skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall T-Mobile used to be pretty uptight about using band X for LTE only for VoLTE phones because they wouldn't be able to go from data to dialing 911 if they only had band X coverage (it was better for TMo if the user had no coverage in that case for regulatory reasons), but I think TMo is less strict about what phones they'll provision for VoLTE. I only remember trouble getting my first LTE phone to work, but LTE was newish; once I got a TMo firmware on it, it would provision and unlock whatever band it was I was trying to use, even though the IMEI would have been for an ATT model.
It really is. It doesn’t even make a casual attempt to adhere to MacOS interface guidelines. Even the notification system is completely custom and doesn’t work with the OS level system.

It’s insulting.
I had very high hopes for matrix because of the bridging capabilities but I was sorely disappointed after spending a couple hours to set it all up. Some of the bridges require violating the TOS for other applications, or going into the dev tools to copy cookies. Basically completely unapproachable for non-programmers. Once you have a bridge it's impossible to start a new chat with someone in another app. You need to start the chat in the other app, wait for the matrix bridge to be notified of the chat, and then you can continue the conversation in matrix.
It's incredible that two of the front-runner chat programs in 2021 are called Slack and Discord, yet neither name is, AFAIK, related to or inspired by the Church of the Subgenius or Discordianism in any way.
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No, they really did mean 2^ℵ0. Note the earlier sentence

“The set ℝ of real numbers (also called the real line) is as large as the power set of ℕ, and this cardinality is denoted 2^ℵ0, or “continuum.””

So the x-y plane has cardinality 2^ℵ0 * 2^ℵ0 = 2^ℵ0.
My parents asked me to help them get into streaming a few months ago after they got a new iPad. So I bought them a Chromecast, taught them how to switch the input source between the Chromecast and Cable on their TV, which they were cool with.

Then I tried to set them up on the iPad.

There was about 5-10 specific shows they wanted to watch, what I found was that they were literally spread across more than 5 services, with one show each. Not a single one of them had 2 of the shows they wanted to watch.

They were already set up with Foxtel and had been using it for a couple of years, they watched shows on it regularly and knew how to do everything up to hitting the 'cast' button.

So I set them up with the other services, bummed an Amazon account off a sibling, signed them up to the 3 or 4 free services we have in Australia, think I subbed to one other one or something too. I can't even remember what they all were there was so many. I put the icons all in the same place on their home screen so they knew those apps were all the streaming ones etc etc.

I logged into a few of the accounts a week or so ago and they haven't watched a single thing. Not even on the Foxtel, which they were already using, and now they've stopped using it.

It seems to me like they've just hit a wall of complexity and thrown their hands up and said fuck the whole thing.

And you know what? I'm right there with them. Half way through the set up, trying to do the right thing, I was an inch away from throwing my hands up and saying fuck the whole thing as well. It would be far easier for everyone involved if I just brought a hard drive with new shows around for them every few months.

There was another thread here yesterday where some bloke was going on about how he couldn't understand why people wouldn't just spin up a linux box or something instead of using Discord.

Well, this is it. It took my parents months to get used to using one app, and adding something as simple as another couple of apps to the mix has turned them off the technology entirely.

When you introduce anything other than the absolute most simple UX, you risk losing part of your market entirely. You're not building stuff for other software engineers or other TV network execs or whatever your job title is. Everyone trying to carve out their own piece of the pie is just smashing the pie to bits for everyone else.

When it was just Netflix, piracy was almost dead. Now, it's going to come back, unless content distributors can find some way to work together. That goes for music, TV and games. All 3 ecosystems are running into the exact same problem.
Every single Discord-related post here I see comments about the "bad ux".
I'm a heavy Discord user and I have no complaints with the UX, I find it pretty intuitive to be honest.

I'm also constantly seeing people in shock that people would choose to use Discord over IRC/Matrix/Teamspeak/Mumble. I find Discord to be light years ahead of anything else available, and for an average person who's going to have a hard time setting up any of those, the difference is even bigger. Plus, Discord's free, you don't have to host it, and all your friends and communities are already there. It's really a no brainer for most people.
If it's about 'not being confronted' with something you personally don't like, this can be handled at the subreddit level. Different subreddits can make their own censorship policies and you can join the one that censors the things you don't want to see.

But we are talking about censorship on the sitewide level at Reddit, which affects all communities, even ones you have no interest in. This isn't about protecting yourself from content you'd dislike, it is, as always, about preventing others from talking amongst themselves in ways you dislike, even when you're not around.
This week they've been pushing some new Discord college spaces; asking me to connect my account to a .edu mail address. Believe I've seen the popup twice on my desktop, and once on mobile.
The child porn aspect of this strikes me as ridiculous. As was pointed out in the article, genuine child porn is overtly sexual, and this image doesn't come close. Maybe the guy really does feel exploited these days, but I'd be a little more convinced of that if, as was pointed out in Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/adult-who-used-to-be-...), he hadn't been milking it for most of his life.
Not if you’d sell them too :)
The historical approach is dangerous.

Lenora Fulani for instance would start a story with the Greeks and drone on and on until you were hypnotized then go off track with some obscure Russian theorist circa 1926, next thing you know you are living in a group home making and selling candles.

Whenever I invented something or figured out how to calculate something the first, second and third versions were worth forgetting about but after many iterations I really understood it and can make it look like it came easy.

Calculus is the ultimate example of something that people stumbled into and the old texts will confuse you. Sigmund Freud’s journey will drive anyone crazy.

Yet I like the early Foucault on history, like Casanova as an early literature of the sexual revolution. Once in a while you see the straight line from the past to the present, the person who was ahead of today 200 years ago. But you will suffer a lot of meandering to find those things.
Redhat 4 or 5 I think from the cover CD of a magazine. Kernel 1.2.13, although the first thing you did in those days was to make config and recompile as modules were not a thing then. Makes me wonder how we found time to do anything productive really, between finding good enough hardware that Linux wouldn't balk and reading HOWTOs and fiddling with config files.

Took a diversion into OpenBSD for a few years (if you thought liveCDs were cool back then, running clustered firewalls in RAM from an immutable floppy disk blew my employer's mind) but Linux dragged me back once Sun imploded and haven't looked back.
Perhaps it is worth [[sharing|https://philosopher.life/#Sharing]] with them now rather than later. I am [[grateful|https://philosopher.life/#Gratitude]] that I have the opportunity. You might even keep a public side and private one separately.
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Pretty sure that job offers going forward will break out a cost of living bonus so they can have a baseline and then pay extra based upon location. Just wait and see....
Thanks, It's indeed a good example for how oligopoly in telecom stifle innovation and how not even well-funded startups can survive in it.

Monopoly or Duopoly is a straight death sentence to innovation.
I don't really understand. Clearly the muscles work to some extent, so isn't making more a lot better than doing nothing?

> It’d be like if you had a construction project, and you found out that all of the wooden beams you were receiving from a supplier were rotten. Would you order more beams from that same supplier to fix the problem?

If my other option is shrugging and doing nothing and being sad as the house falls apart, then obviously yes I do. Quadruple up all the beams.
Though, you should also be careful about phrases like, "this can happen to anyone." It plays into another common and harmful misconception about sex workers, that they don't have much agency, they're victims, this is something that happens to them rather than just another one of many possible career choices that a person can make.
Wait, the USA can revoke citizenship? I thought that wasn't possible.

You would be absolutely fucked if that happened.. what would you even do? go float in the ocean or something?
there is a very good chance that the replica sword is made from a relatively cheap stainless steel with uniform hardness through the blade. While the excerpt below is about cheap replica katanas it can apply to any such replica blade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_swordsmithing

"Most cheap reproductions are made from inexpensive stainless steels such as 440A (often just termed "440").[45] With a normal Rockwell hardness of 56 and up to 60, stainless steel is much harder than the back of a differentially hardened katana (HR50), and is therefore much more prone to breaking, especially when used to make long blades. Stainless steel is also much softer at the edge (a traditional katana is usually more than HR60 at the edge)."

So, i'd not risk using such replica sword against a real world sword :) On the other side one can imagine how a modern sword can be made - say carbon fiber core inside titanium monocrystal envelope with fused, like laser sintered, ceramic/nano-diamond skin and edge. And resorting to cold weapons may be a reasonable alternative to guns in the future conflicts inside space stations and planetary bases.
Hey man hop on Discord, let’s go over some brain MRIs!
> I did answer your question with another question, but that was perhaps too subtle for you.

that's called "dodging the question"

>Try to see the bigger picture. Broadly, over the last 25 years, much of the US economy has shifted overseas, not only to China. US infrastructure is crumbling.

The problem is that the points you bring up don't have any numbers behind them, so it's impossible to know their actual impact. You have two points. I can bring up two counter-points: growth of tech companies, and the fracking boom. I guess we're even now and US is alright?

>Yes the US is a "service based" economy, meaning arguably fake bullshit jobs

elaborate on this. Just because someone isn't working in a widget factory or a coal mine, it means that his job is bullshit? If companies are willing to pay people to do something, there's a very good chance that they're adding value, even if they're not participating in production directly.

>It's a fake foundation for an economy where everyone is living on borrowed money, due for a major correction, a massive shock causing the house of cards to collapse.

Well if you check household debt to gdp ratio you'll see that it's significantly deflated since 2008, so I guess we're actually fine then?

>The inflation adjusted index price is one piece of evidence that the US economy may be due for a severe correction, possibly worse than 2008.

Dunno man, if your "inflation adjusted" GDP numbers are to be believed, then the correction has already happened (or is still underway). A 10%-20% is generally considered to be the range for a "correction".
From his perspective: he is set regardless. Much better to ride out the amazing windfall of his own creation than vesting in peace at some mediocre ladder-driven megacorp.
That's not the issue, as an older dev I'm willing to work for the industry standard wage. Sr. Engineer is Sr. Engineer.
It's really hard to see how this works from even the demo page: https://demo.taler.net/en/

On the front page it says "no new currency" and then on the demo page it talks about an imaginary currency.

I'm interested in this but having trouble sorting out how to get started. Anyone have a good starting point?
If they find a way to make discord a central part of the (VR) metaverse it will be worth a lot more. I could see them launching a competitor to Facebook’s Horizon. It makes a lot of sense.

Context: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-29/mark-zuck...

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/announcing-a-1-bil...
OT but seriously, name one good Microsoft product other than paint.
Not as easy as it sounds though. The societal return on pollution varies wildly by industry. Steel production vs. factory farms vs. bitcoin mining. A straight carbon tax is prohibitively difficult for some low margin entities that we kind of need to support and face international competition.
> you don't have to host it

I really wish you could though
It works if the photos are encrypted such that Apple can’t access them. Hence the wonky design.

They haven’t announced that photos will be E2E encrypted.
>Addiction tends to defeat cognition, awareness...

>Unfortunately society does not understand..

Both statements are misleading. The issue is not what the addict or society understands.

Anyone can understand how chess or baseball works, but to be a good player is another matter entirely.
> How did we get to place (speaking of America where there is a bill of rights) where it is normal to have a multimodal tracker on or near your person at all times?

> George Orwell's telescreen at least could not fit in your pocket and Orwell never imagined things like GPS or facebook or digital phones.

Because we're not living in 1984's dystopia where the government oppresses us, we're living in Brave New World's dystopia where we choose to oppress ourselves.
If you can build QT5 on Haiku, then it may be possible to get it's embedded version of chromium running. It's largely self contained, but some of the dependencies contain a few finicky code like simd jpeg library or ffmpeg.
Likely a Gmail retargeting ad that looks like an email in the promotions tab
Remind me again why anybody would want to willingly live in the U.S?
You've been applying to devops roles not software engineering roles. Fine-tune your search.
I guess that's what I'm saying if the answer to my question were to show up in the data. ;)
I know they were used on people with AIDS.
Per capita urban water usage in California has decreased by double digits percentages since 1990. See page 10 at https://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PI_Water_Use_... Older cities have done even better; newer urban developments further away from the older coastal areas pulled the average state-wide decrease down.

IOW, there's plenty of slack in existing cities, especially the older coastal cities, which were originally planned and built for far greater density than permitted now, and at a time when per capita usage was far greater. If anything, continuing to incentivize urban sprawl is the surest way to overburden water infrastructure, especially supply.
Complete fear mongering click bait title with zero data to prove higher deaths versus any period in the past.

Full of quotes like “WESH called 20 funeral homes and crematories and many were too busy to be a part of our story”

When did that become journalism
There’s Teams, Slack, and Discord… what else would you like to see from a competitor? Lemme guess, not Electron based?
It failed to convert the diacritics for me with LC_ALL="tr_TR.UTF-8" matching my /etc/locale.gen.

Kapı açık -> KAPı AçıK

However this worked: gawk '{ print toupper($0) }'
First time I've heard someone use "D'Arvit" on a tech forum... wonder how many readers here still recognise it.
This almost exactly sums up the major issue of the times I've been burnt out. Combination of high passion for the project and a toxic, hostile or unsafe/unsupportive environment.
The only synthetic fertilizers that include hydrocarbons in their production chain are ammonia based, but all CO2 (or as much as is practicable) is removed from the end product. It's really only used on the way to producing hydrogen.
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As far as you taking it, pretty much yes.

The unvaccinated can take it. That is of better community benefit.

There is barely any additional protection for you.
The whole situation is such a, for lack of a better word, cultural shock to me. Pronographic website ceasing to allow sexual content causes major news and longest discussions...
I was a heroin addict from 16 years old through to my mid 20s. I had pretty rough childhood trauma, just to add to your own anecdotes. Crippling depression too.

I’m doing much better these days :) suboxone initially saved my life, then Buvidal injection made sure I’m here to stay.
The author mentions Saudi influence pushing the Deobandi towards Wahhabism, but wouldn't it be more correct to note that the founders of Deobandi were themselves inspired, in part, by Wahhabism?
Businesses in the developed world pay visa and mc and amex close to 3%.
There are many rational reasons for not doing it.

Just because you disagree does not make them irrational, or a person who chooses not to get this vaccine "antivaxxer".

Take a look at CDC VAERS for many rational reasons[1] why people may not want to do this, especially kids.

When choosing to undergo a medical procedure or to take a medication one must always do a risk/reward analysis. This is known as informed consent.

We should encourage this, not name call those who elect to do so.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
Sounds like a TeamViewer problem.
No medical or religious exemptions for B.C.'s vaccine passport system
Maybe I'm completely paranoid here, but given that actual sex offenders commonly seek out ways to be near children, what happens if one or more of them end up in Apple's image vetting team?

They'd be completely anonymous and fully covered, with an endless pipeline of naked kids images being delivered to them.

The idea that if you take a picture of your kid in the bath, it just happens to match a CSAM fingerprint and then gets silently transmitted to anonymous reviewers for "review" is terrifying.
This distinction of changing the defacto ownership of your device and data is the real inflection point. The surveillance technology itself is not really that novel, as functionally it's applying established anti-virus techniques to data instead of code. Ask any AV company how their detection works, and it will include a variation on this.

This same tech can (and will likely) be used to find the owners of bitcoin and other cryptocurrency wallets, honeypot tokens, community identities, and to provide profiling information to the company's political masters. The collisions in the hashing scheme mean that you can insert anything you want onto peoples devices and get them pulled into the legal system once it is flagged, where the process itself is the punishment. The whole scheme is too stupid to ever have been about reason, it's just pretexts and narrative, and this is as good a time as any to exit their ecosystem.

Apple really picked the wrong time to attempt this, as I do not see anyone who understands how evil this is ever forgiving them. The most charitable thing I can say about it is that they're probably just doing it as part of a deal to avoid anti-trust plays, where Apple plays ball with the feds and its parties, and the storm just magically passes them over. The good news is running OSX made me lazy, and getting back into running a linux or freebsd laptop again is going to be fun.
The beam analogy doesn't work because the rotted wood can provide some support. But the author states that the muscle just dies due a defect. So it's more akin to having tires that develop bubbles in the first 50 miles. Giving you more tires isn't going to help because that means you will spend more time changing them out over and over again.
Ah, indeed. Thanks for the correction. I read there, for some reason, an implication that a plane would have a larger cardinality than a line, which isn't true. But indeed, both are 2^ℵ0.
It's the same reason free speech is something akin to sacred even for your worst enemies, because those who start taking away the bad people's speech are themselves always going to be one political actor away from having theirs taken away.
> Every single Discord-related post here I see comments about the "bad ux". I'm a heavy Discord user and I have no complaints with the UX

Since I started using Discord, they have on three separate occasions moved a button I used frequently, and in its place added a button that attempts to extract money from me.

They've established a pattern of trying to monetise the application by tricking the user into doing something that they didn't want to do. That isn't just bad UX, it's actively hostile.
I'm pretty happy with the interface, with a couple exceptions:

1) I'd like to be able to collapse, or reposition, the right panel (the one with the users in it).

2) I'd like to be able to have multiple channels open at once. This one is probably my biggest complaint. It's frustrating having to frequently click back and forth between different channels in a server.

I'm sure I could find more things to complain about if those were resolved, but those two changes would make me content with the UI.

Give me some other themes too, I suppose. Maybe a really dark one.
>You can't stop people from spreading nonsense, but engaging with and ridiculing nonsense at least makes sure the counter-memes exist, when someone is ready to hear them.

You can do both. There is evidence that deplatforming works. It isn't perfectly effective, but not giving cranks access to the biggest megaphones and most virulent information-spreading engines in human history does in fact seem to inhibit their ability to spread. Doing so doesn't stop anyone from engaging with or ridiculing them.

But, point of order, we've been "engaging and ridiculing" for years now, it hasn't worked yet. Everyone says sunlight is the best disinfectant, but as far as I can see, this particular strain of infection feeds on sunlight.
Yes, there are many places in the US that are currently having infrastructure crises due to too little density. There might need to be infrastructure upgrades as neighborhoods become denser, but over the long run, the infrastructure will be much more sustainable because the cost per user will be significantly lower.
If something is too important to price it all in, and that can only be fixed so quickly, we do carbon rationing.
I don't think I understand it very well, but one reason focusing on the analogy doesn't help is that muscle has a lot higher ongoing maintenance cost than a beam.
10 years ago people were telling me that such things could never ever happen in modern China again.

Prosperity didn't work at all as a safeguard against this.