skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Am I crazy or does this seem like an extremely cynical attempt to get more phone numbers?

Nope you are not crazy at all, that's exactly what they are doing. It's the same pattern in practice of online banks that are demanding you give them an SMS capable phone, it's so that they can in the backchannel identify you through AT&T, which is really teh corporate face of the NSA (don't argue with me, 33 thomas st. nyc), and the implications there is that they have many things tied together in fusion centers so they can use something like palantir to instantly profile you when you put in that number and it draws in via their backchannel apis your bank accounts into a single view along with your other information, like medical, civic, etc that's literally what fusion centers do. It's all hooked up for THEIR convenience, and its all keyed off now on google's gaia_id. They tether your phone number(s) to gaia_id and voila all these data sources get drawn in....it's all about the convenience to the five eyes/nato people to force you to use their free sandwich stuff and get everyone tied into the central hub of services that is google

So I agree with others: don't use a chromebook. I have an older friend who needed a laptop for work and I made the mistake of getting a chromebook. The f*cking thing didn't do TKIP correctly in WPA2 so it didn't work with my wifi without making major changes to security in a tactical frustration that made ME look like I didn't know what I was doing

It was a G d nightmare, but needless to say I will NEVER use a chromebook again, esp after hearing your issue with the phone

Just get a refurb lenovo from tigertits or newegg and put linux mint debian edition with xfce on it. The end
3 W per drive when shut down seems like huge amount. For reference, Raspberry Pi 3B+ consumes about 2 W when idle, and 2B 2.5 W under load.

https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption
Firefox for Mac has animation-related speed issues that don't occur in Windows, that may explain the discrepancy between your experience and the GP's.
As far as I know, Managed C++ is mostly used as an interop layer between C/C++ and C#, sort of like the inverse of P/Invoke.

Since P/Invoke can't marshal C++ classes, Managed C++ gives you a way to expose such things. It's a very special-purpose chimera.
It's not like sleeping with a girl and then vanishing never to be seen again is some unheard-of event. There's a whole genre of country music on the same theme.
Best of luck, but I'm not sure it'll work in Seattle. I think it would fare better in other cities like Nashville for example.

I feel Seattle has a curse. And the issue is not with meeting people. At least not for me. I meet people easily, and you could say I have many friends in Seattle, but it doesn't provide me joy. Because frankly, everyone is boring and uninteresting, including me. Seattle has a way to turn people into boring and uninteresting entities. I was fun and interesting before moving here, now I'm boring and stale. I'm exaggerating, but I think there's some small truth to this, and its the cause of the Seattle freeze.

It's very strange. Maybe its the lack of sunlight. Maybe its the layout of the city. Maybe its the high cost of living, or the abundance of people who didn't grew up here, or tech. But it seems everyone defines themselves through their job, and everyone has pretty much the same job, and not much else going for them.

It makes it hard to connect in meaningful ways. So you might rather stay in, play games, watch tv, go on a hike alone, etc. Then hang out with other Seatellite.
I use Nix[1] as my package manager on macOS with home-manager[2]. Since Nix puts nix paths before OS paths and doesn't prefix GNU commands with 'g', I just install coreutils and others:

https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/a7ddc5acf260552f73...

The nice thing is that the system state is never mutated, you can just remove these lines from the configuration, run home-manager switch and you are back to the standard macOS userland.

You could also only use GNU userland in specific projects by putting a default.nix file in the project's directory and using dirvenv. cd to myproject and you have a GNU userland, cd out of myproject and you are back to the macOS userland.

[1] https://nixos.org/nix/

[2] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
>If he had disclosed all his conflicts, the same research would have been published in the same places with the same people. Nothing would have changed.

Speculation.

> Nobody really cares or pays much attention.

Maybe they should.

>When it comes to clinical trials, there are many checks and balances that prevent a 'rogue' conflicted investigator from influencing the results.

And you think these checks and balances work good enough, most of the time?
Why do stamps remind me of Bitcoin?
It should be assumed they check the phone number provider and block twilio as a spam prevention technique.
The City was mostly for Remain. However, paradoxically, it is one of the sectors of the UK economy that will be least affected by it, as single market regulations don't cover services very broadly.

Note that UK financial regulations are usually more strict than EU ones (excepting some tax treatments).
There are also overnight trains from venice to paris operated by Thello.com.
For other destinations check out Nightjet and Euronight.
You don't think you're paying for the hardware? So you think Tesla takes a loss whenever it sells a car with Autopilot hardware for which the customers don't buy the software upgrade?

If they don't, then you're already paying for it. I think it was a mistake to do it like this, and it made all Model 3's more expensive than they could have been.
So I'm confused, the rumors of Microsoft considering Windows 10 monthly fees were false, or was that something else? This seems to be extended support fee (past 2020 for Windows 7), which seems reasonable.
Reminder: forbes.com/sites/* isn't the same as a forbes.com article. It's essentially a blogging network that just so happens to use the Forbes domain.
The "Give our impartial story your own bias score" slider should be explicit on whether it's just "far left for unbiased, far right for very biased", or if the two ends of the slider represent some implied political positions.
The blacks (Africans?) kept to themselves and weren't included in the later societies ans biological changes.
Go create a google voice account and put in that number.
I can't offer any advice that can help you quickly or is guaranteed to work. Write a longer and better composed post on some platform, with details of what you've tried, whom you tried to contact at Google, responses (or the lack thereof), etc. Share it on HN, Twitter and elsewhere to get some traction. If you can get it to someone at a senior level, that may help. Sadly, that seems to be the only way to get some companies to pay attention.

I'm not sure if your Google account is tied to a Gmail address (it doesn't necessarily have to be), but I would advise anyone who uses (or must use) Google's services to use an email address from another provider so that if you lose access to the Google account, your email also doesn't disappear with it. Further, disentangling oneself from such providers and going with those whose business depends on your monetary support may be a better choice (where feasible). I also get that these suggestions may sound absolutely ridiculous.
I find your consumerism narrative unconvincing as you've laid it out here. I am, however, curious how much you blame mobile devices and social media, because that seems like (a) the Big Thing that's recently changed, and (b) because narratives and my experience around why people choose superficial connection or social disconnection through the use of social media and mobile devices seems very convincing and common.

Wish we had more rigorous data on causation here though.
> Sadly, safe, clean public places seem to be an exception rather than the norm in the world at large, at least from what little I've seen of it.

Visit Central/Eastern Europe. These places are a norm in there.
It's coming along quite well from what I gather. I seem to see it popup on HN every month or so with some impressive updates
who/what is the "The City"?
What's the impact if using temporary containers in Firefox? Does it still shares TLS session between containers?
Shiftphone is German but they use Asian components. For example the CPU of their phone on the homepage is made by Mediatek, from Taiwan.
He has to declare his conflicts annually to his institution, and has to provide updates with any new conflicts within 90 days. They would almost certainly have a conflict management plan in place for this situation
Your suggesting .net as an alternative but ironically the licensing of Java is largely shaped due to the Sun vs Microsoft lawsuit. Microsoft tried to do their famous Embrace, Extend, extinguish on Java (and failed: https://www.cnet.com/news/sun-microsoft-settle-java-suit/ ).

Its only been a couple of years that Microsoft has been behaving "better". I suggest you read up on the history of Java, Android, Google and Microsoft because you also seem to be unaware what Android Oracle vs Google was really about; Its wasn't about patents, it was about copyright.

You know what they say about history: Those who don't know it are doomed to repeat it.
I agree, these large multinational banks, just like any other large multinational company, can do things very quickly if needed.

Dump local staff, re-hire in the other country. Dump local back office staff, re-hire in the other country, or, they already have it outsourced.

If its on some executive's KPI or has their yearly bonus at risk... mountains can be moved in a blink of an eye.
Thanks!
I'll add support for annotations in project's TODO list. It'll be a nice addition to any archiving solution.
Well said; it really is that simple on principle.
Data thef on British Airways web site under investigation
If you're willing to deal with HTML's native document flow, which is quite good for literature and scholarly material.

I kinda wish there was a robust second non-commercial web with a number of technical restrictions designed to keep things from descending into crap. Not give people enough rope to hang themselves with.

Tor's onion sites are the closest we've got, most have zero JavaScript, zero tracking and zero ads. It provides an amazing vision into the web we lost.
I noticed similar on Android Chrome. I can't log out of my email in the browser
C's standard library is completely broken for text handling (depends on external locale instead of caller-specified locale) and on Windows broken for file system access if your paths contain non-ASCII. (At least until the latest dev version of Windows 10.)

Rust has the best file system abstraction for exposing Windows file paths in a way that allows you to write common file path handling application code for Windows and *nix.
It variously means London, The City of London (which is a district inside London with an unusual political status), or the host of financial and trading services industries which in the UK are largely based in the City of London.
Microsoft OS were never free to start with is it shocking that this update also costs money like almost every new version of windows ever?
I'm a bit in both camps.

I have no social contacts and I often work from home. Most of the time I don't even want to hear anyone, and get agitated by the noise of traffic (which is a constant where I live.)

However after sitting at the computer for a while I do crave human interaction. Places like Reddit, HN or online games are my usual venues for that, but they don't fix physical isolation.

As per my other comment [0], my Holy Grail is being able to do my thing in proximity to other people, in a beautiful environment, without having to interact with anyone or being affected by them, like a calm park with internet access and something to put my laptop on. :)

This usually gives me the best of both worlds.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944802
It looks quite innovative. I'll see if I can get some ideas from it.
There isn't anything writing to the serial port. The process of writing to the serial port is fast enough that the IO isnt the problem. What you're after is the capture of stuff that has already been outputted on the terminal and that can be captured. It's called a scroll back buffer history. Some terminals can even make that persistent.

You keep trying to reinvent terminals with features that already exist to solve a problem that needs to be fixed in the server itself.
Requires a "real" phone number to create one.
Show HN: Plant-based eating, made easy and delicious
The problem with Android is that it doesn't work like Windows does - it's dependent on support from the manufacturer which means that even if your phone was capable of running a later version of Android, if the manufacturer hasn't upgraded their blobs, it wouldn't work anyway. Pity, as I agree with you otherwise (my G5 Plus is still stuck on 7, despite Motorola saying they would provide an upgrade to 8 over a year ago).
Power is never taken. It can only be given. That’s why threats of violence from the would-be rulers are usually necessary. A few people having power over the many is because the many don’t scare the few.
How much of the entire Java api is under the GPL?

I get mixed messages on OpenJFX on how much of JavaFX has been open sourced.
More Companies That No Longer Require a Degree
Then you will probably enjoy these even more ( same author ): http://idlewords.com/talks/

Especially http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

I very strongly recommend listening to the actual talks afterwards as well - pure gems.
use Lineage OS custom rom, which provides updates all the time.
People who don’t interact with politicians and often don’t vote can’t have an opinion about anything political. They are not in the game. Fortunately this is easy to fix.
That's not a flight controller, it's a simple power distribution board, most likely [1]. Flying wings generally don't need flight controllers, they just need two servos and an electronic speed controller for the motor. A flight controller is nice because it can stabilize the plane, and it can also provide autonomous flying it it has a gps. If you just want to fly around like that, no need.

[1] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61k-Sva2oYL...
Can you install Linux in these machines?
What mechanism do you think the banks used to persuade voters in the north and regions to vot leave, while themselves overwhelmingly voting remain, while also keeping this mechanism secret?

There was no secret conspiracy. It was a free vote.
"jlink"

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/tools/jlink.htm#JSWOR-
GUID-CECAC52B-CFEE-46CB-8166-F17A8E9280E9

"Self-Contained Application Packaging"

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/deploy/self-contained-appl...

"JLINK in Java-9"

https://blog.knoldus.com/jlink-in-java-9/

"Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps"

https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship...
firefox containers work great for precisely this use case
That's because it doesn't blacklist words which are commonly used in English without them being technical terms, nor doesn't it whitelist terms which are topics of interest. There's also no difference being made between referring to Wikipedia and being an expert about Wikipedia. If you regularly reference to Wikipedia (something I do) you then become an expert on the topic "wikipedia". As an example, check the expert topics from user tptacek [1] ("security, argument, fact, hn, thread, software, comment, story, google, sense").

The probable mood was rather... entertaining.

The notion this can be used to find sockpuppets or throwaways does not surprise me. Without sufficient effort you still use certain words, in certain order, consistently. Such can even be used to check out what your native language is. So if you are e.g. a blackhat who wrote ransomware it makes sense to have someone who never wrote on the internet to paraphrase or deal with the communication, or perhaps use tools such as translators.

Also, if you use delay (e.g. delay 10) it is going to appear on HN after you wrote it meaning it could appear in the next hour despite being written in the previous.

Despite the above, I did find this an interesting project; I just very much doubt its accuracy and usefulness.

[1] https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...
That's why I don't like web technologies in general, HTML, javascript, the DOM. They allow things like angular and all of those javascript bloated blobs. It also allows to track you, and show ads than are on another server.

If you look back at why web techs thrived and prevailed, it was essentially an adverse effect of microsoft business practices. HTML and js is a gate that allows developers to build application that run on a linux server, and be used on a windows client.

HTML was never designed for web applications. I don't understand why people cannot stop using js and the DOM seen how slow it is on android. HTML is an ambiguous language which is also why rendering it is slow.

I'm sure I'm missing a lot of job opportunities by avoiding web dev jobs, but I don't care.

This website obesity is also linked to Wirth's law:

> Wirth's law, also known as Page's law, Gates' law and May's law, is a computing adage which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
Or at least 8 weeks of vacation a year like in Germany?
How can they detect Twilio numbers but still let scammers robocall my phone on a daily basis via bandwidth.com's API?
Thanks.

I think it's just that speed of delivering the product started to matter more. So when somebody says there was a free app already out there before he finished his product, it just means that somebody else was more efficient. Just like you can lose customers because competition offers cheaper solution, you can also lose them by being too slow.

So for me it's just market doing it's thing and doing it right.

Regarding feeling of chaos though, I would say that the most important thing you can learn - to live with it and embrace it. Our ancestors have learned doing a single thing well and had been doing them most of their lives. It doesn't work today. Even if you stay in a single field, either the technology changes real fast or the field gets deprecated.

Not everybody is able to adjust. That's why we have some real social problems ahead of us. And quite soon I'm afraid.
> The fix is okay but the language is a bit hazy, there's still only one channel, but now it's a buffered channel with capacity to hold up to 2 messages, so the two goroutines don't need to block waiting for a receiver to be ready to synchronously receive the message they are sending.

I was very disappointed with this explanation as well. The documentation is less than direct on this point, and suggests goroutines "execute independently", so my only conclusion is that the author doesn't understand channels very well, and was perhaps led to not understand them well.

01 func doSomethingTwice() error {
02 // Issue occurs below
03 errc := make(chan error)
04
05 go func() {
06 defer fmt.Println("done wth a")
07 errc <- doSomething("a")
08 }()
09 go func() {
10 defer fmt.Println("done with b")
11 errc <- doSomething("b")
12 }()
13 err := <-errc
14 return err
15 }

If the programmer understands the control flow is something like: 03, 06, 07, 10, 13, 14 then they're not going to be confused, and they're certainly not going to "fix it" by increasing the buffer, they'll fix it by reading from the channel twice, and guarding against this by closing the channel. The real question is how to explain to the programmer what the semantics of channels is:

A goroutine blocks on read or write of an unbuffered channel (what we're seeing here).

The garbage collector is for simulating an infinite memory machine only. It is not for "cleaning up" after you.

The issue comes up when go programmers learn about runtime.GOMAXPROCS much too early, so they learn goroutines as threads, and they guess that the thread will be cleaned up when "garbage collected" because that's how Python works (or some other "garbage collected" language they might be familiar with). They're further confused because golang values have a "finalizer" so they might just assume that the thread finalizer (somehow) kills the thread, or the channel finalizer (somehow) closes the channel.

Perhaps if they noticed that writing to a closed channel causes a run-time panic, they might think these semantics are unlikely.

The point about buffering is to be able to write twice without blocking. Yes, you get 03, 06, 07, 10, 11, 13, 14 but how important was that really? If you did it just because you don't want to "leak memory", then you still don't know what's going on.
Exciting to see that veganism is picking up steam in 2018. It's sad that it has been 10 years since this was initially released and the limited progress that has been made, but progress that is being made is encouraging.
I wonder how substantiated these numbers are but I can't deny that IVF facilities have been very very busy all over. In Canada, fertility treatment rate increased to 15.7% in 2011, up from 5.4% in 1984. It is a safe bet that 1 in 8 couples you know probably have visited fertility clinic[1].

Also, does this apply to China/India or just Western world? If no then I would worry about all the tech that has gotten in to our lives like plastic everywhere, RF radiation through wifi, chemical infested food and toys etc.

1. https://resolve.org/infertility-101/what-is-infertility/fast...
I don't follow your logic about consumerism being the problem. America has been consumerist for a long time, longer than your 13 years of observation. Is there perhaps another advancement other than "consumerism" in the last 13 years which could account for your observations?
That's true broadly, but opiates are a bit of a special case, no?
The paper only recognizes two subpopulations with their respective probability distributions. I only introduced B11 and B12 to be able to talk about different outcomes within the B1 subpopulations. Otherwise you could just choose any arbitrary grouping (e.g. mixing B11 and B12) and get completely different results depending on how you do it.

Maybe it's less ambiguous if we talk about machines which spit out a randomly sized ball when you press a lever. After collecting a certain number of balls from the machines, you determine what proportion of the largest p% is from each machine and replace all balls by selecting from the machines according to their proportion.

If you have a machine M1 producing very large balls and very small ones in equal quantities, as well as M2 producing medium-sized balls, then the prediction is that the proportion of balls coming from M1 will increase if p < 50% and decrease otherwise.

In that model, although you can clearly group the very large balls as B11, there is no machine M11 only producing those balls. Both very large and very small balls will, if they are in the top p%, require you to press the lever on M1. The size of the balls only influences which machine will be chosen, not what kind of balls will be coming out of that machine.

In genetic terms, B1 and B2 carry different alleles of the same gene and have different genotypes, while B11 and B12 are different phenotypes possible for B1. If B11 were to produce only B11, that would be inheritance of phenotype, i.e. Lamarckian evolution, which is also interesting, but less relevant for real-world genetics.
The Commodore 64 block graphics should be one of those.
You've only been a member for less than 12 hours, but I've already specifically enjoyed your comments in two separate threads. I hope to see more of you in comment threads! You add a lot of value.

Whats your "stack"? are you running linux and avoiding google services entirely - or using and mitigating their tracking?