skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an alternate world where ad funded sites never took off...

Taylor Swift could publish an RSS feed, or pay Twitter since it's basically a marketing channel for her. Messaging apps could have been p2p (and maybe ISPs would've had a reason to get ipv6 working since otherwise you'd hear "IM doesn't work on Cox" etc. Or maybe ISPs could provide federated chat gateways like they did with email). ISPs might bundle hosting (they used to), or Microsoft would have had a reason to have built Personal Web Server into something everyone uses today. Maybe people would share viral videos they liked on something like gnutella using magnet links from forums.

It might not work for companies trying to corral the entire world onto their platform, but maybe that model isn't very good.
X/twitter is going to explode (in user count) if other platforms continue behaving this way.
Glad to hear that! Thanks for being a part of the community :)
So queer people should remain celibate?

Other methods of protection fail. People lie about the status. People don't know their status.

Know what's ridiculous is that these drugs cost so much money and companies like Gilead can engage in "revenue maximization" schemes at the cost of the health of US citizens... and then apparently win lawsuits with their Big Pharma war chests.
"But as go is not fixing security bugs in old releases and std library, I think it is dangerous to use them anyway."

A bit of a harsh way to phrase that. In my experience, the backwards compatibility promises have been very good, and the way you stay up-to-date with security fixes and bugs in the standard library is to upgrade Go.

I know that may strike terror in the hearts of developers used to the nightmare that major version upgrades can be in other languages, where a major version upgrade gets a multi-week task added into the task tracker, but it's completely routine for me to upgrade across Go major versions just to get some particular fix or to play with a new feature. I expect it to be a roughly five minute task, routinely.

The only thing that has bitten me about it is arguably not even Go's fault, which is its continuing advances in TLS security and the increasing fussiness with which it treats things connecting with old-style certificates. I can't even necessarily disagree... I would also like to upgrade them but while it's my server, the clients connecting to it are using certs that are not mine and it's out of my control.
can't wait for the Lichess for the Go world
He's already on Rumble, getting paid by Peter Thiel.

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1634153760149602307
I have spent my adult life in a community that experiences higher-than-average HIV/HepC exposure, and well remember the "Great Die-Off" of the early-to-mid 1990s.

To anyone that missed out, dying of AIDs is horrible. The West has the luxury of expensive drugs to treat it, but much of the developing world doesn't have that, and they are still dying like flies, with very little of the transmission happening through homosexual contact.

Africa has a big problem with that, and misogyny also plays into it, as the article mentions.

The thing that disgusted me the most, was the "Good riddance" attitude of many folks. I see echoes of that, in the Fentanylopocalypse, going on, now. As soon as Muffy and Biff start popping their clogs, though, it becomes a "national tragedy."
This is all stated as if it is fact. It sounds believable to me, but how do you (and the rest of us) know that the sources you got this from aren't a part of the junk being called out by the article?
> based solely on accusations

This is not true. The independent corroborating evidence is also material. Contemporaneous records from a rape clinic is powerful evidence.

More generally, innocent until proven guilty is a legal concept, not a social one. From a social perspective, that's never been the standard, nor should it be. Bad folks have often been shunned without convictions - that's why the norm has been "resign in disgrace," not "get thrown in prison"
TikTok Employees Recoil at Return-to-Office Tracker App
Seems like the easier question would be: "why would we assume such a being would not be a risk?"
Can confirm as a UK citizen. Laws are seeminly never really enforced from what I've noticed.
People would instantly use this for insurance fraud.
Then let’s change the law. It’s obvious over the past few years that companies can’t be trusted with freedom of association or freedom of speech. Let’s strip them of both.

If you are incorporated (and therefore benefit from government-provided protection from liability and lower tax rates) then you no longer get to choose your customers; you’re a common carrier and must provide the same service to all customers. You can only terminate a customer for non-payment (if you’re a paid service) or if the customer takes actions that directly threaten your business (eg attempts to hack your service).

Social media companies may no longer promote or suppress content; they can only provide tools to let users do so themselves (eg filter/block/subscribe/tag). Advertisers can use similar filters for ad placement.
for _, informer := range c.informerMap {
informer := informer
go informer.Run(stopCh)
}

for _, a := range alarms {
a := a
go a.Monitor(b)
}

Not sure what the difference could be, but let me take a guess. In one case, the loop variable is a pointer, and in the other case a value. The method call uses a pointer receiver, so in the value case the compiler automatically inserts a reference to the receiver?
damn, never thought her and lina are sisters.

who's their mom, jakiro?
This is on the nose. I have no clue what the limit is for what you can convince people to surrender, but I don’t think we are even close.
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>If I buy a physical copy of a poster, and draw on it before I hang it on my wall, it's fair use.

It's not necessarily fair use.

>If I buy a CD and it includes an instrumental version of a track and I badly sing to it, it's fair use.

Unless the venue you are at has paid for the performance rights of that song that is copyright infringement.

>If I buy a designer brand table and decide it's too tall, I can saw off 5cm from its legs, and it's fair use.

It's not necessarily fair use.

>If I download a freely distributed document from the Internet, to display on my computer's screen, and decide not to look at a part of it - it is fair use.

Considering removing ads hurts monetarily I definitely don't think it could be fair use.
In theory you could, when you were converting from PS to G-Code NOT emulate the arc with bezier curves, but convert them into g-code circles. This would likely cause the laser cutter to cut something that looked SLIGHTLY different than the rendered PDF. But anyone who's worked in the field long enough knows that WYSIWYG is a lie (albeit a very useful lie.)
That's so fascinating.

The janitors don't?
Do they? What classes?
> That doesn't mean you're a bad scientist, just an unlucky one. But it does mean you can't get tenure.

That sounds like a really easy problem to solve. Just treat valid science as important regardless of the results. The results shouldn't matter unless they've been replicated and verified anyway.
Exactly. There is no real evidence, so we can't conclude one way or another. A lot of people are treating the Nuland call like a smoking gun, but it isn't one.
>I live in Barcelona and phones are being pickpocketed every day here. Not being able to wipe or unlock or else is a mayor deterrent for the pickpockets

Doesn't sound like it.
Where does your logic fall when it comes to Japan erasing and replacing the various indigenous groups like the Ainu for not being Japanese enough?
Now this is a headline I didn't want to see pass. I wonder if Apple will do what they said and pull iMessage and FaceTime. Same with Meta and WhatsApp.
Something else I think about a lot. I have Lutron Caseta but would probably choose something Z-wave if I were starting from scratch today. Proprietary stuff is generally not as flexible as the more open-ecosystem stuff, but Caseta works perfectly with Home Assistant.

The worst part of smart lights is how I've forgotten the tactile sensation when flipping a light switch. Sometimes I see regular light switches outside of my house and play with them, which probably makes me look like a psychopath with a mental age of 6. But so clicky!
Personal consumption doesn't make copyright infringement okay. It just makes it harder to be caught.
Why is it absurd? Do you still think they'd shoot down a demonstration of top-secret enemy technology staged for their own intelligence benefit?
This is actually an interesting argument for "why is Nintendo so protective when Sega and Microsoft show you don't have to?"

Nintendo lives and dies by their mainline characters. Sega doesn't anymore and merged with Sammy Group after their failures with Saturn and Dreamcast; and Sega of Japan really didn't like Sonic the Hedgehog as a character that much - as evidenced by how much less popular he is in Japan than America. Microsoft could lose every major Xbox franchise and have it only be, what, ~10%-20% on their stock reports as a whole company?

Whereas, if Nintendo lost Mario, the blow would be catastrophic. Just ask Sega - they lost over 200 Sonic the Hedgehog characters due to legal mistakes (Ken Penders incident).
I am not an expert in either and have only worked with Kafka. At a past job I had to write a connector job to parse and sanitize some extremely dirty, unstructured data and pass it along somewhere else. RabbitMQ supports this? What is the one use case of kafka? I think you have it backwards.
Austin church holds AI-generated service, uses ChatGPT
You don't even necessarily have to leave Factorio to get that. The "Angel's Smelting" [1] mod, among others, adds a substantial amount of realism to the process of creating metal products from ores.

[1]: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Arch666Angel/angelssmelting
My guess is, that people simply do not get into management positions at G, if they are not fully onboard or brainwashed enough or greedy enough for the next paycheck, to state obvious nonsense, if that is what is good for G.
That was what I was trying to explain. Nukes are a blunt weapon, and they want to have a bit more precision. They're not going to nuke Russia if Wagner group made a little, deniable cross-border excursion.

Nukes get MAD real fast. If their only weapon is a nuke, their bluff could easily be called.

Very few countries spend 4% of GDP on the military, and most of them are at war. Not even the US, which comes in at 3.5%. NATO countries are supposed to spend (IIRC) 2%, but most don't.

It's a 2% that they might like to have back, but militaries are pretty good make-work programs. Even Japan, whose constitution prevents it from having a military, still spends 1% on its military.
I don’t know, but ROCm is a joke and unusable. 1200 lines of some very complicated C++ for a simple FFT… That’s ridiculous. And nobody seems to be doing anything about it — and then they wonder, why they have 1% or so market share in AI.

It’s not a hardware problem, it is an API design problem.
yup, I think the right-to-repair movement has unthinkingly adopted a lot of attitudes from a couple key proponents with business interests in component-level repair.

board-level repair is fine, and is probably necessary to get some of the economies of scale in assembly and distribution. but you'd think it doesn't count for some reason.
But squares are really just diamonds which have been squished a bit.
Thats kind of like saying dont use any software libraries because they all use the standard lib indirectly so you may as well just use that?

Its just an abstraction layer to make things less effort.
> The Monetization Window is the new Overton Window.

More like yet another reflection of the extant overton window.
Preponderance of the evidence of multiple studies.

Skepticism is reasonable.
Nintendo themselves would never let it happen.

It would be a catastrophic blow to their independent brand.

> or the FTC would allow such a thing to happen

Gonna disagree with you there.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/how-the-ftc-f...

(By many metrics Activision is a bigger gaming company than Nintendo)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58250782/which-free-vers...
The 'worst' that Trump/COVID did was lose him the election. If he had a lick of sense, he would have won in a landslide.

All he did was what he always does - act like an easily-distracted petulant child on television. It had next to no bearing on vaccine development, distribution, or uptake.

Just about everyone already made up their mind on those three questions, without his input. There's a lot he can be blamed for, but this really isn't one of them.
This seems to dispute your claims [1]. Also - you can't count suppliers' employees since they're not part of the union action / demand.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/17/labor-costs-for-detroit-auto....

"Labor costs, at roughly 5%, remain a small percentage of annual costs for the Detroit automakers, according to Dziczek."
I think that's a case for just dropping that cent. As long as it's your own money and not tax you're underreporting it's not a problem as long as it's consistent.
GA4 which I've migrated about 250 clients to (that was a ton of fun /s) simplifies some things, but complicates others. I know of the alternatives but run into anther issue relating to cost: Most of my clients are not willing to pay (more) for analytics which is why GA remains the default (free) choice. Do I raise prices for everyone and include an analytics alternative? Or do I stop using GA and only give (alternative) analytics to clients that pay extra? I'm leaning towards the latter.
Nothing at all unethical about it. We're not obligated to spend even one second looking at ads. They sent us free stuff hoping we were going to notice the ads they bundled alongside it. We're not obligated to do that though. It's that simple.
Really, Khadr?

The guy was brainwashed as a child by his lunatic father and dragged to Afghanistan to resist American's invasion. There was some kind of firefight, he nearly died, and the Americans decided that since he survived he was guilty of all the crimes.

He was 15. A kid. A child soldier, by international law.

He was held for a decade in Guantanamo Bay, a US military facility, without any real trial.

The US already had him. They abused his rights and ignored international law. Why should Canada give him back to them?
I guess that only works if the women don't mind being cheated on. If they get a man to cheat with them, they know exactly the kind of man they're getting.
too much clicking, but also, not many lessons there really.

i'm really greatful that after learning numbers existed in any other language i spent the time as a toddler learning tons of them.

these transliterations suck as well... at least in my arabic it is e/th/neen and /th/ele/th/a
"Nintendo's future exists off of their own hardware" reveals just how poorly their competition understands Nintendo's success.
Ask HN: How do you track user retention metrics?
Hey,

I’m looking for a way to track user retention (without a load of hassle) for a side project. How do you guys do it?
I'm honestly confused what people get upset about using a private platform. If you want better accountability argue for an open platform uncontrolled by capital. What is the point of complaining while suggesting nothing? This conversation is even more useless than the old "marketplace of ideas" bullshit.
> "innocent until proven guilty" only applies in a court of law.

“Innocent until proven guilty” is a philosophical concept that many legal systems subscribe to in the context of criminal law.

> Similar to when people cite the 1st amendment in situations where a private company is taking action

Indeed, it’s very similar in the sense that the concept of the freedom of speech goes way beyond the 1st amendment. It existed before it. And it is the first amendment that exists because of the freedom of speech, not the other way round.

> A private company can do what it wants within the bounds of the law.

Yeah, including immoral actions that others may disagree with.
adbusters(https://www.adbusters.org/) is the only magazine I ever liked.
Why does everyone want to work remotely?
When I first grasped how many fake papers are floating around, I gnashed my teeth and called for heinous penalties upon the fraudsters.

After a moment, I thought better, and decided that we should actually offer incentive for fraudulent papers! Liars will always have incentive to lie. When their lies are accepted by those who ought to be more skeptical, it's an indictment of the system, which should be more robust in detecting fraud.
Doesn't work for me on Android. Tried Edge, Crome and FF.

The moment I move my finger the page scrolls and the menu collapses.
Thank god!!!
The Amazon links at the bottom of the post go to the first edition of the book; the second edition seems to not be listed on Amazon yet.
The linked sibling post on "New Truffle and GraalVM Languages release" feels rather exciting too https://medium.com/graalvm/new-truffle-and-graalvm-languages...

Specifically:

> GraalVM language runtimes (for JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java on Truffle, WebAssembly, and LLVM) can now be [...] installed as Maven/Gradle dependencies [...] which will work for GraalVM JDK and any other compatible JDK

Polyglot experimentation just got a whole lot easier! Kudos to everyone involved in pushing the JVM ecosystem forwards.
Starlink will no doubt turn into a money printing machine very soon. The war in Ukraine has proven it has a ton of value as a military communication system.

Too bad it ruined the sky for the 15K professional astronomers out there and a big part of the millions of amateurs as well.
I think that's a fine (and correct) distinction that doesn't matter to what the GP was talking about (who perhaps worded their post in a bit of an unfortunate way that has you focusing on an mostly-irrelevant detail).

Sure, the US government pressures other countries though various means to adopt certain legal regimes. But in the absence of that pressure (or the absence of a foreign country caving to that pressure), US law does not apply in that other country (well, except to US citizens traveling there; the US can and will arrest US citizens who break US federal law while abroad, upon their return).

The overarching point is that US-based companies will often apply US law to their operations in other countries, even when they are not obligated to (by any law, US or otherwise). Likely this is for consistency and simplicity reasons: it's easier to have one policy than hundreds.

Of course in this case it's the reverse: India strong-arming Facebook into following India's censorship initiatives. Seems they can do this by requiring Facebook employ people who reside in India, who the Indian government can threaten in order to get Facebook to comply. As lame as I think that is, that's life, and capitalism. Facebook seems plenty happy to accept all the revenue generated by their Indian user base, in exchange for complying with questionable (or worse) local laws.
Uh, I guess one could phrase it that way but it's rather dishonest.

It'd be akin to saying a police officer testifying that they saw X person shoot Y person as attempting to deplatform X person.

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Honestly the only thing questionable in the twitter files was the USG telling twiter which accounts were their cy-ops accounts so they wouldn't get banned.

Twitter having a policy of you can't do Y on the platform and the USG asking Twitter if X person is violating Y is not illegal censorship.
> So has the internet completely done away with innocent until proven guilty?

YouTube isn't a court of law, fortunately.

If he's innocent, he can sue them.
This is difficult for me. I'm not pro censorship, but I would like a way to not have to hear about Russell Brand at all. Is that possible?

I don't want to hear from him or about him. I don't want to hear from people that like him. I didn't want to hear Radio 4 talking about it this morning. I don't want to stop his free speech, I just want to avoid him
indian numerals you mean?

smart ass... ;)
You could look up the n most common Japanese family names (myoji ,名字). You probably would get a list like Yamaha, Suzuki, Watanabe, Tanaka, etc. Of course, this wouldn't cover every case, but it might help. 頑張ってください！
It seems that your primary concern is that the government (or some bad actor) will be able to install a backdoor into PQC algorithms. Is that right? Why would PQC be more exposed to this type of subversion than existing public-key cryptography?

To your point about PQC being used exclusively, post-quantum encryption methods are designed to be resistant to both quantum and classical attacks. That is one of the key stated goals of the NIST post-quantum cryptography program.
Receiving an unsolicited offer compels them to publish this notice, and by their declaration they were not seeking that offer (“unsolicited”).

Technically, I think anyone can make an offer on any company operating in their legal jurisdiction, and that would compel the company receiving the offer to publish an equivalent press release.

I don’t blame them for having nothing to add at this time other than “here is the legally required declaration, please wait”. Even a flat refusal takes time to prepare, in order to meet all the necessary legal forms.

(This is not legal advice, please consult a legal professional regarding the validity of these statements in your jurisdiction(s), etc.)
more accurately, nobody (with sufficient agency to act) cares.

you wouldn’t be cynical if you didn’t care, or felt able to do anything about it.
Pumping my savings into a struggling company so that when it eventually fails I'm not only unemployed but also out of savings? That's a concentration risk I wouldn't want to have if I were a MariaDB employee.
I doubt many foreign governments would agree that all legal matters should be documented not only in the language of that country but English as well.

While some countries provide a non-binding translation for many things, someone could set the precedent in court that the English translation if relied on by enough people is somewhat binding or similar - Result would be two slightly different (mis-)understandings about the law, due process and bureaucracy from official sources. That could be have unforseen consequences.

Just because many people happen to speak English doesn't mean everyone has to.
My neighbor had 7 chickens and a rooster and lost all of them to mr. Fox. It was a tragedy, the eggs were so good.
"Your mom" jokes used to be something someone would start a fight over. Now they only elect an eye roll.

At some point soon every teen will know how to generate pictures of anything they can imagine. Teach impacted teen girls how to make deepfakes too and that it is not real. The world is not ready for this, but it is happening and can not be stopped so education is all we have left.

It is only shocking right now because it is new and seems like magic.

We should be educating teens on body positivity, and that anyone that shares a deepfake of them is announcing of how big of a child they are, and why they should not be taken seriously. It will just become an eye roll once everyone can do it and understands how easy it is. Background noise.
Thats an interesting idea. I'm not sure I'm sold on it v.s. just having two seperate allocators and growing them seperately. The arena allocators I use take advantage of virtual memory to grow which might change my perception of the tradeoffs involved, as I wouldn't typically need to resize one of my allocators (you can just aggressively over-reserve memory and then only commit what is actually used).