jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It isn't government regulation of the internet. It's government regulation of cable companies that provide the internet.

I think this is a distinction without a difference.

It isn't a restriction of free speech. It's a restriction on what the newspapers can print to deliver the speech.
It doesn't mean you should, but many startups do anyways. Yeah, it is lying, and it is bad. But if that's going to increase your conversions by a significant amount, that benefit may outweigh the moral cost.

Note: I've never done anything like this (lying to users about numbers or what-have-you).
Unfortunately, it's hard to find fun games on mobile as well. Mobiles games are an utter disgrace nowadays. Can you even call them games? They're an optimised engagement loop with some gameplay in between the "buy platinum coins" and "spin to win" popups.
As sibling comment has pointed out the protocol for a cellular service to request GPS data directly RRLP, is part of the LCS (LoCation Services) section of 3gpp.

And if you run your own cellular service using OpenBSC you can try it out...

> RRLP is not just a theoretical feature specified in the GSM/3GPP specs. It is implemented by
numerous high-end smartphones. There is no authentication of the network. There is no notification of the user. There is no way for the user to disable this [mis]feature.

> Impact: Public debate about this feature is needed. Operators probably need to consider working on
some terms about how they use this feature in their privacy policy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160106074623/http://openbsc.os...
Definitely agree with this. I was eventually so burnt out that I quit my job and wallowed in depression for a good 6 months and started therapy. After starting to rebuild myself and my personal environment, I finally felt like I was in the right place to work again. I recently started a new job and I feel like a different person. I couldn't imagine procrastinating because I'm so motivated to work again.

I know what I did is maybe not an option for a lot of people (thank god for the German social net and healthcare system), but I feel many could really benefit from therapy and focusing on their mental health for a while.
That is indeed a convincing argument, and has been portrayed in various contexts, one of which is BBC's Sherlock when ... (oops, spoiler). However, there was no further explanation as to why there is an evolutionary pressure for the brain to do this trick, AFAIK.
For anyone wondering what "nuclear grade" means here, it's normal 8979 tape plus an assay for guaranteed low halogen content. This is desirable as halogens, particularly chlorine, are a major cause of metal corrosion. So guaranteeing your tape is low in them makes it better suited to uses where any corrosion that forms cannot be detected or repaired. Like a nuclear plant!
Still better than getting zilch though, it's up to you to see if it's worth it (returns > legal fees). I'd keep the algorithm, tune it and earn money from it myself. Maybe. They can't sue you for using your brain to make something that earns money.
Your personal agreement with the opposing view notwithstanding, if a counterexample is true (OP posted a good one) then it is fatal to the rule it contradicts

so feel free to retract the now dead claim that "True authority automatically draws respect" (which itself is perfect example of a no true Scotsman fallacy)
An upgrade shouldn’t be a downgrade. But too often it is. It breaks expectations and ruins trust. Soon, users learn, and in response turn off all upgrades by default. Success?

If an upgrade breaks things then it should be made exceedingly explicit (not only in text, but in a dialog button) that you accept that your existing stuff will break, and you should be provided with measures and (at least description of) steps to overcome it.
For those of you who haven't heard of it, there is a project to archive and preserve all browser-based games and their respective runners. See https://github.com/FlashpointProject
There are more:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...
Spotify pays for exclusivity. They are not a “dump” pipe you nitwit.

And this is literally Neil Young expressing his first amendment rights in our capitalist market system based on voluntary exchange.

Go read Wealth of Nations, the Constitution, the treaty of Westphalia, the Magna Carta, some Hayek, some Friedman, and an intro to civics and economics lot.

You have absolutely no idea how our system of laws, economy, or government works.
I can recommend the FluffyChat Matrix client, it's quite pleasant to use, although still not perfect :)

https://fluffychat.im/
If WA did things like silently degrading/removing E2EE, wouldn't it be discoverable by an independent security researcher?

WA seems large enough that the security community would put in that effort periodically.
I’ve always felt that we all just parrot and recycle the same opinions until someone introduces something creative and new into the conversation for us all to contend with.

This is genuinely new example of the hypocrisy of the left. I wonder how the apologists will contend with this.
Like shit
It's not just Macs: doing any significant work on any thin laptop caused thermal throttling or ran the fans up. For the last five or six years, every work laptop I've had at multiple jobs has sounded like it was trying to take off for a fair amount of the time I was using it. This is especially annoying during Skype and Zoom calls, since noise reduction makes people's voices very loud or soft at random times during meetings.

Offhand, I've been blaming Electron and Docker for Mac/Windows, but maybe there's something more fundamentally wrong?
"Too many creative people don't want to learn how to be technical, so what happens? they become dependent on technical people. Become technical, you can learn that. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable."

Really great quote.
I highly recommend this workshop/class if you're interested in not only learning to ask questions more effectively but to also answer them more effectively. It's called Precision Q & A. I have no connection to the company, I just took the course and found it incredibly useful. I use these techniques practically every day.

Here's a fact sheet/highlights - http://www.vervago.com/PQFactSheet.pdf
http://www.vervago.com/program_services.html
I also used it to adjust my sleep cycle, but I did not use it regularly. I was under the impression that resetting the circadian rhythm resulted in negative side effects such as memory loss. I know it's an effective treatment for alzheimer's, however those are in cases when an individuals melatonin production has stopped. As a younger person myself, I did not want to use it regularly and have a completely artificial circadian rhythm. When I did so it resulted in a few blanks here and there in my short term memory.

However with some googling it seems the only research that has been done specifically with melatonin where memory loss was shown was in animal studies (gerbils and zebrafish)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071115164438.ht...
But who will?

If you're not willing to take the initiative on your own to do what you need to do to learn the material for a class you're taking, then you shouldn't be complaining if you haven't learned the material when the course is over.

When you're taking a course, it is literally someone's job to answer your questions.

When you're teaching a class of 50+ students, your primary job is to lecture them. Two-way interaction is usually reserved for office hours.

If you're not enrolled in a course, you would need a patient friend who is an expert in the subject, an extremely patient acquaintance who is an expert, or an expert tutor. All of those are hard to come by.

Only because learning by watching online lectures currently is not a common method of learning (because the technology necessary for it to be possible has only recently become available). If it were to become more common, these resources would certainly be more readily available. The tutors would also be held to more exacting standards, since there would be competition. At a traditional university, for a given semester for a given course, you're usually forced to select from 1 or 2 professors, whom you can only indirectly evaluate for their performance after the course has ended. But with tutors, you would be free to pick whoever you wanted.

Also, most of these professors' primary job is their research, not teaching. The tutors would be focused on teaching, and would thus do a better job of it. Being a good researcher in a field means almost nothing when it comes to teaching undergraduate level material. Some of the professors I've had have been some of the smartest people I've ever met, but their communication & teaching skills have been nothing short of appalling.

Further, I rarely give straight answers to my student's questions. Their question is usually a symptom of a deeper misunderstanding, and figuring out what that is, and leading them to understand that, is my real job. Someone who just says "The answer is X" does not serve the same role as a teacher.

Competition that would result from the ability to cherry-pick personal tutors for each course would naturally eliminate those who did a poor job of teaching their students, so that wouldn't be an issue either.
IANAE, but I get the distinct impression that the Russian mob has a hand in everything in Russia, and completely controls some things.

Any foreign venture that succeeds there will inevitably end up, at best, paying the mob protection money, and at worst having their company stolen as Bill Broward discovered (see link in article).

On the risk management scale, the probably of losses to the mob is P(A) = 1.0. The only question left is, how much.
For more on this bubble, I recommend the Commonfund's HEPI site, which has a lot of information about the breakdown of cost increases in higher education (much is from general increases in health insurance costs, though the 2007 energy spike affected things significantly as well). The link is here: http://www.commonfund.org/CommonfundInstitute/HEPI/Pages/def...
Right, ok.

Maybe you can point to ANY other industry in the world, any other company, where all the people who worked on a project get praised, or even mentioned. Maybe some newspaper article, where anyone besides the CEO, or if you are lucky the top management team are described.

In fact, just show me any writing anywhere, doesn't even have to be a newspaper, where everyone else is mentioned?

Why, because it is ridiculous and stupid to ask that.

Steve Jobs was the one pushing the iPhone, he was the one that didn't back down when getting the usual shit from the carriers, like everybody did before him. Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, they all bowed down before the carriers, changed stuff on their phones, had annoying splash screens and apps. That was Steve Jobs, not engineer 118b.
These are different economic situations. But I don't see them being that different except in terms of how our leaders acted in the situation. Alan Greenspan said that he could have stopped the crisis albeit at the expense of a recession with 10% unemployment[1]. In other words, he chose not to do roughly what Volcker did. I'm not saying that's wrong, I'm just saying that there are some places where the current crisis has similarities (and dissimilarities).

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1029053619&play=1
While I could see why you'd offer the deal (he wouldn't be able to build on his new monopoly until he passed Go a couple times to unhock), I'm not sure why he'd take it. I would think he'd know that being out of cash would keep him from getting any new properties for a long time...

You did make sure he had the money to pay the 10% interest fee on transfer, right?
Process Hacker is also nice, and the last time I used it, it displayed even more information. Plus it lets you inject DLLs, scan memory, and stuff!
Deutsch discounts the possibility that we create AGI the same way the universe did: as a sum of emergent behaviors honed by an evolutionary process. Nobody developing an AGI is going to code every behavior, line by line. They're going to code an infrastructure within which an AGI could work.
4chan ruined my life.
I wasn't here in 94, but I get the feeling C++ took over the world THEN its deficiencies got mostly fixed.
He's French. You can tell he's French just from his phrasing, without the other big clues of:

1. A .fr domain

2. The rest of the site is in French

I guess we're getting so used to English dominance now.
"Early in my career, I was taught that any team member was replaceable and that as long as you had sufficient time to find a suitable replacement, you would be fine." what ??? no wonder there is a hiring crisis
The reality is that most Bitcoin users don’t use the blockchain and they don’t care to.

They buy Bitcoin in their exchange like Coinbase or Robinhood, they watch the price in the exchange, and they sell in the exchange.

Transaction fees are currently in the $8 range. Losing your password or having it phished away will irreversibly lose all funds. The average person doesn’t care about being their own bank. They only care about seeing the number go up, so they stick to exchanges.

If the exchanges were cut off, Bitcoin would still exist. But the demand would disappear from average people, and the price would fall.
It's not a personal attack, you're still calling China communist and don't seem to understand how things work there. They're something else.

There's more small business than america, by a lot, the biggest internet companies outside of America... I think you've redefined 'communist' into some sort of tautological catch-all.

Here, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China. Unless the Wikipedia editors are communist conspiracists as well.
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Our apps (large well known company) had our legal team thoroughly go through our apps before allowing the privacy information be provided to Apple to ensure it was truthful. It delayed a release by a few days, otherwise no problems. It's not rocket science.
Regardless of what they advocate for is the data they state true / accurate?
That looks great! I built a similar one and really enjoy it, the quefrency v2 (https://keeb.io/products/quefrency-rev-2-60-65-split-stagger...). All in, might have been slightly cheaper though also took plenty of time for soldering and assembly.

Before building this, I had tried a split ortholinear and was eying a moolander. Unfortunately, since I have to use a standard laptop for work (and I’m moving around a lot during the day), I just couldn’t reprogram my fingers on an ortholinear ... I found switching back & forth very challenging and in the end, not worth it.
Only a very small proportion of computer owners use these kind of kits. And it's of pretty much every product category that there are a small proportion of users who treat them as a fashion accessory.
Besides the Asphyxia Trainers, back then there was also HelpPC [0], PCGPE [1], RBIL [2], and mammon_'s work in ASM Journal [3] available on BBSes and early interwebs.

[0] http://stanislavs.org/helppc/

[1] http://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/2151/pcgpe.html

[2] http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm

[3] http://mattst88.com/programming/AssemblyProgrammersJournal
I just read the actual report: http://www.pen.org/sites/default/files/Global%20Chilling_01-...

Sorry, but I'm not seeing the big deal here. There's surveillance in the U.S. and U.K., true, and it has to stop or be severely curtailed, but these countries are a far cry from a place like China, where people actually are arrested for violating strict censorship laws.

The NSA's mass surveillance has been brought to light by a former contractor; the secret is blown, the cat's out of the bag, and Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall already.

Americans have a newfound, healthy distrust of the federal government. There are lawsuits pending. Tech companies are already creating work-arounds, for example Apple's announcement of encryption for their users' devices that even they can't break.

I suspect that in the near future, the major email providers will offer end-to-end encryption for all their users with no possibility of back doors. The NSA technicians will lose the ability to casually type in a name like "Bill Clinton" and read his email at their leisure (as happened with that analyst who got fired).

As for self-censorship, can anyone document how widespread that actually is? Today we are witnessing the most diverse array of opinions disseminated to billions of readers that has ever occurred in the history of the human race. These writers in this PEN survey sound timid and fearful to me. I wonder what they would say, had they had a chance to compare the current situation with that of eastern Europe and Russia during the Soviet period, or the military dictatorships of Latin America, where outspoken writers were rounded up and tortured.

I'm not trying to belittle the surveillance problem that we have; I'm adamantly against it and it does indeed threaten our long term freedom. I'm voting against anyone who supports NSA surveillance. Unfortunately, it's going to take some time for the import of this situation to sink in to the dim consciousness of the American voter. I wish that the writers surveyed by PEN would lead the charge to raise people's awareness of the situation by writing bold essays and opinion pieces to state their views, rather than "self-censoring" as they apparently are doing in order to avoid what they imagine to be retribution or harassment from nefarious government entities.
That's a very specific way of thinking about monads. Sure, they enforce ordering in a language where you may want to do that. But they're also any ADT equipped with a generalized map (that we happen to call >>= or bind) that commutes nicely. I don't think about my list operations using bind as about ordering computation; I think about them as transforming data in a way that is a little harder to do with more traditional list operations. Same with set, maybe, etc. The ordering feature of monads is more about IO actions than it is about monads in themselves.

All I'm saying is that monads are a useful abstraction regardless of whether or not they are used to encapsulate effects. I use Traversables, which have a bind operation, all the time in Scala, and it is an effectful language.
Ted's C programming posts make me feel really old, because I can remember exactly the same programming topics being discussed in the mid 90s. And that's C development for you, really.. every old bug is new again.

It's frankly boring that 20 years later we still feel attracted to discuss any of this stuff. It's not like the machines or the code running on them have fundamentally changed in the interim..
Yet again we have the interests of macroeconomics clashing with the interests of communities.

This makes perfect economic sense. You're a business, if things go poorly you scale down cost-free, if they go better, scale up at slightly higher cost than fixed, but the flex is more than worth it. After all, with this you protect margins in all scenarios. Perfect no? In this sense, it mirrors cloud compute instances. Lower capital investment, granular scalability (in this case of human resource rather than compute resource).

Except that it reminds me of an old adage of finance: you cannot eliminate risk - you can only transfer it. This is a classic example of risk transferral: from capital to labour. It makes tons of sense for a business. It makes much less sense for the employees, who, atomised commodities, have no bargaining power. This is, by extension, a bad idea for society, if you accept that groupings of individuals, including those defined by today's "corporations" exist precisely to reduce risk for each individual. That is the implicit exchange between employee and employer. I will provide you with the opportunity to profit from my labour; you will provide me with security. This breaks that contract.

To those who will argue that it is good for aggregate growth, I say, trickle down is not happening. Eliminate the trickle down argument and you're left with a bad proposition.//
It might be. At my university all material was made by the profs at the school and distributed for free. But I've heard of schools where teachers force students to buy the books they have themselves written.

My point wasn't that xeroxing books is good or bad, just that coming up with arguments against it is easy and so is for research paper piracy. Having worked for a while in research, I absolutely condone what sci-hub does and used it many times.
It doesn't need to compete but without competing it's even less likely to cause a mass exodus from WhatsApp.
Because mRNA tech for rapid vaccine development wasn't available back then and it didn't spread so far that there was political pressure for expedited trials. Now it is eradicated anyway.
Chuck Schumer compared it to Pearl Harbor. I assumed that was why it was mentioned.
quick, deprecate all the things that are open.

the wave of openneness that started with the web is being extinguished everywhere.
mind you, one could improve XMPP, or come up with an open alternative. But this is no longer the focus. Short term money and numbers is/are the focus, as per pre-web companies.

This model always end up being bad for the masses of course, and only good for a few.
This is a great comment. The category error you've identified is manifest in more than the comment you're replying to as well: it's at the heart of one of the biggest problems with software interviews in a certain sector of this industry (the heavy focus on academic CS in startups and many Bay Area tech companies).
We'll get them evil-doers!
> This article was brought to you by the domain squatters lobby

But seriously I don’t see what’s wrong with this sale. There are no restrictions on who can use a .org domain anyways, and the only people price increases really affect are domain squatters (real organizations can afford 10x the current price without batting an eye). I don’t see what’s wrong with this sale
Would be interesting to see the 10/90% too.