skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's so nefarious... phone numbers were just the easiest way for them to create a portable social graph without requiring users to re-discover if anything changed. Plus, it looks like this move is going to push them in a direction where phone numbers won't be required (as they've indicated previously is in the works).
He's not an expert in the field and probably did not see any of the data. I think that he should not give medical advice like that to the general public.
Signal is about as reputable as you can get for e2e encrypted chat
Why would they do that? would investing $100 million in "historically marginalized groups" bring as many new ears as Joe Rogan? I don't think it would, why would a company that is required to maximize returns to share holders and investors invest money they know would not bring the strongest returns? Its a business, not a charitable institution.
"The moon is just sunlight" was my favorite. I'd read that!
I don't think they will, it would be suicide (their business model relies on the fact that they can collect data from you. It's free because you are the product !).

Yet, it's still useful to keep in mind that they can disable your account at any time (with _all_ associated services i.e. your email, contact list, youtube history, Drive documents, etc) without any appeal (e.g. because AI would have triggered supposed misconduct from you or because AI may think you are not the genuine account owner !). Because of that, it's always good practice to periodically backup your data (e.g. using takeout.google.com, noting that the export from GMail is half-broken with non-unicode characters - which is why I backup it with IMAP...).
This is incorrect, it is an appeal to false authority, the "Nuremberg" defense.
If you, as an individual, take by force the property of a person that has not demonstrably harmed another, you are a thief.

If you kick in the door of another human being, that has not demonstrably harmed another's person, or by extension, property, you are an armed home invader.

"The law" does not change your moral obligations.
"the law" is historically speaking, a very poor measure of morality.

You have every right to extract a lethal price
from those that would trespass your person or property at gunpoint, as is happening here. They are armed robbers, and will continue to be until it is no longer worth "the cost".
I am black, and other than white people and professional activists that have a clear interest on this narrative, me and most of my friends are totally ok with uttering the word to discuss it if you are not using it as a slur against someone/someones.
Usually it's studio; but it's a bit give and take in that regard.

Some studios might have some bean counter at the publisher asking about things they think are good ("You gotta have anti-cheat/DRM!")

Other studios might be coerced to "if you're going to use anti-cheat, why not use this one we have a good deal with".

But ultimately it has been a studio decision.

I'm even swapping my current anti-cheat due to this kind of Sinophobia.

Ironically, we had to specifically ask Tencent for their anti-cheat (because it was the best available..) but.. people thought it was spyware[0]. To the point that you literally see nothing else about my game it seems.

Double ironically: we still had cheaters on the platform[1]... it will probably be worse with EAC (as it was in the division days[2], some people even blamed the state of cheating on "not enough anti-cheat"[3])

But, to answer your question: in my experience it's the studio's choice, but some people in the publishing chain might try to coerce a decision.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BloodHunt/comments/pkpr1t/so_whats_...

[1]: https://futuregaming.io/gaming-news/bloodhunt-cheating-probl...

[2]: https://kotaku.com/race-to-clear-the-division-2s-new-raid-ma...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivision/comments/4k17n8/confess...
Because US tech companies are making a lot of money, and could make even more if they hire more engineers.
"...most large tech corporations that profit from this business model lean liberal (Google, Facebook, etc.)."

I find this to be a rather bizarre statement. While internally, both companies (as well as the other tech companies) are populated with highly educated employees, who tend to lean liberal, their public corporate behavior is neither particularly liberal or conservative until they are publicly embarrassed.

(Facebook and Twitter were an important component of Trump's election campaign in both runs, and at least the former is a big part of the COVID-denialism movement, right?)
Maybe you should start habits that change this? You can try to blame this on someone else, but it's your own choices that put you here.
You're throwing away all your history in doing so. Personally I never want to delete emails from loved ones, which is where most of the storage ends up going anyway.
> It and the Air service the two levels of consumer device, grandma, grandpa, students, adults who just casually browse just need an Air; adults or students who need to do some work or work back and forth with school/work machines can use the 13''.

Umm.. why do you have to frame it like this? Why are you assuming grandma's computing abilities?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_data_m...
But the gyroscope looks at the sky, it points at the same star, right? This is how the proof works.
If all the folks who think Apple is all flash & marketing with no substance would get together and make products that are actually competitive with Apple's on substance, that'd be awesome and they might well get my business.
That seems to be a conscious decision on the part of Apple. They also live in the real world, where getting parts is getting harder. So in order to not having to squeeze iPhone and Mac sales they squeezed the iPad ones. We bought our Mum an iPad. Was supposed to be for Christmas but delivery was mid January >4 weeks. Try buying one now: 5-6 weeks.

iPhones you'll get tomorrow. Macs in two weeks. That's an intentional decision.
>Entirely a question of infrastructure maintenance and entirely not a question >of geography. Cars only work in the winter because of the high amount of money >spent on making roads accommodate winter driving, and the same is not done for >bicycle infrastructure.

Have you ever lived in a place that has -real- winters?

Show me a city that has real winters with real cold,
real snow, real ice which lasts months where the city has accomplished
what you mention.

Even more fun when there are a lot of hills.
Signal was built as an alternative to SMS so that design makes sense with that goal in mind.
There's no feasible way to get exercise at home?
Just locate them in Greece permanently. At least the summer ones. It is the birthplace of the very idea and the Greek economy could profit from the visitors.

It would be cool to have Mt. Olympus literally on the horizon when competing.
So? The risk profile of vaccines has been researched to death as well as the effects of disease severity.

Part of doing science also means having looked at enough papers and conclusions to know which questions merit further research and which questions are of little relevance to public health. It is extremely unlikely that you'll find any surprises here, and considering the open questions of long covid and long-term health effects on the population on COVID, I'd much rather the focus be on the more important questions.
Thank you! Matt is a huge inspiration to all rare disease parents. I will read the NIH SBIR grant.
+1 here, my understanding is that many of these student groups are actually just astro-turfing orgs to give a veneer of credibility while being used by the CCP to spread their message, keep tabs on students while abroad, and spread influence.
> The Past is Fictional

It’s interesting to think about how we tend to grade the “smarts” of machine intelligence by comparing them to what us humans believe to be the truth. Even if they were trying to teach us something how would we ever know?
Lets just assume the theories are right and that hedge funds have sold far more stock than is in existence, lets assume retail diamond hand HODLers buy every share there is and refuse to sell, for $10k or for $10M.

I can't find it now, but I'm sure there was an example of someone attempting the "buy the float" situation (not just Piggly Wiggly but another one more recent), and despite owning every share they were still being traded on the market. If I remember right it just carried on. Superstonk treat that as proof their theories are correct, I'd treat it as proof that even if they are right they won't get what they think they want.

Nor do they don't seem to account for the government stepping in and doing something like eminent domain and declaring the shares are worth a "more than fair price" and force-buying the shares at a fixed price of say $100/share, or even $500/share, or lets be crazy and call it $1000 per share - over twice as much as a share has ever traded for, and ending the situation.

I suspect a lot of people were waiting for 12 months before selling, as I believe that's preferable for tax purposes in the US, and that explains the high price until Christmas and then the more recent fall.

I also have 10 shares (bought at about $45). I have no idea about NFTs, but I feel like the potential risk is worth not selling for profit now. I don't think I'd buy any more at $100 though. If I could offset capital losses against income (which I believe you can in the US) I'd certainly buy more shares (although probably not in GME), but in the UK you can't, and I can't help but think the tap is going to be turned off on the US markets very soon so putting money into normal stocks isn't a great move either.
As a comment above stated, part of the "input" is the initialized values:

> Initialize hash value h0 to h7: first 32 bits of the fractional parts of the square roots of the first 8 primes 2..19).

My guess is h0 to h7 change throughout the algorithm. If you perform each step in "reverse" as you suggest, "picking" any input at each step that produces the required output for that step, then you may not arrive to the correct initial state with the square roots of the first 8 primes.

You'll arrive at "random-ish garbage".
I mean, further down the road than here. In addition to casually dropping the N-word, Rogan said some stuff that would've been considered Racist even in the way-back times of 2010 when he said them.
I thought this was gonna be about Rimworld.
> And unlike other loss leaders like YouTube (let's face it, ads and $9.99 rentals aren't gonna compensate for the countless live streams eating bandwidth)

Do you have a source for this? My understanding is that YouTube is now a big revenue stream for Google and probably started breaking even years ago.
signal.org is displayed right next to the title.
Critical race theory != discussion of racial issues

Noone banned discussing race, they banned a political marxist agenda.
That's what the story about, but non-accredited investors aren't only prevented from investing in those particular companies. They're prevented from investing in the good ones, too. You say that the casino will pay your unlikely winnings, but the thing about casinos is that unless you actually have an edge, the more you gamble, the more you lose. The vast majority of games have odds that result in the house making a profit over time. And yet we're allowed to spend our money freely in casinos.

There are all sorts of penalties for bad behavior on behalf of companies. Of course, that doesn't guarantee they'll make money, but I think it's a very valid point that we're allowed to waste our money on all sorts of dumb bullshit, but not on something like investing in startups, which at least has a possibility, however remote, of resulting in some sort of return.
I get that they exist to protect people from getting scammed, but it also locks people out of some of the best ways to create wealth unless they’re already rich.

Crypto is an example of both. More people get scammed, more regular people accumulated wealth. Outside of that look at startups, regular people are locked out of early stage investment (including many of us in the industry).

I understand the trade off but find it frustrating I’m constrained for my own good. It feels like being held down to the level of the (uncharitably stated) dumbest person.
You’d be surprised. A few days ago it was useful to look back at emails I’d received over a decade ago to work out when and how well some specialist book I’d books had sold.
Yep, mine is pretty much solely on Wifi and is only about a year old, so that may be why. I really don’t use it for anything other than just health tracking and when I drive with maps and such. So I’m sure usage, age, and connectivity all come into play, but it’s definitely capable or going over a day.
>many of us are running Minix without even knowing it

This is news to me; any more info?
Mailstrom seems to be about unsubscribing, as somewhat does clean.email (ironically I find their home page to be the opposite of clean). I'm talking about finding the random 40 meg videos my dad sent me that should have been a YouTube link. Ideally such a tool WOULD find the YouTube link, and edit the email to include that.
Let’s assume what he’s said is awful and needs to be removed because it’s dangerous. I disagree with this, but I’ll assume it’s the case.

Spotify removes him.

He goes to YouTube or something.

His fans go there.

Zero tangible impact.

This can actually go far worse - after the Trump subreddits got taken down they moved to another domain which is a clone of Reddit but only about Trump and now you have a smaller echo chamber with the same people attending but less counter-information or moderation. So it’s possible that you can make things worse this way too.

It could make an impact if he was banned from Spotify and then quit podcasts entirely, but that’s not likely because it’s so popular.

All the time we discuss this we aren’t addressing truly horrific issues like Chinese persecution of Muslim minorities or the mobilization of troops in Ukraine or other things that people will actually remember in a few months or the UK government doing all sorts of interesting things.
This very much seems like a way to dismis anyone you disagree with
>Before Uber, cabs (in SF) refused to take credit cards, regularly didn’t show up when pre booked

In September 2005 I spent 20 minutes on a Sunday afternoon trying to get a cab at 19th and Judah before giving up and taking a Muni. (For those unfamiliar with San Francisco, 19th is the main north-south route through the city, so is very very busy at all times.) This is the sort of problem that car sharing has completely solved.
Snowden's recent timeline suggests, at least, some degree of transferred loyalty to the Russian Federation. This is coincidental to his bid for citizenship.

At this time, Snowden is pushing the USA to de-escalate tensions by withdrawing support for Ukraine.

Snowden has changed to a full-blown supporter of Assange, as well as to an outspoken critic of recent US FP decisions. He has increasingly shown public loyalty to Russia.
No, because Spotify is showing more and more that there priority isn't really music anymore. I don't care about podcasts. Spotify has slowly started pushing them more and more. Now it's costing them music. I'm not alone either, most people sign up for Spotify for music. I think many music fans really care about music and supporting the artists who make it.

I don't care about Rogan or what he says. I don't want him censored. But the fact is that Spotify has less music now because he's on their platform.

This whole event shows to me where Spotify's priorities are. It's kind of just a final straw. I've switched to a platform that focuses on music and pays artists more.
> European labor laws are a major factor. It's much harder to fire people and a company like Amazon loves to fire people.

Not sure why I keep reading this over and over. Yes, it can take up to 6 months to fire somebody here in Europe (usually 1-3 months though).
The 6 months is usually for >15 years of uninterrupted work with the same company.

Justifying that "the company cannot easily fire because of labor laws" is just plain wrong.

If the 250k+$ jobs I'm constantly reading about are actually true, it's double the average that I've ever heard about for any type of Senior SW Devs in most competitive / innovative centers in the EU. 350k$ more so. Stocks are not even part of the TC.

In most EU countries, SW Devs make about 50-60k€ as juniors.

To reiterate, the math doesn't add up, so the argument must be talent, not laws.
It seems so stupid to try to piss off 11 million people.
I could see YouTube outliving gmail.
I had seen some headline that many of the SF victims were from one person but wow, 1/2! That is just terrifying. But yes, the rate increase is definitely worrying, I hope it falls back down soon given there seems to be much less rhetoric from this admin blaming China directly (or at least not in such crass terms).
Stars can still have parallaxes while bolted to the spheres. Maybe the spheres themselves wobble a little. Maybe the motion of the sun around the earth imparts a slight motion to closer spheres. The fixed stars are obviously on spheres far enough away that the sun doesn't shake them.
Google already charges for continued use of private Google accounts that have exceeded their storage limit.

Users can create another account to keep receiving mail, but you can't even configure the overflown old one to forward to the new one.

A strategy for using Gmail is to create a main account which you keep below the storage limit, always. Set up that main facade account to forward e-mail to some other Gmail account, and delete it.
what happens when they choose to support groups that you dont like? What if they decided to invest 15 million a year in supporting conservative causes or securing the border? Companies getting involved in things outside of their core reason is just asking for trouble. What you consider support to society may be very different than what someone else does.
Thank you for saying this. I mean, Computer Science is up there in the junk science department. Coming from a phsyics background, it's hard to even call most of what happens in CS "science".

Go to any CS conference and you'll see a whole bunch of papers doing micro benchmarks, saying that their method is X% faster than all the others, where X% is usually some very low percentage (and of course no errors bars are visible on any plots). You talk with the guy presenting the research and you find out that half the benchmarks were done on one machine, while the other half were done on another with different specs. Well, okay, now why can I trust the benchmarks? And how many other papers are doing this? And is your result even meaningful anymore? It's so depressing.

And don't even get me started on the AI/ML field. My god, talk about art over science.
Extremists (both left and right) only see black and white, if you aren't with them then you are against them. If you don't cancel Joe Rogan then you're fascist racist piece of crap in their life outlook.
Wall Street learns to relax about retuning to the office
This looks really cool! Well done.
My Mi Band 6 from Xiaomi easily lives ~30 days on one charge if used less (eg. no constant heart tracking, no PAI) and ~7 days with all tracking enabled (sleep, oxygen, heart rate, 1-2 workouts a day). With a third party app instead of Xiaomi "Mi Fit", I belive also all the data stays with me.

That makes me wonder - what does Apple Watch do that Mi Band doesn't that makes the time on battery so much different? I guess screen size and GPS during workout (Mi Band uses phone GPS), but other than that? (I'm not sure what other features it has, might be comparing apples to oranges, no pun intended)
Signal also has other issues on iOS, like the lack of message backup/restore which exists on the Android version.

Every time I upgrade my phone I have to reformat & disable iCloud lock and hand in my device before I get a new one. So Signal's workaround of having two phones side-by-side to transfer is a non-starter. (Also useless if you happen to physically lose your old phone.)
> the slave states had a population of 12 million (most of those slaves).

In 1860 only two states had more slaves than free citizens, South Carolina & Mississippi, and by a slim margin.
I guess much of the land that burns around L.A. is classified as a desert by some. I was thinking more of the Mohave or Death Valley areas where there is much less fuel to burn and preventing structures from burning is a bit easier.
That was a particularly weird gripe, considering some of the themes that have in fact been replaced by licensed stuff (looking at you LEGO Space/Star Wars) but the cops and robbers is definitely not one of them. The LEGO City theme has always been packed with cops and robbers and still is to this day.
> Two spheres. Proper motion can be explained completely if we allow each star to exist on its own crystal sphere.

Wow! I can believe we are discussing in the age of Hubble space telecope and Webb etc. the existence of crystal spheres and how they can explain motions of stars. I don't believe crystal spheres exist but I respect your belief in them. To me they are an unnecessary and cumbursome explanation.
To be fair, that word is rather unique in being a hateful slur which is also inherently bound to the utter dehumanization of a large group of people. If you take the 'use-mention distinction' seriously, this doesn't mean you can't mention the word as part of talking about something else altogether, with zero intention to dehumanize blacks. But many people subscribe to a kind of magical thinking where "bad" words are imbued with some kind of mana or occult power. To that sort of mindset, you of course would never ever dare to say the word out loud unless you were fully intending to bring us all back to that dismal time of oppression.

It's not an overtly stated narrative and doesn't have to make rational sense, only be emotionally appealing. But it's quite self-consistent in its own terms, and it's ultimately what justifies this kind of outrage.
Signal keeps all downloaded media locally until you delete it.

They don't have the resources to store files on the cloud, even encrypted, and don't appear to have taken WhatsApp's approach of backing up unencrypted media and messages on user's third-party cloud services like Google Drive and iCloud.

You can mitigate this by having disappearing chats (current longest self-destruct time is 4 weeks), or by going to Settings->Data and Storage->Review Storage and deleting the largest files.

This isn't a great UX design, as users are not informed there is a problem, or how to solve it.
Not on the RSS feed without me doing some jiggery to extract it from the link and render it in my reader somehow. But overall this isn't the worst example because it is on their own domain - often it'll be on a medium domain or something that provides no useful context.
I've been doing P90x or P90X3. It's entirely exercise at home. P90X3 (30mins per) is easier than P90X (60-90min per)
> I've switched to a platform that focuses on music and pays artists more.

What platform is that, and are you really sure?

Every platform that has a free tier has dismal pay per play numbers. But what I care about is how much of my $10 per month the artists and songwriters get. AFAICT it's almost universally 70%. But I'd be happy to be corrected, because I'd be really easy to convert away from Spotify at the moment...
My headcanon is that everything was brown and orange in the ‘70s because it won’t show nicotine stains as easily.
What even is your point?
On the other hand, if pre-iPhone Apple could invest into inventing the iPhone, I don't see why today's Apple could balk at a new effort of this kind, since today's Apple is vastly richer.

How much did the original iPhone and iPad cost to create? I imagine it would be an easy effort for 2022 Apple, and even a total failure would not dent their revenue by much. I can't imagine Cook being unable to do it.