK, for typing on a mobile device I can see such a thing, but I think it’d be better to leave the language doing the clear, explicit thing and having the mobile app assist you in some way with converting an expression to a function declaration with automatic parameter ordering.
If you right click on the chart and click show image, you can set that as your start page. Viola, the fastest weather forecast start page.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.8904&lon=-7...
Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.
Untrue.

The history of communications and information is rife with channels and sources of all description being controlled.

If anything, "neutral" sources are all the more subject to influence as they simply abrogate the role of censor / amplifier to others. All the more so if they're heavily used and relied upon, as this means that there is an influenceable audience present.

As my friend Woozle puts it:

Because of a high percentage of the population being present, there is now substantial power to be had by influencing the discussions that take place.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5wg0hp/when_ep...
Seems page offline
Same. I prefer Telegram, and a few of my closest friends also use it, so I use it the most, but even my contact list on WhatsApp is at least 5x longer.
You're my new best friend! I'd give you the contact for corporate IT, but even they ran away to MS Defender.

McAfee's users are not the people who suffer it on their PC, but the manager who love a big name and hate a migration, and the windows domain admins who love the centralized console. The damage caused by user frustration, lost time waiting, troubleshooting, and actual hardware obsolete before its time is not their concern.

I can tell from experience the windows domain admins disable it on their own laptop, as they 'know what they are doing', unlike the rest of us.
Maybe people are now used to the level of support they get from Google & Co.
Microsoft is now using special prompts on the Chrome download page in Edge
Modern software are just ridiculously hungry for memory that even many GB is not enough. This is just bad considering that we used to work with only GB of disk. I wish all software designs are frugal in resources.
I'm just going to leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g
Of course, it may be decentralized but many projects advertise it as "distributed computing" which it isn't. Since every node has to do the same calculations, it's only as fast as a single computer.

It's great at instantly losing all your money to a teenage hacker though.
It is not the same.

A1 = x * y + x
A2 = y * x + x
A1(1, 2), A2(1, 2)

returns results 3, 4
If You want to change parameter order, You can use Grace~ operator like this:

A1 = x~ * y + x

it moves parameter x one position towards the end of the parameters list.

Sorry, I do not know how to post code snippets in HN properly.
Here is another study, which was published:

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/08/05/Mas...
Worrying Yourself into Excess
Line Of Duty is absolutely excellent and a cut above regular police procedura, but it bends the rules slightly: there are times when the first the audience is made aware of a piece of evidence is when it appears in the interview scenes. Magnifies the impact of the drama but at the expense of it not being even theoretically possible for the viewer to be ahead of the detectives.
What other ways could there be to fleece middle managers...
What's the physics behind being able to make a container light-tight with a couple of right angle corners yet radio waves seem to leak out like water?
The Windows meta-API thing is done: https://lib.rs/windows

We'll probably continue using C headers as a poor ABI definition format, even without writing programs in C. Sort-of like JSON used outside of JavaScript, or M4 known as autoconf syntax, rather than a standalone language.

But C headers as an ABI definition format are overcomplicated and fragile (e.g. dependent on system headers, compiler-specific built-in defs, and arbitrary contraptions that make config.h), and not expressive enough at the same time (e.g. lacking thread-safety information, machine-readable memory management, explicit feature flags, versioning, etc.).

So I think there's a motivation to come up with a better ABI and a better ABI definition format. For example, Swift has a stable ABI that C can't use, so there's already a chunk of macOS and iOS that has moved past C.
Excuse me, racist, but those masks were made by minorities, and since math and science are clear signals of white supremacy, I think it's important we raise awareness about what you're really trying to say here.
Is there an alternative that you don't have to sign up and pay for?