skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my country, with the telecom operators that I have used, in the cases where I was using a phone that could not receive MMS, or I had the MMS profile disabled, the operator would send me an SMS instead with a link to an online customer portal on the web where I could view the contents of the MMS.

Curious whether this is something that telecom operators do all around the world or not.

Either way, I agree that being unable to receive MMS would be a show stopper for many. The most recent time, a few weeks ago, when I could not receive MMS, my operator would attempt to deliver the MMS first and only after a timeout of exactly 24H would they deliver the SMS with the link instead.

The MMS in question in my case was someone that I work with who was requesting that me and another person show up for a meeting the same day. So receiving the MMS 24H later was not much use. Fortunately in this instance the person contacted me through other channels when they hadn't heard back on the MMS that they'd sent and which I had not yet received.

The reason that I could not receive the MMS at that time was that I had recently downgraded to a 0MB plan to save money. I have since bumped my plan one step up again, to 500MB included per month for the equivalent of about ~$3 extra per month, so that I am able to receive MMS and to get messages in various IM services, as well as to being able to use Google Maps, bus travel time table apps, and doing web browsing for the most important stuff when I really need it as well.

Sadly however, and now I am very much going out on a tangent here but, it's actually really difficult to limit data usage to a sensible amount, because even though I have turned off mobile data for most of the apps, sometimes I forget that I am on mobile and I suddenly use a fair chunk more of my data than I meant to. And to make matters worse, sometimes my phone loses the WiFi connection and I don't notice and again I use a chunk more than I meant to. With data rollover I have 676 MB available this month, and already I have used 266 MB and there is still 28 days left of the current billing cycle! Looking at the settings, I see now that I'd forgotten to disable mobile traffic for the Photos app and that it has consumed over 300 MB in total of my mobile data during the last two months. Hopefully having now turned that off I will still be able to manage with the remaining data for this billing cycle.
How will this work with IP laws around likeness? Is this fair use?
> Well I've never understood what you're hoping to accomplish with any of this

I said as much in the opening of my post. I get into both philosophical and practical discussions on licensing online fairly frequently, and the same questions and arguments are recycled over and over. So I wrote them down primarily so that I can reference them.

As far as my beliefs, ideally, I want to see IP abolished. So what if it's quixotic? I have plenty of other quixotic beliefs. I'd like to see the war on drugs ended too. I don't see a problem with having these beliefs.

You might say it's a waste of time to have and act on these beliefs. I think it should be clear from my post that I at least partially agree with that, since I've continually acted as a pragmatist rather than as an idealist. But that doesn't mean I can't take some small steps toward the ideal while I'm at it.

Sometimes shifting the Overton window just a little bit is a big victory.

> (As a legal realist, I think we should evaluate law like any other human activity; licenses that lead to outcomes that we want are good, licenses that lead to outcomes that we don't want are bad).

I don't really share that view when it comes to law, so we probably have some really fundamental disagreement somewhere. But, I do think elements of legal realism are important. They just aren't what form the bedrock of my beliefs.

> I, at least, assume that when someone uses a license that grants me permission to do something (such as falsely claim authorship of their code), they approve of me doing that thing, because that's what people granting permission in a license normally mean by that grant of permission.

To me, that implies you conflate laws with ethics. Again, probably due to some fundamental disagreement on the nature of law (or ethics).

This is not too dissimilar from the common refrain of, "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I support you're right to say it." It's an explicit acknowledgment that there's a difference between what's legal and what's ethical/preferential/whatever.
We used to use Jitsi Meet and it worked perfectly for our team meetings, but we kept having issues with 10+ participants, overseas meetings with 100ms+ latency, and whenever Firefox was used. YMMV, one year ago.
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I'm an absolute layman, but "no worse than the common cold" doesn't sound too great to me since I've always been told you can keep getting the cold over and over again. What am I missing?
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Containers are more than just FS isolation— there's a convenience piece here where someone might like it in a lightweight container for the sake of sane integration with higher level orchestration, management of resources like ports, storage, etc.

In your case, it may be that these aren't considerations, and you'd prefer to just run the binary directly against your bare system.
Dropping some traffic to avoid complete melt down.
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This is really cool!

I'm going to pick one up just to have a linux box on my desk that's separate from my laptop and not a VM.

It's a little unfortunate that you can't pick a 8GB option, but 4GB is PLENTY. I remember my first RPi had 256MB!!
Welp, Christmas came early. I couldn’t have hoped for a better satiric voice to exploit this particular tech.
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The US, GB, France, Russia, Japan, were all about the same weight class as Germany. Slightly behind that came middle powers like Italy and Austria Hungary and even further behind countries like China and Turkey, that did have the potential but were not in a good position at that point in time.

All in all, the playing field was much more diverse back than.

Edit: To emphasize my point: Around 1900, Germany was in constant search for allies to break out of the entanglement between GB, Russia, and France. Germany could manage to win a war against one or with some luck even two of their opponents. Three were always considered too much. China and the US nowadays only ever need to win one war against one opponent to win unopposed world dominance.
Even with the cost of a $5 ethernet adapter, you can get Android phones significantly cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.

GPIO is a bit trickier, since most devices don't break it out, but for some purposes the audio jack is usable. There's also USB-GPIO adapters but they can be a bit pricey (although if you're interfacing with something like an ESP32 BLE works really well)
I think it's just the case of random boomer think 1980 was 20 years ago :)
Either mass-delete, or make them private but unviewable.
People pay when google steals their data.

I say “steal”, because they are not opt-in.

Also, there is no comprehensive opt-out. I cannot tell their ad networks to stop tracking all the devices I own.

(They have a page for stopping tracking of things I use my Google account for. That doesn’t count: They track me even when I am not logged into Google, and even on devices that cannot log into Google.)

Also, I can’t delete my gmail accounts. They were issued by third parties that decided to outsource email to Google.

There is nothing consensual about my use of Google services. I shouldn’t be bound by their EULA. I’m sure the courts would disagree.
Sorry, but this is a terrible analogy.

Your storage service isn't used for your primary identity/access management to your house, bank account, or utilities, and this is where your argument breaks down.

Much like internet should be a regulated utility (in the US at least) due to how integrated with modern day society it is, the right to an unalterable email address should also be considered, especially due to the fact that it is used for identity management across numerous services.

The vast majority of users out in the world use these free services because they don't know anything else, and nor would I expect them to. As pioneers we the technical community herded them at these push button solutions decades ago, and now it's up to us to realize we've somehow failed them at this point by locking them into monopolistic companies that don't have their best interests at heart.

1. We educate them and start promoting services which won't pull the carpet out from under them on a whim

2. We start advocating for regulation on the existing services and force them to comply
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Also, "if you flew everywhere you would go by car", you wouldn't feasibly be flying in airliners for 5-mile trips, but in helicopters or GA craft, which are statistically way more dangerous.
I think the term "conspiracy theory" is perhaps unhelpful, and it also seems that people are lumping together phenomena that aren't necessarily all that closely related. If there's a group of people with some strongly held belief, not supported by evidence, about the government doing something evil then perhaps we should call it a "shared paranoid delusion". It's hardly a "theory" if they already believe it and it hardly involves a "conspiracy" seeing as it's perfectly normal for the government to plan things in secret, even things that aren't "evil".
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This isn't a conspiracy. It's one of the responsibilities of the Secretary of Agriculture. Here's Earl Butz in 1972:

> “One of my responsibilities is to see that we have a continuing adequate food supply, and the best way to assure that is to let farmers make a little money in the process.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/16/archives/up-up-up-butz-ma...
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I'd gladly contribute to a gofundme or kickstarter if they take the bait on this. Can you put together a mailing list for it?
Algorithm spots 'Covid cough' inaudible to humans
To those who say this makes sense because the free tier only allows public content:

No it does not make sense. Paying for privacy is fair, but when you stop consuming a service and cancel your subscription/membership then all your private data cannot just be made public to everyone. It should get deleted. If you cancel your bank account you also don't expect your bank to publicly disclose all your bank statements from the last decade because you stopped using their service, or are you?
Man I wish 9-5 were acceptable here in the midwest. I wish I could move (I'm in my sandwich years now, caring for parents and teens in high school). Everyone here works farmer's hours and suggesting otherwise is equivalent to admitting you are a slacker.
Often times the truth is just the unedited source material... This makes it extremely apparent where the bias was introduced, and the pattern is super obvious to anyone who actually seeks source material instead of accepting the digested version as truth
Laptops are basically computers inside keyboards, and people still buy them.
Its just you. Also there is no such thing as paying for a more trustworthy email option. If people send mass emails or spam that violates the ToS you'll get blocked no matter who your provider is.
My only wish for v2.0 of this would be an integrated touchpad so I don't have to use a separate mouse. Similar to a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard. I don't know how many times I've been in a situation where it's challenging to find a surface to use a mouse on when I'm working on a Pi project. Workshop, electronics bench, just doing something real quick on my lap, etc.
> UTC still has leap seconds kludged in from time to time "because the Earth's rotation speed varies in response to climatic and geological events"

Why do we adjust time, and not geometry (given that geometry changes anyway because of shifting of tectonic plates)?

(By geometry I mean coordinates of objects like buildings, landmarks, etc.)
Sadly we are well aware of how inaccurate and untrustworthy eye-witness accounts can be.
We already have plenty of politicians who misquote or lie to sow division and therefore violence. What's new here?
Wikileaks was a place for consciences objectors to reveal government corruption, and it quickly gained respect in the eyes of the public. With the arrest of Julian, and the downfall of Wikileaks. We are now left with much less reputable places to disseminate that information.
I take issue with the article, because it attacks and delegitimizes independent investigative effort. Unfortunately that effort is now done in the dregs of the internet in places like 4chan, and now disseminated by less reputable people like Rudy Juliani.

"Lizard" people is modern abstraction for evil/corrupt people. Similar to angels and demons.
We call the earth round, when in fact its a little oval, and has mountains that protrude out. Abstractions can be true on some level of resolution, but in fact be false in the absolute sense. The article doesn't really invalidate the sentiment that some people in government are corrupt. Which is probably the right sentiment to hold, even if arrived through the wrong fact.
Spain is a peninsula country, yet the COVID-19 situation is among the worst in the world.
If the criticism is valid then its source is surely irrelevant.

The calling it throwaway was a mistake of mine, I should have called it Anon or similar because anonymity not disposability was its purpose.
His too early departure is a loss not just to those who knew him, but to all those in the industry on the path towards Asimov’s planetary computer.
And as an addendum, you have to be kind.

We know our educational systems fail people, conspiracy thinking is what happens when critically thinking people lack the foundation to see the world around them and therefore start questioning the foundations of it, because again they are critical in thinking, after that first layer then you have socialization, ego, collective identities and other things that reinforce their loss aversion to changing their world view, but the core is critical thinking

Imagine this as if you were talking to a classical Babylonian, or to Plato itself and through foundational analogies such as the Anarchic Pirates of Plato you explain the world and logic
That's not really relevant to the argument, but just s/facebook/new_hip_site if it helps..
There appear to be a few other important factors missing from the article.

1) It isn't just that AWS (and others) provide loads of services, it's that I can run everything I need in the same data centre. SQL Azure might be a good pricing model for your system but if it makes sense for everything else to be in AWS (features, cost whatever) then I am more likely to spend more on AWS RDS or whatever. Might cost £1000s more but I cannot simply split my load across two providers, that is two points of failure.

2) The level of support you get from OVH is nowhere near as good as AWS, which is to be expected when comparing a "budget" provider with the "gold standard". OVH can rent stuff to you cheaper because their support team is presumably much smaller.

3) Even the UI for OVH gives me the heebie jeebies. I use them for personal stuff because they are cheap but the UI is far too slow to use for fast work. I see notifications that I have previously cleared and I get random emails occasionally about things I don't quite understand. I can live with that for cheaper personal sites but if I was using that every day, I would quit!

Of course, for many people, there are issues with marketing (I haven't of some of the other providers) and the basic, and probably fair, assumption that with AWS you know the sort of quality you expect - a bit like buying Toyota. The time and risk involved in evaluating other providers is not worth it in many cases, especially when you only learn 6 months later that OVH don't have a configurable load-balancer or they don't have proper zone redundancy or you cannot upgrade certain hardware without literally copying your files into storage and trying to copy them back to a larger machine.
> Normal people will only put up with this for so long.

Agreed. Then they will learn that Google is not to be trusted with email and move to a provider that is (sort of like how kids migrated away from Facebook when their parents showed up, even though Facebook remains a dominant brand). Disruption occurs when an incumbent is bad at something which the disruptor beats them at. In this case, there is an opportunity for an email provider to disrupt Google by providing actual customer service. Protonmail is already making waves in this space (in addition to the encryption).

The reason I'm anti-regulation is that every law is a headache waiting to happen (and one more barrier to entry) where to me -the- beauty of the internet is that there's almost no barrier to entry once you have an internet-capable device. The more we regulate the internet, the more difficult doing something as simple as running a personal discussion forum becomes. Regulation is, at its best, a necessary evil, to be avoided until no other solution has proven viable. And there are plenty of other solutions for this particular problem.

And to clarify, I'm anti-Silicon Valley (IMO venture capital's expectation of high returns is the direct cause of many of the "evils of tech"). But I do tend to agree with the anti-regulation stance. IMO the problems people want to solve with regulation (even including GDPR) are better solved by better tech and organizations that align their incentives with those of their users.
Ok, so I gave it a test with Chrome on the Laptop and Chromium on the Pi. It starts at 720p ~10fps and then drops to 270p ~30fps after a few seconds (I'm not actively cooling the Pi). This is a slight improvement since it didn't hit "HD" at all in the first test. Note the camera connected to the Pi is only 720p so it's at its top resolution.

I can add active cooling to the Pi and test further once I find the fan I have lying around here somewhere.

EDIT: Added active cooling and increased video memory from 76MB to 512MB (although I think it's capped at ~400MB if I remember correctly), I'm now getting encode of 640x360 @ 15FPS on the Pi, so a slight improvement.
Not to mention the window might not have focus when you need to use it, making it preatty unreliable.
It still does work if you know about it and still use the service.
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Internet sleuths take down the SSC Tuatara's 316-MPH speed record
> Would you just set up multiple “origins” with each one pointing to a head maintainer’s computer (and named appropriately)?

Yes. Instead of github.com/username/project people host git repos on their own machines.
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