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> position of no regulation whatsoever, or the ill-defined yet ludicrous "self regulation", but rather independent regulation by third-party companies

I think these positions are essentially the same, at least in the case of most consumer-facing regulation. The latter would cause a myriad of captive "independent regulatory" bodies to emerge to confuse consumers, complete with slick websites and easy to confuse names and logos (or outright fraudulent ones). It would be hard to sort through them, and no one will have the time to do it.
That's what the retry feature is. If it's truly urgent they'll call again within a short timeframe (+3 to +300 seconds; not milliseconds like the 'try to go direct to voicemail' spam calls).

I tell this to everyone I care for as well, if I don't pick up by the third ring, hang up and dial again. (This is to skip it going to voicemail and also differentiate the behavior).

I don't expect scammers to pick up this tactic because it would double their OpEx and also make it more likely that they are targeted for actually trying to call your number with intent, rather than in error.
It would be a great move from some of the more privacy aware countries to block entirely these trackers on national level.
Maybe not TLS, but Cloudflare does mirror and intercept traffic meant for third party non-customer domains when a customer domain decides they want to use cloudflare's AMP service. This is done in the name of 'faster' access. But really it's just cloudflare mirror your domains and serving them up so you never see the hits coming from cloudflare user domains with AMP enabled.
Not the planes I've flown.
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The evolution of the world economy over the next 400-600 years
We do have laws, but they cannot be easily enforced because many of the scams originate in foreign countries who proxy to VOIP providers in the US to make the calls. Some of them, like the Microsoft scam, even conscript unwitting people into the job and/or threaten them to do it, while telling them that it's not a scam because everyone in the US is rich and don't need all that money. Maybe Germany just isn't a desirable target for them.
Sure. The intermediate network(s) could sniff the traffic (or the lines could physically be tapped). There could be a BGP hijack on the origin IP, or a DNS hijack if using a hostname as the origin.

But these types of attacks are a lot more advanced than a guy with a packet sniffer in a Starbucks, and will target different types of victims. I.E. if you run a small web forum, it's unlikely someone is going to perform a BGP attack to steal your users' passwords. And the types of ISPs between Cloudflare and AWS usually won't inject ads into HTTP traffic.
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Yeah, it's hard to sell this to anyone except c-levels with the most discretionary of budgets, but it's very important work. FWIW it's nice to find someone else who's heard of this.

A few years ago Bruce Sterling was calling his sort of sci fi inspired strategic forecasting 'diagetic prototyping', or 'design fiction'. Less defense- or tech- oriented than film and product development. But it works in a similar way. We hire the oracles to inhale the vapors and tell us what they see.

https://www.wired.com/2011/02/design-fiction-diegetic-protot...

edit: I did work for monitor for a short time and my views don't necessarily reflect those of the organization
> religion that puts food on their table, makes their planes stay in the sky and makes them healthy again when they fall sick

Your phrasing makes it sound like you're conflating science and physical reality... that's kind of a pet peeve of mine (sorry). Science provides some of the knowledge required for engineers and doctors to do their jobs, but it's the work they do with that knowledge that accomplishes those things. I think that's an important distinction. We can't credit science with creating the natural world or its mechanisms, though it has enabled us to understand and work with it.
My favorite one is to use it as a personal wiki typeset in org or markdown.

Or perhaps a Zettelkasten.
I can use my portable music player to listen to music on the go, or my Kobo e-reader to read a book. I am fortunate enough that I actually work entirely from an office in my garden so commuting is something I just don't have to do anymore. In any case, when I go to London or a nearby city, it's quite fun to see if I can get around without maps. I find myself asking people where I might find somewhere and get to make some real human contact. I bet you could do it, it sounds really scary at first, but what I did realise when I had the MP01 and was on trains is how funny it is to see everyone mindlessly thumbing their pieces of glass. It's really easy to slowly become a self righteous prick though and think you're better than everyone else because you don't use a smartphone anymore. You'll be as annoying as someone who does crossfit and who vapes and wants to tell the world about their new flavour so make sure to keep that in check :')
NIST Is Using the Most Vulnerable People to Test Facial Recognition Software
I would say more that this is a case of gaming the metrics - regulation is looser for variations of the same plane (This Is A Good Thing) and so Boeing did shady shit to classify this new plane as a variant. The only way to prevent this is to sufficiently fund the regulators so that a human can do a sanity check and reject the gaming; but decades of defunding of regulatory agencies and the resulting regulatory capture made the FAA incapable of doing that.
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Think there is a need for a clarification. It says _member states_ of EU have trackers on their websites. Not EU itself.
2% of what...? GDP :) ?
Reach outside your company. Genuine appeals for focused help are rarely dismissed.

You don't need to know almost everything (and derive what you don't from first principles), that is unreasonable. You do need to have a network of folks you can ask help or feedback from.

Being on a small team without much support will force either very fast growth or failure, and your ability to be intellectually honest (is this true or do I want it to be true?) and identify folks who can and are willing to genuinely help are important factors.
I don't know -- in discourse, it's perfectly fine to dispute ideas (it's the foundation of Western civilization and of analytical thought, and is a means to knowledge and wisdom).

If we cannot argue in a marketplace of ideas, we are prevented from having hard but necessary conversations. We need to adhere to parameters of civility of course, but to me, a necessary freedom is the freedom to disagree/dispute. Some ideas are truly wrong and they need to be put through the crucible.

That said, I've always been told to always "address the ideas, not the person" (never attack someone's character) and to adopt a pose of "curiosity".
The fact that it is not perfect is pretty irrelevant to the need for this kind of basic functionality. I'm going to assume iPhone here because I'd be surprised if Android doesn't have this capability.
Ah, when I got to the code snippet, I was hoping I'd see that you didn't have to change any code, that SAPI could generate the precise interface of the library you're using, but it looks like the code you have to write is a pretty big divergence from the original library API.
Then there is the fact that science was created by religious societies, Christianity in particular. Many of the fundamental discoveries came about due to religious motivations and religious principles: the world is orderly and understandable because it was created by a transcendent mind. Take away religion and we would not have science.
> It was common for people in the US to reject the idea of smoking as a cause of lung cancer until like the 1980s. Scientific consensus on this fact was reached in the 60s and was suspected for a while before that. Yet, it took like 40 years for the public to agree.

You're exaggerating.

It did not take until after the year 2000 for the public to believe that smoking causes cancer.
> the FCC will force something (that probably won't be as easy to deal with)

After the net neutrality debacle, including the FBI investigation into public comment fraud [0], I'm writing off whatever "corporate difficulty" Ajit Pai is threatening as a snowball's chance in hell. As long as he's chair, that agency is squarely in the "regulatory capture" box.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/fbi-investigatin...
Interesting! Can you write a bit about how you built it?
So even if you see that your 10K line UserManager class is hurting your velocity and you are spending more and more time maintaining your AcmeDatabaseManager and AcmeLogManager, you still don't why it's taking longer or what to do about it.
Yep, but all involve Kernel drivers. Is a block-level driver less error prone by its nature?
You are wrong.

p(X) :- p(X). does usually not terminate in a top-down (Prolog) system but does in a bottom-up (Datalog) system. Datalog doesn't even allow terms as predicate arguments so of course you can't construct them of infinite size. But also this isn't allowed (where it is in Prolog)

p(X) :- p(Y), X is Y + 1.

Given a fact p(0) you get p(X) true for any integer X or generate all positive integers. This doesn't terminate for some binding patterns.
Just because climate change is consistent with extreme weather does not entail it caused extreme weather.

Also, climate change = extreme weather is very handwavy. How is climate change falsifiable?
How about Special Relativity? IIRC, Einstein's paper had no references to previous work.
Ask HN: Where might I be happier than ecommerce?
Since graduating a few years ago, I've been working in ecommerce. This has been my first real development job. I've learned a lot from it. And one of the things I've learned is that I fucking hate ecommerce and I never want to work in this cursed hellhole again.

I hate the frameworks. I hate how they make doing basic things take hours to achieve and force me to spend most of my time on workarounds or with my head stuck in a debugger.

I hate the clients. I hate that I have to do work for rich people who sell stupid things to people who don't need them.

I hate how we sell things to our clients by telling them what they're getting is the best, when everyone knows it's just polished garbage.

I hate how we act toward our users. I hate how absolutely anything that increases conversion is treated as a positive, no matter whether it's actually helping the customer or just inducing them to impulsively buy more products.

My job has reasonable perks. I like my coworkers. I like everything about it except the job itself, and it's eating me alive. I think I could put up with worse if I felt like I was really achieving anything. Right now I feel like everything I do at work is ultimately pointless and I want to know if that's something I can expect for the rest of my career. I'm at the point where it might be expected that I moved on to another job and I'd like to do a bit better this time.
> I'm building my own phone.

Can you elaborate? This sounds pretty interesting.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it can't. I agree it's not obvious from the spec sheet though. It's most likely made for an aging demographic that can't be bothered to even learn how to use a smartphone, so hotspot connectivity probably won't be missed.
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Everyone trusted the FAA. So much for that.
I read a lot about the plague that robocalls are on international forums, especially from the U.S.

But I live in central Europe, Austria, and received only two SPAM calls in my whole life, both by what seemed to be actual human agents on the other side and hear from similar amounts from friends I've asked about the phenomena.

Can someone explain why it seems such hard to resolve problem elsewhere while it seems hardly a problem at all here? Is there a difference in infrastructure, a difference in legislature, ...?
How about a mass hackjacking of flying cars?
"The very poor tend to cope better than the middle classes during periods of extreme instability"

True, the gilets-jaunes are showing remarkable resilience in the face of instability caused by unsustainable taxes imposed by their managerial class and its armed thugs (riot police).
Not really, it‘s for high-level planning, e.g. for features that involve multiple teams and often multiple companies. Mostly helpful for large-scale organizations. Jira is used one level below that.
I think it is not about internal analytics or a/b testing. It is about adtech scripts like Floodlight, Adnexus and others.
Today's best practices are tomorrow's legacy codebase. Don't get hung up on "doing it right" if your code works & your comfortable with it, i.e it is maintainable and it is reliable.

My best advice would be to try and use one of the publicly published coding standards from a big company as there is usually a lot of good knowledge/experience baked into those. Use a linter religiously and do not commit code with lint errors. For every commit, take a step back and think "is this code shit?" If I had to explain it to someone who I thought was a 'better' or more experienced coder than me, would I be embarrassed about it?

Generally you'll get a gut feeling about code being good or bad - how reliable it is, how often you have to tweak it, how easy it is to change etc. If it is hard to make changes to some code or its really buggy or brittle then trust your gut: You Are (probably) Doing It Wrong. That is when you can go and read around different approaches online to see what other people have done to approach the same/similar issue and learn from them. Some approaches will resonate with you, some won't. Make a professional judgement on which (if any) you want to learn from/emulate in your codebase and why you made that decision (the thought process helps - sometimes you just need an 'ah ha' moment to work out your own approach)

tl;dr - beyond fundamentals, everyone does things differently. Do what works for you and what is reliable and maintainable.
> The other developers don't really assist me since they have their own projects to work on, and, honestly, they have less experience and knowledge than I do.

Best practice tip: no developer should be an island. You should all have some idea what each other is doing, at least once a week. You should be reviewing each others' code, and asking about the decisions and tradeoffs involved.
Don't quote me on this, but I do believe there are regulations and laws preventing this - but just as the article states they are impossible to enforce given our current infrastructure. Fines are meaningless to a blackhat organization doing spoof calls over VoIP somewhere in India.
I clearly recall reading that DNA-based phylogenetic analysis indicated that primates and rodents have common ancestors that are more recent than common ancestors with other mammals. So in that sense, rodents are more closely related than, for example, dogs, cats, cattle, etc.

Pigs I may be wrong about. They're clearly more similar than dogs, cats and cattle. In embryonic development, for sure, and I remember that from dissecting a fetal pig. And there is the saying that embryology recapitulates phylogeny. But a quick search didn't come up with any DNA-based phylogenetics.

As you say, "traditional taxonomy is bad at determining how related species are". It's largely based on morphology, embryology and fossil evidence. But that can be irffy, given the thin fossil record, and the common occurrence of independent selection.

DNA-based classification is really the only way to get objective phylogenetic trees. And as we get them, we learn that lots of classical taxonomy is just wrong. And that's why reading about taxonomy online is so confusing. It's a mix of old and new, with lots of more-or-less uninformed speculation.
AFAIK, it will link their Apple ID with the watch, which means that if they uninstall an app, you might lose it, and etc. The LTE Apple Watch needs a minimum of an iPhone 6 or something to complete setup vs. the non-LTE that can be setup with a 5s.
> In practice however there are limits to both time and ability to understand.

It does seem that for some big ticket items like global warming the way to go would be have an open sourced app people can download and play with the simulations themselves.

The scientists working on this stuff do make efforts to put this material together in a comprehensible form, so it's all out there. But it's very hard to trace anything back to the original data, and it seems like we're getting to the point where enough tools to do this are becoming ubiquitous.

> I suspect Sophism is the main culprit really - arguing based on feelings as opposed to facts.

I think that's very much our default behavior. When I've seen policy discussions it seems overwhelmingly that people look at it through a personal lens, and then they've set themselves up so criticism of their position is criticism of them. And then it's bloody difficult to deescalate without seeming condescending.
what's the point, if they don't allow third party browser engines. iOS on Safari is pretty horrible.
Argonne National Laboratory to build first US exascale supercomputer
Facial recognition: Apple, Amazon, Google and the race for your face
I'm sure Boeing needs some software developers now.
I was surprised to see most (all?) remote roles are US-only. Are you working to change that, at least for countries where you otherwise have a legal+employment presence?
sigh Right, that's why the Dutch authority sent out letters a few weeks ago to some of the biggest offenders in the Netherlands, telling them their practices were not allowed. I don't know if law works differently in the USA, but just based on how panicked American sites seemed to be on May 25th 2018 versus European sites, it sure seems like it. Yes, the law has teeth, but no, they're not out to kill small businesses or even bother big ones if there is no appearance of malintent.

Facebook is an example they seem to just fine, but a big Dutch media company (RTL) having a cookie wall that quite clearly explains what you are consenting to by clicking "continue" but doesn't strictly fall within the correct opt-in mechanism? They send a warning for that, not a fine.

Yes, it's rather embarrassing that even the government itself doesn't follow the law. But then screaming the 2019 equivalent of "get your pitchforks!" shows how misunderstood the GDPR is. It's supposed to help, not collect extra money.
I wrote some really long functions in C back in the day just to avoid the overhead of function calls. Yes, this was after running a profiler and we had massive amounts of data (for the time) to crunch within a short window.
If the operators don’t act, maybe the traditional phone calls become obsolete and people switch to Facetime/WhatsApp/GoogleTechDuJour.
Reminds me of the dumpster fire that is 'Portfolio' - https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/portfolio
Everything you said applies today to the demographic pyramids of the respective 2 countries, with only an 11 years delta. And yet Germany has 5x the GDP.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/turkey/2019/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/turkey/2030/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/germany/2019/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/germany/2030/
But the "majority" of people in the US in fact have slow internet -- especially upload bandwidth.
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They do but they're extremely rare. Before I started for myself I spent a lot of time mentoring my team. Most if it was building their confidence up so they could think critically themselves whilst reading the right books.

I myself have never had a technical mentor. Never needed one. What I did need and have were mentors for the other 90% of being a successful professional (and people who built my self confidence up).
FYI it’s Full Time _Equivalent_. E.g a new feature may require 1 FTE for 1 week. That doesn’t necessarily mean 1 person 1 week. It may be 2 people 2.5 days each, etc.
Big pharma and their dubious ties to politicians should be put to an end. I am so sick of this injustice.
If it wasn't possible to hike the price, the drug would have remained illegal.
The same is with cannabis although some countries have politicians with a spine and managed to legalise.
The most dumbfounding situation is in the UK, where doctors have been told to not prescribe cannabis for chronic pain, as supposedly there is no evidence it works (!).
I have had a Google Voice number since it was Grand Central.

It has gone on all of my business cards. It's at the bottom of every email. I put it on my website.

Google does an amazing, world class, mind blowing, job of filtering out robo calls. I get maybe one a week at most.

I get more calls direct to my cell number from random call bots that hit every number with mobile carriers than I do through my Google Voice number.

It's past time for Apple to integrate spam call filtering into iOS and Android users have no excuse for not using Google Voice.
Be fair. They had homemade tortillas & you could bring in beer.
Bill Gates to help launch new Stanford AI institute
Neither did the first person to encounter it, but they figured it out anyway. There is no magic one-size-fits-all process for this.
The initial HN submission had the same press release title: "All-new iPad Air and iPad mini deliver dramatic power and capability". May be a moderator changed it.
The NSA's MUSCULAR project was running physical taps on the fiber links that BigCorps were running between their own physical infrastructure. I'm sure they could find a way to get between CloudFlare the sites it terminates HTTPS for, if they really want to.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
> The situation is instead that a vast number of scientists are producing findings that contradict certain political preferences, and the response has not been a deeper investigation made in good faith — but rather an outright political rejection of the findings.

How does a layperson make a deeper investigation on their own? The research is typically paywalled, the jargon is inaccessible, the experiments are prohibitively expensive, etc etc. In effect, there is a priestly caste, and one which arguably excludes from the debate members of the skeptic's tribe (i.e., "people the skeptic might trust to address their concerns"). This is why heterodoxy and political diversity in the academy is soooo important.

You might be inclined to say something like "conservatives select out of the academy" or "it's not my fault reality has a liberal bias" and you might even be right, but I don't think you'll find climate change very sympathetic to your position. In other words, this isn't affirmative action for conservatives, it's affirmative action (of conservatives) for the benefit of humanity.

Disclaimers: I'm picking 'conservatives' and 'liberals' here because that's clearly the bent of the article. I'm also picking climate change since it seems to be the favorite example of science denialism. Of course, contrary to the angle of this article, science denialism isn't even an exclusively conservative phenomenon (blank slatism is a favorite of anti-science leftists--including leftist academics--and flat-earth and anti-vax are bipartisan beliefs).