skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From WhatsApp privacy policy:

We limit the information we share with Meta in important ways. For example, we will always protect your personal conversations with end-to-end encryption, so that neither WhatsApp nor Meta can see these private messages.
My understanding is the stuff you can see are not a huge problem. They get trapped in the nose, sinuses, or lungs and get pushed out eventually. The problem is much finer particulates (PM2.5) that enter your bloodstream.
you understand management has access to sprint velocity reports right?
Unfortunately that term brings an even more awful memory back for me and many others, as That enthusiasm was used for a brazen lie to the American public:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
Ask HN: Should I open source my project?
I'm thinking about open sourcing my project but there are multiple hurdles to this.

1. I have aws services including serverless, cognito, dynamodb, amplify on the project as the initial intention was not to open source.

2. The open source parts run on container services and kubernetes and the whole server side might be expensive for indie's to run just for the benefits of creating a conflict free schedule on google calendar

3. If I open source it, do I have to rewrite all the aws services into open source alternatives?

What do you guys think?

What are benefits vs risk?

I think there will be an increase level of trust if I open source but AWS services adds a whole lot of complexity for anyone to self host.

Plus V2 of the project (work in progress) which is a hybrid between clockwise and doodle would also be open source if I open source v1.
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>> "specification left this undefined so that the compiler can define it"

>> I do however expect the compiler documentation to have an extensive section on stuff undefined by the specification and he should have said which is defined by the compiler

so your response is not to what he meant

> There is an entire section of the C specification that lists every single undefined behavior. What more do you want?

a similar section wrt the compiler he is using, because he's talking about "behavior undefined by C but defined by implementation"
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Yes, but all those people were incorrect.

It was the screaming racist Qanon anti-vaxxer maniacs that were pushing the "lab leak" idea, and they turned out to be entirely wrong too.
This does cost money, but if you are serious about learning vim, this is an excellent game, and reasonably priced. One benefit I found is that the game creates a curriculum that exposes you to things you wouldn't otherwise try in your day to day, simply because you don't know them.

It helped improve my vim muscle memory substantially. Well done imo.
In principle yes, in practice no, as this is a statement from the WhatsApp website:

> We limit the information we share with Meta in important ways. For example, we will always protect your personal conversations with end-to-end encryption, so that neither WhatsApp nor Meta can see these private messages.
I’ve read a few and there were some bangers for sure. His style seems to be to put forward these grand theories, which has its appeal, but I’m more interested in the empirical style these days
Rediscovering Egypt's Golden Dynasty
> I wholeheartedly agree with you, those dodging tax by just operating like a permanent employee but through a Ltd company are on the wrong side of the law.

I'm a permanent employee of a one-man startup that I own. Most of the income at the moment comes form consulting. I pay the exact same tax that I would for any other employee, or that an employer would pay if they employed me. Would you elaborate on how that is dodging tax?
There are two kinds of intentional burns - one where you intentionally light the fire to burn off an area (perhaps done after logging or refreshing a field) and one where you let an area burn because you don't care or don't want to defend it.

I believe the metric here is just "total acres burned" and I doubt intentional burning would count for forty million acres which is just insanely large.
I'm sorry that you feel the need for ad hominem here - I'm trying to engage in good faith. Do you have some links to the specific legal instruments defining exceptions for "school/student/company"? Open to being corrected here if I'm mistaken.
It no longer prefaces the code of conduct but it still has a mention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
99% of population are still in poverty because the 1% took every thing for them.
Why the Uber hack may lead to a decline in Magic Links
I don't get the value of "it's in the standard library". Ruby has the amazing (fir scripts) require "bundler/inline" that allows you to use a single file for code and Gemfile, as well as auto installing the dependencies, so going for standard library doesn't seem to provide any practical value except offline support
That is very straight forward and simple. Is there really nothing else to this? Is the reason for docker so that they can update the nginx mapping and people's containers will automatically update? I might port this config over to HAProxy personal preference reasons
Anyone else pained by the fact that it's 28 years later and we STILL don't have fiber deployed widely? My parents are paying $65 / mo for 5mb dsl, and it's the best option they can get a stones throw outside of the city limits. Pathetic when you compare it to municipal broadband deployed everywhere with powerlines like in Chattanooga, TN
My ancestors lived in thatched roof cottages with open fires and livestock.

Soot and smoke was one of many hazards.
Speech to text isn't difficult to do and within the the capabilities of Meta. I even wrote a basic proof of concept on what it might look like: https://github.com/smuzani/soundrecorder

It's not too hard to transcribe text into a few kb, or summarize them further on the client, and then upload that together with the rest of the data.

I'd be very interested in seeing those studies and whether they match up.
I am shocked this is a question to be honest. If you are executive leadership you should have negotiated significant equity when you were hired.

Downplaying happens often but that usually is in the form of the CTO getting X shares and the CEO getting 4X not the CTO getting 0.

Even if you are in an established company (think fortune 100) you should still be getting shares. At a small company it should be more.

To put it from a business perspective, the C-Suite should be highly incentivizes to move the needle and to do that, their compensation needs to be tied at least partially to the company outcome. Even if you make market salary (which it sounds like you don't).

With that said, if the company is established, has a product that is already built and is just in maintenance, or technical projects are not core to the company's business model that compensation goes down proportionate to the risk. If the company is already established the risk is lower for you.

I've had this conversation with a lot of people and this is honestly the first time I've heard "zero" for a CxO positional.

Perhaps you should ask yourself is your job role one that is strategic and your decisions make a long term impact on the company. If the answer is "no" you might actually just be a principal software engineer with a fancy job title.

Edit: To add to that last part. And this will be tough to hear. The CTO is at least partially a business and political role. If you need to ask this question and you didn't negotiate equity, you may be punching above your weight class. Not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes that is an effective way to get ahead. But I would recommend taking some business and management classes if you haven't already.
I mean, in general, management as a group has no idea how to retain employees.

Part of this is because (as you allude to) a very significant chunk of them don't even believe that's important to do: employees are just interchangeable cogs in their system, grinding along to produce bonuses for them.

But part of it is because retention is about motivation, which is a very, very complicated topic, and any attempt to create a one-size-fits-all solution to it will inevitably fail.

Of course, a large percentage of those who do believe that retention is important are deeply convinced they know exactly what one-size-fits-all solution is The One True Way, and anyone who doesn't respond to it is just some degenerate weirdo.

So they go on missing, and we go on shaking our heads.
Maybe not the duration due to the "skip" button, but YouTube seems to interrupt way more frequently, and you watch the same ad way more often than you would on TV. And the interruptions are just right in the middle of a sentence.
Not really surprising given that W3c is basically a subsidiary of Google at this point rubber-stamping any change to "standards" that google wants
In Texas right now you can get two meters to your home. One meter you use a fixed rate plan and the other meter you use a "wholesale" plus fee type plan, infamous example being Griddy. When the rate is nearly free you enable the outlet that charges your car.

Of course hiring an electrician and all of that would probably have a long payback period.
Ask HN: Best way to find help creating technical doc (open- or closed-source)?
Am looking for one-time help creating documentation (e.g. man pages, tutorials) for open source project (e.g. https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv) as well as product documentation for commercial products, but not enough need for a full-time job. Requires familiarity with, for lack of better term, data janitorial work, and preferably with methods of auto-generating documentation. Any suggestions as to forums or other ways to find folks who might fit the bill for ad-hoc or part-time work of this nature?
CMOS “brain” installed in 100-250um solar-powered robots to make them autonomous
here 2000+ subs 1900+ channels gone
I agree but... Productivity is really difficult to define, let alone measure in modern businesses.
Trust the Engineer. PMs care only for date.
People also don't understand that it is not additive! If brush burns off as it is "supposed" to do, the large trees can survive the fire, because the fire is relatively "contained".

But once there's enough brush built up, the fire is NOT as limited, and now it will burn all the accumulated brush AND the large trees, leaving nothing behind. That's a lot more burning.
As a Palestinian, I am not surprised this happened but surprised Facebook admitted to it. Obviously not a fan of FB doing the censoring but I appreciate their honest and open treatment of their mistakes.

Any company, no matter how good or bad is going to make mistakes. Open dialogue is how we should treat these mistakes, so they don't happen again.
David Sacks: IPO to exit for late stage is frozen now at least for 2 years
Huh. I cancelled last minute because I got covid.

Didn't realise the whole thing ended up not happening at all in the end ...

looking forward to the next one!
Sure, but not all of CA let alone the US is at risk from forest fires, so the point stands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley#/media/File:Death...
If you are interested in cloud prices, we have made a free tool to compare compute instances of major cloud providers. Storage is coming soon. Enjoy!
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And mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz92bJDp4eo
You have so many assumptions in this comment but I will sum up my response as best as I can.

First, websites are websites. It doesn't matter if it's Facebook or your own personal blog, they're functionally identical in terms of features. They both have a means to communicate with other visitors and they're nominally accessible to the public at large with one being more popular than the other. Meaning that you're saying that if hypothetically a personal blog became popular then the blogger couldn't just delete posts they didn't like even though they're on the hook for hosting content (paying the host provider, laboring to write the content, laboring to moderate the content, and so forth). This seems suspicious to me since it treats being popular with being a monopoly which the two aren't the same. Facebook can ban you but you and your friends can freely setup a VPS with a web forum and keep it private among yourselves to talk and socialize. If say Comcast banned you then I would think you'd have an argument but with a website, it makes no sense in the context that you have an alternative to communicate with users but that you don't have a right to communicate via a specific application/platform.

Second, you're not owed a successful business model. This is important as you talk about folks making a living on websites like Facebook or YouTube (which is more relevant in my opinion). If the case law did bear out the opposite then any act of blocking spamming, scams, or other disruptive economic activity on websites would be illegal but it's not thankfully. I'd rather deal with having several websites not letting me post content because it isn't a good fit them (imagine Free Republic, who's banned me many years ago, letting me spread the good word of PJ Proudhon and other left market anarchists, or me forcing Rebel Media [a conservative website/outlet] to host a transgender vlog). Rather, it means we can self-sort into sites that fit our interests. Granny's knitting blog need not be bothered hosting posts about aquariums. Joe's betta fish web forum need not worry about hosting knitting content. And so on.

Third, no one is calling police on people being racists or fascists in general. This particular scenario is nonsense, so I'm going to just shrug and move on.

Fourth, many of those blocking tools you mention would be illegal under similarly proposed social media laws. All these current attempts to regulate popular websites are just another way to force users to consume content they would otherwise now (ex. trucks with pictures of aborted fetuses being driven around nominally pro-choice areas). The proponents of such regulations are against audiences self-sorting as they can't grow their support base. It's why so many other unrelated, but significant, laws are appearing such as laws forcing teachers to narc on LGBT students. It's meant to break down sites that have appeared to cater to such marginalized groups or are otherwise a big tent platform (inclusive to many but not for anti-social movements such as anti-LGBT). It's a multiprong approach to the demographic changes that has doomed reactionaries for the last three decades.
> bounced off org-mode due to it's limitations (e.g. mobile apps for it suck)

I'm the author of an org iOS app https://plainorg.com and the vast majority of users are pretty happy. Org has a rich feature-set and we are a diverse bunch who like to tinker, so mileage may vary.

ps. I also authored https://flathabits.com which saves habit data to org format.
> point-in-time backups through the web UI

Is `fly postgres create --name restoredDb --snapshot-id backupId` that hard that's it's a deal breaker?

> support for Heroku buildpacks

I haven't tried it but there's some buildpack support: https://fly.io/docs/reference/configuration/#builder
Canvas, which I think is pretty standard, has views, last access, and total access time for all pages. I don't think there's a way to choose not to track, and I've not seen a policy for what happens to the data.

Our school also has mandatory online trainings every year or two, with videos in a pop-up with most controls disabled. "document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 1000;" used to save a lot of time, but with cross-site protections it's easier to use a plugin, which is much slower to adjust.
Democracy. You're talking about a digital democracy!
This is a message board about tech... comments aren't welcome anymore - we need evidence to participate?

I think it's interesting when a bunch of people chime in and say "Hey, yeah, I had some crazy thing happen to me, I'm in tech and understand how this stuff works, and there's a very small to zero chance this happened through some other parallel construction by the tech company, they just straight up listened to my conversation and showed me an ad".

This is what kicks off a handful of you to go packet sniffing and write up a blog post looking for this behavior. So yes, evidence is welcome but it doesn't seem like we are quite there yet.
The older I get, the more I realize that you could infinitely try to optimize for a decision to be right.

At some point you just need to decide.

The majority of things in life aren't worth taking to much effort to optimize your decision.

Your gut is a great heuristic, but the trick is to know when you should put in a little more effort than just trusting your gut.
I read the article but don't see how it addresses my point.

In any case, let's assume OVH had engaged in a hedge transaction betting that energy prices would go up. That would have positive value for them. But the hedge would be settled financially.

It would not limit OVH's marginal cost of electricity. And your marginal cost is what matters when you're setting prices.
Fantastic. I don't have a twitter account and it's really annoying to open a link and find out twitter thinks it's adult content (often not really) and get a login page. Or just scroll too far into the replies get hit with a login.
Not so much a definition as where the problem lies.

If the thing that can refer to a memory address changes size, there are very different problems than will arise if the size of "an integer" changes.

You could easily imagine a processor that can only address an N-bit address space, but can trivially do arithmetic on N*M bit integers or floating point values. And obviously the other way around, too.

In general, I think "N bit processor" tends to refer to the data type sizing, but since those primitive data types will tend to fit into the same registers that are used to hold pointers, it ends up describing addressing too.
Are you my manager?
More likely something on your end was listening, if you’re the one who got the ad.
> Under those conditions I feel that it becomes pretty hard to defend these apps.

The problem is that there are precious little alternatives.

This article focused on Christians as a primary user of these tools. Put yourself in a Christian's shoes for a minute. You, being a Christian, are convinced your impulses and desires lead you to what is often harmful to yourself and those around you, and most importantly dishonoring to a God who you are convinced is honorable and good.

You don't want to just say "no internet", but much content on the internet is so very well tailored to those impulses and desires. You are often presented with content that requires an immediate internal fight, and you know that some of those fights don't turn out the way you want.

Look, when you are committed to fighting, you'll reach for any tool at hand. I'm not going to wait for a tank to magically appear for me when someone throws a punch at me.

Unfortunately even though these churches are using tools with privacy issues, at the end of the day: it's what is available. And, the fact that the whole concern of personal privacy is often times at odds with the bigger fight doesn't help.
Hasn't the dump of the low usage hnt/LoraWAN coin and platform happened?

Helium stopped mentioning hnt and keeps referring to a new mobile token for their new CBRS cellular service offerings: https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/t-mobile-allows-helium-mob...
Designing an end-to-end encrypted note sharing service
Yes. There's a vast difference between "we're near a campfire" (where almost all the smoke and ash goes straight up and disperses over a very large area) and "the entire world is covered in smoke and ash".

The first is like walking near a car idling, the second is like living in Mexico City or LA before anti-smog devices were added.

Your lungs do work out some of it, but they will eventually get overloaded.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the creator decide on the quantity and ad placements? I've seen hour long videos with one every 5 minutes.
> Are all Rust data types mt-safe?

Yes, but not in the sense you probably think, given your second sentence:

> Does unsafe mode provide faster unprotected versions if you need those?

Some data types can be safely shared between threads, and some cannot. Rust checks at compile time if you try and use a non-thread safe data structure from multiple threads, and if you do, will give you an error. So in that sense, all of them are safe, yes.

You don’t use unsafe to get access to non-thread safe data structures, you may have both kinds, and the compiler checks you use them correctly.
Because (imho) it reflects project hygiene, health, priorities, and attention. Which I'd hope is a higher priority for something as important as a distributed network of proxies for a critical messaging service that oppressive regimes are blocking.
Pity - I used your link and tried hunting for the Mother's Day bouquet she was looking at but it wasn't archived.
Simple. In 25+ years of working professionally, I know two things.

1. No company has ever gone out of business because I left.

2. If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, my employer would send my wife “thoughts and prayers” and they would have a req open for my position before my body was in the ground.

My job affords me the ability to work from anywhere in the US and I am going to be taking advantage of that for at least the next few years to fly across the country and do the “digital nomad” thing.

But I also “live in a position of f%%% you” (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI). It’s been over 15 years that I haven’t been confident that if the pay/bullshit ratio got too low that I could get another job.
if you are researching something you need 100%, what I wrote 10 years ago with access to 80% has now turned into bullshit with < 20% available.
Also WhatsApp privacy policy:

As part of the Meta Companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information (see here) with, the other Meta Companies. We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services and their offerings, including the Meta Company Products. This includes:

- improving their services and your experiences using them, such as making suggestions for you (for example, of friends or group connections, or of interesting content), personalizing features and content, helping you complete purchases and transactions, and showing relevant offers and ads across the Meta Company Products

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Popular theory is they can't see or store your messages, but can analyze them on the client and profile you (e.g. interested in brazil nuts)
As far as I can see they are living in optional plugins (tentatively called "framework"), if I understand the post correctly.
I think the article is very shortsighted. By 2035-40 we'll probably have memory only (RAM) computers massively available. No disks means no current OS capable of handling these computers. A change of paradigm needing new platforms and OSes.

These future OSes may be 128bit, but I don't think the current ones will make it to the transition.
like Google, Microsoft, Apple

My preference would be to instead use CDN endpoints without any custom names. Akamai, Cloudflare, Cloudfront, BunnyCDN, KeyCDN, Fastly, etc... all using their templated generic DNS names making it look like image sharding requests.