skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that WhatsApp is pretty big in India and my experience is that WeChat is pretty ubiquitous within SE Asia. The Singapore govt uses WhatsApp now for much of its govt comms and a lot of small business uses WhatsApp. Also recently in the news, you can book an Uber via WhatsApp . I'd be curious how WhatsApp does in Japan and South Korea.

Also my hunch is that Aus and NZ use WhatsApp heavily too
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That’s not how it works in the UK.
You mean like Clinton/Lewinsky case? I mean sure, being more eloquent and better mannered is all the difference.
Nobody wants to lose all their money because the frontend got hacked, and yet here we are.
I personally aim for a startpage that loads instantly and since browsers no longer let you use a local html file as one, I've made an extension that registers a custom new tab page.

I don't use any frameworks since it's a pretty simple page, essentially just groups of links. If you need to, you can always use something like fetch to load external resources.
Scammers wipe gift cards clean minutes after purchase
Still missing the "football fields" unit of measurement.
> therefore your entered KatLang code is not sent to the server

But that's not something that even client-side code supplied by HTTP should be capable of ensuring, considering that somebody could have intercepted it somewhere on the route and replaced it with something that does send it somewhere.
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To me, if you cut out all the garbage, this sounds like going back to managed dedicated hosting. All things are new! Managed hosting is so much better than designing your own stack! Look, you can pay us to just do it and it's like magic.

Seriously?

I hate the fact that most of my projects live on AWS right now. But I don't feel locked in; I can jump off if I want. I don't buy into the entire ecosystem (read: the parts that are difficult to migrate away from), but AWS is just an amazing way to manage lots of resources and patch them together in any way you can imagine. And therein lies the creativity and control -- and cost savings. Because no two projects scale in the same way. The fantastic thing about self-managed cloud environments is that you can find the right size and scalability for each thing, and everything is where you put it. Zero-downtime is up to you. The biggest drag on downtime is people in between you and access to restarting or working directly on those services. In the 2000's, I used to have to put in a fucking ticket with tech support to reboot a server in a datacenter six timezones away, and it wouldn't happen until someone had breakfast.

Do you think people who write code and handle the optimization of it across databases and servers around the world, want to pay a middleman to "magically" do everything - and see why it doesn't scale, and find out who to call when it breaks? No, of course they want control over how their organization runs.

I mean, part of my job is just identifying services we're currently overpaying for. I can take that down to a very fine-grained level with AWS. Why would I want to pay someone else to hide that information from me?

"The edge" is like "no-code visual programming language". No one seriously wants convenience over power; but it's a great marketing pitch.

2030 will not be the revenge of managed hosting brought to you by lazy corporations like Cloudflare. It will be distributed self-managed stacks running everywhere.
Is this a response to J.K. Rowling's concerns a few days ago? Three people supporting trans rights took a photo in the front of her house, showing the address, and published it on Twitter. In a Twitter thread published by Rowling, she mentions people reporting it to Twitter Support helped to get it removed [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1462758324177444870 or backup: https://www.rowlingindex.org/work/ttfaddr/
If it draws on Turchin's idea of elite overproduction, calling the degreed Starbucks baristas elites is sensible. Turchin's thesis is that society can only productively assimilate so many people with certain kinds of degrees, or academics in general. Past that, training academics creates a class of people who expect to have status, but cannot have it because there's no productive thing for them to do. Partly numbers, partly due to the nature of the degrees involved. So we end up with degreed people serving coffee at Starbucks.

But serving coffee at Starbucks isn't high status, as academic jobs should be, which creates a frustration in these failed mandarins: They don't treat the status as something they took a shot at and missed, like you would when trying for a three-pointed in basketball. They have the degree, they feel the status belongs to them, so ending up at Starbucks is a loss, not a miss, and humans take losses like that badly. Turchin contends that overproduction of these kinds of people is a key cause of social instability.
You're justified in killing them the second you notice their existence and suspect it may negatively impact yours.

You'd be equally justified to make pets of them, keep them caged for the remainder of their lives, and give them a higher quality and longer life.

From the point of the rats, which do you think might be a better fate? They're quite bright enough to avoid annoying people; and the ones that aren't should be eliminated for the Greater Good of the Human and Rat species.

If you've got cars with the tasty insulation (a broad and under-acknowledged problem) you prolly better resign yourself to baits and traps in the garage from now on. They'll keep coming back, they can smell that stuff and they want it.
But that's pretty much how Google pushed out the then popular search engines: with search quality and a minimalist UI. It would be irrational for them to stray away too much from that quality focus.
> pointing gun isn't necessary.

If you threaten a person with bodily harm, I think it is reasonable to point a gun at them to get them to stop. Would you voluntarily get bashed in the head with a skateboard if you were in that position?
> as they are quickly catching up in salaries and standard of living, it will level off (sure, their domestic market is huge as well and gives them another few years or a decade).

Extremely naive. There are plenty of dirt rich countries, countries way more well off than USA which are still completely totalitarian.
They've been bought out some years ago, before that it was mostly just interesting articles at a much lower rate.
I've stumbled across some instances where the tracks as uploaded by the recording company had been improperly cut, though, so you can't get the correct playback no matter which service you use or even if you'd actually buy and download the tracks outright.

E.g. the between-tracks material on quite a number of live tracks of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series (which on the physical CDs is part of the pregap, so it's skipped if you directly navigate to a track, but it's definitively played if you just listen to the album straight through) is currently missing from all official digital releases, even though those bits are definitively part of the appeal of those albums.
Public figures are exempt from the policy.
Great point about his resignation email!
Damn, I need me a 6 minutes hug too!
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There's at least one RCT on masking w.r.t. covid that finds no statistical benefit. I don't think it's appropriate to reference modeling as evidence after we have thorough studies published.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817
I wish it covered (so to speak) aluminum foil more thoroughly.

In particular, foil is cheap, so rolling up in several layers (3? 5? 10?) and twisting the ends cracker-style ought to be more reliable and practical than trying to do it with one layer and fiddly seams. A suggested minimum number of layers and number of twists would be useful.
Note that the description above doesn't match the Wikipedia article: it wasn't "bogus patents", it was a full fledged research program.
Getting software to “hallucinate” reasonable protein structures
I don't particular like the illustration style, which doesn't feel appropriate. But that doesn't make it 'not journalism'. It makes it 'not the art editor's finest hour'
You're right that WhatsApp really took their sweet time to copy WeChat. I wonder though whether there were mitigating factors. I know bringing WA onto the FB infra was a big job. Also had a friend that worked at WA and he was talking about India Payments over two years ago
I started to believe these analyses were conducted by people who intentionally wanted to mislead. It’s impossible to find the effect of mask mandates this way. Anybody with a little common sense should know that. Why? Mask mandates were never implemented alone. Places implemented mask mandates usually also have other regulations like social distancing, closing restaurants or indoor dining, or temperatures measuring, etc. Claiming the effects are just masking is intentional misleading.
Is a cop beating a protestor a public figure?
Pandemic will continue to rage as long as WTO keeps bickering over vaccine rules
Masks by themselves aren't enough to eliminate the virus, though they can be part of a larger set of measures.

The entire package of measures that bring viral prevalence to zero are well established, and have been implemented in several countries. They include:

* Initial lockdowns to drive incidence down to near-zero.

* After reopening, strict quarantine for people arriving from regions where the virus is circulating.

* Thorough contact tracing, and the ability to quarantine people who come into close contact with infected people.

* Temporary restrictive measures (like stopping mass gatherings) during new outbreaks.

* The ability to rapidly test large populations during an outbreak, in order to quickly identify and isolate infected people and quarantine their contacts.

This is an entire system aimed at keeping viral prevalence at zero over the long term. It actually allows most of society to function normally most of the time, because as long as there is zero prevalence, everyone can go about their lives normally.
> I fail to see how this is different than any speculative asset?

To drive home the point from pjc50's sibling post, NFTs are "empty" speculative assets.

If you speculate with company stock, housing, or whatever else — there's generally at least some material value that could be liquidated. Even during a bubble when it's overvalued, it's generally not zero. And the cases where it can become zero (companies going completely bankrupt), there's warning signs and possibly even fraud.

NFTs just have no backing. Even "fiat money" (frequently said to "only have value because people back it", after gold standards went away) is different since it's backed by some country. NFTs? Nope. Just nothing.
yandex.com for the win. thank me l8r.
The US military and State Depts don't run their own troll farms? Or twitter just isn't talking about those yet?

How about corporate ones? Are we gonna do "sentiment analysis" on employee posts to see if the bosses are leaning on them to tweet about how great the new product is? Why not?
That's not what I did. I was implying that those who have a stake in Google's success also have a stake in their search quality.
Nobody forces you to put your money in DeFi protocols.
Personally, I use Vivaldi, which has a simple (but opionated) start page
Achievement unlocked! A submission I made on HN leads to a blog post from Taras Glek! On an optimisation that I actually remember when he was still at Mozilla.

For those who dont know Taras was part of Project MemShrink and Project Snappy and lots of other pref issues. ( I think he also worked on profiling? ) A lot of those were what made Firefox useable before e10s and Quantum landed.
> Saudi-Arabia is very wealthy, but journalists get cut into pieces, when they dare to criticize the government. In China you can be very wealthy, but when you criticize the government you will simply vanish. And in Russia you will be poisoned or just fall out of the window, if you are not useful for the government anymore. Whats the point of all the growth of wealth, if basic human right are violated every day in these countries?

This is awful, but it's not something that ever have been significantly better in any of these countries.
That's a logical fallacy - just because Google lost money in the past doesn't mean they want to lose money in the future. We don't know what Google's utility function was in the past, and certainly can't extrapolate to this case.
What is Web 3.0, Really?
Indeed. In my understanding, the authorities have the depth of training and the experience to easily talk us regular folks in circles and catch us in contradictions. Especially if you're innocent: lawyer up.
I think their point is that C is sufficiently close to assembler that you know exactly what assembly any given line of C will produce. This is an old canard which is not really true (https://zenhack.net/2015/08/02/c-is-not-portable-assembly.ht...), but it's common among people who derive a sense of identity from writing C.
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>Taiwan is not recognized as an independent nation by the U.S.

While that might have some relevance in the US, I'd be more inclined to ask the Taiwanese if they are an independent nation. AFAIK, they believe so.

Should the Taiwanese be subject to the whims of the US? Or of the CCP, for that matter? I think not.
> I'm pretty sure that counts as cheating.

It also shows how useless most AV is.
this site is FULL of people who make wildly unqualified, unsourced, incorrect claims and passing them off as fact

but you have to have a dig at the one guy who clearly and openly admits they don't know anything before continuing with "but I think"

wow
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I noticed that with DDG recently. Tried searching for fmovies (pirate streaming stie), DDG yields nothing now when it previously had the results I wanted. Same results searching for iteroni.

I compared it with brave search and the latter remains unfiltered for the time being.
That obviously makes sense to me, but IANAL, so I'll refrain from making any definitive judgement. A huge percentage of pictures are immediately shared with a third party (by being uploaded to the cloud).

Beyond that, while the rules outlined above deal with publishing, there are also rules for merely taking pictures. The exact rules for that aren't 100% clear to me[1], but if it's permissible to publish them, it must also be permissible to take the photo in the first place.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild_(Deutsch... it seems complicated
Fair - I will add this.
Clacks-over-HTTP Protocol Specification
>- prepare good documentation

That's already out of the question in most companies I worked for that weren't established in a field like automotive, robotics, medical, aerospace.

All web dev companies I know have their documentation in slack chats and in the heads of the senior devs with longer tenure who setup the greenfield, as their main incentive is to concentrate their efforts to ship-ship-ship to get features/sales/customers, not spend time writing docs that get outdated in a couple of sprints.

Needless to say, being a junior in such a place is demoralizing AF as you don't understand anything and by the time you think you're there, the goalposts have moved again.
We believe also that you're responsible for your own actions. That include sthe guys who attacked him while holding the gun. It is also entirely stupid to attack a person with a gun rather than backing away slowly and moving elsewhere. You won't win in the situation 99/100 times so you should extract yourself from the situation. He was not breaking the law by being there with a gun. If he was this court trial would have had a completely different verdict. As with most things in life there are two sides to the same story and two sets of responsibility and expectations.
That is not a good argument. What matters to companies is: "is this stable enough not to be a concern", and according to GP Nix falls short on that front currently. They will not care how you achieve this --- C, a rigorous process and a world-class army of developers like the kernel is fine; Rust, a sloppier process, and less developers will be fine too. Heck, I'm not sure they'd care if you deliver stable and robust software using hand-written assembly, if not out of concerns for long-term support (and your mental health).
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If you wanted to celebrate, but all the restaurants are booked, tell them you are quite flexible. Tomorrow (12/3/21), or during the weekend is fine too. And all the weekdays next week. Just make sure you get that reservation before next Friday (12/9/21).
Metaverse real estate and land boom
Audre Lorde chose her words carefully. Her use of “master” holds clear connotations that black people are still not free and the struggle continues. You can’t tear down the master’s house when you yourself are one of his tools.

It’s powerful because it’s a personal challenge in the context of white supremacy. And whenever you use the phrase, some decent percentage of your audience will be put off by it and wonder why you’re bringing race into a conversation that’s not about race. If that’s not something you want, you shouldn’t use the phrase when not talking about issues of race.
In general it takes years of education and years of real world experience to understand that almost 100% of code is going to have a bug or unintended functionality at some point.

The alternative is to learn this lesson the hard way, like these people have.
Additional ideas for Edge's PMs: silently corrupt Chrome's binary at download time, and mark the website and the binary as dangerous.
Funny thing: a friend of mine lives in rural Bavaria, with a very old, conservative land-lady. The kind that will call you once you exceed your lawful one hour of instrument practice time per day.

Still, she allowed rehearsals in the backyard from what can only be called a music formation comprising accordion ... and bull-whips.

Like literally whipping to the beat of the music, hours of staccato whip cracking. I honestly had no idea that that existed. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QquXdrDcX7I
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'Network endian'. Not saying it's a great idea though.
If you are wondering why you are seeing more of these it’s because apple changed their policy on this from a “no ads in notifications” policy last year. This change in policy is a net negative for users but it’s really hard for a marketing department to resist temptation.
It's worth noting too that the 28nm node is 10 years old now. [1] That's the biggest factor for power consumption. It's just a really cheap node to run now, which is why we're seeing it in stuff like Pi's. [2]

1: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/28_nm_lithography_process
2: https://omdia.tech.informa.com/OM016176/28nm-to-be-a-long-lived-node-for-semiconductor-applications-in-the-next-five-years
Depends what the tin and shaker are made of. The tin is probably made of aluminum which has a higher skin depth than stainless steel, which I assume the shaker cups are made of. A Faraday cage of continuous surface needs walls that are thicker than the skin depth of the material the cage is made of. Since the skin depth of stainless steel is lower, the cage wall thickness can be lower while still creating an effective Faraday cage compared to an aluminum cage.

Ref skin depth of different materials at different EM frequencies:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Skin_dep...
In this case it counts as trying to silence her so it would likely be removed. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/private-i...
> Twitter literally limits the length of your tweets

That's what you have screenshots for ... duh
I am curious about how you substantiate your claim about the rest of the world. In Vietnam, Twitter is blocked and Facebook is super popular.
Fair enough ... I really did not get that :-)
Interesting how US official enemies get censored, but the US's own propaganda doesn't.
You're right, I was wrong.

> GitHub Copilot uses the current file as context when making its suggestions. It does not yet use other files in your project as inputs for synthesis. [1]

[1]: https://copilot.github.com/
Hey, that account has gone private. Could you share a TL:DR of what happened if possible?
This seems prophetic. I'd be really curious what you could do with that kind of "Managed Instance" and why it was killed.
A caliber doesn't make an "assault rifle". I can buy a hunting rifle in those calibers as well. In the USA there is no -legal- definition of an assault rifle, it is a made up term to scare people. A semi auto shot gun, hunting rifle, and pistol are all easily within 90% as dangerous as an "assault rifle". Do those get banned as well? I think that's why people say it's ludicrous to say "we just want to ban assault rifles" because we all know what comes after that if you give in to that logic.
I actually agree with you - in many cases, I am sure they do.

But are they complete, and usuable enough in production? Did they ever acquire enough mindshare?

Did they get enough buy in?

The clear answer is no.
It’s a very common theme for people to implement something that they personally don’t use, but with problems so that the end result for the people that do want to use it is worse than if they hadn’t done anything.

Accessibility is a good example of this, so that, for the web, the ARIA Practices document starts with a big warning, “no ARIA is better than bad ARIA”—because in general if you don’t touch ARIA stuff everything will still be there and usable, but it’s easy to mess everything up if you set things in the wrong way (but you can’t really put guard rails in without crippling the functionality for those cases where it is desired).

Dark modes can be added by browser extensions like Dark Reader, and it’s not frightfully uncommon for it to do a better job than the author—on this site, for example, Dark Reader would handle the code highlighting properly, where the author neglected to. (Would it have handled the glitch background thing? I haven’t tried it, but from past experience of how it works I think it would have caught at least the CSS one, but I’m not sure what it would have done with the SVG one at all.)
Aren't you frustrated with the complexity of data analytics?
Last time I had a personal start page was during the windows 2000 days, it consisted of a few HTML files in my Documents directory, it was plain HTML and just linked to stuff.
It is time to go back to meta search engines I guess
Also, caution: If your phone is made from a tomato or other acidic substance, the foil may corrode, further reducing RF containment.