skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasnt worth anywhere near billions when he stole it. It wouldn't have been worth that much until very recently
Is there a story I'm missing behind the word she used in her confirmation image?
As an older person currently working on a PhD, this guy was and is a something of a hero to me. He has an interesting life story. He was very into math at an early age, so he's different from people like me who got interested in it later in life, but he's also different in that his family was sent down to the countryside in China. I remember reading a lot about him a few years ago and relating to some of the professional difficulties he had and also to some of his ways of thinking and approach to doing math.

I never expected to see his name in a context like this again. I'm glad he's still being himself and working hard on what he loves.
I'm glad to see the app is actively being worked on, even if the changes aren't ones I care about personally. Here's my wishlist for Signal:

- Edit previously sent messages like Telegram, Discord and Slack lets you do. I'm so damn tired of a big ugly "This message was deleted" if I try to fix a typo/DYAC

- A better way to sync up clients, so when I log in on a computer and verify with my phone, it lets me sync over some or all of my message history.

- A way to set the expiry time for your sessions. I appreciate that they want you to not stay logged in forever if you lose or forget a computer, but I'm so damn tired of having to re-log in on my desktop pretty much every time I try to use Signal there.

- Faster message import when starting desktop clients. Or smarter import - e.g. prioritize the top of the chats list and throw the rest on a background queue instead of hanging the UI until it's done.

None of these are huge, but they combine to make it just feel more annoying to use Signal than their competitors. I really like Signal in principle, but I wish I didn't need to give up UX and QoL-nicenesses that I've gotten used to from other apps in order to use it.
You do realize Northern Europeans are adapted to needing less sunlight? I would emulate candles if I were you. Which means warm color temperatures. So you don't need the product of this thread, you just need a simple warm color temperature bulb. Do some extra research and get one that doesn't flicker.
> I missed a management meeting once and ended up with the sharepoint support team

So Dilbertesque. My condolences.
I know it certainly was covered in mine, it shared half a module with academic writing.

But I think by the time of starting third level education, something like this is too late to change someone's moral decision making, so I don't really think it had any effect on anyone in that course.
Buy an acre of land in a remote location and build a house? Programming is a remote job, you have to enjoy it. That's my plan anyway.
I think menus are moving to the bottom because phones are so big now - that's where your thumbs are. Probably the only reason phones ever had menus at the top is because they were just copying desktop app UI.
The point is that it's simply not the case that the state tends not to prosecute in cases where "the police did more than present the defendant with an unexceptional opportunity to commit a crime".
"To back away from China because something might happen would be the wrong direction," Källenius said.

Apparently they don't teach history at CEO school? Or current events?
> Are they supposed to 'keep' people esp non-techies from using RCS 'by default' and make them use SMS? The app that cares so deeply about encrypted communication?

While I agree with most of what you said, it appears you are implying that RCS provides a security guarantee somehow that Signal is impeding. RCS is badly fragmented, mostly not E2E (except Google private E2E extension), and does not have Apple's buy in. Signal does clearly indicate that SMS chats are not secure.

Signal originated as ChatSecure- the encrypted SMS app.
Do you have more information about your game and how you are using LiteDB?
Apple has to answer to the shareholders and board of directors first

First, no. That's a gross oversimplification of the situation, and there are thousands of counter-examples. It's one of those things people see on HN and then pass along as if it was the absolute truth. It isn't.

But, for fun, let's pretend it is true. Then the way Tim Cook answers to shareholders is to preserve the long-term value of Apple as a brand and a company, and not to sell out for short-term gains.

The majority of Apple shareholders are massive corporations that invest for the long-haul, not day traders trying to make a quick buck.
>room-temperature semiconductors

I suppose superconductors. Semiconductors are well in the room temperature regions :)
How would the examiners be able to turn "limited time" into incentive to create "innovation in tools" [that they themselves aren't the ones building]?

Old orgs with old tools aren't improved by putting more pressure just on the users of those tools.
Discussions about poverty is usually confused by the two competing definitions:

- Absolute Poverty: If you have less than $X/day, you are poor. This measures living standards.

- Relative Poverty: If you're in the bottom x%, you are poor. This measures status.

Without knowing anything, it sounds like this measurement is more on the Relative Poverty side.
I’m not sure what this comment is saying? Poverty as a percentage of population has steadily declined globally, same with starvation, etc.

70 years ago 50% of the world lived in extreme poverty, today it’s 11%.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-livin...

The population in 1950 was 2.5 billion, so 1.25 billion living in extreme poverty. Todays population is 7.6 billion, so 840 million living in extreme poverty.

Undernourishment has the sametrend, data once 1991:
https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_...
Nice smile: https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/elon-musk-writes-column-for-ch...
Historically, Signal (then known as Text Secure) was encrypting vanilla SMS between users! If you got rid of the app and somebody texted you through it you would get an encrypted chat! Then they moved away from sms, partly to allow for more anonymity (i think) from metadata and a better experience. So the sms capabilities are more historical than a design choice to do both.
CEOs have force, be it personality or investiture by the board.

No, if Cook fails to "stop" ads that's pretty clearly evidence he's okay with them.
I don't even know what an epaulette is

The point is you can't tell unless you know these things
...how modern are we talking? SERIALIZABLE existed over a decade ago. It's mentioned here in a 2009 post.[0]

[0] https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-mysql-innodb-t...
Thanks for the information. If both are now maintained I'll probably just try both crate and see which one I prefer.
My initial reaction was "oh no. Signal finally broke down and has begun adding the annoying social features."

After thinking about it, I actually don't mind it.

I am in a big (~15 people) group chat with my family. Often times someone will spam the chat with vacation pics or something they cooked for dinner. I don't particularly dislike that, but it seems like posting those pictures to their story would be a much better way to share. The audience would remain the same and it would still be private. The viewing process would just be much better.

The main problem is, and always has been, getting a bunch of iPhone users in the US to use any messaging app besides iMessage. Let alone having them post to a story within that app.
Some more than others, but most certainly not all.

Where this one falls for Mastodon remains to be seen. It's more AOLish than Academic, in the sense that it's the result of a capricious event on a large outside-the-destination-system network (Twitter, in this case) rather than a regular seasonal influx (as with uni students discovering Usenet). It isn't however a wholesale dumping of an entire community onto another though as was the case for AOL in 1993.

Mastodon's adoption for at least the past six years has tended to be driven by failures and frustrations with other platforms, and Twitter in particular. Those seem to be occurring in increasing waves. There's some grumbling and adjustment with each, but so far, knock wood, Mastodon's assimilated the influx fairly well.
Indeed, but from the other way around. Tolkien hates industrialization, he hates technology as a whole. He hates GRRM-esque "Does Aragorn have a tax policy that make sense?".

So he would hate Thiel and Luckey for their technology and control, who is like Sauron and the Orcs. Maybe more on Luckey, since Virtual Reality would be a horror show from a traditionalist mind, anyway.

But it's fine, since the entire point of the Sagas for Anglo culture is for the people in it to twist it the way they want to, after all.
> Dude. I never said that they were indistuinguishable.

Then why would you police my language and demand I use the exact same terminology for a very wide range of body sizes/masses?

> There's levels from fat to hambeast to "their movement influences tides".

And there's likewise levels from thin to fit to bulky to curvy to plump to fat.

> That doesn't make the first category acceptable.

And who, pray tell, are you to decide what is or is not "acceptable"?
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Do you know how much a patent clerk makes?
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> It should be marked to value at time of the crime. Value of the property is often a metric used for setting the charges/punishment

In the context of charges/punishment, when thr charges apply to specific direct proceeds, that would seem correct.

In the context of reporting a seizure, the value at the time of the seizure is relevant.

Those are two different things, even though they might relate to the same property at different points in time.
Disadvantaged communities seem to be improving their status as far as I can see. https://theprint.in/opinion/education-levels-of-sc-st-obc-ri...

That BJP only works for the upper caste is inaccurate. Like every political party in India they pander to communities for votes. Freebies and subsidies for disadvantaged groups like ration and gas is a card they have played in sufficient numbers. Recently they have increased reservations (affirmative action) for Scheduled Castes in Karnataka, I believe. This and their rhetoric are pretty much the building blocks of their campaigns.

You can say it doesn't work in the long term, but only working for upper castes is not what it is.

Our political system enables people of various backgrounds to rise in the ranks of politics regardless of their caste (I have given examples up the thread) or religion (we've had Presidents, Chief Ministers, Governors and Prime Ministers from Hindu, Christian, Sikh or Muslim backgrounds).

The medicine is working. If you are frustrated that it is not working fast enough or the way you expected it to, the reason is far simpler and what every Indian knows about.

When you have many "Backward" caste politicians and leaders with a predominantly "Backward" caste voting base who do not work to improve the status of their communities and instead just want to line their pockets, it should be obvious what the problem is. Rich people ultimately just want to make themselves richer, especially in a system that enables it with rampant corruption. That the Rich person is from a disadvantaged background does not matter. Whatever you may want to call it you cannot explain this away as Upper Caste Hegemony.

Note: I am _not_ saying that casteism, doesn't play a role in Indian society and politics, but it is not one and only explanation for our problems. Repeating this again due to the tendency of many people to explain away every problem in the Indian society with "Is this Casteism?",
I'd send a message to Stephen McIntyre.
Seems conceivable that the evolutionary pressure would push cancer rates down to some sort a similar level across species, a sort of cost-benefit equilibrium.
Came here looking for this comment. Even as someone who doesn't have feelings one way or another about any brain-neural network similarity, this one struck me the same way. Thanks for mentioning it.
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Ramhorns is a great templating engine. Faster than askama, although parsing the templates on runtime.
https://docs.rs/ramhorns
Correction- it was called TextSecure
> Porsche Driving Instructor for 5 years with thousands of hours in the passenger seat.

I agree with all your points. I have lots of track experience and training with a range of cars, including Porsche and one of my favorite "no pucker factor" cars, track-modified BRZ. In fact, next year I am hoping to go to Formula 3 training [0].

That said, for street and lots of track driving, I think the manual (stick shift) transmission is simple, brilliant and can be used to develop skills and understanding. The other aspect of these transmissions is that they are simple and inexpensive to maintain and repair. Their next generation computer-controlled dual clutch manuals are fantastic, of course. However, I really think full manuals still have a lot of value.

You might appreciate that I have taken all of my kids through race driving school as a requirement --at least by my standards-- for being safe street drivers. They've spent a good deal of time at both Willow Springs Raceway and the local Porsche Experience Center learning and doing fun things with cars.

Nothing like being on track behind a car driven by your kid, seeing him come out of a 120 mph sweeper sideways (because another driver made a mistake in front of him and he had to react) and then watch him instantly correct the situation to conclude: Yeah, he can drive. It also removed any desire in them to go fast on the street and do stupid things with cars.

[0] https://simracewaydrivingschool.com/programs-experiences/rac...
Anti-capitalists and anti-globalists fail to understand that it's impossible to transition from very shitty conditions to good conditions hitting a midpoint of moderately shitty conditions. They just cherrypick examples of bad situations out of context and declare it to be proof of the failings of globalist capitalism without listening to the actual opinions of those they perceive to be victims.
Of course, view source! Might be another “feature” to advertise on the page somehow.

I have a mini side project with some user generated content to save.

I ended up with good old S3. It’s not free, and it might require a server to facilitate stuff with the secret access key to write data. But it could be pennys with Lambda and S3 and AWSs metered billing and free tier.
Good at keeping the occupants alive in a collision with another giant car. Crash stats from tests are largely for like-on-like—good luck with your Ford Focus' decent safety rating when you're t-boned by an F-250 :-/

And nobody cares about parking space size out in the US 'burbs. Parallel parking's almost non-existent, garages uncommon outside the city proper, and spaces are huge and plentiful (arguably too plentiful, even allowing for car-centric living—a high percentage of it sees almost no use at all in a given year)

The size lets you leave all the kids' activity shit in the car all the time, so you/they don't forget it at home.
Apple is still better than the competition in many ways but cracks started appearing. This quote from Steve Jobs is spot on at this time when Apple has become so big that they can't focus on creating a good product anymore because the money is too good. I don't wish to see this but I'm wondering if things were to go the bad direction for Apple, how long would the inertia of good apple of Steve Jobs vision would last. Probably something like a decade if not more...
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Even though I agree with you on a personal level, this kind of thinking does not lead to mainstream adoption. If there were a Linux distro that "just worked", we could have the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be something that will happen in the foreseeable future.

I'd love for a company like System76 to come out with such a solution, but it is certainly an expensive, difficult endeavour.
The "federation" of e-mail and Mastodon are only superficially similar. It's non-intuitive to follow a user from a different instance. It's also non-intuitive to find those users to follow. Most of the time Mastodon users are found via some side channel where they advertise their presence.

Every point of friction you add for a user of a new thing is a reason for them to abandon it. Even if Mastodon isn't trying to necessarily replace Twitter, catering only to the most dedicated users is not a way to grow a healthy community.
Tech has not improved US productivity from 1950-today
With the tech drawdown, been seeing more and more analysis on if software and tech has really increased productivity in the US. Anecdotally, it seems obvious that software has made our work way easier, but perhaps we are not doing anything "productive" with the time we've saved?
> My understanding is that this is more of the equivalent of making sure you land on heads all 3 times

Yep!
Just setting aside time for it in the curriculum would be a huge improvement. Even a single class session of student driven discussion and debate, anything. We don't have to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I used libre office for years, but I switched for 2 reasons.

1: the export to docx had problems, and most publications require your submissions to be in docx format;

2: it gets laggy with large documents. This lag becomes distracting when writing novels. Seems to start around page 20-50 and gets worse and worse as you go.

I wish I had better alternatives to suggest.

I wish that publishers would stop demanding we submit our files in docx format.
I agree, but it will take some time before ARM/SoC-based laptops completely overtake existing architectures. Framework might be the best upgradable/repairable laptop of its kind, but it might be in a shrinking product segment.
Things I'd love to see, in no particular order: AMD option, dedicated graphics, 360° hinge with touchscreen and/or pen digitizer.
> A Chinese software vendor could do as much as sending your keystrokes for autocomplete you bet it will be front page news on Reddit

Yes? It’s not like it’s a double standard or remotely hypocritical to hold a US corporation or the US government to different standards than a Chinese counterpart.
They have in-app ads like this: https://cs.joshstrange.com/zTpdlC (Note: dismissing this does next to nothing, it's back almost every day or at least as often as Zoom restarts)

And then post-meeting popup ads (that are always on top until you dismiss them) like this: https://cs.joshstrange.com/BizVwE

I've gone through almost all the settings I could think of but I don't see a way to disable it. I pay monthly for Zoom and I'm logged into that account. I find it beyond the pale that Zoom wastes my time/energy in this way especially since most ads are about a product I will never use. If I need a tool to run a 500+ person webinar my life has taken a horrible turn, and if I did I wouldn't use Zoom since they do crap like this.
I just wish that I as a Swede living abroad could watch the Swedish language content.

It's not like På Spåret is going to be sold abroad anyway.
I think they could have added `-ffreestanding` to their g++/gcc calls and the parts of the std library available won't throw/allocate
You’re missing the reference
Good luck finding a movie about Isaac Newton or Einstein, or literally anyone whose value to the world is more than pretending to be someone else or lying a lot, let alone a very interesting mathematician no one recognizes. (Ok I know there’s a few movies about folks like Turing and Nash, but it’s pretty slim pickings).
Gosh, just checked out Ada briefly, looks _much_ simpler than rust, so, why not just going back to Ada and use it for memory safety? why even Zig is needed to be created? are they NIH syndrome or am I missing something.
This seems like a good contribution. It would great if one of these "lists of blessed crates" itself becomes blessed and sticks around! This list seems like it was created by somebody with "good taste", and I enjoy the amount of description.

https://lib.rs has some basic features to make it faster to sniff test various crates. Eg, I like being able to see a summary of the authors, and things like "maintained by RustCrypto team" just looking at the summary. My suspicion is that some concept of graph centrality (perhaps via authors?), and perhaps counting applications which aren't usually distributed via cargo (this contributing to crates.io downloads), could both yield a better popularity metric. But the trend stuff is pretty reasonable already.

Some related efforts at documenting pseudo-official crates (in contrast to gigantic "awesome" lists) are the "areweX yet" pages (https://www.arewewebyet.org/), the Rust Cookbook (https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/), and the Rust Lang Nursery (https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery). Here is an ancient github issue from way back in 2014 discussing the idea of "official" crates: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/934
None. In theory there are parts of space that are a true vacuum but not everywhere, and definitely not near planetary bodies.

There's a reason our satellites need station-keeping fuel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping
Even in deep space there are something like two atoms per cubic meter just "there". But atmospheric density drops exponentially with altitude.
> No offense but this whole article and thread is just getting each other to buy stupid crap.

This is what home automation is. If there's any truly practical use beyond not overwatering a lawn that you should probably replace with native flora anyway I've never seen one. But this project is super cool! I enjoyed the read, also enjoy excessive automation with home assistant as a hobby, and thank you OP for sharing. We need more joy of tech for the sake of joy of tech.
She’s lead a global protest movement with millions of participants in over 100 countries.

What is the bar for an “accomplishment” here, exactly?
Because they haven’t figured out how to do that securely?
I hope to see a movie about Perelman, too.
The reason russian influence entered the zeitgeist was a PR push from people who worked in the HRC campaign and DNC insiders who needed to blame Trumps win on external factors to distract from their "pied piper" strategy of deliberately elevating trump during the primaries because they thought he would be easy to beat.

(https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaig...)

There is no evidence (afaik) that russian influence materially swayed the results of the 2016 election.

Not-so-fun-fact: the DCCC is still using this strategy to funnel funds from democratic donors into right-extremist candidates races in the 2022 cycle:

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-spent-43-million-helping-...

https://theweek.com/speed-reads/1015258/the-pied-piper-strat...