skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is off topic, but this actually does seem like one of the few areas where crypto could make a difference. Why hasn't there been a good implementation of an onlyfans style platform that lets someone transfer funds direct from a linked coinbase account or something instead of depending on a Mastercard/Visa for payment processing?
> It's the equivalent of dropping unannounced at their place.

I started to feel the same way once texting and messaging became common. Having someone call you unexpectedly feels like the equivalent of someone saying "I don't care what it is that you're doing, talk to me right now." I know that's not actually what's going through people's minds, but it feels that way. It's like when someone asks you something over IM instead of over email, even though it isn't time sensitive.
Killing hundreds of thousands of people is also aggravating.
With AT&T at least if you want the highest priority on their towers you have to be on their Elite plan (QCI 7 I believe), which is post-paid only
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

I bought an old BMW some time back. I took it in to the dealership for an inspection before purchase and I mentioned that the A/C wasn’t working before inspection. They charged me what you’d expect (plus extra to diagnose _just_ the A/C) but gave the car a completely clean bill of health aside from the A/C, which they attributed to a bad blower motor.

I asked the seller to have that fixed before sale, and they took it to another shop who replaced the blower…and still nothing. That shop kept the car for 2 more weeks and came up with nothing for answers. They took it to another BMW dealership who inspected it for another week and came up with nothing.

So I turned to Google. Found a likely problem, but needed BMW dealership to confirm with proprietary tools. The BMW dealership had no idea what I was talking about. I had to literally tell them “can you plug in the foo widget and go to the bar screen and check the baz value shown there? Now can you hit Reset in the corner?” Magically, the A/C started working.

I’m not sure how “right to repair” plays into my story. My real point is that technicians are human and imperfect; troubleshooting is hard. It’s not necessarily a conspiracy that they make mistakes, nor is it personal that they believe the diagnostic data in front of them over some random person _convinced_ it’s a specific problem—even when it seems completely obvious once the problem is fixed.
Have you ever had a rental car company steal their car back from you?
I'm usually skeptical about denials, like AT&T is doing here. But in this case, there would be some incentive for the hackers to misrepresent the source/freshness/etc of the data.

Given the recent T-Mobile hack, if they can tag the data as coming from AT&T and being fresh, it might fetch a higher price either from AT&T, or data buyers. In other words, it could be a re-label of some older exposed data.
I’m more pro-WP than anyone on this site. It’s just this part I take issue with:

> The author of the draft essentially asked for that not to happen, by using the AfC process.

That’s not fair. They were just using the default flow for new users. They didn’t “essentially ask” anything.
It downloads the bookmarked content, it allows you to organise it with tags and such, and archive it. And it's cross platform ( i can save an article on my computer and it will be downloaded on my phone).

I consider it more a distributed to-read list than a bookmark manager.
So it sounds like Facetime's Firefox support is better in your experience?
Note for those reading:

open-pocket is just an idea at this point, not software you can install.
CICO is 100% backed up by science. The point of repeating CICO is that there are people that legitimately try claiming "I ate only an apple a day and I can't lose weight!". This is clearly impossible.

Now, you can get more specific than that and say "well this medical condition makes you more hungry" or "this medical condition means you can't get as much energy as you should from eating". But fundamentally, a condition like say PCOS isn't magic. It doesn't make you absorb food better, otherwise we would have already evolved to use that absorption process.

Having said all that: yes, no two people are exactly the same, we're not bunsen burners, etc. But the reason you're[1] fat is because you eat too much.

[1]: general you, not you specifically
What do you think the second sentence of their comment is talking about?
Yes, apologies, meant SolarCity. I'm curious which lie you think I told, apart from this mistake?
What are you saying? That regular iOS updates will never update the database used for matching?
What AT&T service compels consumer SSN disclosure to begin with?
oh no, I meant the former. I guess it's just come from my personally use of orgmode day to day - which is great feature-wise but has no spec and I'm shackled to Emacs/Elisp. It just feels like things could have been designed better from the getgo. And markup is something that at least at face value simple enough that you could achieve what you want without a full parser/grammar

even though regex isn't quite crossplatform/standardized - it's much more standard than any way of expressing grammars
> A modern business, software, or smartphone system may offer some, or even all, of these functions, but frequently:

> They aren’t available whilst a call is in process

> They have vastly less capability or flexibility than the systems they replaced

What function isn't available during a call on a smartphone? Playing music?

And when the author says "capability or flexibility", this is what the author is comparing a smart phone with:

> The user

> The phone itself

> A Rolodex or addressbook / contacts list

> The local PBX – the business’s dedicated internal phone switch.

> A secretary or switchboard operator, serving also as a message-taking (voice-to-text), screening, redirect, directory, interactive voice response, and/or calendaring service

> A desk calendar

> A phone book

> A diary or organiser

> Scratch paper

Yes, having a dedicated secretary is more flexible and capable than a smartphone. But modern businesses still have secretaries don't they? I don't understand how this is a viable comparison.

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In 2021, a functional phone is no longer functional for my use. It hasn't been so for years. My university account required a Duo app (2 factor) to login. My family relies on chat programs to talk, because we live in different countries and SMS is expensive. And so many other things......

I know that some people find themselves wasting time on smart phones. But others have been several times more productive on smart phones. It all comes down to choosing what works best for you, and how you use the device.

(Edit: format)
https://opennode.com

Literally one of the easiest, trusted ways to send/accept BTC (for merchants and individuals)
toldinstone on YouTube did a video on this about why ancient time is buried. 3m51s watch, and interesting enough I remembered it to recommend to you :)

“Why Ancient Rome Is Buried”: https://youtu.be/fz4ZdXpri04
I think it's unfair to critique by pattern matching. "What's wrong with this model" is what should be focused on.
I agree. That is the downside. There are just enough reasonable cases where a privacy policy must be change that it cannot be banned. That creates loopholes large enough to drive whole planets through.
Merchants can keep charging your card even if it's cancelled/expired
CDNs are a bad example, because they usually deal with DNS as well. They usually want to send different replies in different regions, etc. CloudFlare is the only one I used, but I know you can't set it up before you switch to their name servers.

However say you host your root-name website on GitHub pages or similar. You don't want them to have full DNS control over the rest of your zone (emails, app, etc).
That's what they want you to think.

I'm joking, but only halfway.
> It is nonviolent pressure

Violence isn't restricted to physical harm, though. Bullying people is a violent process.
This is absolutely disgusting, they should be ashamed to call themselves free software, they are violating the License and the principles of Free software, which is meant for the end user and not for corporations and governments. People living in oppressive regimes benefit more from free software than any other. If they can do this the License means nothing to them, they are just leeching of the work of free software developers, We should all boycott them for violating the License.
yeah, you're probably right. It should get easier to find adequate stylings for people who stay longer with the service, as the database fills. And that's probably also the moment where less stylists are needed because your "AI" can do (more of) it.

btw. how they treated their workers judging from the article is absolute appaling and another indictment of gig companies.
If so, then the incentives are doing what they are designed to do and Google just doesn't maintain products. When executives design incentives, usually it's kind of obvious what most of the effects and side-effects will be. If something "bad" starts happening, they tweak the system. If it's left in place, it's working as designed.
I thought I had heard that term before. Found the following article in my bookmarks describing how to make your phone more boring and less usable on purpose. Not the same topic, still highly recommended. https://nomasters.io/posts/dumber-phone/

Also, I really like to use this minimalist launcher from time to time: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jkuester.unlauncher/
If threads of conversation were series of git commits, then the way to avoid these would be to stop, apply revert(s), and then resume from the previous good-faith, high-value commit.

Sadly that's not particularly applicable to linear time-based human conversation, and people exploit that in meetings and other environments to sidetrack, limit and shut down discussion (while it's also true that some tangents are introduced to achieve similar ends).

Are there good strategies to 'roll back' while maintaining composure and context during important conversations? Or is it necessary to move the conversations to other (threaded, for example) mediums?
> You can say this about any company who does thing out of spec and to create and ecosystem to drive profits. Google, twitter, Ford, IBM.

The fact that abuse of standards and customer lock-in is ubiquitous doesn't make it any less abusive.
Not all humans use browsers that issue requests for additional resources.

I have my browser configured to retrieve the page only and no additional requests for CSS, images, or javascript.
Are they anti-semitic, or is it just ad hominem?
Your example on Projectile motion and Riemann sum is quite nice! I am going to share it with a few kids I work with. Thank you for creating this.
FYI: https://unpaywall.org/
I look at this (and most animated video) and think I ought to be able to use this in my boring grey corporate life - but maths at management levels rarely peeks above a std dev. I wonder how to raise the game?
Craig Federighi said they don’t in a recent interview.
Being an "avid hiker" is open to interpretation nowadays. A lot of my coworkers would call themselves "avid hikers", but they only hike stuff like Mount Si and Lake 22. For those unfamiliar with Seattle area hikes, those 2 are way more crowded than city parks and are in no way risky for anyone less than grossly unhealthy. I've been on hikes with them and their preparation involves bringing a single nalgene of water. They had never heard of "the 10 essentials."
Am surprised OF decided to take the pill rather than go crypto. But, to your question... pressure was brought-to-bear by gov't regulatory agencies against all the credit card companies and payment processors. Anyone who tried to get into this space today would face the same problem.
> Yeah I have no idea why the government is this spineless that they cannot raise the minimum wage.

That’s a separate issue. Minimum wage increases won’t fix businesses that pay less than competitors while demanding more from employees.

If minimum wage is raised to $15, the better competitors will simply raise their wages to $18-20. This won’t come free, though, as prices will increase somewhat to compensate. Maybe not 1:1 with wage increases, but the second-order effects can’t be ignored.

Minimum wage isn’t really the issue (in this article). These people aren’t choosing to quit so they can sit home for $0/hour instead of $11/hour. They’re leaving for other jobs that already pay $15/hour.

I think we need to get more comfortable with the idea of market rate in action. It’s a good thing if employees are leaving underpaid, overworked jobs for better jobs. That’s the market in action, and the employees are winning. I don’t think government intervention would help, other than to maybe re-trap people into bad jobs if the bad jobs and good jobs are forced to pay the same and the market rate incentive for switching jobs is eroded away.
You automated a click on a government website? So tell me: how'd that audit go?
no discussion, nearly no points, thus irrelevant.
Bloodthirsty Capitalists – Conversation with Chris Sacca
> Chinese government agents threatened to deny an employee's mother dialysis back in China if he didn't steal proprietary information from a large hardware/software company.

What's an american three-letter agency going to do in such a situation? Write an angry letter to the CCP? I'm a proud patriot, but if given the choice between protecting a large company's IP and my mother's life, I'm choosing the latter without a moment's hesitation.
Tesla Bot: Elon Musk Reveals Humanoid Tesla Robot Which Is Apparently Not a Joke
None of those are workarounds for the legal concerns at hand. If Fedora were interested in breaking the law, HTTP/S would do that just fine.
Isn't it pretty difficult to have recurring payments with crypto, without some payment processor in the middle?
WakaTime – Dashboards for Developers
> You mean Picture in Picture or split app screen?

Please not their implementation of split screen brought to the iPhone. Years of working on an iPad Pro, and I still trigger it accidentally when I don't want it, can never trigger it when I do want it or get rid of it, and always wind up having to Google it again.
> No, no, no, experienced students are saying to themselves. If you merely read good books on medieval history, most of the stuff you learned wouldn't be on the test. It's not good books you want to read, but the lecture notes and assigned reading in this class. And even most of that you can ignore, because you only have to worry about the sort of thing that could turn up as a test question. You're looking for sharply-defined chunks of information. If one of the assigned readings has an interesting digression on some subtle point, you can safely ignore that, because it's not the sort of thing that could be turned into a test question. But if the professor tells you that there were three underlying causes of the Schism of 1378, or three main consequences of the Black Death, you'd better know them. And whether they were in fact the causes or consequences is beside the point. For the purposes of this class they are.

This is something I had to "teach" (hah) my classmates in a history class in college. I did benefit from a way above average memory at the time (diminished as I've aged, but still better than many of my age-wise peers) which helped me out a lot, but even without that advantage it wasn't hard to become an A student in that class. My method was to:

Take notes (no slides or handouts from the professor) in, more or less, an outline form. If there had been handouts, these would have mimicked them. They were not detailed, but mostly a way to pay attention to the lecture. If you didn't have a memory like mine you'd want more detail or to actually study these notes later.

"Read" the relevant chapters. "Read" because I didn't really read the whole thing. I read the intro/outro of the chapter and each section within the chapter. Then I read the first sentence of every paragraph. If any paragraph had a fact (dates, names, places) I'd make a note of it (highlight, underline, marginalia, or a note in a notebook, all can work), this was usually obvious by the first sentence of the paragraph without needing to read more. Again, if your memory wasn't like mine you'd need to actually study these notes (and today I'd have to).

That was all there was to getting an A in that class, and nearly every other fact-heavy class was the same. I learned a lot more about those subjects from my extra-curricular reading and experiences.
Like these two?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974
What does Apple do with iMessage? I don't have an iPhone and always assumed it's just glorified SMS.
> Did PornHub have revenge porn, child trafficking, etc. on the site? Yes.

Does Facebook have revenge porn, child trafficking, etc. on the site? Yes.
I think the answer is pretty simple. Minimum wages are a huge hammer with lots of unintended consequences that can hurt low wage workers as well.
Omg thanks a lot for doing this. The first Androis Auto version was great, now they increased number of clicks and taps to get to basic features and it was ready to be hated.
Query string is to differentiate the links (to understand which case is getting triggered)
> I feel almost betrayed,” they say. “Why aren’t they taking care of us?”

The only mystery is why this guy acknowledged he could earn more money by switching jobs, yet chose to harm his body for his underpaying employer, which he himself acknowledged.

He feels “almost” betrayed after that. Wonder what it takes to convince him he is being betrayed.
Sure but you are ignoring that such a scenario would need a different system to be deployed.

Yes they could do that, but this doesn’t help them.
> Why is there such a gaping, borderline incomprehensible, asymmetry here?

If I understand you right, you're asking why the state prioritizes enforcement of laws that encourage harm to Iran rather than laws that are supposed to discourage harm to US (and maybe other) consumers?

I think that happens because the state is a tool of the overclass and overthrowing Iran is in their interest while protecting consumers is not. In fact, the lalter is likely counter to their interests.

The question of how overthrowing Iran is useful used to be easier to explain so it deserves some attempt given the current situation. Iran acting independently has some ability to effect oil and gas prices, although this has decreased significantly over time. It's still of interest to the US and especially to some of the US's allies though because alternative sources of energy feed not only Iran but other opponents of the US (e.g. NK, Afghanistan, Syria, etc) and can also still threaten if not decimate smaller producers. In other words, it reduces the geopolitical power of the US and they have less ability to coerce other states. Then there's the the geopolitical game more local to Iran, where Iran is funding multiple opponents to Israel in Gaza, Lebanon and opponent of KSA in Yemen. Why care about Isarel's interests? Well obviously there's significant economic overlap but also consider the famous quote by General (and former Secretary of State) Alexander Haig "Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security." So, again, defeating Iran is consolidation of power in another way. There's more to it than that and it's become more complicated as time goes on but this is what I can think of off the top of my head.

On the other hand, ask yourself why would most of the powerful lobbies in the US be interested in advocating enforcement of the privacy laws and such that you care about? How does that benefit who pays for them? And where there are interests of outright corruption or coercion, why would anyone pay for that to be in your interest rather than prioritize their own?

You can work the logic backwards from realist rules too: Normally, you aren't going to get any result that doesn't benefit the state and those who have most influence over its use. (See neorealism in IR and public choice theory but also all of anarchist and "Libertarian" theory for why.)

So, in some ways it benefits the overclass directly and in other ways it just sharpens (or keeps sharp) their tool.
You’re arguing against widely accepted facts. I don’t know why.

> Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat Earth cosmography, including Greece until the classical period (323 BC), the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period (31 BC), and China until the 17th century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
I've looked into getting a place in Mexico and one thing is financing. The only option is 50% down -- which is a big bummer.

Are you offering any financing that's more similar to a 15 yr or 30 yr mortgage?
How are you going to be different than Pacaso which has a lot of Zillow execs?
I suspect it’s cultural - maybe starting new apps is seen as more desirable than making existing apps better.

And if you keep starting new apps you can’t keep iterating/updating/maintaining all the old ones too without spreading your engineering talent too thinly.

Google’s internal culture, at least from the outside, doesn’t seem to be one that often releases a bad product and iterates it into a good one - sometimes they do, but with most either it gets lots of interest/users from day 1 of general release or it’s quickly abandoned.
I was responding to the comment above mine that didn’t mention manufacturing but pretty much everything else. It might be obvious to you but general populace have no idea about difficulty of manufacturing. Some engineers haven’t got a clue on what goes into building things by millions.
Few gripes with c# (as a hobby developer):

-no sum types, Java 17, kotlin, scala, f#, typescript, rust, Swift, nim, ocaml etc all can modeling types better than C#
- no option, no result, exceptions are invisible for caller (ex. Tracking effects in nim)

-NRT doesn't resolve all problems, "required" is better, but I don't know if c# 10 will get it

- no let/val like kotlin, scala, rust. only readonly

- no expression based like kotlin/scala (or required initialization like in rust)

- no exhausting pattern matching

- most community are consumers of Microsoft libraries. Want small rest API framework? use asp.net core, want full stack? Use asp.net core. No other framework, even for rails is Sinatra.

- i would like to see better documentation frameworks with top level comments, doc tests, runnable examples like in rust, nim, d, and unit framework like in d or rust.

- no free functions, top level for only one file in project is too restrictive.

- no easy repl based work ( or community accepted)

From my newbie perspective c# is still good for few things, enormous resources for everything, only java from 'application' languages have more, generics, records, value types etc
> Also doesn't explain why the baby died (don't think you'd give a 1 year old stream water).

A one-year old is going to be heavily reliant on its parents actively taking care (in the short-term, most critically) in of hydration and heat management in the wilderness. If they are incapacitated by a toxin, that's quite plausibly fatal for the baby.
Frostpunk 2 Dev Calls Kinguin “Crook” for Misleading Preorder Page
Nice name.
Relatively short war, especially compared to some of the more recent occupations. Obviously a terrible war but arguably no less so because the US dropped an extra bomb on Nagasaki.