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Genuinely curious - how does one begin to answer such a broad question? The parent comment is reasonable. It is easy for carriers to let users keep their number. It isn’t going to eat into their profits, so why not do it? Especially when bank accounts, two factor authentication and a bunch of other stuff are tied to your phone number.

Or are you of the opinion that profits matter over everything else?
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Winter will be gone forever, AI climate change it is :p
Amex still does (just confirmed)
UK govt report undermines stars of Cambridge Analytica-Russiagate scandal
Those same reps changed their minds and carved out tons of “whoops that’s not what we meant” exemptions, which is presumably what that comment is referring to with “you better be sure that’s what they want.”
Out of curiosity, which personal auto insurance are you using that covers your vehicle while driving for Uber/Lyft?
In what way is it broken? I was able to follow several links on their site and then use the browser's back button to get back to HN.
I believe Walmart uses RFID extensively in their logistics/distribution pipeline, and they have a lot of control over their suppliers, so I'd assume they would use it in the store if it was viable.

https://www.atlasrfidstore.com/rfid-insider/walmart-and-rfid...

I'd be interested to know the precise reasons for not using RFID on items though, I suspect it might be something like "tagging $1 items is cost-prohibitive, and the system isn't useful if you don't tag every item".
I personally believe that "point" is unconditional. This may or may not be a popular opinion on a website built around glorifying corporations, but corporations - try as their lobbyists might to insist otherwise - are not people. Their "rights" and best interests are, in my opinion, always secondary to the rights and best interests of, you know, actual people. Any inversion of that is corporatist tyranny.
from the article:

"Health authorities found virus strains in humans and in mink which showed decreased sensitivity against antibodies, potentially lowering the efficacy of future vaccines, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a press conference."

“The mutated virus in mink may pose a risk to the effectiveness of a future vaccine,” Frederiksen said, adding that it “risks being spread from Denmark to other countries.”

Poor minks.
It's not impossible that you get bullies in a martial arts class, but unless they're the instructor there is normally someone better than them that will spot it and put a stop to it (in my experience anyway).
If you're busy poisoning a town's water supply, and someone else turns up to also poison the same supply at the same time, are they competing with you or are you cooperating?
Can you elaborate on how you use it? Do you have it generate next paragraphs when you're stuck, or something else?
Byjus is irrelevant in the IIT cottage industry. They are newer, and only online. And no company can convince Indian parents that online is better that 8am-8pm classroom coaching.
Thanks for sharing this. I just closed my account citing Chase's poor behavior towards security researchers.
Not only that, the conditions of keeping the animals close but not too close even encourages selection for mutations that allow the virus to spread more easily through air.

If I remember correctly, ferrets were held under similiar conditions for "gain for function" experiments [0]. "Gain of function" means here how the virus can develop the ability (function) of spreading through the air when it e.g. initially required direct contact to be transmitted. An animal would be intentionally infected with the disease and a random mutation would allow the virus to jump to a separate cage to infect an animal there.

Pretty horrible and dangerous, imo. Research on this was banned in the US for a few years, see also [0].

Edit: a small bonus comment I just thought about: here is a time lapse of development of resistance to antibiotics on a large petri dish [1]. Observe how they used increasing concentrations of antibiotics to allow stepwise improvement of resistance instead of confronting the bacterium with an unsurmountable effect all at once.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation#By_effect_on_function

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yybsSqcB7mE
FPC is not that crazy of an organization. Yes, I know in the past there's been drama between its members and other haskellers over stack/cabal etc., but I'd feel more comfortable if the Foundation were able to muster the diplomatic finesse to overcome that.
The tags are still much too expensive for grocery and low-end retail. The ~US$0.10 to buy and apply the tag really eats into profit for those segments, where average price is a few dollars and margins are a few percent.
they weren't coerced into anything. independent research and internal research at lyft showed drivers preferred being labeled as contractors due to the flexibility that offered. the drivers got what they wanted here.
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Sure, but the post you are responding to isn't talking about things like electricians or plumbers - which require some amount of training and licensing/certification. They're talking about things like garment workers - jobs with little to no requirements.
Let's say you're dragging something at 3 cm/s. Rendered at 30 Hz, a one frame latency translates into 30/30 mm which is 1 mm. A 1mm gap between the cursor and the thing you're dragging is definitely perceptible, and this is for a relatively slow drag. It's at least enough to destroy the illusion that the thing is locked to your cursor.
It is not ever a 1% acceptance rate. 15,00,000 students take the exam and only 10,000 qualify. From that, only 3000 get into the ''premier'' IITs
It doesn't have to be no, but having it incentivizes both sides to spend time and money on capturing the regulatory authority to tip the scales in their favor, and american companies are really great at regulatory capture.
Guess that explains why I’m so passive. I was fortunate enough to not face much bullying as a kid
>All attack payload data must use professional language

Huh.
AFAIK, the illegal part is not the downloading, but the act of uploading/seeding the assets.

But this pipeline you establish - of people "pirating" music and then purchasing that same music later on - was a very common one, and remains so to this day.

Before digital audio was a thing, people would routinely record songs onto tape while listening to the radio. They would then play this music in other contexts, to which they had no license, effectively making these individuals "pirates." Any "pirate" who recorded a Todd Rundgren song in 1972 from the radio, and then purchased his full double-LP "Something/Anything" at Sears the next week, was definitely a win for the artist, the record label, and the industry as a whole.

On top of this, also don't forget that even to this day, consumers commonly purchase the same music when it gets released on a newer audio distribution format (vinyl -> 8-track -> cassette -> CD -> iTunes -> Spotify/Apple Music). "Piracy" now does commonly mean a "purchase" later.
> I voted for this arrangement specifically because I think the state _should_ be paying, ideally fully, for maternity, paternity, healthcare, and social security.

I don't know why you would want to change the law now to a state that would be better in this area if you had a law you would like, but which doesn't exist and for which there is very little public or institutional support.

It would seem to make more sense to change this law as part of implementing that other law, if and when support for that could be built.

Otherwise, its kind of like abolishing a hypothetical law mandating certain minimum decency standards for owners treating slaves on the basis that slavery shouldn't exist in the first place without actually abolishing slavery.
Will give it a try!
Thanks for being so frank. Perhaps that section needs to be re-written since Sunsama doesn't do reminders or use any sort of any algorithm to prioritize your tasks. Instead, we provide a guided daily planning workflow that nudges the user to make good decisions about what to do. In fact, one thing we feel strongly about is that you will make a better decision about what to work on than an algorithm.
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>And yet, I will contradict myself to say that actually, microservices have the potential to be that original vision of object-oriented programming from the 1960s. The fundamental idea is very cheap computational nodes that only interact by passing messages around, with the idea that a recursive design inspired by cells and biology, will >be much more successful than traditional programming where you try to separate data structures from the procedures that operate on them. If your microservice has setters and getters, you're missing the point of this original vision of OOP. You could certainly build a system with 40,000 of these live, but probably you would not have 40,000 different chunks of source code behind them.

Lovely description of the actor model in erlang/elixir and akka :)
> The FP-Complete people have had clear different goal than the rest of the community for a while.

The rest of the community isn't as homogeneous and aligned as one might think either.
This is confusing, you said in your original comment that you were filtered out because you said you wouldn't consider paying for the product, now you say you might if the product delighted you.

So which is it? Why are you alienated by a product that says "we're not for you" if you have no interest in being a paying customer?
Norway's Fur Farming Prohibition Act is set to take effect in 2025.

May this neighboring scare hasten the demise of this abusive and unnecessary industry.
All of your examples are for someone's own employer. I'm not talking about people who work for Tara.

I'm talking about their customers.
I guess? But the neat thing about IMGUI is how easy it is to integrate and get up and running without having to learn much. Like dump this thing into my code in 1-2 hours then get back to what I was really doing. With the accommodations you mention, you lose all of that and still don't end up with something as functional as say Qt.
Well, this startup is still new, so retrospective insights are a bit difficult. However, once we have a couple months under our belt of operating the business, then I think those personal accounts of experiences will be a lot stronger. I like your idea of hearing both perspectives.
>> only to find out later there's no way to add an Outlook calendar.

I haven't even looked at it but seeing this in the comments means I can't use it. Many (most?) of your target "elite professionals" are running Outlook in the enterprise.
I cannot stress this enough to new programmers. Think before you code. When your hands are on the keyboard you should either be investigating an unknown system to figure out how it works, or you should be implementing that which you have already designed & built in your head.

If the code I am writing right now doesn't involve me poking at a system because I don't understand it and learning it, then at a guess, I would say I spend far more of my time thinking about the production code I will write than writing the actual production code. Hands on keyboard for hours at a time is a sure sign you're working on a problem you don't really understand. It took me decades to come to that realization because many companies measure productivity by "number of hours of your butt in a chair multiplied by lines of code written."

In my current role I am considered one of the most productive developers on the team. I am physically at the keyboard writing code or debugging code for maybe three hours a day.
I cannot understand what designer in their right mind thought these new icons were good enough for anybody that doesn't have 20/20 vision!
Are you really comparing America of 1800s to the Western European states of today?!

I lived without ANY freedoms. Taken away by the (communist) government in exchange for the promise of safety, wages and lots and lots of benefits. Of course, we got neither.
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This is par for the course for financial institutions.

A credit union I previously had an account with required your passwords to be exactly six characters long. Then they added "two factor authentication" via SMS or phone call. Except now if you forgot your password then you just have to go to "forgot password" and get an SMS code sent to your phone to reset your password... So it was actually single factor authentication, you didn't need the password at all, just the phone.
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Your second to last paragraph doesn’t seem to be as mutually exclusive to me as you make it. Often it seems the ones perpetuating this behavior also can’t imagine ever causing the same harm that they went through when in fact it can be worse.
I always thought the US doesn't extradite its citizens? Why woud an other country extradite its citizens to the US when the US wouldn't its citizens?
In Safari (iPadOS), I couldn’t get out of the site using the back button (unless I hit it fast enough to get past whatever it was doing to the browser history).
Wow. I had no idea. ha. yes.
Another relevant discussion:

Why do printers still suck? (wired.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24977699
If the US, brimming with wealth, technologically advanced and educated can't commit to fighting climate change, what will the poorest developing countries decide? They would need to take the burden themselves and falling behind economically (something China in particular would strongly resist). A few defectors can ruin the entire plan because of economic pressure. I think we should be nearing an accord with greater control anyway -- defectors will need to suffer harsh economic sanctions greater than what they'd spend on the accord anyway. I expect this to happen within a few years.
Excellent comment, thank you :)
I got my Pi 400 today. Unfortunately the USB-C port does not work with external monitor, it's only for charging.

I was hoping I would have just one cable going from the Pi to my monitor. Maybe it will be possible in the future via a software update?
Coercion is definitely a continuum. In some sense, my biology "coerces" me to continue breathing. To say that coercion is bad but then to fail to specify the degree of coercion that would be bad is equivocation. To a capitalist, the type of coercion that comes from needing to eat and therefore needing to either gather food or gather resources to trade for food is on the OK side of that line. To a hardcore progressive, it might not be. But all that labeling a practice like this coercion does is reveal where you stand on that matter of degrees. It doesn't create a qualitative distinction here, because none actually exists.
Also EMDR.
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OK. No doubt. I am glad you brought this up.

I've never been bullied by a peer or near-peer. That is, I was never in a situation that I could not handle. In my entire life I've only seen one case where another child was bullied by older boys and I knew that was bad.

BUT when you mentioned teachers, I thought of a middle-and-high school teacher/coach who held a grudge for reasons unknown. In response I skated by in his freshman biology class and, in general, wouldn't give him the time of day.

So yes, teachers can indeed act like bullies. But I think most people don't think of bullying per se as being something teachers or other authority figures do but instead something that one's peers or near-age peers do.
Factory fires are not terribly uncommon in developing nations, much more recently than 100 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dhaka_garment_factory_fir...
Completely off topic but there's no way to get to r/friends from the mobile app. It's pathetic.
Thanks for your feedback, really appreciate it! We´re still new and directions can always be changed, but I´d say our target is SMB. The ones who can´t afford the big players. Great suggestion with the content analytics, this is something we´ll look into!
As a victim of bullying in my childhood, I can attest to this. When I hear people say that they cannot fathom how a person could walk into a restaurant and kill everybody, I don't tell them, but I do know what kind of anger you need to develop to be able to do such thing. That could have been me, but fortunately, it wasn't. I'm grateful I was able to overcome that.
I sometimes wonder if US prosecution of these "crimes" is more about attempting to drain the defendant of money through legal fees rather than trying to get any sort of conviction.
As far as I know, not really. Most journals require you to not submit to another journal until they've made a decision to reject so you can't submit to multiple. Even though they may have different intros, they’re presenting the same data.
Good to know that nobody will go to prison for neither the drugs nor the assault
I completely agree with your first paragraph, but humans > minks by literally any measure.
I'd be more inclined to suspect that the sheer square footage of their stores makes it cost-prohibitive to outfit the space with the sensor infrastructure (comparing to Lululemon, who has much smaller stores). The tags themselves are fractions of a penny (I'm seeing $0.002 on alibaba) and are just applied as stickers, so I don't think that's too much of an issue -- not to mention Walmart probably has the buying power to insist their suppliers pre-tag all items.
It is a matter of timescale.

If you profit by harming your industry (externalizing the harm) you benefit in the short term, but over the long term you risk the industry itself contracting, or another player finding a strategy that others in the industry want to support.

If you only care about short term profitability, then this doesn’t matter, but it becomes more important as the time horizon extends.
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Those gig workers want to do it and the customers want to pay.

If the state wants to provide a social safety net, it should provide one.

It shouldn’t pass a law that fucks Lyft’s business model into unviability, say “if you don’t want to comply with California’s laws you can stop operating in California” and then go surprised pikachu face when Lyft stops operating in California, as almost happened a few months ago.

I will never drive in a taxi again, given that I have been deliberately screwed or defrauded every single time. I think you might be forgetting just how bad life was before Lyft. Lyft has saved me from the atrocious business model of taxis, which is based on screwing customers who have few or no choices.

Again, we should just have a social safety net, like every other first world country. Don’t pretend rejecting stupid band aid fixes that the supposed beneficiaries don’t want is an attack on drivers.
The underlying issue is society relying on private companies to pay for opaque benefits that make it difficult to figure out if one job pays better than another.
Self reporting has know problems, and some mitigations.

Relying on institutional records with active counter incentives for accuracy and/or completeness is also problematic, probably more so.
There are many such technology advances needed for fusion power to work. This is why spending $22 billion on ITER is a very inefficient use of money for research. Maybe as a diplomatic effort of having all the world's major powers [] (China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States) work together it is worth it. Sort of like the space station. Big symbol and cost but little scientific value per dollar.

Unfortunately the budget for ITER comes out of the US science budget instead of the State Department. Most US fusion funding only goes to ITER at this point.
Absolutely. If the republicans could could get on board with pro choice, or the democrats could get on board with guns, each party would be unstoppable unless the other followed suit. The American people are very passionate about less regulation in both of those areas.
Discogs is amazing. It's what the internet should have been all along.
I really need a TTF of Hells Programmer. 8,000+ lines of code in a few vertical columns on an 8K monitor in portrait mode please.
Yeah the 7/8s is a good thing - allows fix-ups when there's near unanimous agreement a change should be made.

Obviously had to be more than simple majority since its purpose is to directly override AB5 and the state legislature.
Not everybody needs 4k, so perhaps a lot of people are happy they can have a dual screen setup in FullHD with the Pi4 now.
I vote NO on a lot of propositions for this reason. Passing legal hacks does not make the overall situation better and in fact makes things harder to unwind later.
I'm sorry.

I snapped a few times too. It's super dangerous.

I think about Columbine and everything since all the time. That could have been me.

Most of our oversteer since has made things worse. My son's middle and high schools were pressure cookers. Seemingly optimized for drama and trauma.
Lululemon sells a small number of luxury items at a margin of 90%. (They don't capture that entire margin for themselves, but the presence of this margin also affects their relationship with their suppliers.)

Walmart sells bulk poverty goods with a margin of 1%. It's often the only store in town it's customers can afford to shop in.
I mean, don’t just take my word for it. Here’s Yann LeCun [1].

I will concede that I forgot about DeepFakes. How’d I do that? But still, cool now we can live in a dystopian future.

The point that I was trying to make still stands. Assuming that more data and more compute will solve all of our problems is a ridiculous position. The field might be moving incredibly fast, but most of the work I see is not great. Everyone is hyped. People claiming that we can replace all of statistics and machine learning with pure deep learning models forget about how hard it is to actually get these things working in the first place. Do you have 100 TPUs to run full blast for a week? I mean consider the series of Nature papers a few years ago. Google says, “I can predict earthquakes using NNs!” Somebody comes along and says, “I thought about the problem for a little bit and beat you with logistic regression.”

Self-driving cars have been just around the corner for the last 10 years. Just like with the rest of stats and ML, it’s not the place you have a lot of data that’ll kill you. It’s the edge cases.

[1] https://m.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10157253205637143?no...
Why are minks riskier than average?
Is it because of biological similarity (but then, there are lots of other mammals), or because of the conditions they're kept in?
Naively, I might have just expected that cows or pigs or sheep would be the highest risks in aggregate, just because of numbers.
Yes - good example.

My sense is that it should be easier for Democrats to get on board with guns than for Republicans to get on board with pro-choice.

The reasoning is that gun deaths can be prevented by a lot of mechanisms that are not gun control but are consistent with democratic values, whereas pro-life tends to be more a product of religious or spiritual belief rather than pragmatism.

I know plenty of otherwise highly progressive people who changed their view of guns once they learned more about them.

I wouldn’t even begin to know how to change the opinion of someone who is Pro-life. I literally can’t make the case.