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Even if it is possible, why would it ever be implemented?

The vast majority of users don't care about this. And even if they did, it's not like there's any real competition in cellular carriers, so there still wouldn't be incentive for carriers to implement this.

On the flip side, there is lots of demand from law enforcement for them _not_ to. Law enforcement uses stingrays and would certainly pressure carriers to not implement something that stops them from continuing.
This is why tickets have to be nominative and identity checking enforced.
Just curious: are the UK immigrants knowledgeable/fluent in Polish? Or do they just work in English? Or just Ukrainian and get any job to get by?
I'm going to guess 'Proof of Concept'
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Welfaring should be socially acceptable. Why should people have no choice other than to work?
There is more to that story. Pinball and other gaming machines were rackets mostly controlled by the mafia and others of that ilk.
Interesting but important to keep in mind that as languages mature fewer questions need to be asked.
Try embedding Base64 images in the email instead:

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Yup, that's exactly what I was thinking about. Same deal here, rent is nearly $4k but I know it can only go up by guideline amounts.
Serious question as the previous comment seems serious. How is one supposed to know what's being constantly written about something if you don't read HN on a daily basis? Seems like we should assume that the commentator is making an effort to leave a "novel" comment but this time it wasn't, but it might not be the commentators fault.
Not if you hit $30k, $50k, $100k or any of the other prices bitcoin has never been traded for.
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ie don't any mua let you use UTF8?

𝔻𝕠𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜?
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Well, Norway is already one of the most expensive countries in the world, second only to Switzerland.
I think it's true, but you have an immune system that makes this largely irrelevant.
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You could make the opposite argument as well, that if the market was "freer" or less regulated or whatever then anyone could build and supply would better match demand. It's a situation where you can skew the message whichever way you want to benefit an agenda since most of our systems are neither pure free-market capitalism nor pure socialism. Obviously zealots from either side are going to say our shortcomings are because we've given too many concessions to the other.
I guess it should be 艾未未 rather than Ai Weiwei then...
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You misunderstand the power dynamics in this alliance: Israel is the boss, US is the muscle. So even if US is gaining nothing from it the alliance will continue as long as Israel needs it. If you try to end it, you'll be called antisemites, Holocaust deniers, etc. until you submit.
You can always pack it with emojis and unicode characters... that's what all the spammers seem to do at least.
I think I agree with you, but also I think I feel the same way about generic computers. I’d say that outside of specialized use cases, the OS is the wrong layer to define DNS settings: the network is the correct layer. Because that means that as computers move between networks, they handle things like private zones.

That said, I also think that there’s no absolute truth for what constitutes a “specialized use case”. I think if I’m the operator of a network, or a computer, or a container, or an application, having it use custom DNS settings is up to me. And Firefox/Chrome enable that: the operator can change the setting to whatever they want.

Speaking to the default case, Firefox/Chrome moving towards DNS defined at the app layer smells painful to me as a network operator, but ISP DNS interception also smells to me, and for the normal consumer threat model and network topology, Firefox/Chrome using CloudFlare DNS is essentially pure win. Most consumer users aren’t on networks with split-horizon DNS, and most consumer users aren’t at risk from CloudFlare logging their DNS requests, even assuming they’re violating their published privacy policies.
OP and my apartments are actually new developments benefiting from these breaks.
I uh don't think the 70s were the nicest time to visit Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)
Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12019567

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19263057
It's often the same with German names/words. Ü/U, etc are absolutely not the same and not equivalent. Leaving out the two dots on top of the U changes the whole word/meaning. Ü would be equivalently written as ue.
Thinking in terms of "conversion rates" feels to me like the reason why we're in this mess. Email to me isn't about conversion and advertising newsletters. It's about written information, so there's no reason to even support HTML, in most cases.

Arguably there's situation where an image will help in conveying information, or where a table will make information more readable. There's no situation where CSS is required.
Check this site https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ has an extensive comparison between VPN providers.
I've been using NordVPN for a couple of months and I am pretty happy with it.
>sovereign governments (which fund many government projects) can literally create money; individuals cannot
The only government that can "literally create money" is the American one.
>government projects often have multi-year funding commitments legally bound by legislation
That was my point. When it breaks, everyone would pay for it, and not in money.
>goals of government projects are often not "survive then maximize profit at all costs"; in fact, the idea behind infrastructure projects is for extreme long term payoffs, virtually impossible for from-scratch private projects due to lack of capital whereas .gov projects don't have the survival component
That what I meant when I said that governments don't live in alternative dimensions where they have unlimited resources. It just looks for an individual that omnipotent governments can do anything, but they have the same limitations as anyone of us. If there are X of something and government would print X*3 equivalent of paper to pay for it, it would denominate the value of the paper the government call money, but won't make more of X. What they can do (the same goes with corporations) is to expand their spending at expensive of individuals and business, present and future. You don't see it in static. But that what helps most government projects to survive. I already described what happens when they have no space to expand.
>(imagine 100 sewer companies with 100 sets of pipes, ...)
Sewers, pipes, wires and similar entities are physically bound. Pension funds and healthcare organizations do not provide anything that are bound to specific place.
I am not preaching "rampant theoretical capitalism". I am telling that these things, "alternatives" are doomed from their start as governments exist in the same world as individuals and companies. There is no magic behind it. They are fine now and here, but that won't last forever.
> why phones don’t connect to towers anonymously

Since the GSM era, law enforcement all over the world has appreciated being able to tie cell phone signals to individual devices. IMEI etc is part of the standard for a reason.
I don't think this is at odds with "should do one thing well". Safety is not an application in itself, it is a design principle.

"rm"'s purpose is only to delete, yet it still tries to ensure safety and sanity with its flags: -r, -f, --no-preserve-root, etc. Even simple tools should be safe by default.
I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised that it loaded the whole thing. How could the OS predict how much to load (or wait on)? Waiting for a page to load just for the next function call would be hugely expensive.
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Alternatively we could try to make them not all go to the same few spots, ie make more spots tourist friendly.
Yes. It wouldn't be too unidiomatic to use get_unchecked in those two places, perhaps with a debug_assert! in place.

It would be really nice if this wasn't needed, but it's a valid use of unsafe code.
Wouldn't want to be the guy to open the door to the tomb full of mercury air.
Sounds kind of like a bug to me.
You don't need to know the positions of the beacons unless you want an instant location fix. You can use SLAM with inertial odometry or visual inertial odometry to find a precise position using UWB beacons at unknown positions. SLAM algorithms will also give you the positions of the beacons. The catches are that it requires compute, and it requires you to move around for the model to converge.
Yea it’s a funny word “overtourism”. I guess it’s what you call it when other people go on vacation (whereas when I go on vacation it’s just “tourism”). :P
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Wikipedia articles like this bug me. It is a well written introduction to the project, but why is that on the Wikipedia? Put that on your own website! I wish more people would follow wikipedia’s very clean and easy style.

This is of course why the article can’t follow wikipedia’s citation rules. And also all the references just link to articles by one group, so the article can’t give you any real context. Is this a serious, notable work? Or is someone just boosting their search rankings with a Wikipedia link?
Does elegance describe well-defined observable properties that are independent of the observer?

The point being, that if not, we're still within the domain of the subjective. It seems arbitrary to allow one set of subjective descriptions and disallow another.
Nothing about this article seems untrustworthy.

Politico is a highly trustworthy paper that had real reporters who talk to real people all over the US government and it references real events and people and papers all throughout this article.

Your comment seems out of place.
Perhaps. But I feel you're overestimating just how much choice the decision makers have. The interactions between an organization and the rest of the market severely constrain the space of choices available to decision makers, and there may very well be no good/ethical course of action available to them (except resigning and passing the choice to someone else, which isn't an attractive option either).
Only in as much that the idea is similar to most programming languages ...
Hey, fair enough. I get ya, even. I think the copyleft folks have gone to lengths to co-opt the term "Free Software" to mean their thing and I'm fine to let them have it.

I'd like to see folks get more educated about what their license options are and the implications of using them in general.
There’s a form to submit bug reports... classic
That autoplay video almost gave me a heart attack.
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Understood. I do prefer the simplicity of the IRC protocol... especially compared to say a monstrosity like XMPP / Jabber.
Is it really "parasite SEO" if CNN decides to use their domain name clout with Google to make a (substantial) profit promoting coupons?

Seems like more of a savvy business move on behalf of CNN instead of scummy/greyhat/parasite-seo type stuff, no?

It's right up their alley, too. They sell advertisements. Coupons are advertisements.
I can't find much in the article about limiting tourism, except the two non-impactful items below. Am I missing something?

> For 2019, the Norwegian Environmental Agency has a budget of $1.2 million to award grants to local areas to fortify existing trails or build new ones to accommodate increased visitor numbers.

> Svalbard has taken a number of measures to manage its tourism, including banning cruise ships carrying heavy oil from national-park perimeters, avoiding worldwide marketing, developing wilderness experiences closer to Longyearbyen to reduce carbon-emitting snowmobile tours, and working on ways to extend the average visitor stay to increase per-capita spending and decrease transportation carbon emissions to the islands.
The State seizes money from productive people and puts them into things that sounds good, like "tourism". This way they create a problem that then they also force themselves in chsrge of solving, seizing even more money and invading the lives of citizens and business
If I knew that, I'd get paid Steve Jobs wages.
I'd be interested! Thinking of getting one even though I'm in the US, I've heard with tmobile you can get 3g which is aight
Welfare would be more socially acceptable in the US if it weren't culturally associated with non-white populations and a creeping "socialist agenda."
So? It’s a different experience, maybe even a worse one (though that’s pretty subjective), but a lot more people get to have it.
Their new repl is called cling: https://github.com/root-project/cling (They had an old one called C-INT or something like that).
I wouldn't consider SQL a general purpose programming language
Nothing that cannot more elegantly be solved by using MarkDown ...

... or common sense.
In the context of this article choosing to focus on Flash..

Flash uses actionscript.. Which is ecmascript, which today we know as Javascript.

It's not a stretch to imagine having Flash skills is one thing but building digital experiences in js, or js friendly/inspired syntaxes likely has plenty of transferable skills.

In another way of looking at it, today's js developers share some kinship with actions riot developers.
Well, technically, Dublin is on or near the Great Circle route from Ethiopia to LA.
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You're basically advocating for text/richtext (aka text/enriched), which was originally proposed explicitly as a replacement for HTML in email. It failed essentially because everyone who didn't want HTML wanted only plain text, and everyone who wanted something like HTML was happy to just use HTML.

Factoid of the day: Netscape added support for a <blink> tag to text/enriched bodies, and that support remains in every client that's still using Netscape's MIME code. The comment above this code just says: "Of course, both text/richtext and text/enriched must be enhanced somehow... Or else what would people think."
But it's not one or the other; an EU court will make a warrant for the ISP traffic data, and an US court for the DNS requests. You become vulnerable to both.
It's a cool project, but I mad the judgement that it was too risky as a dependency for my game.
What makes you think he was well-intentioned? He deliberately hid his actions. They sent Epstein a Disobedience Prize orb!

What makes you think he was powerless? He was on the board of the MIT Media Lab, The New York Times, The MacArthur Foundation, The Knight Foundation among other things.

He's exactly the kind of person who should be held accountable for their actions.
A wall.
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So, just ignore the problem?

That doesn't help.
The only reason that security conscious web sites haven't implemented any traffic analysis countermeasures is that the stuff leaks out in cleartext anyway. After DoH and ESNI are implemented, I can imagine many relatively cheap approaches that websites can use to make traffic analysis a few notches harder.
My own takeaways from this:

1. Old techs is been replaced by the newer and finer ones

2. Profitability effects the tend of languages

3. Easy (to use) is important

4. One single simple idea (Nodejs for example) can change the landscape so much
As someone that is neither a C# or Go programmer, I would be very surprised if that's true.
There is permanent damage if you rewire your kids brain chemistry to get addicted to the near-miss of getting something good. Logical explanations don't undo that.

I understand from a Louis Theroux documentary on gambling addicts that it is the feeling of the near miss that is actually addictive and not the feeling of the win. Gambling addicts are used to winning and so they don't get a buzz from that.
Engineers develop multimaterial fiber “ink” for 3-D-printed devices
Exaggeration is right. There is really nothing special about these routes with respect to fares. Only that perhaps there is more competition.

They are famous among aviation enthusiasts simply as a way to get access to airlines that one might otherwise have to travel great distances to try.
Usually people who talk like this haven’t dealt with functional programming in the real world. I fell in love with the beauty of functional programming in grad school.

After using Haskell in a real business setting for many years, no thanks. The code and headaches and weird bugs are just as bad as with any other language or paradigm. The type checking doesn’t actually help you to create functionally correct systems at all (let alone the false claims that it makes this process faster). Putting designs into the type system doesn’t matter. It’s little more than a useful mind-expanding way to think about code, but ultimately just as applicable to other paradigms. Mutating state is very often the right tool for the job. Plenty of experienced functional programmers write immutable, pattern-focused functional programming implementations that are full of bugs, confusing misdirection, unsafe handling of data, etc.

Library support is still insanely poor compared with C/C++, Python and Java. You have to insanely careful not to allow architectural astronauts to build out inscrutable systems that satisfy their weird personal opinions about aesthetics or interface design.

Hiring more engineers is super hard. Building in safety for when senior engineers choose to leave is even harder.

Integrations with emerging technologies like new database systems or new statistical packages always lags way behind other languages and usually exists in some half-finished form that depends on labor of love from some isolated hobbyist.

In terms of basic business decision making, I cannot recommend enough to avoid functional programming.
I live in such a city here in Norway. There are many reasons, but here are some:

- Decades long centralizing policies, which have effectively removed gov / state jobs from more rural areas and districts, and centralized them to a select few larger towns. Lots of smaller towns and areas are dying, while everyone's emigrating to the same cities.

- Explosion on college education. Our local University has a 10%-15% growth rate, every year. Students in turn need to live somewhere, and there aren't being built nearly enough student housing / dorms.

- More tourism; We've had a boom in tourism, especially among Asian tourists. This has lead to expansions of hotels, and more people renting out their apartments etc. to airbnb

- Other economic growth in private industries, which means more workers

- Construction workers that need places to stay - we have thousands of construction workers coming here every year, none of them which own - or plan to own - housing themselves.

When I moved here, rent was around $400 for a small studio apartment. 10 years later, the same studio apartment is rented out for $1200...it's grotesque.

The lucky people are either those who's owned units since the 80s, or those that bought right after the last recession. I know so many people that have made hundreds of thousands, just because they bought at the right time - no renovations needed.

Edit: Just to give an example; In the city where I now live, a decent house will cost you around $600k-$700k. A "starter" apartment will cost you minimum $180k-$200k.

If you drive 1 hour away, the prices will be cut in half. If you move 1-2 hr flight time away, you'll probably pay 20% of those prices. And we have 15% down-payment here in Norway! Lots of young people will spend a solid 3-5 years just saving up for the down-payment.

One "life-hack" among fresh grads is to simply move somewhere rural if you can get a relevant job, save aggressively for a couple of years, and then move back to the city.
"Just make it more expensive" is the right answer to overtourism!
Very true. There comes a point where most of the problems/algorithms have already been asked and figured out (or deemed not possible).
If it's you, then it's a 'traveler' or a 'wonderlust'. The rest of the world are simply 'tourists'.

It all comes down to the question "who do you think you are to block my path?" It's not a straightforward answer, though. We've been struggling to answer this as human beings since forever.
Revolution and disruption is sometimes needs more than words, evolution or fitting in. Increasingly it looks like finding small new interactions that can repeat and spread.
It is a fascinating story and the persistance of the author in trying to find the family is remarkable but its totally different than this story. The Germans were completely unprepared for their adventure without the correct clothing, not enough water, and apparently little or no knowledge of where they were going or where they were. The family in this story were prepared, knew exactly where they were going and where they were. They just ran into some bad luck but kept calm and did precisely the correct thing. The Germans were responsible for their own situation and paid the ultimate price.
Well, when they (publishers in general) put the chances at getting the good characters and skins behind "less than 1% chance", and fill the loot pool with useless cruft when there's an anti-dupe mechanism, it's going to be super expensive to get the exact character/skin you want.
Does this include questions that were quickly downvoted? You get a lot of people asking things they could have found with a search, and those get downvoted quite fast.
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sigma and mu may or may not be independent depending on the specified priors. In this case you're treating sigma as fixed and only putting a prior on mu, so they are (trivially) independent--a fixed value is independent of every random variable.

x-bar and s are independent for data coming from a Normal distribution, which your model assumes to be the case. Like I said, this is a basic result in mathematical statistics. The first google result [1] for "independence of s and x bar" gives a proof.

> It should also be noted that X and x are different. I defined p(x|mu) to be a Normal distribution but p(X|mu) was never defined to be normal.

From your writeup (apologies for formatting):

"We have N data points X={x_1,x_2,⋯,x_N} independently sampled from normal distribution N(μ,σ^2)."

This means X|mu has a multivariate Normal distribution with mean vector (mu, mu, mu, ..., mu) and covariance matrix sigma^2 * I_n, where I_N is the NxN identity matrix. p(X|mu) is (multivariate) Normal by definition.

Since X|mu has a multivariate Normal distribution, x-bar|mu has a univariate Normal distribution. This is the result of a basic fact about Normal distributions: if a vector X has a multivariate Normal distribution, then MX, where M is any matrix of an appropriate size to be multiplied by X, also has a (multivariate or univariate) Normal distribution (in other words, linear combination of Normally distributed random variables also have a Normal distribution). In the case of x-bar, M is the 1xN matrix [1/N, 1/N, ..., 1/N].

The Central Limit Theorem is a far more general result. In this case since we're starting with a Normal distribution we don't need it, as we can use properties of the Normal distribution to arrive at the distribution of x-bar|mu directly, without needing the CLT.

[1] http://jekyll.math.byuh.edu/courses/m321/handouts/mean_var_i...
DNSmasq needs to be replaced with something more secure in any event. Hopefully implemented in a memory-safe programming language.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
Isn't AMP for email kinda what you are describing?

"The AMP version of the message is embedded into the email as a new MIME part, in addition to the HTML and plaintext, ensuring compatibility across all mail clients"

From https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/start/cre...
I joined as a new grad at Amazon. What do you think I'm paid, and what do you expect me to make?