skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>At a personal level, it forces the user to make choices. Making choices is exhausting. Should I donate $1, $10, or $100? Should I donate based on my perception of how much each project lacks funds, based on how much value I extract out of the software -which is not easy to quantify anyway- or just send an amount that I wouldn't miss?

I can't speak for what society should do, but I adopt a "value for value" mindset.

If software saves me time, I drop a donation that is in proportion to the value it has to me. This is sometimes hard to quantify, but as a rough estimate, if it's in a professional capacity, I start my hourly rate multiplied by the time it saved me, and if it's in a personal capacity (think used with hobby work), I start with half my hourly rate multiplied by the time it saved me. You should never feel like you should give more than you can comfortably give.

> Should I donate one-time and forget about it or set a recurring donation? If recurring, shouldn't I monitor the project's development to decide if a recurring donation should continue?

It depends on the project - often I'll ask the author. Some software is backed with recurring donators, so a one-time donation to help pay for some hardware or software the project needs is the most helpful, but some software is not backed by recurring donations, so a smaller, recurring donation will help sustain the project for longer (especially with hosting bills or other recurring expenses). My number one suggestion to free software authors that accept donations would be to specify whether one-time or recurring donations would be more helpful, and if one-time, if there are specific expenses/amounts that are needed that could have a high impact on the project.

> Then would it not be fair to hunt down every single free software project I'm using and evaluate its needs and value in order to donate to that as well?

Disabuse yourself of the notion that life is fair. For me, there is certain free software that I use almost constantly (Debian and Emacs, say), and some free software that I use one-off that saves me a large amount of time. Both are examples of projects that I would consider donate to. Something that I use once or twice a month for a short amount of time and has many alternatives I may not donate to.
They're probably referring to an unfinished basement vs. a finished one.
There is the problem that everything can be subdivided in a bunch of menial task so every cog in the system isn't aware of their impact. It already happens a lot in software.

the idea of Hippocratic Oath reminds me of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics in "The Naked sun" (SPOILERS ahead): the detective realises that the normally quoted First Law of Robotics ("A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.") is actually just an approximation, he argues that the real Law is "A robot may do nothing that, TO ITS KNOWLEDGE, will harm a human being; nor, through inaction, KNOWINGLY allow a human being to come to harm."

This is important because even though robots really try their best, different robots could perform sub-tasks that look very harmless by themselves, but combined kill a human being:

- A robot is instructed to pour this bottle of poison into a caraffe of water and then leave the room

- Another robot is instructed to enter the room, take the caraffe of water and give it to a human to drink

The human is poisoned, but none of the robots are directly responsible (in the first law sense). Is the act of connecting the two dots the evil deed.
But also look at where our tax revenue used to come from:

> In 1981, Reagan significantly reduced the maximum tax rate, which affected the highest income earners, and lowered the top marginal tax rate from 70% to 50%; in 1986 he further reduced the rate to 28%.
> For instance, how long has the Gates Foundation been involved with vaccines and pharmaceuticals and does it look like solutions are in within striking distance for the underlying issues?

The Gates Foundation joined the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 2000, and has become the primary financial supporter of that body. The Gates Foundation has provided a total of $3.7B to the polio eradication cause.

Polio case numbers are down 90% since 2000.

Sources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2019/05/31/why-bill...

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/what-we-do/global-developmen...
I remember asian tailors advertised in the Financial Times.

They just rented a room near the City to make measuremens an bought an ad in FT to book appointments.

That way you could get a nice bespoke suit for less than it was sold in London.

I wonder if that market still exists.
> Colonisation was a betrayal

No, it was simply conquest. For example, the Umayyads did not betray Hispania when they invaded, because they never had any allegiance to Hispania in the first place.
> For example, if you are a full-time employed programmer at Uber, you get paid the same every week, regardless of how many people request rides.

Most tech companies give stock / options so there is some connection.
What kind of nonsense is that? Who does NOT deserve better?

There's no better at this moment, that's why they're gig workers.

I'm sick and tired of this crap narrative. Everyone deserves something, so let's introduce a new tax (or go further in public debt) so that they get what they deserve.
> while you gain your middle-age gut and ass

The problem isn't the pants, its your lack of fitness. You act like becoming overweight in middle-age is an acceptable thing.
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Your phone? Ha!! Count the connected wireless devices in your home. Cellphones, Amazon Echo, garage door opener, fitness watch, Ring doorbell, cable tv boxes, tv's, computers, printers, tablets, digital pencils, modems, wifi APs, earpods, wireless speakers, cordless phones, ovens, fridges, door locks, light bulbs, automobiles, VR goggles, quadcopters... Are we there yet?
I'm interested in this too. Recently I downloaded a podcast locally and turned off cellular on my phone before going for a walk.

About halfway through my walk I looked at my phone screen and noticed that my phone was still showing cellular bars. It wouldn't communicate and the LTE symbol was gone, but the signal bars remained. Made me wonder what turning cellular off actually meant, was it still connected but data was off? Are the bars just a client side thing and no comms were going out? No idea.
Try my https://histre.com/

It gives you rich bookmarks with highlights, notes, tree-style web history, and collaboration.
Maybe it's just competition? Reviews for the Google Pixel 4a at $349 are claiming that it's just as good as a premium priced phone.

Or perhaps it's convergent evolution: both Google & Apple decided at the same time for the same reasons to concentrate on cheap phones again.
> Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life.

It is also said to wane with age. If it is true, there you'd have a cure.
Remember: the original stated motive of these supposed bots wasn't to "sow chaos", it was to support Trump and Brexit using huge networks of bots that appeared human but weren't. When the evidence that this wasn't real became overwhelming, the conspiracy mutated.

The whole idea that people disagreeing with each other on Twitter is sufficient to sow chaos is itself kind of ridiculous, don't you think? That happens all the time naturally, what kind of government looks at the USA or Europe and thinks, ah yes, a totally peaceful place in which nobody ever disagrees on Twitter. If this were true the only things people would fight about on social media are things where Russia could credibly have an interest, but of course they fight about everything. Even the premise of this conspiracy is ridiculous.

You are literally creating a new, unfounded conspiracy to de-bunk an established, documented conspiracy

Sigh. This is what I mean.

I'm alleging no conspiracy. Where did I do that? You don't need a conspiracy theory to work out why "Russiagate" took off - it gave lots of people whose grip on reality isn't that strong an explanation for Trump and Brexit that they preferred to the real explanations. No conspiracy needed, no evil puppet masters, just group psychology.

Compare that to Russiagate or QAnon - specific allegations of an organised group of people manipulating the world for evil ends, and denying they're doing it.

If someone is falsely accused of murder, does that mean there is never murder or that in a particular case, a mistake was made?

Obviously it can mean either. But the justice system has mechanisms to stop someone constantly accusing someone else of murder with ever changing stories and no evidence: the concept of double jeopardy and perversion of justice. That's why people don't have to deal with endless troll accusations of murder.

Seen as a criminal justice case, Russiagate would have ended in "not guilty" long ago. The given motive collapsed under cross-examination. The evidence is highly circumstantial and all has obvious alternative explanations. The guilty parties aren't usually named, and when they are named they turn out to not be Russian, or not be bots, or both. The alleged behaviour isn't even illegal; after all the USA deliberately and openly funds foreign propaganda outlets like Voice of America.
> We kept transistor radios on top of the computer cabinets. Each job made a distinctive sound, as did runaway programs (infinite loops, for example). A halted computer did not make a sound so the radio was an early warning that something wasn’t right.

You mean you used the radio like a baby monitor?
On the consumer side it looks very much like they undercut the existing market by dodging taxes and benefits for their disguised employees.

There was no monopoly in many of the markets they entered.
Well, precisely : if people want modern/innovating/fast evolving languages, they can use Rust, Go, Elixir, etc.

I actually started using C for my side projects since two years precisely because I want very long term backward compatibility (that is, being able to leave a program for years without maintaining it, then make a small edit in it and build it with minimum pain). C is perfect for that, and I agree with the sentiment that backward compatibility is its most important feature.
Looking from a defense perspective. Won't an anti aircraft system be effective here? It is cheaper to build an anti aircraft system that can be deployed everywhere vs the aircraft itself.
Love the term *biological neural net"
Great way to say "still in the noggin"
>do they still allow WiFi/BT to bypass it

AFAIK both android and ios disables wifi/bluetooth when you turn on airplane mode, but you can turn them back on without exiting airplane mode.

>override the user and activate the mobile radio under exceptional conditions

Not sure about this one, but to my knowledge there isn't any.
As the top comment says, corporations like Uber should be pushing for quality free healthcare and strong social benefits. It would help everyone and make gig working much more palatable.
Up-to-date phones with guaranteed software updates, usable interface, and good camera, but not Pixel? Well, I'm interested, but somehow sure that's just a dream.

Links or it doesn't exist.

Edit: I specified Android, but really, I just want a phone with a standard port (USB C) and my apps (WireGuard, NextCloud, Google Photos, etc.)
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Rah-rah cheerleading about Apple based on an uncorroborated rumor of future low prices?

We can do better than this.
Surely they can find a stronger example than a spammy SEO business that didn't exist before google, couldn't exist without and doesn't exist after? Google sucks now but not finding this compelling
What are you talking about? There are tons of brands that sell 100% cotton denim jeans.
It's not misquoted. The author claims that the code "is required to not be rejected", which OP demonstrated to be false.
You may have been downvoted for suggesting that getting a downvote means someone is trying to take away your freedom of speech. Which is obviously baloney.

One problem I see with your actual message is that the narrative being consistently pushed is that this is really just some moral duty the US is carrying out. "Ban such a device from a dictatorship so that the free countries have a chance". Which, if you lived long enough, you must have heard being repeated ad-nauseam every time some country was in need of some "democracy". Hindsight shows us they were all left out worse than they were.

But worse than that, even if the problem was unfolding for decades, every time there was such an intervention it just so happened that it was just at the right time when the US needed it. And it just so happened that it benefited the US and US companies the most. Or exclusively. Like leaving the US again holding a monopoly on data gathering in the world, or excluding the main competitor in mobile and 5G from the US and even world markets.

So it's easy to wonder and ask the question: if it's a moral duty why wait so long? Was it for a cheaper iPhone? Why invoke reasons that were there for so long exactly when China starts to become a concrete threat on the super-power stage?

Look at it from another perspective. In light of the NSA revelations, and knowing the vast quantities of data Facebook or Google are collecting and sharing with the US government (for some morally dubious outcomes for the society) which are highly incompatible with the European values and ideals of rights and freedom, would you support an initiative where all these big-tech companies would have their EU operations be moved entirely under a European company?
A doctor refusing to do a procedure because he worries for his patient is seen as a good guy doing what is right, he is in his opinion saving a life. In addition he is trying to avoid the massive cost of a medical malpractice suit.

A software developer refusing a job because it does not meet his ethical parameters is just an unemployed software engineer.
Software engineers usually aren't in charge of the features they write. They can refuse to do their job at their own peril. Maybe we need a hippocratic oath for product managers or something.
The initial archive yes, but the tech tree would be added later, as I understand it.
Do you have any sources/articles about the true size of China's economy?
Nope, no blind ideology here.

It’s just ridiculous that C-suites and their direct entourage get paid billions (and can afford to buy mansions that used to be the final reward to a successful career with what amounts to pocket money to them) for funneling more and more taxation to tax havens.

Plenty of companies live off government subsidy and refuse to pay their share; costing government revenue and forcing it to cut services and squeeze the suckers that don’t have the resources to hide their stash.

And seriously, you Americans should ditch company paid health insurance and switch to any of the systems here in Europe...
Actually, "C will never stop you from doing <things>".
Interesting question about the pricing relative to NYSE.

There are many intermediaries between a customer and NYSE which have historically had pretty high fees which are all getting taken by Uber in this case. Those fees (and corrupt business practices) were eliminated by electronic trading, increasing competition, and high frequency trading.

And exchanges such as NYSE themselves only lowered their fees in response to competitor exchanges (there are 13 right now in the US, with 3 more launching this year), which is an obvious way to improve things.

So I'd say the difference is the lack of competition in general.

I guess one obvious reason for lack of competition is network effects. The intermediaries in the stock market at least allowed for a layer of abstraction that could be swapped around without that being visible to the customer.

So, a fairly obvious conclusion in the end: The fact that the exchange component and the end user interface are bundled together reduces competition and keeps these prices high.

I'm sure eventually someone will figure out a clever way to make an independent UI that abstracts over Uber/Lyft/etc despite none of them wanting that, and that should introduce a lot more competition and lower prices.
> Stallman has largely ignored the web developments.

See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s... for Stallman's take on Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS). He seems to broadly agree with parent's points wrt. this industry; he's certainly not "ignoring" them.
Also: Men have a narrower range of acceptable expressions
the difference is in the details. what you say is incredibly hard. they set up a global service in thousands of legal jurisdictions that let's you use one app. in rome you can only legally get a black mercedes qualified as a limo. in dubai you can order a lexus taxi or an uber helicopter. in chicago anyone with a car can be an uber. in moscow they have to go through yandex taxi. to me, in any city with all its different rules, I pop open an app, order what i want, and it just gets charged to my amex. they handle insurance rules, they handle refunds and disputes, they provide mapping software drivers use - worldwide, so you can look at your route and not get ripped off by a cabbie. they provide car leasing services to drivers like a dealership.

this is an insanely complex feat to accomplish. it's also expensive.

what does a taxi service do? it's a guy sitting at dispatch assigning calls to cabs.

the stock exchange is complex too. not nearly as complex, with much more well-defined and common rules. but even they don't just charge you. they also charge listing fees, regulatory fees, governance, access to data fees, and sell services and software for trading. you are also comparing a trade transaction to a cab ride. sorry, a cab ride is a much bigger and more involved thing than a button you click on a website.
DEF CON: New tool brings back 'domain fronting' as 'domain hiding'
There's also Falcon[1] Chrome extension which does full text indexing on your browser history so if you read something and can't either Google it or find it in the browser's history, Falcon will broaden the search scope.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/falcon/mmifbbohghe...
This doesn't seem so odd to me because it mirrors common human behavior to judge things based on each step and not the total outcome.

One example is when people pushed for a ban on industries using child labor in SEA without first ensuring there was some fall back safety net that would help those children. The end result was children ending up working far worse jobs than the ones that the western industries were providing. Overall, there seems to be a judgment that any employment of a child is to be judged in isolation and not relative to what other options they have. Society has deemed it is ethically better for me to do nothing despite a child experiencing the ravages of extreme poverty than to intervene in a way that is better for the child but not good enough to meet our expected levels of treatment of children.

Another, more IT centric example, is that it is better to not fix any bugs in a known broken part of the system than to touch it and fix one bug, because you assume responsibility for all the bugs you don't fix. Not every place has this mentality, but I've seen enough which do.

So telling me that society deems it more ethical to offer a worker no option than to offer them a below satisfactory offer doesn't not surprise me at all, despite the outcome of such behavior being too painfully obvious.

Though if we were to invert this, I wonder the outcome because the world over there are enough people experiencing extremely harmful situations where even being offered what we would consider a nightmare is better than leaving them in their current situation. Consider if I wanted someone to be a 24/7 live in maid/butler(cook/cleaner/gardener/etc.) and their pay was $5 a day along with a room, food, basic clothing needed for the job, and access to a computer with internet when they have free time. There are people in situations where this would be a significant improvement in their quality of life, yet I'm not sure any one reading this would approve of me having such a live in maid/butler regardless of what sort of situation they were in before I made the offer.
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I'm pretty sure the "cellular" button you were talking about was labeled and was for "cellular data".
The dude on Reddit is most likely a fraud, though. There's just nothing that indicates that he reverse engineered anything whatsoever. There's just no proof for anything at all.

Every single thing he said was known publicly before _and_ he somehow missed the copy&paste api call that was made known with iOS 14? That's weird considering he supposedly did reverse engineering.

He also said that there were regular http calls, which is literally impossible on iOS since at least 2016 (Apple guidelines).

This dude repeated widely known things in a way that made them sound terrible. His "research" contains zero things we didn't know before.

Hell, people have offered him sums of money for proof as well. He's a script kiddie who intercepted some packages on his home network.
https://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/NLPIP/tutorials/photosensor...

So human eye is more sensitive to the same wavelengths the Sun emits more! So it all evens out and the Sun only appears white! That's why we define white as white as this is "lit by the Sun / reflects all sunlight" - our only source of light for many years. So if e.g. dog's eye is sensitive to different wavelengths it should see the Sun in different color? But then again, a dog should call it "white" as this is what you would call "lit by sun" as opposed as e.g. "lit by fire".

Fascinating!
You are mistaken. If it wasn't clear about what 'sex' meant in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it was made more clear a couple of months ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County
You may be able to get back some of the difference by requiring less total power from your utility and thus lowering the power availability part of the electric bill that applies all day and all year. It's also possible to time shift energy from lower cost times to higher cost ones if you can get time of day billing. And then there's solar of course. I wouldn't be surprised that having that 5k in extra benefit from the system tipped the scales for a battery+solar system in a lot of places with a modest cost of capital.
Gentle reminder that the reddit user in question never actually posted any backing for their claims (they said their laptop broke, and have apparently been unable to replace it or redo their investigation for four months).
New to HN? This is par for the course.
The same could be said for Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. At least Google open sources their operating system, browser and are mostly responsible for Kubernetes. If people are going to have such high expectations of one company why do they not equally apply the judgement.
So uber would 'buy' from some central org? Why not just cut out the middle man then and deal directly with their employees? Why create a middle man? Middle man in any economic system tend to destroy wealth. Uber is in itself a middle man between people who want a ride and people who pay for it. They upended a middle man who was less efficient.
Is it more moral?

100 families eat tonight vs 10 families eating really well.
I've done research for forensics on this.

Airplane mode will disable all radios but will allow the user to enable WiFi and BT. Some older Androids will keep the Wifi and BT on if you're connected to something though :(